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100

This is the acronym for the Southern Regional Educational Board.

What is SREB?

100

Now in its 33rd year, this four-day Institute focuses on teaching and mentoring for doctoral students.

What is the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring

100

These are four states in the southern region represented by SREB?

What are: (any combination of)

Alabama 

Arkansas 

Delaware 

Florida 

Georgia 

Kentucky 

Louisiana 

Maryland 

Mississippi 

North Carolina 

Oklahoma 

South Carolina 

Tennessee 

Texas 

Virginia 

West Virginia?

100

This nonpartisan, nonprofit southern regional compact exists to enhance education at every level.

Who or what is the Southern Regional Education Board or SREB?

100

MSW will return to this southern city for the conference in 2029.

What is Nashville?

200

This is the acronym for this conference.

What is MSW?  

200

Established in 1948, this SREB program helps states avoid the high cost of creating specialized professional health schools  Its title includes the words program, regional and contract.

What is the Regional Contract Program (RCP)?

200

These former United States Presidents were once board members of SREB during their time as Governors of southern states. 

Who are Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton?

200

SREB's headquarters is located in this capital city and southern state.

What is Atlanta, Georgia?

200

This is the name of a large corporate sponsor who could host MSW in Florida in 2028 or California.

What is Disney?

300

SREB’s Postsecondary office uses this acronym .

What is PSE or who is PSE?

300

SREB state doctoral scholars receive this amount annually. It is less than 25,000 and more than 10,000.

What is $20,000?

300

Dr. Stephen Pruit is the former president of SREB and former education commissioner of this southern state known for bourbon.

What is Kentucky?

300

SREB’s President, Valerie Greenhill made history by becoming this for the organization.

What is SREB's first female president?

300

MSW participants leave the conference with this.

Open ended answer

400

Recently named the 12 high impact practice, SREB promotes this no cost online educational content.  

What is OER or what are Open Educational Resources?

400

This is the acronym for our Academic Common Market, a tuition-savings program for students pursuing degrees not offered by public institutions in their home states.

What is ACM?

400

Dr. Kim Hunter Reed is the current SHEEO for this state, hit by Hurricane Katrina and she is also an executive board member for SREB.

What is Louisiana?

400

Of the four regional compacts, SREB is the only one that also advances education for these grade levels across the nation. 

What is K-12?

400

Every MSW participant should be dedicated to ___________ success. At SREB, we define that as access, persistence, retention and attainment. 

What is student or learner?

500

This popular female name that starts with an “S” is also the acronym for this SREB regional facilitated state reciprocity agreement that regulates online/distance education and protects consumers.  

What is SARA or what is State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement?

500

This is one of the nation’s oldest and most comprehensive sources of comparative data on public higher education in the south.

What is the Fact Book?

500

Tate Reeves, governor of this southern delta state, is the current board president for SREB?  

What is Mississippi?

500

SREB celebrated our 75th anniversary in 2023 and was founded in this year.

What is 1948?

500

These grades or education levels make up the audience for the 2030 SREB Making Schools Work Conference. 

What is Pre-K through graduate school or prek, elementary, secondary, and post-secondary?

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