Download Preliminary Schedule - Updated as of May 2017
Wednesday, June 7
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Registration
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Full-day Pre-conference Workshop
- Charting a Course on the Pathway to Civic Engagement: An Inventory and Action Plan for Engaged Campuses
Organizer: Marshall Welch, Independent Scholar and author of Engaging Higher Education: Purpose, Platforms, and Programs for Community Engagement (2016)
This full day pre-conference institute is designed for teams from colleges and universities interested in strategic planning of their civic learning and democratic engagement efforts. This institute will provide not only the results of a comprehensive inventory of current practice and infrastructure to advance community engagement, but the “gift of time” for administrators to meet and work with their directors of campus centers for engagement to begin strategic planning for continued development of community engagement. This institute is designed for TWO individuals from each institution: the director of the campus center for community engagement and their immediate supervising administrator.
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Full-day Pre-conference Workshop
- Civic Engagement Assessment Pre-Conference Workshops with Networking Lunch - sponsored by ETS
Organizers: H. Anne Weiss, Director of Assessment, Indiana Campus Compact and Assessment Specialist in Community Engagement, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; and Ross Markle, Senior Research & Assessment Director, Global Higher Education Division, ETS
Attend both half-day assessment pre-conference workshops for a reduced price and participate in our assessment networking lunch from Noon - 1 p.m.
- Planning for Institution-Wide Data Collection on Civic and Community Engagement (see below)
- Measuring Civic Outcomes During College (see below)
9 a.m. – Noon
Half-day Morning Pre-conference Workshops
- Planning for Institution-Wide Data Collection on Civic and Community Engagement
Organizers: H. Anne Weiss, Director of Assessment, Indiana Campus Compact and Assessment Specialist in Community Engagement, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; and Ross Markle, Senior Research & Assessment Director, Global Higher Education Division, ETS
Most campuses are eager to answer the question "How are the students, faculty, and staff on campus working to address civic issues and public problems?" We will explore this question in this workshop by reviewing a range of strategies to assess community-engaged activities (i.e., curricular, co-curricular, or project-based activities that are done in partnership with the community). In addition to these many strategies, institutions also often approach assessment with a variety of lenses including assessment and evaluation of community outcomes, student outcomes, partnership assessment and faculty/staff engagement among others. In practice, campuses confront an array of challenges to align these approaches into a comprehensive data collection framework and infrastructure. This session will give participants tools, strategies, and information to design, initiate and/or enhance systematic mechanisms for monitoring and auditing community-engaged activities across your institution.
- Measures That Matter: Regarding Engaged Scholarship In Tenure and Promotion
Organizer: KerryAnn O'Meara, Professor of Higher Education, Director of UMD ADVANCE, University of Maryland, College Park
Many higher education institutions have faculty involved in community engaged scholarship but lack strategies for assessing the quality of this work for promotion and tenure or contract renewal. Engaged scholars do not know how to make the case that their work is scholarship and personnel committees do not know how to evaluate non-traditional, engaged scholarship. A knowledge gap exists related to criteria that might be held up against engaged scholarship projects to assess quality and impact. The purpose of this pre-conference workshop is to share specific reforms that can be put in place to define, assess, document, and reward community engaged scholarship. The presenter will share promotion and tenure language that has already been put in place at other institutions and then suggest four criteria that could be used to assess engaged scholarship portfolios.
- Dialogue and Democratic Deliberation: Moderator Training
Organizers: Kara Lindaman, Professor of Political Science, Winona State University (Minn.); John Dedrick, Vice-President, Kettering Foundation; William Muse, President Emeritus, National Issues Forum Institute; and John J. Theis, Executive Director, Center for Civic Engagement, Lone Star College (Texas)
In preparation for the Friday plenary session, Democratic Deliberation on Safety and Justice, we invite conference participants to this pre-conference institute for an introduction to democratic deliberation and moderator skills. During this session, participants examine democratic dialogue and deliberation while learning the skills and roles of active and engaged moderation.
