Schedule at a Glance

Uncovering the Heart of Higher Education

Integrative Learning for Compassionate Action in an Interconnected World
February 22 – 25, 2007

All events at Hotel Nikko unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, February 22

7:30 – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
7:30 am – 7:00 pm Pre-Conference and Conference Registration
9:00 am – 4:00 pm Pre-Conference Workshops
Noon – 1:00 pm Lunch/break on your own
6:00 – 7:00 pm Reception
7:00 – 8:30 pm

Welcome

Keynote: The Precision of Poetry & The Passion of Science: An Education in Paradox
Parker Palmer, Author, Teacher, Activist

 

Dinner on your own

Friday, February 23

7:00 – 8:00 am

Yoga/Meditation

7:30 – 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

8:45 – 10:15 am

Keynote: In Over Our Heads? The Hidden Curriculum of Adult Life
Robert Kegan, developmental psychologist and author of The Evolving Self

10:45 – Noon

Concurrent Sessions

Noon – 2:00

Lunch/break on your own

2:00 – 3:15 pm

Keynote: Transcending Hatred, Engaging One's Enemy through Dialogue: Unlocking the Human Spirit
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, University of Cape Town and author of A Human Being Died that Night

3:45 – 5:15 pm

Concurrent Sessions

  Dinner/break on your own
8:00 – 9:30 pm Eth-Noh-Tec, interdisciplinary theater performance

Saturday, February 24

7:00 – 8:00 am

Yoga/Meditation

7:30 – 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

8:45 – 10:15 am

Keynote: Assessing and Nurturing the Spiritual Life of College Students and Faculty
Alexander Astin, Allan M. Cartter Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at UCLA and Helen Astin, Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Senior Scholar at the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA

10:45 – Noon

Concurrent Sessions

Noon – 2:00 pm

Lunch/break on your own

2:00 – 3:15 pm

Keynote: Is Community the Heart of Higher Education? Three Presidential Perspectives

Stephen Mittelstet, President, Richland College; Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, President, Kalamazoo College; and Thomas Coburn, President, Naropa University

3:45 – 5:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

6:30 – 7:30 pm

Dinner

7:30 – 8:30 pm

Dinner Keynote: Global Interconnectedness and Media: The Challenge and Opportunity
Alisa Miller, President and CEO, Public Radio International (PRI)

Sunday, February 25

7:00 – 8:00 am

Yoga/Meditation

7:30 – 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

8:45 – 10:15 am

Concurrent Sessions

10:45 am – Noon 

Keynote: Trustworthy Leadership

Diana Chapman Walsh, President, Wellesley College
Closing