Make Your Case to Attend
To help you communicate the benefits of attending and receiving institutional support for LOEX 2026, especially if your institution is experiencing tight budgets and/or reduced staff, consider using the following information:
Suggested Steps:
- Identify sessions that you believe will be especially helpful for improving your instructional practice or of benefit to your students.
- Determine how you'll share action items and fresh ideas learned at the conference (e.g., notes from speaker presentations and discussion groups, best practices, contacts you made through networking) with your colleagues upon your return.
- Draft a plan listing how essential tasks will be handled while you're away. Include how, if necessary, technology can easily keep you accessible.
- Tally your potential costs:
- Registration fee
- Transportation (mileage or airfare, any ride-sharing to get to/from your hometown airport or while in Norfolk) ;
- Conference Hotel {$189/night plus taxes & fees}
- Any reimbursable meals that you will be eating while travelling—note that breakfast and lunch on Friday and Saturday is provided as part of your registration fee
- Thursday Pre-conference workshop (optional)me to add paragraph to your block, write your own text and edit me.
- Put your request in writing, including all of the above information as well as the dates you would be away from work.