Request for Proposals: Hosting the ACUHO-I James C. Grimm National Housing Training Institute
ACUHO-I Seeks Campus to Host the James C. Grimm National Housing Training Institute (NHTI)
The ACUHO-I James C. Grimm National Housing Training Institute, a five-day intensive institute that is designed for housing professionals that are committed to advancement within the field of university/college housing is seeking a new host institution. Since it’s inception in 1991 at the University of Florida and subsequent hosting at the University of Maryland, over 650 professionals have attended NHTI. The Institute provides a thorough professional development experience for professionals with three to five years of full-time experience who are looking to further their career in housing. Participants meet and interact with other colleagues, establish mentor relationships with experts in the field, develop professional development plans, and gain skills and competencies needed to meet the current and future demands of the profession. The Institute recognizes the importance of the evolving housing field, and it strives to provide participants with the knowledge and skills they will need to be successful in the ever changing field. The Institute utilizes senior housing professionals to provide classroom instruction on a specific topic, facilitate small group discussions, and assist participants as they construct individual professional development plans. The Institute’s curriculum is based on the competency research of Senior Housing Officers conducted in 1990 and updated in 2005. Additionally, the competencies are used by the participants to assess their current competency and create professional development plans to achieve their career goals.
The two goals of NHTI:
1. To facilitate participants competency development through presentations of material that include opportunities for interactive learning. This is achieved through topic selection, curriculum building, and presentation guidelines. 2. To offer participants an opportunity for in-depth career development planning facilitated by a mentor relationship with an expert in the field. A professional development plan, consisting of assessment and decision-making (planning) tools is created with the assistance and guidance by faculty mentor. The goals are accomplished by a commitment to the guiding principle of community development: • Living arrangements encourage interaction and on-going discussion; • Dining arrangements encourage informal discussion about each other and the presentation material; • Experiential learning opportunities support the learning process especially for adult learners.
Why Host the National Housing Training Institute:
Hosting the National Housing Training Institute affords a campus the opportunity to contribute to the future of the profession by providing mid-level professionals a venue to reflect and plan for their future in the housing profession. Members of the host institution serve on the NHTI committee that plans and coordinates
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the Institute. This opportunity allows the host institution staff the opportunity to experience the benefits of NHTI by “auditing” NHTI session presentations as well as interact with both NHTI faculty and participants by assisting with travel, food arrangements and other Institute details. The host committee provides 10 Teaching Assistants (TAs) to assist NHTI faculty during the course of the Institute. These TAs are often resident life staff, graduate students and ACUHO-I Interns. Lastly, in the process of hosting NHTI, both faculty and participants learn about the host campus and their housing operation. Occasionally, former NHTI participants apply for positions at the host institution due in part to the exposure to the hosting campus and the institute.
The NHTI Host Application Process:
Institutions apply to be considered as a host in a two stage selection process. 1. The first stage requires information about the campus to be submitted along with a narrative response and proposed sample budget. 2. The second stage, if selected as a finalist, is a presentation to the NHTI selection committee to occur in person at the 2009 ACUHO-I Annual Conference & Exposition in Baltimore Maryland between June 27-30, 2009 (date and time to be determined).
