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Conference
Sessions
Outreach Scholarship 2004 offers a wide range of learning
opportunities designed to broaden and deepen your understanding
of community-university engagement. You will benefit from the rich
informal exchange between community-university partners and your
fellow conference participants.
Stimulating general session speakers
Paper presentations
Interactive workshops
Poster sessions
7 Reasons to Participate in the Conference
You can learn how to:
Improve access and coordination of university-community engagement
programs, services, and resources
Identify new resources and partnerships to support outreach programming
Employ strategies to ensure program impact
Identify innovative techniques for faculty research dissemination
Advance and incorporate best practices in outreach scholarship
Communicate the value of university engagement to decision makers
and the public
Renew your commitment to outreach scholarship and engagement
activities
Who Should Submit Proposals
If you are, or want to become, involved in communities through research,
teaching, and outreach, you are encouraged to submit a proposal.
Proposals should highlight activities that enhance community capacity
building through partnerships between communities and the university.
We invite proposals from university faculty and staff; college,
university, and community leaders; and outreach practitioners who
work in the areas of:
research, teaching, outreach scholarship
grants, contracts, sponsored programs
community-university collaborations 
cooperative extension
continuing education
distance education
governmental affairs
public broadcasting
technology transfer
university development
university relations
university alumni
other outreach activities
Learning Tracks
- Planning for Impact
- Measuring and Analyzing Impact
- Involving Stakeholders for High Impact
- Institutionalizing Approaches for Maximum Impact
- Optimizing the Impact of Faculty Research
- Documenting and Communicating Impact
- Delivering High Impact Programs in Key Theme Areas
"There
is emerging a renewed commitment to outreach, to students,
to progress, recognizing that higher education must keep up
with the profound changes that are taking place in society
if universities are to remain centers of learning in the future."
-Graham Spanier, President, Penn State |
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equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.
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