The Tenth Annual NUBEC will be held at Michigan State University. Please contact Paul Hudson Mack at mackpaul@msu.edu. MSU's center website can be found at bioethics.msu.edu.
Please consider your university to host a future National Bioethics Conference. Each year at the national conference, universities bid to host the conference two years in the future from the current conference.
Please read the bidding policy with your classmates, professors and university administration to determine if your university would like to host the 11th Annual National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference. Please submit your bidding proposals and inquiries to bioethic@nd.edu. Thank you for considering this opportunity to further promote undergraduate participation in the field of bioethics!
NUBEC Bidding Guidelines
Last updated February 2005
Requirements for host institutions:
• Must be located in the United States.
• Be a strong undergraduate education institution or have a strong undergraduate education vision and mission.
• Must have an established undergraduate program of activities in bioethics. Can be classes, clubs, lectures, etc.
Proposals should include and describe the following:
• A letter from the provost or a dean at the institution acknowledging the institution is undertaking the planning process. This is a letter acknowledging that students are undertaking the planning process and outlining the costs, facilities, and involvement. The letter also identifies the department, advisor or student life office through which the students are working.
• Facilities available for hosting the conference at the institution.
• Major objectives of the conference. The proposal should explicitly state that the conference is geared toward undergraduate students and those who work with undergraduate students. The main focus or theme of conference should be clearly stated.
• Two to five letters of student or faculty support.
• A 30-day window within which the conference will be held. Must check school's calendar for breaks and special conflicts.
• Contact information and names and years of student coordinators (must be more than 3 students).
Submission procedures:
• Interested institutions must submit a letter of intent to bid by January 15, 2005 to bioethic@nd.edu noting contact information for student coordinators and advisor. Students submitting intending to submit bid must make arrangements to attend NUBC (including registration and hotel confirmation) by February 1, 2005 for consideration.
• The proposal should be no more than 5 pages, single-sided for the above information, (not inclusive of the letters) and may contain up to 1 extra page single-sided with whatever additional information the prospective host would like to include.
• Proposals are required to address all of the components stated above.
• Proposals must be received by NUBC planners (bioethic@nd.edu) in Microsoft Word format no later than February 1, 2005. Proposals will only be considered by groups who submitted a letter of intent in accordance with 1, above.
• All bid applications will be screened for completeness prior to the conference. All schools who have submitted a complete bid will receive a formal invitation to present. If this invitation is needed at an earlier date, (to receive travel funding from your institution) please contact the bid committee.
• The selection committee will meet during the NUB Conference. Potential host institutions are required to provide enough copies of their proposals for each member of the selection committee and may simply bring these copies to the conference or mail them to an address posted on the conference planning website if said potential institution cannot send a representative.
• No more than two representatives from host-candidate institutions may present their proposal for no more than 10 minutes at the selection meeting and should be present to answer any questions. The order in which the presentations are given shall be randomly determined.
• By submitting a bid, the potential host consents to having the bid posted on the NUBC website, made available at the conference, and archived for future access.
