The Professional Development Committee has gathered model proposals to help those submitting to conferences.

2022 Sample Proposals

Top proposals solicited from the program committee chair of the 2022 conference.

2010 Sample Proposals

A group of proposals selected from those considered by the 2010 and 2011 Program Committees to be particularly successful.

Advice for Writing Proposals

Professor Joseph Straus’s handout on writing a proposal, created for the 2007 session of the Professional Development Committee.

Please note that modeling a proposal on one of those shown below will not guarantee acceptance; furthermore, a proposal using an approach or a format not represented here may be well received. 

The Professional Development Committee is grateful to Professor Straus and the authors of the proposals for permission to post their materials here.