Groups of students may elect to organize their own panels. Student organized panels can take two forms:

1. Four or five students may make individual presentations in a single panel involving a common topic or theme. Each student makes a separate submission, but indicates the other projects with which their presentation is to be grouped. These student-organized panels must have four or five student presenters, and will most often have a single faculty adviser for all the proposals. Each submission will be judged on its own merits. An example of such a panel would be four or five papers all addressing a common theme or literary work.
2. In cases where several students participated together in a common project, a second type of student-organized panel may be appropriate. In this case, a single student submits a proposal. The proposal must an abstract and include the other members of the panels and a short description of what each will contribute to the presentation. See the 2007 Undergraduate Conference Program for examples of such student organized panels.

If you have questions, please contact Tom Callister, Associate Dean of the Faculty, at callista@whitman.edu.