Preliminary Agenda

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Participants may be arriving by air to the Athens Airport, but due to the limited flight availability there, we will also provide a shuttle from Atlanta Airport to Georgia Center. (If you are flying into Atlanta, please plan for a flight arrival no later than 12:00 p.m.)

Arrive in Athens, GA

1. 2:30 p.m.
2. Welcome to Athens: Logistics, check-in instructions
3. 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
4. Engagement Master Class: Foundations of engaged scholarship
5. 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
6. Check-in to hotel rooms
7. 6:00 p.m.
8. Welcome by Dr. Dunning
   Dinner (meal provided) and introductions

Monday, September 28, 2009

1. 8:00 a.m.
2. Breakfast (meal provided): Small group meeting with facilitators
3. 9:30 a.m.
4. Panel discussion: Disciplinary, institutional type, and community partner considerations for engaged scholarship
5. 11:30 a.m.
6. Working lunch (meal provided): Small group work, meeting with faculty mentors, discussion of methods and theories, each group to report on similarities and differences in the projects presented
7. 2:00 p.m.
8. The National Outreach Scholarship Conference (NOSC) continues from Monday September 28 at 2:00 p.m. through Wednesday September 29 at noon.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

1.  
2. National Outreach Scholarship Conference
3.  
4. Breakfast: Small groups are encouraged to sit together and continue discussion. Groups may also schedule a time (on Tuesday and Wednesday) to meet on their own if need be.
5.  
6. Panel of Journal Editors – during NOSC – open to other conference participants
7.  
8. Panel of speakers on research methods in engaged scholarship – during NOSC – open to other conference participants

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

1. 12:00 p.m.
2. Adjourn National Outreach Scholarship Conference
   Get box lunches (provided) and continue EESW
3. 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4. Considerations for working with community partners
   Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop – Closing/wrap up