Final Schedule

The conference will begin at 9:30 a.m. with preconference opportunities, and the opening plenary session will start at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 7. The conference will conclude at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 9.

9th National Outreach Scholarship Conference
The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel

Please refer to the final conference program book for complete details about pre-, core, and post-conference sessions, functions, and meetings.

Highlights

Sunday, October 5, 2008

2:00–5:00 p.m.
Registration for Emerging Engagement Scholars Pre-Conference Workshop
5:00–9:00 p.m.
Emerging Engagement Scholars Dinner and Master Class, The Nittany Lion Inn

Monday, October 6

7:00–9:00 a.m.
Registration for Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop
9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop Continues

Tuesday, October 7

8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Conference Registration
8:00 a.m.–noon
Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop Continues

9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Poster Presenters’ Setup (The posters will remain on display until the close of the conference.)

Usable presentation space is 46" x 46". Velcro tape will be provided to hang your poster materials. Pins of any type are not permitted to be used on the poster boards.

9:30–11:30 a.m.
Experience Common Ground Lobby Talk Workshop presented by Penn State Public Broadcasting

We invite you to attend a Common Ground Lobby Talk and to enter into a televised discussion about an issue of relevance to living in the world today. The group will determine the actual topic. We invite you to stay, after the Lobby Talk itself, and learn about the Public Service Media Initiative, how Lobby Talks are pulled together, and how engagement is at the intersection of public media and higher education. Presenters for the “after session” will include various members from the Public Service Media Study Group—faculty who have moderated the discussions and participated in the working groups, and staff who have worked to make these collaborative productions successful. You must be registered for the conference to participate.
9:30–11:30 a.m.
Penn State Energy Initiatives and Green Tour - This session is now full and a waiting list has been started.

Join Penn State's Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Richard Alley, who served on the Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for a discussion about climate change science and outreach. Next, tour a student-led green building project and learn about other energy initiatives at Penn State in education, research, and service with colleagues from Penn State's Center for Sustainability and the College of Agricultural Sciences. You must be registered for both the conference and tour to participate. Tour registration is limited. Transportation will begin boarding at 9:20 a.m. at the hotel lobby entrance for a 9:30 a.m. departure and a short ride to the tour and discussion site.

1:00 p.m.
Conference Opening by Craig Weidemann, Vice President for Outreach, and Welcome by President Graham Spanier, Penn State

1:20–2:20 p.m.
Keynote Address: The Engaged Scholar and the Research University: Value, Conflict, and Mission Focus

Lou Anna K. Simon, President, Michigan State University

2:30–3:00 p.m.
Poster Presentations and Networking
3:00–3:45 p.m.
Concurrent Session Presentations

3:45–4:00 p.m.
Poster Presentations and Networking

4:00–5:00 p.m.
Keynote Address: Sustaining Communities: A Collaborative Approach to University/Community Engagement

The Honorable Raymond Skinner, Secretary, Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development

6:00–7:30 p.m.
Welcome Reception, Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel

Wednesday, October 8

7:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Conference Registration

7:15–8:15 a.m.
Energy and the Environment Special Interest Breakfast

Join members of Penn State Outreach's Energy and the Environment Thematic Initiative Team for an informal discussion about ways to engage with communities to sustain support for energy education, science, technology, and policy. Facilitated by members of the Penn State Energy Program, the Center for Sustainability , and the Outreach Energy Task Force.

7:15–8:30 a.m.
Breakfast and Networking

8:30–9:30 a.m.
Keynote Address: Innovation in the Networked Economy

Albert Vicere, President, Vicere Associates, Inc., and Executive Education Professor of Strategic Leadership, The Smeal College of Business Administration, Penn State

9:30–10:15 a.m.
Poster Presentations and Networking

10:15–11:15 a.m.
Keynote Address: Social Embeddedness

Kimberly Loui, Assistant Vice President and Executive Director, Office of University Initiatives, and Special Adviser to the President, Arizona State University

11:15–11:30 a.m.
Poster Presentations and Networking

11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Concurrent Session Presentations

12:15–12:30 p.m.
Poster Presentations and Networking
12:30–1:45 p.m.
Awards Luncheon: Recognition of Outreach Scholarship W. K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award Winners and National Finalists for the C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award

