Submission Deadline

Monday, April 2, 2012

Submissions to the 2012 Conference are done electronically. For paper submissions, you may submit either an abstract or a completed paper. Neither form offers a greater chance of making the program. With abstracts take care to adequately describe what you are proposing to present. Abstracts that are too brief or without substance makes it difficult for the program committee to assess the appropriateness or fit of the proposal.

Submission Instructions

For Workshop and Panel Discussion Proposals: simply email a one or two page description of your proposed workshop or panel discussion including possible participants, as best you might know at time of submission - also include the copy of the completed Workshop/Panel Form found on the website. In the subject box of your email submission, put "ABE Conference Workshop Proposal."

For Paper Presentations: Attach your Abstract/Paper proposal in MS Word, WordPerfect, or PDF form, to an email. Make sure there is a separate title page that contains the following:

     a) Author names/affiliations and email addresses for every author;
     b) Note who the contact author is;
     c) Note whether the paper is pedagogy, educational research, or a case;
     d) Disciplines of Interest: provide any, and all, disciplines you believe might have an interest in your
         presentation (for example, all disciplines, accounting, economics, finance, information technology,
         international, management, marketing, operations management, or any combination of these);

2) In the subject box of your email, put "FEA Conference Presentation Proposal"

3) Email your proposal along with  a copy of the completed Paper Form found on the website to evansj@cofc.edu

Have questions? Don't hesitate to email the program chair.

Jocelyn Evans
College of Charleston
ABE2012 Program VP
evansj@cofc.edu

Frequently Asked Questions:

(1) What is the submission deadline and when will I know if my submission is accepted? Answer: All paper presentation and workshop/panel discussion proposals must be submitted by April 2, 2012. Submitters will be notified by email whether their proposal has been accepted, hopefully by May 1st.

(2) Can a submission be done electronically? Answer: Absolutely yes! Must be.  

(3) Should I submit an entire paper or just an abstract? Answer: You can submit either. The only advantage to submitting a completed paper is (so some might argue, but it is has not been proven) that it provides more information for the program committee to make its decision on possible inclusion on the program. Bottom line, if you have a completed paper, submit it, but otherwise an abstract is fine. Workshop/Panel Discussion proposals would normally only be abstracts, since such presentations generally do not result in being "completed papers."

(4) Does a completed paper eventually have to be submitted to the program committee? Answer: No, but you will be asked to send a copy of your presentation to the chair and other participants of your session to help encourage discussion during the session. You are also encouraged to bring copies of your completed paper with you for distribution to interested session attendees.

(5) How long should the abstract be? Answer: The suggested length is 1-2 pages, but that is only a suggestion. Obviously, there is no maximum, since we allow submission of completed papers. So we certainly wouldn't limit the length of abstract submissions. The 1-2 pages is suggested only as a minimum. Generally speaking, an abstract much shorter than one page would likely not have enough information on what is being proposed, and how it will be accomplished, for the program committee to make a sound judgment on the appropriateness of the submission or to be encouraged that the proposal is likely to be completed.