California Community Colleges
Banner Group
Conference
April 5 -6, 2005

CONFERENCE HOST
Kern Community College District

CONFERENCE LOCATION
Doubletree Hotel Bakersfield
3100 Camino Del Rio Court
Bakersfield, CA 93308
www.bakersfield.doubletree.com

Driving Directions

CONFERENCE FEE
• $100.00 per person.

Fee covers the cost of general and break-out sessions, break refreshments, Tuesday lunch, Tuesday dinner, Wednesday continental breakfast and Wednesday lunch.

PURPOSE
Unable to attend Summit this year? Anxious to know what’s in store with the release of Banner 7.0? Curious how your peers at other California Community Colleges that have implemented Banner are using Banner to their advantage? Would you like to learn more about new and/or existing Banner products that your district is thinking about implementing?

Well, if you answered yes to any of these questions, you should attend the 2005 California Community College Banner User’s Group (3CBG) Conference scheduled for April 5-6, 2005. This year’s conference will be hosted at the beautiful Doubletree Hotel in centrally located Bakersfield California. The conference begins on Tuesday April 5, 2005 at 12:00pm and ends on Wednesday April 6, 2005 at 4:00pm.

In past years, over 200 of your peers from 3CBG member districts have met annually at this conference to discuss common issues, to hear about future Banner releases and the impact on California Community Colleges, to share innovative ideas and network with their peers from throughout the State. Due to the budget problems in California, it has been over two years since the last 3CBG Conference was held so there will be many opportunities to learn more about what other districts have been doing to enhance their Banner implementations.

PROGRAM
For this year’s conference, five tracks have been selected – Finance, Student, HR/Payroll, Financial Aid and Special Interest (Technical, Reporting, Portals, Imaging, Workflow and other special interests). The conference begins with a lunch and keynote presentation about Banner 7.0, followed by a general opening session for each track except Special Interest. Finally, there will be five additional sessions for each of the five tracks for a total of twenty-nine Community College focused Banner related presentations.

SCHEDULE

Printable Session Details

PRE-CONFERENCE GOLF TOURNAMENT
Date/Time:
Monday April 4th @ noon.

Location:
Kern River Golf Course
Lake Ming Rd.
Bakersfield 93386

Cost:
$34 / player
This includes:
-- Green fees = $28; includes cart
-- Lunch = $6; includes a sandwich or cheeseburger, chips, drink

All who want to play must RSVP by Thursday March 3 to:

Connie Nikirk
Admin. Assistant to Vic Belinski, Information Technology
Ventura County Community College District
Ph: (805) 384-8380
Fx: (805)384-8395

CONFERENCE RESERVATIONS
Reserve your place at the conference now by contacting your college/district's 3CBG Conference coordinator (most likely this is someone in your District Office’s Information Technology department). Each district is handling registration of its participants and will send an attendee list and a single check to the host district (Kern Community College District) covering all registration fees.

HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS
• Room Rate: $84.00 / night. ( plus applicable taxes )

The contracts have been signed and attendees can now reserve their rooms at the two conference hotels using the information below. There is limited room availability at the Doubletree Hotel ; however, a large block of rooms has been reserved for this conference at the Hilton Garden Inn which is located adjacent to the Doubletree Hotel. If you are planning to arrive Monday, we do have 10 rooms at the Doubletree Hotel blocked out for that night and I would recommend that you make your reservations quickly to book those rooms for both nights. As a reminder, the hotels will only hold our blocks of rooms until March 4th.

To make reservations:
Ask for the group rate for the 3CBG Conference-Kern Community College District or if reserving online, use the Conference Group Code: "CBG".

• DoubleTree Hotel: call 1-800-222-8733 (TREE)

• Hilton Garden Inn: call 1-800-445-8667

VENDOR PARTICIPATION
If you are a vendor interested in participating in the conference, please download and complete the Vendor Participation Form

FOR MORE INFORMATION
If you have a question or need more information about the conference, please contact:
David Palinsky
Kern Community College District
661-336-5170
dpalinsk@kccd.cc.ca.us