Starting 2025 With APPA U in Fort Worth
APPA kicks off 2025 with the first offering of APPA U at the Omni Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, on January 6–9. The four-day professional development event is held twice a year—in January and June—in different regions of the United States and offers APPA’s two signature programs: the Institute for Facilities Management (IFM) and the Leadership Academy.
The event will attract nearly 400 facilities management professionals from around the United States and as far away as Jamaica and Saudi Arabia. In addition to IFM and Leadership Academy, the Fort Worth APPA U will offer the Supervisor’s Toolkit, a structured, open-ended, and pragmatic approach to developing supervisors.
Check the APPA website during the week of January 6 for updates and photos from APPA U in Fort Worth, as well as the next issue of Facilities Manager.
Make sure to save the date for the second offering of APPA U for 2025, which will be held June 2–5 at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida. Look for registration information to be posted soon.
Early-Bird Registration for APPA’s 2025 Spring Conference Ends January 31
After a highly successful debut last April in Nashville, Tennessee, APPA’s Spring Conference will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 15–17, 2025.
Building on the success of the Nashville conference, this year’s event will run for two full days. Rooms have been selected to accommodate more session attendees, and more time has been set aside for attendees to network.
Rex Miller, a distinguished expert in optimizing human and team performance, will be the keynote speaker for the Spring Conference at 8:00am on Thursday, April 10. A preliminary schedule for the conference is located here. Check back for more information about specific sessions and other events as they are scheduled.
Click here to register for the conference and hotel. Early bird registration ends January 31. Regular conference registration with increased prices begins February 1 and ends April 9. Last year’s conference sold out quickly, so don’t hesitate to make your arrangements to attend the Spring Conference in New Orleans.
Facilities Manager Magazine’s Five Most-Read Stories from 2024
2024 was an eventful year for facilities professionals as well as APPA International, and Facilities Manager magazine was there to document it all.
If you missed any of the events, happenings, and insights provided in the pages of Facilities Manager magazine during 2024, here is a compilation of the five most-read articles of the year.
In addition to viewing last year’s most read articles, you can also go “back in time” and access the entire archive of Facilities Manager, which dates back to 1985.
Share Your Best Practices in Facilities Manager
Turning from the more recent and distant past to the future, you could be writing what readers may select as one of the top five articles of 2025.
Writing for Facilities Manager is a great way to share engaging, behind-the-scenes accounts of why your work matters and how you get it done with other members of the APPA community. We welcome a range of voices, perspectives, and topics related to best practices in facilities management in each issue.
Facilities Manager welcomes recent case studies, campus updates, and emerging best practices from facilities management professionals at APPA-member institutions. The magazine’s 2025 editorial calendar outlines the themes for each issue this year, submission deadlines, and more information related to practical and big-picture perspectives on the most pressing issues and challenges advancing and impacting your work. Submissions do not have to relate to issue themes listed in the editorial calendar.
For those interested in writing, please take some time to review the 2025 Editorial Calendar and see where you can contribute your knowledge and experience to others in the profession—in either a feature article or column. Also, please make sure to review the Editorial Guidelines to answer any questions you might have, such as submission requirements, length of columns and articles, and other additional information.
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As 2025 begins, make sure you continue to receive the most relevant industry updates, best practices, and information on professional development opportunities and events from APPA. To do so, please help APPA confirm that we have your most current contact information—and communication preferences—up to date.
You can do this by going to myAPPA, clicking on myAPPA Menu, and then myAPPA Profile. If you need assistance, contact [email protected].
Kevin Willmann is APPA’s communications writer/editor and managing editor of Facilities Manager. You can reach him at [email protected].
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