Closing and Final Plenary Session - A Must See!

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 3:05 - 4:40 PM

The Penn Stater, Presidents Hall

• Dr. Susan Russell Associate Professor of Theatre and 2014–15 Penn State Laureate

Storytelling: Bringing Home the Information, What if 15 Penn State students, who don't know each other, were gathered for only three hours to tell their personal stories about how engaged scholarship has created life-changing moments or made permanent differences in their lives. What would they say? How would it be immediately conveyed in a way that people would be excited and inspired? Organizers of the ESC conference challenged Susan Russell to do just that… and to highlight how the arts can contribute to engaged scholarship and put the finishing touches on a conference filled with Advancing Rigor and Elevating Impact. Join Susan as she uses her special talents to absorb conversations with students taking place immediately before her session, gather meaning from those conversations, and create a performance piece entitled “Tales from the Summit” to illustrate the role that stories play in impacting communities and advancing the engagement scholarship field. Susan is guaranteed to leave you with inspiration to continue your important work every single day! Immediately following Susan's performance, we close out this year's conference with Dr. Brent Yarnal, our Conference Program Committee co-chair, sharing final words and memories from this year's conference; an exciting invitation from the North Central Region for the 2016 Conference by Dr. Deborah Smith-Howell; and a farewell from our ESC president, Dr. Hi Fitzgerald.