SECLCA was created to develop a connected and cohesive community of learning center professionals within the state of South Carolina. The first annual meeting was held June 13, 2014 in Columbia, SC, at the Inn at USC. At the second conference, held June 12, 2015 at Winthrop University, the group voted to expand membership to learning center professionals in the tri-state area of North/South Carolina and Georgia. The new name is the Southeastern College Learning Center Association (SECLCA).

What are your keys to success? What gates have you opened for your students, faculty, and staff?

This year's conference theme addresses student success broadly, and successful submissions may involve all areas of Learning Center work, including tutoring, coaching, mentoring, workshops, motivational efforts, partnerships with faculty, and cross-campus collaborations. Consider sharing the successful methods and practices in your center with your colleagues in the southeast region. Success in outreach, performance, feedback, recruitment, training and more! We're interested in all areas where people are seeing success and what you've tried that hasn't worked! How are you defining and measuring success?

Additionally, please note that presentation proposals can take on any delivery format that you desire, except entirely virtual. Presenters will register and attend the conference in person, and your audience will be in person too!

Please indicate on the form which delivery methods you are willing to do. Already defined collaborative presentations or panels that add up to fifty minutes are also welcome. Session slots will be fifty minutes in length.

SECLCA 2025 Conference Proposal Form

Keynote:

Kate Lehman, PhD

Director of the National Research Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition

Presentation Title: Change is the Only Constant: Promoting Student Success in Transition

Bio:

Kate Lehman, PhD, serves as director of the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition where she provides leadership for all Center operations, strategic initiatives, conferences and events, publications, and scholarly and research activities. Kate also serves as an affiliated faculty member in the University of South Carolina’s Department of Leadership, Learning Design, and Inquiry. Dr. Lehman’s research interests center on the major selection process for first- and second-year college students, experiences that promote student retention and success in their major field (particularly STEM and computing fields), and the college-to-career transition.  She currently serves as co-PI on an NSF-funded study that tracks first- and second-year computing students through college and beyond into careers and graduate school to examine the experiences that shape their educational trajectories. 

Prior to joining the NRC, Kate served as co-founder and associate director of Momentum: Accelerating Equity in Computing and Technology and as Assistant Academic Researcher and Assistant Adjunct Professor in UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies. Momentum is a research center that employs mixed-methods approaches to conduct cutting-edge research on efforts to diversify computing and technology fields, with an emphasis on efforts to recruit women and people of color into computing education pathways and retain them into technology fields. Kate continues to serve as an affiliated scholar at Momentum. Kate has also held positions in student affairs at The Ohio State University and the University of North Carolina Charlotte.  

Kate is a proud alum of Miami University, The Ohio State University, and UCLA. Outside of work, Kate is a mom of three, an exercise enthusiast (find her on Peloton!), and a Francophone.