About the 2026 NEean Fall Forum

In assessment, the ways that we choose to show up matter. As our institutions face budget cuts, eliminated positions, institutional mergers, and constant restructuring, assessment professionals face challenges that are nuanced and multi-layered. We're navigating a BANI-VUCA landscape, one that's brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and incomprehensible, yet also volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Our work demands more than data. It requires human connection, collective wisdom, and support that depends on presence with one another.

This year’s Fall Forum invites you to step away from your screen and gather in person to strengthen the professional relationships that sustain us through change. Assessment works best in collaboration, and NEean offers a space to build mentoring networks, share strategies for doing more with less, and ground our practice in what matters most: students, relationships, and community. Whether you're navigating a merger, leading as a solo practitioner, or reimagining assessment amid policy uncertainty, you'll find colleagues who understand the challenges and are ready to dig into them together.

Join us to explore how relational presence transforms assessment from compliance into meaningful work that centers student voice, leverages technology thoughtfully, and creates the conditions for institutional resilience even when everything around us is shifting.