Preliminary Schedule
Thursday, June 6
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Registration
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Pre-Conference Workshops and Meetings
9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Global Challenges Workshop: Educating Globally Competent Citizens & Working Lunch (open to all)
This full day workshop introduces participants to numerous tools for educating globally competent citizens. AASCU Global Engagement Scholars describe how they have built interdisciplinary courses and curricula around the Global Challenges framework (population, resources, technology, information, economic integration, conflict/security and governance). Workshop leaders demonstrate the teaching materials and resources they have found most valuable in the courses they teach (including introductory, first-year, discipline-based and honors courses) and guide participants in anticipating how these same tools could be used effectively on their home campuses. Participants also have the opportunity to learn more about how to bring the national Global Challenges blended-learning course to their campuses. The blended learning model course, designed by the AASCU Scholars, includes a variety of teaching methods to deliver and facilitate classroom materials and activities. Participants will also be introduced to the new Global Challenges eBook written by the AASCU Scholars and published by Sourcebooks. Each participant will receive a faculty toolkit for using the global challenges content in campus courses and co-curricular programs. This practical and insightful workshop is ideal for institutions at want to deepen their commitment to providing effective international education in a variety of disciplines.
Registration Fee: $65
Presenters: Steven Elliott-Gower, Director, Honors and Scholars Program,Georgia College; Ken Hill, Lecturer of Education and Keisha L. Hoerrner, Associate Dean, University College, Kennesaw State University (Ga.); Darrell Hamlin, Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies, Shala Mills, Global Challenges National Course Coordinator and Brett Whitaker, Instructor, Leadership Studies, Fort Hays State University (Kan.); William Payne,Dean, School of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth; Nathan Phelps, Faculty, Honors College, Western Kentucky University; Martin S. Shapiro, Associate Professor of Psychology, California State University Fresno; Yohannes Woldemariam, Assistant Professor, International Relations and Environmental Studies, Fort Lewis College (Colo.); and Tina Zappile, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Campus & Community Civic Health Initiative Summit and Working Lunch (by invitation)
The Campus & Community Civic Health Initiative, presented in partnership with the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), serves as a signature program of the 10th anniversary of ADP. Launched at the ADP Meeting in June 2012, the two-year initiative is engaging 25 participating institutions to assess the civic health of their campuses and communities and to develop action plans to respond to what they find. The 2013 summit will provide participating schools with the opportunity to learn about national civic health research and models, present on their campus models and action plans, and work together to discuss successes and challenges of the first year of participation.
Presenters: Kristen Cambell, Chief Program Officer, and Kristi Tate, Director of Community Strategies, NCoC (Washington, D.C.); Heidi Kuester, CBISA Specialist, Lyon Software; and Jen Domagal-Goldman, ADP National Manager, AASCU
- Assessing Campus Civic Health while Teaching and Learning Research Methods
Susan Orr,ADP Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Political Science;Dena Levy, Associate Professor, Political Science & International Studies; and Krishaon Ewing and Allyson Kehl, students at SUNY Brockport
- Doing Public Work: Democratic Engagement at UNCGSpoma Jovanovic, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Cathy Hamilton Director of the Office of Leadership & Service Learning, and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- “True Blue”: Evaluating Campus Civic Health at MTSU
Mary Evins, Associate Professor of History and ADP Campus Coordinator, Middle Tennessee State University
9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Political Engagement Project (PEP) Business Meeting (by invitation)
An informal gathering of representatives from PEP campuses to discuss
progress toward infusing political education and engagement tactics into a
variety of disciplines and courses. The business meeting provides participating
campuses with the opportunity to discuss accomplishments and develop strategies
for expanding PEP in the future.
Convener: Steve Hunt, PEP Faculty
Chair and Professor of Communication, Illinois State University
9 a.m. - Noon
Stewardship of Public Lands Course Working Group (by invitation)
10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Metro State University Denver Site Visit (RSVP required; capped at 25)
Are you arriving in Denver prior to the official start of the American Democracy Project and The Democracy Commitment National Meeting on June 6? Metropolitan State University of Denver – an ADP campus – invites you to spend the late morning and early afternoon of June 6th experiencing our downtown campus and engaging with several of our initiatives that are advancing the University’s “urban land grant” mission.Visitors to our campus will interact with or experience:
- A one-day college readiness institute sponsored by the Center for Urban Education and designed for elementary students from the Denver Public Schools.
- A conversation with Hungarian visiting engineering and architecture faculty on the topics of democracy and higher education.
Up to 25 guests are welcome to participate in this site visit. Lunch will be provided by MSU Denver. The group will depart from Marriott City Center at 10am and travel to campus by light rail (guests will be expected to purchase their own light rail tickets – a $4.50 roundtrip cost). Return to the Marriott City Center will be by 2:30 p.m. (Note: the ADP/TDC opening plenary begins at 3:30 p.m.)
To RSVP for this pre-conference site visit, please email Maggie Schaeffer at mschaef8@msudenver.edu by May 15, 2013.
Noon - 3 p.m.
Developing a Winning Civic Engagement Grant Proposal
This three hour
workshop, sponsored by AASCU’s Grants Resource Center, covers (1) developing
the proposal concept, (2) searching for the best funding source, (3) focusing
in on the proposal idea, (4) establishing a timeline for development and
implementation, and (5) outlining the proposal and project budget. Each
participant will end the session with a proposal framework that meets the
criteria of a selected funding agency and is ready for further development on
return to his or her campus. Those indicating plans to attend the
pre-conference activity will be given instructions on what to prepare prior to
the meeting.
