CCME invites education, military, government, workforce development, and industry professionals to submit proposals for concurrent sessions at the 2027 CCME Professional Development Symposium:
Celebrating Our Legacy: From Tradition to Transformation
The symposium will honor the trailblazers, partnerships, and programs that built military voluntary education while exploring innovative ways to serve today’s military-connected learners.
We are seeking engaging, practical, and forward-looking sessions that support service members, veterans, military spouses, dependents, educators, military leaders, and other military-connected learners.
Proposed sessions should align with one or more of the following tracks:
1. Honoring Our Legacy, Leading Through Change
This track examines how the military and veteran education community can preserve its legacy, adapt to evolving policies and programs, strengthen institutional knowledge, and elevate its collective voice on behalf of military-connected learners.
Topics may include
military voluntary education
education benefits
federal policy
institutional accountability
advocacy
professional development
cross-sector partnerships
learner representation.
2. Ready for What Comes Next: Education as a Force Multiplier
This track explores how institutions, installations, and education professionals can strengthen readiness, sustain access, and provide continuity of support during deployments, mobilizations, operational changes, and other disruptions.
Topics may include
3. Beyond the Degree: Demonstrating Pathways to Career Success
This track examines how degrees, credentials, military experience, apprenticeships, SkillBridge, internships, and other education-to-career pathways contribute to employment, economic mobility, and long-term career advancement.
Topics may include
4. AI, Innovation, and Integrity: Transforming Learning and Work
This track explores how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping education, institutional operations, and the workforce while emphasizing responsible use, transparency, academic integrity, privacy, accessibility, security, and human judgment.
Topics may include
generative AI
AI literacy
academic integrity
personalized learning
AI-enabled advising
cybersecurity, bias
workforce transformation
data protection
human oversight.
Sessions should provide participants with practical ideas, promising practices, research, tools, strategies, or partnerships that can be applied in their professional settings.
Submission deadline: Dec 6th, 2026
Proposal decisions announced: Dec 21st, 2026
Submission of a proposal does not guarantee acceptance.