The Timeline:
March 2, 2009 April 8, 2009 June, 2009
December 1, 2008
RFP is released Application due to ACUHO-I Central Office Finalists are notified Finalist to present to Selection Committee at the ACUHO-I Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, MD (date/time TBD) Finalists are notified of selection decision following Executive Board meeting New host campus shadows current NHTI planning process University of Maryland hosts 20th Annual NHTI, new host shadows New host campus implements 21st Annual NHTI Review of continued hosting beyond 2015
October, 2009 October 2009-June 2010 2010 2011 2013
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Contact & Institutional Profile Information:
Institution:_______________________________________________________________ Primary Contact:___________________________________________________________ Title:____________________________________________________________________ Address 1:_______________________________________________________________ Address 2:_______________________________________________________________ City, State, Zip:____________________________________________________________ Phone:________________________________ Fax:_____________________________
E-mail address:___________________________________________________________ Institutional Type: ¨ ¨ Public 2 Year ¨ Private ¨ 4 Year
Commitment:
We, the undersigned, commit to the following if selected as a finalist host site: 1. Commit to the “shadowing” process. 2. To meet the two goals of NHTI by using the guiding principles and maintain a commitment to research/knowledge-based decision making in the development, management, enhancement, and execution of the NHTI and its curriculum. 3. Host NHTI for a minimum of five years, beginning in 2011 until 2015. 4. Review hosting commitment beyond 2015 with ACUHO-I Executive Board starting in 2013 5. Develop a balanced institute budget with ACUHO-I Central Office Staff and Executive Board Liaison to be approved by the ACUHO-I Executive Board and assume responsibility for managing institute expenses in-line with the approved budget and retain any losses and return any revenue. ____________________________________________
Senior Housing Officer
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Proposed NHTI Director(s)
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Conferencing Senior Staff (if applicable)
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Other Campus Partners (if applicable)
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Other Campus Partners (if applicable)
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Narrative Response:
Please submit a narrative on “Why Our Institution Should Be Selected.” Address the following questions: 1. How is your institution, department, staff, positioned to assume responsibility for both the planning and execution of the event and the management of the institute curriculum? Please address meeting the two goals of NHTI and the guiding principle. Space a. Please confirm the availability of meeting space to accommodate presentation sessions that is flexible and conducive to seating 10 clusters of 4 people. Please provide sample diagram of main classroom. b. Please describe the accommodations that will house a cluster of four (3 participants and 1 faculty) for overnight accommodations for 7 days (faculty for 7 days and participants for 5 days). How will your proposed set-up encourage community building within each cluster as well as between clusters? i. Please include floor plan(s) of placement of cluster (individual 4 person cluster with single bedrooms and overall grouping of 10 clusters) including recommended common areas, lounges, etc. ii. Please list amenities (linens/towel service, etc., provided, lounges, game rooms, laundry, televisions, etc.) Please show on a map the location of proposed accommodations, meeting spaces, and dining space.
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Meals a.
Please identify how you will provide meals to participants and faculty. i. Participants & Faculty (40) 1. Continental Breakfast x 4 days 2. Lunch x 4 days 3. Dinner x 4 days ii. Faculty Prep Days (10 faculty) 1. Continental Breakfast x 2 2. Lunch x 2 days 3. Dinner x 2 days
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Transportation a. What is the proximity of the proposed NHTI location to a major airport (miles and drive time)? i. If more than a reasonable cab-ride or within airport shuttle range, please describe how you will compensate. ii. How many daily flights are available from the airport? iii. Is it a hub for any carriers? iv. Do any low-cost carriers serve the airport?
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What months (or weeks) of the year would you be able to host? Please do not limit to June/July if other options are available. Based on proposed dates, how will you handle NHTI as well as opening/closing other conflicting operational schedules? Please describe your plan to create an NHTI committee infrastructure to manage food & beverage, accommodations, faculty recruitment/curriculum content, transportation, registration application and award selection, and faculty teaching assistant support. Do you have oversight of your campus’ conference operations? If no, please speak to the relationship and the cost implications of hosting NHTI. Who will be the director(s) of the institute? Provide name(s) and title(s) and include a brief professional biography Please include a draft operating budget for the institute using your campus’s costs for this program assuming that there are 30 attendees and 10 faculty members (please find attached a sample of the University of Maryland 2008 NHTI Budget).
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All application materials are due by 5 p.m. (US Eastern Time zone) Monday, March 2, 2009. Applications materials (profile, narrative, budget) should be submitted electronically (in PDF) to josh@acuho-i.org Questions may be submitted to: Josh Goldman ACUHO-I Director of Education 614.292.0099 josh@acuho-i.org Deb Grandner NHTI Co-Director 301.314.7343 dgrandne@umd.edu Cindy Felice NHTI Co-Director 301.314.7484 jfelice@umd.edu
Attachments:
NHTI Schedule 2008 Maryland Sample Budget NHTI Sub-Committee Responsibilities
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