Events WHEN & WHERE
+ Jun 24, 2025 - Jun 27, 2025
+ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Slate Summit 2025
Carnegie’s Slate Optimization team is heading to Las Vegas for Slate Summit 2025! We’re hosting a few pre-summit events and we’d love to see you at one or all of them!
Tuesday, June 24th at 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST
Join us for a comprehensive one-day workshop for all Slate users. This workshop will cover key features and modules aimed at optimizing your Slate instance—including Queries, Voyager, Reporting, and Portals. The sessions are structured to progressively build skills, with hands-on opportunities to enhance and achieve your enrollment and retention efforts. A light breakfast and a lunch will be served during the program. Camp Social will begin at 4:00pm PT after the training ends and will include refreshments.
Registration is $500 per person. Cancellations submitted two weeks prior to the event will receive a full refund. After that date, registration can be transferred to another attendee from your institution; no refunds will be provided.
Thursday, June 26th at 5:30 – 10:00 PM PST
We’re hosting two casual events at Bloq at the LINQ Hotel. Both events are free, but you must RSVP to reserve your spot!
Sip n’ Slate. This free, exclusive consulting event will get your problems solved and questions answered by our Slate Squad. These 30-minute consulting sessions are limited to one per institution.
Social. Join the Slate Squad for a fun (and free!) evening of good food and great company. Registrants can also bring guests!
Wednesday, June 25 at 3:25 PM PST
Interested in migrating course planning into Slate? In this session, learn how the University of Southern Indiana built a seamless Plan of Study process for graduate students, guiding them from first semester to graduation. We'll demonstrate how to use prompt categorization, conditional logic on forms, and entities to streamline class planning, with a student-facing portal to display planned courses and a faculty portal for responses. We’ll also cover the necessary planning outside of Slate. Whether you're ready to go paperless or just exploring new Slate capabilities, this session will showcase powerful tools you can use for other processes.
Presented by Allison Beebie, with Lindsey Gibson + Brian Crose from University of Southern Indiana
Thursday, June 26 at 9:00 AM PST
Think Slate.org isn't for you? Think again. Join this panel session to hear from both college counselors and experienced Slate.org users as we showcase how this powerful platform can elevate your recruitment strategy. From improving collaboration with counselors to enhancing your team’s workflow, discover how Slate.org can streamline your processes and support your recruitment goals. Don’t miss out on learning how Slate.org can transform your approach to college admissions.
Presented by Sara Mathew, with Julie Kerich + Lara Grieco from The Episcopal Academy
Friday, June 27 at 9:00 AM PST
Managing program changes and multiple application considerations doesn’t have to be complicated. This session will explore how to streamline major change requests and multi-program reviews using Slate’s workflows, automation, and conditional logic.
Learn how to build a seamless change of major process that keeps students and staff informed every step of the way, ensuring requests are tracked, processed efficiently, and nothing falls through the cracks. We’ll also showcase how workflows can allow students to be considered for multiple programs simultaneously, enabling reviewers to evaluate eligibility for different programs and tailor admissions decisions accordingly.
Join us to see how you can enhance student support, reduce manual work, and optimize your internal processes with the power of automation and workflows.
Presented by Allison Beebie, with Alyssa Sellick from University of Virginia Graduate Admissions, and Bailey Raffield from Texas A&M University College Station
Friday, June 27 at 12:15 PM PST
Reaching your audience is about more than just hitting "send." In this session, we’ll cover essential strategies to improve email deliverability and optimize messages for mobile devices, ensuring your communications are both effective and engaging.
Learn how to maximize deliverability by setting up DKIM, utilizing message groups, analyzing email statistics, and implementing sending best practices to keep your messages out of spam folders. Then, dive into mobile-responsive design techniques using CSS in Deliver to create emails that adapt seamlessly across devices.
Whether you're focused on getting emails into inboxes or making them look great once they’re there, this session will equip you with the tools to refine your email strategy and enhance engagement.
Presented by Brett Bieber + Christine Reilly, with Katherine Thomas from Louisiana Tech University, and Clinton Midkiff from Cleveland State University