Limit: 15. RSVP
required to adp@aascu.org
Presenters: Richard
Dunfee, Executive Director, AASCU’s Grants Resource Center; Gregg Kaufman, Center for Engaged Learning, Georgia College; William M. Loker, Dean, Undergraduate Education, California State University,
Chico; and Beth Olsen, Director of Grants Development, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Noon - 3 p.m.
Public
Achievement Workshop (Open to all Public Achievement Coaches and Coordinators, RSVP to noelleg.johnson@gmail.com)
Last Spring Western Kentucky University hosted the first
Public Achievement (PA) National Coaches Workshop as a way to connect coaches
from across the globe. This workshop is intended to help develop the next level
of PA – nationally and regionally – through networking, presentations and
discussion. Most importantly, this workshop will build connections &
student coaches will decide the best way to share their work throughout the
year. This workshop gives us time to share advancements & problem solve. We
will discuss the sustainability of PA and the creation of PA Regional
Coordinators as means to ensure the future growth of PA programs throughout the
US.
Convener: Noelle
Johnson, Public Achievement Coordinator, Institute for Citizenship and
Social Responsibility at Western Kentucky University
- How to
Avoid Ethnocentric Community Projects: The Role of a Public Achievement Coach
When Working with Intolerant Participants
Bianca S. Brown, Public Achievement
Coordinator, Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility at Western
Kentucky University
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Citizen Alum Moving Forward: Invitational
Meeting (by invitation)
A facilitated,
structured exchange among representatives of ADP/TDC campuses that are also
members of Citizen Alum, a multi-institutional initiative launched in 2012 and
based at the University of Michigan. Campus teams are a focal point of our work
in broadening and deepening the culture of civic engagement on campus and in the
region. Campuses that are sending teams to the inaugural Citizen Alum Summer
Institute will report on what they learned through their preparation process.
The scope will then expand as all teams point to breakthroughs and sticking
points in developing their campus teams. The session will conclude with
collective goal-setting for the coming year.
Convener: Julie Ellison, Citizen Alum Founder, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Stewardship of Public Lands Workshop (open to all)
This workshop will share campus examples of projects and courses related to ADP's Stewardship of Public Lands initiative and it's annual Politics and the Yellowstone Ecosystem Seminar for faculty.
- Longwood@Yellowstone: Transcending the Compartmentalization
of General Education through a Pedagogy of Place
Alix D. Dowling Fink, Dean of the Honors College and Associate
Professor of Biology; Heather G. Lettner-Rust, Assistant Professor of English; Mark
H. Newton Longwood University
- Real and Imagined Wolves in Literature and
Political Life
Elizabeth Latosi-Sawin, Professor of English, Missouri Western State
University
1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Political Engagement Project Pre-Conference Workshop: Exploring Strategies to Educate for Democracy (open to all)
The Political Engagement Project (PEP) has the goal of developing a sense of
political efficacy and duty on the part of undergraduates as well as a set of
political skills that students will need as they engage with the political
world. In this pre-conference workshop, presenters from PEP campuses will share
best practices for integrating political engagement into the curriculum and
co-curriculum. The workshop includes recommendations for recruiting faculty and
students, using social media to foster political engagement, and no-cost
strategies for assessing student learning.
1:30 – 3 p.m.
eJournal of Public
Affairs Editorial Board Meeting (Invite Only)
Editorial Board Members
will be sent a meeting agenda prior to the ADP conference. This agenda will
include the Editor’s Annual Report, a review of the past year’s issues, updates
on status of future issues, any business updates, and discussion points.
Convener: Andy Lokie, Editor, eJournal of Public Affairs, Missouri State University
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
ADP Orientation (open to all)
Is your campus new to ADP? Is this your first ADP meeting? This session introduces you to ADP and gives you a chance to meet and talk with George L. Mehaffy, ADP’s founder, and Jen Domagal-Goldman, ADP’s national manager. Come learn what ADP is all about!
Facilitators: George L. Mehaffy, Vice President for Academic Leadership and Change and Jen Domagal-Goldman, ADP National Manager, AASCU
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
TDC Orientation
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Opening Plenary
5:30 p.m.
Opening Reception (wine & cheese)
6:30 p.m.
Dinner on Your Own
Friday, June 7
7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Registration
7:15 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Breakfast and Breakfast Breakout Sessions
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Plenary Session: A Defense of Higher Education and its
Civic Mission
The liberal arts and the civic mission of higher education
are under attack in this time of economic crisis and political polarization. In
several states, policies are pending to raise tuition for majors that do not
lead directly to jobs. We should not be offended by this kind of critique. We
charge a lot of money for tuition, and citizens are entitled to ask what we
produce for it. But we can proudly and forthrightly make the case for the civic
mission of the higher education. The purpose of the liberal arts is to prepare
people for responsible citizenship, and the best forms of civic engagement are
intellectually challenging; they are the liberal arts in action. Research shows
that civic education at the college level makes people into better workers. And
engaged universities address many serious public problems, including
unemployment, that matter to citizens and policymakers.
Presenter: Peter Levine, Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Director of CIRCLE, Tisch College/CIRCLE, Tufts University
10:45 a.m. – Noon
Concurrent Session I: Featured Sessions
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch on Your Own
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Concurrent Session II
2:55 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.
Poster Session
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Concurrent Session III
5 p.m.
Dinner on Your Own
Saturday, June 8
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
RegistrationBreakfast on Your Own
8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Plenary Session:ADP/TDC Student Panel
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session IV
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Campus & Friends Showcase and Lunch
1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Concurrent Session V
2:45 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Concurrent Session VI
4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Closing Plenary
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Closing Dinner and Reception