Pre-Conferences

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Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop (EESW)

Schedule:
Monday, October 7, 2024
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Cost: $200

Application Deadline: April 8, 2024

This intensive professional development program provides advanced doctoral students and early career faculty with background literature, facilitated discussion, mentoring, and presentations designed to increase their knowledge and enhance their practice of community-engaged scholarship. Participation in the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop (EESW) is limited, and interested applicants must be nominated to be considered for this workshop.

Learn more at the 2024 EESW webpage

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Engagement Academy for University Leaders (EA) Seminar

Leading Engagement Amid Growing Distrust in American Higher Education

Schedule:
Monday, October 7, 2024 | 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Cost: $240

Includes breakfast, lunch, and post-seminar reception

Engagement leaders face a challenging paradox. On one hand, more and more institutions are prioritizing community-engagement as a core institutional practice.  As of 2024, more than 450 institutions have earned the designation of Carnegie community-engaged institutions. On the other hand, public trust in higher education has hit a new low.  A 2023 Gallup poll reveals that the majority of respondents now lack confidence in our colleges and universities.  As engagement leaders, how do we make sense of shifting perceptions of higher education across the diverse communities that we serve? Does our engagement work provide an effective response to restoring confidence in American higher education? What revisions to our current strategies might we employ to bolster trustworthiness in our institutions?

Join us for an interactive session that will feature testimonies, readings, and small/large group discussions to address this critical topic facing higher education leaders across the country.

Learn more at the 2024 EA webpage

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Outreach and Engagement Practitioners Network (OEPN)

Pathways for Change: Advice and Tools from Boundary Spanning Changemakers

Schedule:
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cost: $125 - Participation fee includes programming materials and meals

Join us in Portland, Oregon, this fall for the Outreach and Engagement Practitioners Network (OEPN) pre-conference workshop. The workshop will provide the opportunity to connect with other outreach and engagement professionals while exploring our boundary-spanning roles in today’s higher education landscape.

OEPN is a community of practice for university staff, non-tenure-track faculty, and community partners. These outreach and engagement practitioners —or “boundary spanners”—develop and sustain relationships between higher education institutions and community partner organizations by facilitating, managing, directing, and administering ongoing projects, programs, services, and research. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn to join our community updates and discussions:

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Learn more at the 2024 OEPN webpage

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Pre-College and Youth Programming Workshop

Information coming soon...

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Transformational Relationship Evaluation Scale (TRES)

Information coming soon...