Midwest Clinic Teachers’ Conference
September 12, 13, 14, 2014
MSU College of Law
Conference Evaluation
Please comment on the following topics to help those who will plan the Midwest Conference in
the future. Feel free to use the back of the form if you need more room to write.
1. Schedule: The pre-conference workshops were on Friday afternoon and the conference
was scheduled for all day on Saturday and Sunday morning only. What schedule do you
recommend?
2. Pacing: Two sessions were planned for each morning and each afternoon with a break
between session and a one hour lunch with no speakers scheduled during meals. Please
comment on this pace.
3. Theme and programming: This conference had no over-arching theme. Are there
programs or themes that you would suggest?
4. Solicitation of presentations: The solicitation for presentations went out in the spring so
that people had time to prepare over the summer. Was this effective timing or too
early?
5. Works in progress: No time was provided for people to discuss works in progress.
Should time be provided? If so, when?
6. Areas of practice: How important is an opportunity to be in a small group with others
who work in your field?
7. Format of presentations: There were a variety of formats including plenaries with a
series of speakers, interactive workshops, small group discussions etc.? What worked
well and what might be improved?
8. Printed Materials: You were provided paper copies of a Protocol, schedule, description
of the sessions, a list of participants, and biographies of all presenters and planners.
Should these have been printed or only made available electronically?
9. Publicity: All of the publicity and announcements were made via the clinic listserve.
Please comment on whether there are other forms of publicity, and the number and
frequency of announcements.
10. Website: The registration, hotels, transportation, conference materials, parking, local
attractions etc. were all on the conference website. Please comment on which of these
were useful and suggestions for additions to future conference websites.
11. Food and entertainment: Please comment on the food and entertainment. If you were
in an urban setting, what meals and entertainment would you like provided? If in a
college town?
12. What else would you want future planning committees to know?
13. Speakers and content: On the back of this sheet, please provide comments for the
speakers, panelists, and facilitators and we will we will forward your comments to those
people.