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Half-day Afternoon Pre-conference Workshops
- Measuring Civic Outcomes During College
Organizers: H. Anne Weiss, Director of Assessment, Indiana Campus Compact and Assessment Specialist in Community Engagement, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; and Ross Markle, Senior Research & Assessment Director, Global Higher Education Division, ETS
As institutions implement high impact practices across their campuses, learning outcomes, curricular and co-curricular activities, and assessment tools can often become disjointed. This workshop will guide attendees through a concentrated, cooperative process of unpacking and measuring civic outcomes such as civic identity, working with others to solve wicked problems, civic mindedness, and being an agent for social change. Ultimately, participants will articulate the alignment (and in some cases, mismatch) between outcomes, interventions, and assessment methods. Attendees should come with a specific program or course in mind and consider bringing a colleague with whom you can brainstorm transdisciplinary assessment practices. Transdisciplinary assessment means that faculty and staff from different disciplines or units on campus work jointly to develop new or innovative measurement practices from which informed decisions can be made to improve practices surrounding students’ civic learning and democratic engagement during college. Attendees will be introduced to the plethora of measurement tools that purport to assess students’ civic learning and development, such as: AAC&U VALUE Rubrics, Civic Minded Graduate Rubric 2.0, campus-wide survey instruments (ETS Civic Competency and Engagement, NSSE, CIRP Surveys, PRSI, etc.), and a host of other pre to post and retrospective pre to post scales such as social dominance orientation, belief in a just world, or the Interpersonal Reactivity Index. After this facilitated discussion, participants will have a chance to apply certain tools to student artifacts such as essays, digital stories, and eportfolios. Applying the tools to artifacts will allow for participants to evaluate and synthesize their plans for assessing student civic learning and development as it relates to participating in high impact practices during college.
- Educating for the Democracy We Want, Not the One We Have
Organizers: Nancy Thomas, Director, and Ishara Casellas Connors, Associate Director, Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE), Jonathan M. Tisch College for Civic Life at Tufts University (Mass.)
After a long and contentious presidential election season, the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the U.S. stunned faculty, administrators, and students. University presidents issued post-election statements calling for a wide range of
responses ranging from tolerance and understanding to vigilance and the protection of democratic principles. Many academics chastised themselves for not making conservative perspectives on campus more visible prior to the election. Others felt they had not done enough to demand truth and statements
about public controversies based on facts. National elections represent a teachable moment in college student learning. Over the past two years, the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE) at Tufts University has been studying campus climates - the norms, structures, behaviors, and attitudes
– for political learning and engagement in democracy. From that research, we’ve identified several attributes of campus climates that may be conducive to political learning for all students, not just a few. Using resources developed by IDHE, workshop participants will have an opportunity to examine what worked
and what did not work on their campuses during the 2016 election season. Participants will also examine their political climates beyond election seasons, with particular attention to areas for growth. Participants will leave with new tools, language, and perspectives for educating the next generation of
politically engaged students in the context of the current national and regional political landscape in the U.S.
- Integrating Civic Responsibility into the Curriculum
Organizers: Gail Robinson, Education Consultant; Duane Oakes, Faculty Director, Center for Community & Civic Engagement, Mesa Community College (Ariz.); Emily Morrison, Assistant Professor, Sociology, and Director, Human Services and Social Justice Program, George Washington University (DC.); and Cathy Doyle, Director, Sarbanes Center for Public and Community Service, Anne Arundel Community College (Md.)
Community engagement and academic learning are central to higher education's mission. Explore ways to help faculty, staff, and administrators prepare students for effective involvement in a diverse democratic society, and examine the role and obligation of higher education to produce good citizens. This interactive workshop features hands-on activities that include looking at service learning from charity and social justice perspectives; identifying appropriate reflection activities; analyzing course syllabi for elements of civic responsibility and civic engagement; reviewing syllabi from the perspectives of students, faculty, staff, administrators, and community partners; and integrating purposeful civic learning strategies into college courses.
