The Community Calls Forth the University

Posted by on June 25, 2007

Have you registered for the 4th Annual University-Community Partnership Conference?
Check out the agenda–and then go to http://www.cpe.vt.edu/unicom to join us for this highly interactive professional development experience!

The Community Calls Forth the University
The Fourth Annual University-Community Partnership Conference
July 18-19, 2007
Skelton Conference Center
Blacksburg, Virginia
Conference Program At A Glance

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
1:00p.m.-2:00p.m. KEYNOTE: The Community Calls Forth The University, Alice Lovelace

2:15p.m.-4:45p.m. Consensus of Meaning: Story Circles

5:00p.m.-6:00p.m. Poster Exhibit & Wine and Cheese Reception
Posters:
– Community Initiated Projects: Success and Challenges (Albemarle)
– Citizen-Driven Planning and Opportunities for Building a Unique Learning Community of Neighborhood Leaders, Students, and Faculty (Rochester)
– Building Community Identity Through Asset Based Development and Institutional Critique (Arrowwood Hills Housing Cooperative)
– Response and Responsibility: A Classroom’s Reaction (Mississippi State)
– Health by Design: An Interdisciplinary Model (East Carolina University)
– Diabetes “Speaks” Spanish, Too! (Lynchburg College)
– Best Practices in University-Community Management Education Partnerships (Eckerd College)
– Collective Missions Collective Action (Seton Arts Service Corps)
– Reciprocity: Community Agencies and Higher Education in Service-Learning (Utah Valley State College)
– Civil Rights Television, 1950-1970: A Hands-On Partnership Between University,
Community, and Schools (UVA)
– Young Women Leaders Program: A Mentoring and Leadership Development Initiative for College Women and Adolescent Girls (UVA)
– Community-Campus Partnerships for Health National Network

Thursday, July 19, 2007
8:30a.m.-10:00a.m. PLENARY: Listening & Learning From Community Voices, Nadinne Cruz

10:30a.m.-11:45 p.m. Plenary Break-Outs:
Setting the Record Straight: Collaborative Efforts Between Virginia First Nations and State Academic Institutions to Reclaim Indigenous History and Advance Indigenous Agendas

How Our Work in Communities Called Us Back to the University: A Graduate Student Forum

Achieving Authentic Community-Higher Education Partnerships By Mobilizing a National Network of Experienced Community Partners (Community-Campus Partnerships for Health)

Citizen-Driven Planning and Opportunities for Building a Unique Learning Community of Neighborhood Leaders, Students, and Faculty (Rochester)
Community Initiated Projects: Successes and Challenges (Albemarle Commission on Children and Families)

11:45-1:15 p.m. Lunch on your own

1:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.. Conference Bookstore & Book Signing

1:45p.m.- 3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions:
Homes for Learning: A University-Community Partnership (University of Minnesota)
Linking Virginia’s Higher Education to Virginia’s Most Distressed Communities (Phoenix Project)

Institutionalizing Campus Community Partnerships (Bryn Mawr and Cabrini Colleges)

Community-Based Research in Service-Learning Courses (Duke) & Building Community Identity Through Asset Based Development and Institutional Change (Michigan State University)

Building University-Community Partnerships to Support Local Economic and Workforce Development (Virginia Tech)

3:30p.m.-4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions:

Response and Responsibility: A Classroom’s Reaction (Mississippi State)
Creating University-Community Partnerships in Lincoln’s Core Neighborhoods (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Poems of Empowerment: Fostering Student Engagement in the Adult Literacy Classroom (Ohio State University)

Developing Partnerships for Environmental Service-Learning (Montgomery County Public Schools)

Geriatric Assessment Interdisciplinary Team (GAIT) Projects – AHEC Role in Sustaining University-Community Partnerships (Western Maryland Area Health Education Center)

4:45.m.- 6:00p.m. Community Showcase & Reception

Roundtables in Reception Area (4:45 – 5:15):

Corporation for National and Community Service Family of Programs
Carter Foundation Student Scholar Awards

Best Practices in Town-Gown Relations: The YMCA at Virginia Tech Y Toss? & the
University of Virginia Chuck it for Charity

Integrating Language Education with Health Outreach