CIRPA Conference

I was honoured to be asked to be the Program Chair for the 2025 Canadian Institutional Research and Planning Association (CIRPA) conference. It's a chance to work on a great conference and with a wonderful co-chair and volunteer team.

Naturally, I accepted immediately.

This year's conference will be held virtually. Many of my colleagues working in Institutional Research and Planning do not get to attend our annual conference due to high travel expenses. This has been exacerbated lately due to a lot of cuts to professional development budgets.

The CIRPA board decided to try bringing a virtual conference into our geographical rotation. We had virtual conferences in 2020 and 2021 and we resumed in-person conferences in 2022.

The virtual conference is a great opportunity to bring people together from across the country. That's one reason I decided a theme of Cross Canada IRP would be appropriate.

You can learn more about the conference at CIRPA.

Posted on March 23, 2025.