There will be a session of contributed 5-minute talks at the paraDIGMS 2022 Spring Conference. Please fill out this form if you are interested in giving a short talk at the session.

Talks could raise an important issue—large or small, at the departmental level or more global—and make a call to action. They could also highlight an existing or emerging effort to address that issue—maybe a departmental initiative, or a small but important change in practice by a few faculty or staff members. The goal of the session is to spread awareness about practical issues and practical ideas and can be thought of as progress reports rather than final drafts.

Some ideas of lightning talk topics:
- A program has experimented with different approaches to graduate recruiting events, possibly prompted by COVID, and will be making these permanent changes for recruiting events.
- A program has recently transitioned to using rubric-based or holistic graduate admissions and gives an update of which aspects are working well and which aspects still need to be tweaked.
- A department has for a long time prompted grad students to do a yearly self-assessment of progress, and this has been a positive thing for the department.
- A program is working to provide better support for their students' mental health.  Here are some examples of how this has gone so far.
- Students in a program are struggling with financial planning when summer funding is not guaranteed, and are concerned with the lack of procedures or communication around summer funding. Here are some examples of how this has affected students and some preliminary steps taken to address the issue.
- A grad committee had a bunch of tough conversations about using the GRE subject test for admission purposes and ultimately decided that was useful to require (or not).
- Your department is doing things of interest to the paraDIGMS community and you tell us all about it!

Speakers will be selected from the submissions received and will be contacted by the organizing committee. For first priority in consideration, please submit your proposed title and abstract by Friday, April 8. Additional proposals will be considered on a rolling basis; this form will be closed once we are no longer accepting additional proposals.