CANCELED: New Horizons 2020

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REGISTRATION FEES
All registration fees will be refunded in full.
 
VCCS Employees:  No registration fees will be collected by the VCCS System Office’s business office from any of the community colleges. For any VCCS employee who paid personally for the conference, your registration fee will be reimbursed to you in full within the next 30-60 days.
 
Non VCCS Employees:  All registration fees will be reimbursed in full in the same method payment was received (i.e. check payments will be reimbursed by check; credit card payments will be reimbursed back to the credit card). Please allow 30-60 days for reimbursement.
 
HOTEL RESERVATIONS
All reservations made in our rooming blocks at The Hotel Roanoke and overflow hotels have already been cancelled with no penalty. Your credit card will not be charged. Please do not call the hotel to cancel your reservation.
 
If you made a reservation outside of our room blocks or through a 3rd party site (e.g. Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, Trivago, etc.), you will need to cancel your own reservation.

• For questions regarding registration, contact events@vccs.edu
  
• For all other questions about the conference, email us at newhorizons@vccs.edu
  

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The System Office will advise by Monday, March 23, on whether the New Horizons conference, scheduled for April 15-17, will proceed as planned.

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From: Glenn DuBois <gdubois@vccs.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:51 AM
Subject: System-wide Message about New Horizons
 
Good morning,
 
In spite of our most optimistic wishes that things would improve prior to our New Horizons conference in April, the reality has not moved in the direction of our hopes.
 
After careful consideration and evaluation of the current situation with COVID-19 as well as the overall response in Virginia and across the nation, I have made the decision to cancel the New Horizons conference scheduled April 15-17, 2020. 
 
The health and safety of meeting participants, speakers, and staff are my first priority.  Though this event is just on the other side of the minimum 30 day limit on large gatherings in the Governor’s emergency declaration, we know that even if things have improved at that time your focus will be on your own students and campus community and students returning to normalcy.
 
Information is being provided on the event registration webpage as well as directly to the registered participants via email. At this time, you do not need to take any action concerning the cancellation.
 
We look forward to the next opportunity to gather at New Horizons in April 2021.
 
I hope that you and your families stay safe and well.
 
Glenn DuBois