2025 Annual Conference
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
Thursday, May 29th – Friday, May 30th
If you have questions about the conference, please reach out to Michael Henningsen – mhenning@binghamton.edu
NYSTAA 2025 Annual Conference
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Conference Registration
Full Conference
$175/person for NYSTAA Members (login to NYSTAA Account account for discount code)
$250/person for Non-Members
Full conference includes all meals (Thursday Business Lunch, Thursday Awards Dinner) along with the ability to attend amazing workshops and the ability to meet colleagues from around the State of New York.
Conference Agenda
Thursday, May 29
Welcome
Guest Speaker I
Conference Session I
Annual Business Meeting/Lunch
Guest Speaker II
Conference Session II
Conference Session III
Break
Awards Dinner
Friday, May 30
Welcome
Guest Speaker III
Breakout Session by area (2 yr, 4 yr private, 4 yr public)
Guest Speaker IV
Conference Close/Pass The Buck
Hotel Information
As a conference attendee, you are free to make a hotel reservations at any of the local hotels in the Binghamton area. However, we did reserve room blocks at 3 local hotels for your convenience. Information about accessing the room blocks can be found below.
Holiday Inn Express Vestal: Room block is set up for $140/night and can be accessed here: James Lethbridge Booking Link (James is the NYSTAA Treasurer). Cut off date for the room block is May 1st. (Note: This hotel is about 5 minutes to Binghamton University)
3615 Vestal Pkwy E,
Vestal, NY 13850
TRU by Hilton: A room block has been set up for $124/night. Please call the hotel at 607-644-9111 to reserve your room in the NYSTAA Room Block. Cut off date for the room block is April 30th. (Note: This hotel is about 5 minutes to Binghamton University)
Reserve a room in the NYSTAA block here
3512 Vestal Pkwy E
Vestal, NY 13850
Fairfield Inn Binghamton: A room block has been set up for $139/night Please call the hotel directly at 607-651-1000 to reserve your room in the NYSTAA Room Block. Cut off date for the room block is April 30th. (Note: This hotel is about 10-15 min away from Binghamton University)
Reserve a room in the NYSTAA block here
864 Front St
Binghamton, NY 13905
Keynote Speaker: John Fink
John Fink is a Senior Research Associate and Program Lead at the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University. John’s research focuses on learner transitions between educational sectors with the goal of eliminating barriers—and their disproportionate impact on Black, Latinx, lower-income, and other marginalized communities—to high-opportunity college and career outcomes.
John is a nationally recognized expert on improving community college transfer outcomes, and during his tenure at CCRC he has built and leveraged partnerships with college leaders, state agencies, funders, and other collaborators to produce high-quality and high-impact research on community college student success reforms. His research publications and products are both numerous and diverse, including practitioner briefs, book chapters, white papers, data tools and visualizations, op-eds, and peer-reviewed publications in top-tier education research journals such as American Education Research Journal, Community College Review, Journal of Higher Education, and Research in Higher Education.
In 2016, John led analysis and co-authored with Davis Jenkins the Tracking Transfer report presenting new metrics and national findings on state and institutional transfer performance. He subsequently co-authored the Transfer Playbook detailing the essential practices of high-performing transfer partnerships. John’s research on transfer includes multiple statewide studies examining credit transferability, STEM transfer pathways, and the opportunity to grow transfer by broadening access to high school dual enrollment programs. John is now co-leading (with the Aspen Institute) a national study updating Tracking Transfer and the Transfer Playbook with a focus on racial equity. His work was recognized by the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students with the Transfer Champion-Catalyst award in 2019.
Prior to joining CCRC, John administered a program supporting community college transfer students at the University of Maryland, where he previously was also a program coordinator for multicultural involvement and advocacy.
Plenary Speaker: Donna Linderman
Donna Linderman currently serves as the Senior Vice Chancellor for Student Success for the State University of New York (SUNY). She previously served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the City University of New York (CUNY). Over the last fifteen years, Linderman has led the design and implementation of nation-leading student success initiatives. Linderman is a principal architect of the design and scaling of the CUNY Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) model, which has been shown in rigorous, randomized, controlled trial evaluations to double community college completion rates and has been successfully replicated at campuses in New York and other states, including SUNY’s Westchester Community College.
Linderman also led the development and execution of CUNY Accelerate, Complete, and Engage (ACE), ASAP at four-year institutions, along with CUNY Start, a nationally recognized initiative to help first-year students with academic gaps successfully enter and succeed in college, and has led successful CUNY system-wide initiatives to improve completion by strengthening academic momentum, reform developmental education, improve educational and employment outcomes for student fathers, and more.
Linderman began her academic career as an Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College and holds a BFA in Drama from the University of Southern California, an MFA in Theatre from Brooklyn College, and will defend her dissertation for an EdD in Higher Education Administration from Northeastern University this spring.