Penn State Outreach Conference

Hello!
My name is Ryan Badowski, from Penn State's Outreach and Cooperative 
Extension Department.  We will be holding our annual Outreach 
Scholarship 2001 Conference in the fall of this year and are looking 
for electronic publications that will announce this event.  Your site 
is one that is very well suited to publish this sort of information, 
being that it focuses on one of our most important goals - promoting 
distance education.  Below are the conference details, including a 
calendar of events.  Feel free to edit it so that it conforms to the 
specifications of your site.  Thank you for helping to further this 
important trend in education.
 
Thank you - Ryan Badowski


Overview - Outreach Scholarship: Learning, Discovery, and Engagement

Leaders in higher education are interested in trends that will be 
affecting their institutions and those they serve. The Outreach 
Scholarship: Learning, Discovery, and Engagement  conference has been 
designed to provide you with an opportunity to learn about the 
marketplace trends that impact public policy, higher education, and 
our communities. The conference will be held October 14-16, 2001, at 
The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, The Pennsylvania State 
University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Don't miss this 
opportunity to informally benchmark with some of the nation's 
outreach leaders. This conference is intended to create a leadership 
dialogue-promoting an open discussion of the issues affecting the 
future of our institutions. This conference will also provide 
practical tools for implementing change in our institutions.

This is the second conference focusing on best practices in outreach 
and public service held at The Pennsylvania State University. Last 
year's conference attracted over 300 people to more than seventy 
sessions, including key note addresses, and a variety of special 
events. Planning is underway to make this year's gathering more 
comprehensive and dynamic than ever. This year, Penn State is joined 
by Ohio State University and University of Wisconsin Extension in 
offering university and college faculty, administrators, and 
community leaders an opportunity to share strategies on how to build 
creative, effective partnerships and sustainable outreach and 
engagement initiatives. We invite you and your colleagues to 
participate in this dialogue for engagement.

The conference will:

*	Provide a forum for participants to exchange knowledge, 
insights, and experiences related to outreach initiatives
*	Focus on practical applications; providing the participants 
with usable tools to implement in their respective institutions
*	Promote closer collaborative linkages among outreach 
personnel, faculty, individuals, communities, organizations, and 
government officials
*	Encourage open discussion on issues of common concern to 
leaders and practitioners regarding outreach and engagement
*	Examine successful outreach initiatives from the perspective 
of the community and the outreach recipient
*	Offer evidence that creating an outreach culture is 
beneficial to college and university communities and the larger 
communities they serve
*	Create opportunities to informally benchmark with some of the 
nation's outreach leaders in creating an agenda for the engaged 
university
*	Support the development and advancement of the knowledge base 
and theory behind successful outreach in the changing society.


This conference is targeted to college and university leaders and 
faculty interested in engaging their discipline with those outside 
the academic community and with cooperative extension, continuing 
education, distance education, technology transfer, governmental 
affairs, university relations, and public broadcasting. The 
presentations will focus on the following important areas:

*	Involving community stakeholders and faculty in outreach initiatives
*	Measuring quality and impact
*	Delivering key programmatic areas or initiatives at your 
institutions (e.g., P-12 education, business and technology, health 
and science, workforce and community development)
*	Funding outreach initiatives
*	Using information technology and electronic commerce to serve 
constituencies
*	Fostering support of technology transfer
*	Building innovative outreach initiatives
*	Building collaborations and partnerships
*	Assisting urban and rural communities
*	Enhancing program development and marketing
*	Supporting public policy and engagement
*	Delivering distance education and public broadcasting
*	Promoting outreach scholarship


Join us in October 2001 to participate in the dialogue of 
engagement-a dialogue of change in higher education, outreach, and 
public service.

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Schedule at a Glance

Note: This schedule will be revised as the program is developed.

Sunday, October 14, 2001

1:00-1:15 p.m.			Welcome
1:00-1:45			OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
1:45-3:15			Response Panel
3:15-3:30			Break
3:30-4:45			Plenary Session
5:00-6:30			Reception
6:30-8:30			Dinner and Dinner Speaker

Monday, October 15, 2001
8:00-9:15 a.m.			Plenary Session
9:15-9:45			Break
9:45-10:45			Concurrent Sessions
10:45-11:15			Break
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.		Concurrent Sessions
12:15-1:45			Lunch with Luncheon Speaker
2:00-3:00			Concurrent Sessions
3:00-3:30			Break
3:30-4:30			Concurrent Sessions
4:30				Break

Dinner on Your Own
Shop, dine, and enjoy the quaint charm of State College

Tuesday, October 16, 2001
8:00-9:15 a.m.			Plenary Session
9:15-9:45			Break
9:45-10:45			Concurrent Sessions
10:45-11:15			Break
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.		Concurrent Sessions
12:15-1:45			Lunch with Luncheon Speaker
2:00				Adjourn



Contact Information

Web Site:	www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/OutreachScholarship2001


For information about the program, please contact:
Jeri Childers
Program Chair
Outreach Office of Program Development
The Pennsylvania State University
403 Keller Building
University Park  PA  16802-1304
Phone:  814-865-7679
Fax:  814-865-3589
E-mail:  jyc4@outreach.psu.edu

For information about the program, please contact:
Chris Dufour
Conferences and Institutes
The Pennsylvania State University
225The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel
University Park  PA  16802-7005
Phone:  814-863-5100
Fax:  814-863-5190
E-mail:  ConferenceInfo1@outreach.psu.edu