Join us for the 2004 Gulf South Summit--- RFPS deadline extended to Octo

Subject:: Join us for the 2004 Gulf South Summit--- RFPS deadline extended to October 17

Thank you to everyone who submitted proposals for the Gulf South Summit March 24-26, 2003. Due to technical difficulties with e-mail submission Friday afternoon, we are extending the deadline to October 17, 2003. If you or a colleague want to submit a proposal but did not make the deadline, do not worry. Submit now!

 

If you have any questions, please contact me. I look forward to hearing from you and your colleagues in service-learning in the coming days. We have wonderful proposals for the conference!

 

In Service,

 

 

Hunter

Dear Colleagues,

 

On behalf of Tulane University’s Office of Service Learning and the Planning Committee for the Gulf South Summit, we would like to invite you to the 2^nd Annual Gulf South Summit on Service Learning, Civic Engagement, and Positive Youth Development in New Orleans, LA on March 24 – March 26, 2004.

 

Join the more than 250 service learning practitioners (higher education faculty, staff and administrators; K-12 teachers and administrators; and community based organization representatives) expected to attend the Summit at the Doubletree Hotel in downtown New Orleans on world famous Canal Street.  

The goals of this year’s Summit are as follows:

1.      To build greater awareness of service-learning and civic engagement activities throughout the Gulf South.

2.      To facilitate dialogue and develop stronger professional connections among service-learning advocates and practitioners in the Gulf South.

3.      To foster the development of formal service-learning and civic engagement infrastructures within post-secondary institutions as a means of
institutional and faculty renewal.

4.      To provide a forum for presenting and discussing service-learning research.

5.      To explore the theoretical and practical implications of service-learning and civic engagement activities on higher education institutions and their communities.

6.      To create opportunities for developing and maintaining partnerships among K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and community-based
organizations.

Keynote speakers for the Summit include: 

Scott Cowen, President, Tulane University

Andrew Furco, Director, University of California - Berkeley Service-Learning

Research and Development Center

Sherril B. Gelmon, Professor of Public Health, Hatfield School of Government,

Portland State University

Elizabeth Hollander, Executive Director, Campus Compact

 

Please visit the Summit website at http://www.tulane.edu/~ServLrng/summit for information regarding request for proposals (deadline: October 10), awards competition (deadline: November 14), Summit and hotel registration forms.

 

If you have any questions, please contact Vincent Ilustre by phone at 504.862.3358 or by e-mail at vilustr@tulane.edu.

 

See you in New Orleans!

Barbara Moely, Director, Tulane’s Office of Service Learning

Vincent Ilustre, Associate Director, Tulane’s Office of Service Learning

 

 

 

 

 

Hunter Phillips

Assistant Director, Office of Community Service Learning

The University of Southern Mississippi

R.C. Cook Union, Box 5067

Hattiesburg, MS 39401

hunter.phillips@usm.edu

(601) 266-5074, phone

(601) 266-5870, fax

Check out our newly designed website, http://www.usm.edu/ocsl.

We would love your feedback.

 

 

 

 

 

Hunter Phillips

Assistant Director, Office of Community Service Learning

The University of Southern Mississippi

R.C. Cook Union, Box 5067

Hattiesburg, MS 39401

hunter.phillips@usm.edu

(601) 266-5074, phone

(601) 266-5870, fax

Check out our newly designed website, http://www.usm.edu/ocsl.

We would love your feedback.