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Welcome

Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time

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Plenary Session: The State of Community Engagement Scholarship in Higher Education

Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time

The conference's opening plenary session features a panel of leaders of key professional associations and organizations that support and advocate for community engagement. Moderator Kelli Huth will lead a discussion focused on panelists' perspectives on broad questions about the current state of community engagement in higher education. This session will offer attendees insights from leaders deeply grounded in the work of advancing and promoting community-engaged scholarship and university outreach, and it will offer panelists the chance to engage in a thoughtful exchange aimed at bringing to light issues of common concern and opportunities for common cause.

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Plenary Session: Context and Prospects for Community-Engaged Scholarship with Indigenous Communities

Thursday, October 5, 2023, 8:45 - 9:45 a.m. Eastern Time

There is growing interest among scholars, professional practitioners, and students in learning more about the issues, concerns, and opportunities surrounding community-engaged scholarship in collaboration with tribes and native communities. In this session, a knowledgeable nationally noted speaker and faculty discussant will explore and offer insights about the context of historical relationships between native people, universities, and academic researchers, and what prospects it shapes for building strong and ethical collaborative relationships with tribes and native partners today.

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Editor's Panel

Thursday, October 5, 2023, 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Eastern Time

A panel discussion among editors of journals publishing community-engaged scholarship. The editors will discuss the mission and scope of their journals. They will also offer insights into publishing scholarship in professional, academic journals.

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Plenary Session: Community-University Engagement: Perspectives from the Global Majority

Thursday, October 5, 2023, 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. Eastern Time (over lunch)

Panelists working in Africa, Asia, South America, and North America will draw on their diverse experiences to speak to similarities, differences, best practices, and place-based innovations that they are advancing within community-university engagement toward building sustainable partnerships. They will address the co-construction and co-production of knowledge, and how this approach is generating and sustaining social centric solutions from within communities themselves. Through their different approaches to community-engaged research, panelists will demonstrate pragmatic efforts to embed the community into the university and make the case for knowledge democracy, open science, and the transformation of higher education. Among other topics, the panelists will discuss place-based methodological and epistemological innovations and UNESCO’s Knowledge for Change (K4C) International Consortium for Education in Community-Based Research and Community Scholars Fund.

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