- Student Pre-Conference Workshop
For undergraduate students only
Organized by the 2017 CLDE Student Interns: Amber Austin, student, Tarrant County College (Texas); Tyler Ferrari, student, Chapman University (Calif.); and Christina Melecio, student, Winona State University (Minn.)
This workshop will introduce students to #CLDEStuds17 that will provide a space to discuss issues that focus on being an active participant in the local and national communities, and will give students the tools to be effective activists in their communities. These open discussions will be held in large and small groups to effectively dissect the topics being discussed. To thoroughly accomplish our goals at the conference we hope that our peers come with open minds, and thoughtful ideas to contribute to discussions not only at this conference, but at home with their peers. There will be additional information closer to the conference for those who register. We hope to engage our attendees with new, and exciting, information that can further reach students across the nation, and actively enhance the Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement initiatives.
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Walking and Bus Tours
- Walking Tour 1 | Westside of Downtown Baltimore
Sponsored by University of Maryland Baltimore County
Maximum registration 15 | No fee
Exploring Baltimore history through a social justice lens led by Nicole King, Ph.D. Dr. King is Associate Professor and Chair of American Studies at UMBC.
- Walking Tour 2 | Baltimore "Untour"
Sponsored by University of Maryland Baltimore County
Maximum registration 11 | No fee
An opportunity to engage with UMBC faculty while exploring Baltimore history through a social justice lens. Guided by UMBC faculty/staff member Joby Taylor, Director, Peaceworker Program at The Shriver Center/UMBC.
- Exploratory Session by Bus | Right to the City - Curtis Bay: Community Engagement through a Mobile App
Sponsored by Towson University
Maximum registration 44 | No fee
Towson University (anthropology students, faculty, and United Workers-Free Your Voice) have been working on a participatory action research project with high-school students in environmental science classes to qualitatively study the environmental hazards in South Baltimore. Seize this opportunity to explore this work, with Nicole Fabricant, associate professor; and Matthew Durington and Samuel Collins, Professors, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Towson University (http://www.nicolefabricant.com).
Thursday, June 8
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Registration
8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
NASPA Lead Initiative Institutions Breakfast and Workshop
For NASPA Lead Initiative campuses
8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
ADP Breakfast and Organizing Meeting
All ADP campus participants encouraged to attend; includes ADP awards presentations and planning for the 2017-2018 academic year
All meeting participants from AASCU/ADP campuses are encouraged to attend. This session will include ADP
awards presentations and planning for the 2017-2018 academic year in addition to updates about current initiatives and ways in which to engage with the national office.
Organizer: Jennifer Domagal-Goldman, National Manager, American Democracy Project, AASCU
8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
TDC Breakfast and Organizing Meeting
All TDC participants encouraged to attend
All meeting participants from The Democracy Commitment (TDC) community colleges are encouraged to attend. This session will include TDC awards presentations and planning for the 2017-2018 academic year in addition to updates about current initiatives and ways in which to engage with the national office.
Organizer: Verdis Robinson, National Director, The Democracy Commitment, AASCU
11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.
2017 Voter Engagement Symposium: Engaging Locally & Strategizing Digitally
Lunch provided; RSVP now via registration as event is capped at 70 participants
Please join TurboVote, our partner colleges and universities, and other nonprofit organizations for an interactive symposium on what it takes to engage student voters in not one, but all of their elections. Together, we will learn about specific nonpartisan tactics for
institutionalizing voter registration on campus and making voting a default student experience. While a presidential election year provides additional resources for and an increased focus on voting, we’ll discuss action items that can be implemented in a non-presidential year to create a more democratically
engaged campus and community. All interested parties are welcome to attend. Lunch will be provided, as saving democracy tends to work up quite the appetite!
