Panelists
Rebecca Albrecht, Director of Special Events, ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Elizabeth Apodaca, Special Events Manager, ASU College of Public Programs
Heidi Maxwell, Events Manager, ASU West Campus Office of Public Affairs
Darci Nagy, Events Coordinator, Sr., Arizona State University, Office of Special Events
Jennifer Van Paris, Senior Director of Event Planning, ASU Foundation
Melissa Werner, Director, ASU University Ceremonies


Description
Arizona State University is the largest public research university in the United States, with a Fall 2010 student enrollment of 70,440.  ASU, also known as The New American University, is spread across four campuses in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.  ASU works in unique and interesting ways, not only academically, but from an event planning perspective as well.  There is no single, centralized office of events at ASU which has great advantages as well as disadvantages.  The panel consists of event planners from the ASU Foundation, the ASU Public Affairs Office, the Office of University Ceremonies as well as event specialists from colleges at three of the four campuses that make up Arizona State.  This panel will share how collaboration has resulted in events that have great impact and how we often must share event planning responsibilities.