Welcome

Diana Martenson, Chair Planning Committee

The University of Minnesota: An Engaged Research University

Andrew Furco, Associate Vice President for Public Engagement

Panel and Discussion: Research perspectives and community influences

Arlene Carney, Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, UM Twin Cities

Engin Sungur, Faculty Center Director and Professor of Statistics, UM Morris

Martha Bigelow, Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, UM Twin Cities

Steven Miles MD, Associate Professor, Center for Bioethic, UM Twin Cities

Morning Workshops (various rooms in Coffman)

• Medicine Wheels and GPS: A Successful Educational Partnership on the White Earth Reservation
• Engaging Mexican Communities Locally and Transnationally
• The Importance of Understanding “Power” in Community-University Partnerships
• Students as Active Co-Creators in a Community Organization
• Growing Up Healthy in the Red River Valley:  Reducing Children’s Exposure to Pesticides
• Sisters helping Sisters: Increasing Community Resources to Fight Depression in a Maxed-out Medical System
• Reflections on a University/Community Partnership and The Great Idea! Exchange
• America Reads and Community at the U: How to engage students through reflection.
• University on the Prairie: Where Can Science Take You?
• Exploring an Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Building Stakeholder Communities
• Changing Landscapes: Visiting Artists with Disabilities Project

Keynote - The Challenge of Change and The Promise of Progress a Northside Partnership Imperative

Angela Dawson, Community Member, Urban Research Outreach/Engagement Center-University Northside Partnership (UROC-UNP)

Afternoon Workshops (Various rooms in Coffman)

• Community Engagement as Knowledge Production
• A CHANCE for Neighborhood Collaborative Engagement
• Webs of Engagement
• Listening to Minnesota Voices on School Connectedness
• Bridging the Leadership Gap in Rural Communities
• Assessing Our Impacts: Does Service-Learning Do What We Think It Does?
• In the Shadows of the Towers: Literacy and Social Justice in the Cedar Riverside Community
• Tourism Resource Team
• A Sustainable District-University Partnership Lasting 20+ Years

Panel: Community perspectives and university influences (Mississippi Room)

Dr. Darlyne Bailey, Dean of the College of Education and Human Development, Elder Atum Azzahir, Executive Director, Cultural Wellness Center,

Mary Page, former member of the Board of Regents and UMN Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships Board Member,

Mary Keefe, Executive Director of Hope Community, Inc.