11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Beyond the Dream: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Lunch provided; RSVP now via registration as event is capped at 100 participants
Enjoy a catered lunch while watching Beyond the Dream, a Roadtrip Nation documentary. Everyone seems to have a voice in the immigration debate—except immigrants, themselves. Hear immigrants tell their stories in their own words, on their own terms—and for the first time. Explore the immigrant experience through the eyes of Alexis, Rachel, and Pratishtha: three undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country at a young age, and have been temporarily granted partial—but not full—protection against deportation. Determined to clarify their futures despite their murky status, they set out to talk to fellow immigrants who’ve found success, learning that lines on a map don’t make you who you are. It's not where you're born, but where you go in life, that defines you.
Join us following the film for a panel discussion as we explore the “undocumented immigrant” label along with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals act (or DACA) and its implications for educators, administrators, students, and allies.
Moderator: Megan Dester, senior program manager, Roadtrip Nation
Panelists: Teri Lyn Hinds, Director of policy research and advocacy, NASPA; Pratishtha Khanna, Road-tripper and Class of 2014, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Brian Murphy, President, De Anza College (Calif.) and co-founder, The Democracy Commitment; and Barmak Nassirian, Director of federal relations and policy analysis, AASCU
Noon - 1 p.m.
Lunch on Own
2 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
CLDE Orientation
Open to all; especially for first-time meeting
attendees. Intended Audience: All attendees, particularly those new to ADP,
TDC, NASPA and/or the CLDE Meeting
The
American Democracy Project (ADP),
The Democracy Commitment (TDC), and
NASPA are committed to advancing the civic engagement movement in higher education. The 2017 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting (CLDE17) is a conference designed around an emergent theory of change adapted from elements of the
2012 Crucible Moment report. Like this report, the CLDE17 conference invites participants to consider what does a civic-minded campus look like? To this end, several threads within the civic engagement movement will be considered including: how to build campus cultures
and contexts that foster civic ethos, civic literacy and skill building, civic inquiry, civic action, and civic identity and agency. To learn more about how to navigate the 2017 CLDE meeting, attend this session hosted by the 2017 CLDE Meeting Planning Committee.
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
OPENING PLENARY | CivEd Talks and Our CLDE Theory of Change
CivEd Talks are dynamic, short, and quick-paced presentations by members of the civic learning and democratic engagement community intended to inspire and challenge our collective imagination and thinking. Stories shared in this format should reflect the individual's genuine experience with and relevant knowledge of their selected topic. Each of the three CivEd Talks presented will actively engage participants in stretching our thinking and motivating us to action as we return to our campuses and communities following the meeting. Join us for an opening plenary session that asks you to envisioning the work of our CLDE movement in higher education and consider how you can help us move the needle on democratic engagement on campus, in your communities, and in our civil society. Together we'll explore our emergent theory of change which asks that we consider how together we can build campus cultures and contexts that foster: civic ethos, civic literacy and skill building, civic inquiry, civic action, and civic agency.
Opening remarks by: Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President of The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
CivEd Talks:
Millennial Conservatism and Civic Engagement:
No, Really, What Do Young Conservatives Want?
Young conservatives are here to stay, and in 2016, they voted in higher numbers -- and exhibited higher engagement with candidates and issues -- than they had in the past 20 years. But millennial conservatives aren't social conservatives, and they aren't necessarily fiscal conservatives, either. Jane Coaston will review the
latest polling data and analytics to discuss what we're hearing -- and not hearing -- from a demographic that will impact our politics, and our policies, for decades to come.
Speaker: Jane Coaston, political reporter, MTV News
- Doing Civic Engagement through a Wicked Problems Lens: The Case for Passionate Impartiality
Amid perhaps the most polarized time in our nation’s history, the quality of public discourse has also reached historic lows. Civic engagement practitioners must find ways to build capacity in our communities and campuses to change the dialogue, work against the overly adversarial climate, and support the kind of conversation democracy requires. Martin Carcasson will make the case for taking a “wicked problems” perspective on tough issues to work toward improving the quality of public discourse and building the necessary civic skill sets and mindsets in our students.
