<h2>Conferences & Institutes<br /></h2>
<p>Consider holding your next seminar, workshop, or conference on the SIUE campus. The SIUE conference and catering facilities are equipped to handle groups from six to 800 persons and offer a variety of attractive decors and room set-ups guaranteed to complement any meeting or meal. Let our professional staff assist you in planning a successful event.</p>
<strong>Conference Services</strong>
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<li>Comprehensive conference budgeting from full support by a grant to full cost recovery from registration fees. We can establish, collect, and administer registration fees; monitor and computerize records of all conference income and expenses; pay all bills; and prepare a final conference financial report.</li>
<li>Personalized and professional administration of all details related to planning, scheduling, and managing a conference. We can develop timetables, arrange for meeting space, housing, meals, and entertainment; manage the registration process from pre-registrations to staffing the registration desk; prepare and distribute name badges and rosters; and provide on-site management for the entire conference.</li>
<li>Comprehensive conference evaluations that assess learning and can be of value in planning future conferences. We can design quantitative and qualitative evaluations; collect and analyze data, produce evaluation reports; and make recommendations for future programs.</li>
<li>Post-conference wrap up to attend to the dozens of details that occur in connection with a conference. We can pay all bills, write thank you letters, process travel, honoraria, and expense documents for speakers; and update rosters of attendees.</li>
<li>Individualized long-range plans to meet continuing professional needs of people in your organization. We can design surveys to determine continuing education needs; plan a combination of future programs; develop long-range publicity plans; and plan budgets to make your conference self-supporting</li>
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<p><strong>To learn more about Conferences and Institutes contact:</strong><br /><br />Office of Conferences and Institutes<br />Campus Box 1084<br />Southern Illinois University Edwardsville<br />Edwardsville, IL 62026<br />618-650-3210<br />FAX 618-650-2629</p>
<p>Email Tim Engelman at <a href="mailto:tengelm@siue.edu ">tengelm@siue.edu</a></p>