1:45–2:00 p.m.
Poster Presentations and Networking

2:00–2:45 p.m.
Concurrent Session Presentations

2:00–3:00 p.m.
Presentations by two 2008 Outreach Scholarship W. K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award Recipients and National Finalists for the C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award

An Extraordinary Partnership between Arizona State and the City of Phoenix
Arizona State University
Debra Friedman, Vice President, Downtown Phoenix Campus, and Dean, College of Public Programs
Western Region

Think, Work, Serve: Outreach & Engagement at Tennessee State University
Tennessee State University
Javiette Samuel, Assistant Professor, Tennessee State University, Cooperative Extension Program

Deena Sue Fuller, Tennessee State University, Office of Service Learning and Civic Engagement
1890's Region

2:45–3:15 p.m.
Poster Presentations and Networking

3:15–4:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session Presentations
3:15–4:15 p.m.
Presentations by two 2008 Outreach Scholarship W. K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award Recipients and National Finalists for the C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award
A Comprehensive and Collaborative Approach to Urban Revitalization
The Ohio State University
Steve Sterrett, Community Relations Director, Campus Partners
North Central Region

Rethinking Urban Poverty: the Philadelphia Field Project
The Pennsylvania State University
Lakshman Yapa, Professor of Geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Pastor Clarence Washington, Millennium Baptist Church, West Philadelphia

Vanessa A. Massaro, Graduate Student, University of Arizona
Northeast Region

3:15–4:45 p.m.
Socratic Dialogue

How are we to understand the nature, meaning, value, and significance of American higher education’s core public purposes and work in this new century? Following a Socratic dialogue format, the participants are invited to offer their perspectives on, and answers to, this question.

4:00–4:30 p.m.
Poster Presentations and Networking

4:30–5:00 p.m.
Presentation by a 2008 Outreach Scholarship W. K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award Recipient and National Finalist for the C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award

CenteringPregnancy Smiles™
University of Kentucky
Robert E. Kovarik, D.M.D., Chair, Department of Oral Health Practice, College of Dentistry

LeAnn Todd, Director, Center for Womens' Health
South Region

4:30–5:15 p.m.
Concurrent Session Presentations

5:45 p.m.
Transportation to Reception Begins

6:00–7:30 p.m.
Reception, Hintz Family Alumni Center

Dinner on your own in downtown State College (Transportation between downtown and The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel will be provided until 10:00 p.m.)

Thursday, October 9

7:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Conference Registration
7:15–8:15 a.m.
Special Interest Breakfasts

An Update from 2007 Conference...Penn State Outreach Innovation - Making Friends with Chaos: Allowing Innovation

Facilitated by Craig Weidemann, Vice President for Outreach, and Ted Krichels, Associate Vice President for Engagement and General Manager, Penn State Public Broadcasting, Penn State

Emerging Engagement Scholars

The Emerging Engagement Scholars initiative increases the knowledge of advanced graduate students and early career faculty about community engaged scholarship across disciplines. Join EES Workshop (EESW) Coordinators, Lisa Townsend and Tami Moore, and annual EESW alumni to explore how to effectively communicate the results of your research to public, academic, and other external audiences.

7:15–8:30 a.m.
Breakfast and Networking

8:30–9:30 a.m.
Keynote Address: What About Democracy?

David Mathews, President, Charles F. Kettering Foundation

9:45–10:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session Presentations
10:30–10:45 a.m.
Poster Presentations and Networking

10:45–11:45 a.m.
Keynote Address: 21st Century Outreach in the Land Grant Tradition

John Shutske, Associate Dean and Program Director for Agriculture and Natural Resource Extension, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), University of Wisconsin

11:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Closing and Invitation to the 2009 Outreach Scholarship Conference hosted by The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

12:15–1:15 p.m.
Lunch and Small Group Meetings

12:15–2:30 p.m.
Birds-of-a-Feather Session
Join us for an informal, interactive session to share insights and explore questions raised during the conference and to continue the engagement dialogue through active communities of scholars. No preregistration is required, and the session is open to everyone.

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