Speaker: Martín Carcasson, Founder and Director, Center for Public Deliberation, Colorado State University
- Citizen Power
Far too many Americans are illiterate in power – what it is, how it operates, why some individuals have more than others. As a result, those few who do understand power wield it disproportionately. How can you learn to activate your civic power to see problems through fresh eyes and bypass broken
institutions, stale ideologies, and divisive politics? Eric Liu answered this question in his recent book You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s
Guide to Making Change Happen. In this talk about power and civic purpose, Eric Liu expounds the values, knowledge and skills of effective citizenship, and rejuvenates the meaning of being an active American.
Speaker: Eric Liu, CEO, Citizen University
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Candid Conversations with Plenary Speaker(s)
4:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Networking Reception and Poster Sessions/Campus & Friends Showcase
Friday, June 9
7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Registration
7 a.m. – 9 a.m.
Breakfast Sessions
9:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
PLENARY SESSION | Dialogue and Deliberation Forum:
Safety and Justice: How Should Communities Reduce Violence?
After falling steadily for decades, the rate of violent crime in the US rose in 2015 and 2016. Interactions between citizens and police too often end in violence. People are increasingly worried about safety in their communities. Many Americans are concerned something is going on with violence in communities, law enforcement,
and race that is undermining the national ideals of safety and justice for all. Citizens and police need goodwill and cooperation in order to ensure safety and justice. Any possible option will require that we give up something we hold dear. Each year the nonpartisan
National Issues Forums Institute promotes public deliberations over some of the toughest issues that our communities and the nation face. Using briefing materials prepared by the
Kettering Foundation, this plenary will provide opportunities for people to consider the options and difficult choices that our communities and the nation must make if we are going to make progress together, and how to carry out this form of democratic
practice in classrooms, campuses, and communities. This plenary session will provide attendees with hands-on, interactive experience in deliberative democracy that can be applied across higher education.
Trained moderators are desired to assist in small group discussions; email
adp@aascu.org if you’re willing to serve as a table moderator.
Organizers: Kara Lindaman, Professor of Political Science, Winona State University (Minn.); John Dedrick, Vice-President, Kettering Foundation; William Muse, President Emeritus, National Issues Forum Institute; and John J. Theis, Executive Director, Center for Civic Engagement, Lone Star College (Texas)
11:15 a.m. - Noon
Concurrent Sessions
Noon – 1 p.m.
Lunch on Your Own
1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Mini-Institutes
2 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
3 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Saturday, June 10
7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m.
Breakfast Sessions
9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
PLENARY | The Theory of Our Work - Today and Tomorrow: What’s Next?
Since the publication of the A Crucible Moment report in 2012, many higher education professionals have engaged further in the CLDE field in the hopes of fulfilling the vision laid out by our colleagues to create a more socially just, civically engaged, and democratically-minded future. In this plenary
session, participants will engage in conversation about the emerging theory of change for our conference and work, based on Crucible Moment. How are these components -- civic ethos, civic literacy and skill building, civic inquiry, civic action, and civic agency -- actualized on our campuses and outside of the
campus community. This session is intended to answer: What’s Next? You’ll hear from conference attendees about their vision for CLDE and how YOU can help hone our emergent theory.
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Mini-Institutes
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
12:30 p.m.
Meeting Officially Adjourns
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
ADP Steering Committee Meeting
ADP steering committee members only
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
TDC National Leadership Team Meeting
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Voter
Friendly Campus Meeting
All
campus participants who received the Voter Friendly Campus (VFC) designation are
encouraged to attend; includes those interested in applying for 2019-2020
This session will include an overview of the VFC process and next steps for campuses that received the designation. Participants can anticipate active participation in the planning for the 2017-2018 academic year and fall 2018 semester.
Organizers: Michael Burns, National Director and Debi Lombardi, National Field Director, Campus Vote Project; and Stephanie Reynolds, Assistant Director for Knowledge Communities and CLDE Initiatives, NASPA.