Apr 13, 2016
Want to Collaborate?
Are you a community member who collaborates or would like to collaborate with a faculty member or student group on UNM campus? Are you a UNM faculty member who collaborates with community partners in your teaching and research? Do your students engage in community-based learning or research?
Bringing Everyone Together
2016 UNM Campus-Community Forum
Friday, April 15, 2016
8:00 am to 1:00 pm
UNM Student Union Building, Lobo A&B (Third Floor)
Open and free to the public; Space is limited
RSVP today to [email protected] or call 277-3355
Breakfast and Lunch served
Parking permits available to non-UNM attendees
The 2016 UNM Campus-Community Forum is an opportunity for faculty, staff, students and community partners to interact with the University of New Mexico’s outreach and engagement community, share your work, and make connections with potential collaborators.
Who Should Attend?
- Community members
- Faculty engaged with community
- Students interested in service-learning or community-based work
The Forum aims to inform participants about ways that UNM students, faculty and staff members are working with community leaders to respond to those issues that effect the members our our local, national, and global communities, and to inspire and empower participants to become personally engaged in building a more just New Mexico and world.
The goal of this forum discussion is to educate and inform and to engage participants in the great work that is being down through effective campus-community partnerships. Please join us for a half-day forum on university engagement with communities.
Timothy K. Eatman and Scott J. Peters, Co-Directors of Imagining America, will deliver the keynote, followed by a panel discussion with UNM’s inaugural Community Engaged Research Lecturer Awardee Dr. Nina Wallerstein and representatives from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Community Leadership Network Fellows, moderated by UNM HSC Vice Chancellor Arthur Kaufman, and a final reconvening.
Forum Schedule:
8:00 am — 8:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am — 8:45 am Opening Remarks: Virginia Scharff, Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Academic Initiatives, and Monica Kowal, Strategic Planner for Community Engagement and Associate Dean of Community Engaged Learning & Research
8:45 am — 9:30 am Keynote by Scott Peters and Timothy K. Eatman, Co-Directors of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
9:30 am — 9:45 am Break
9:45 am — 10:45 am Panel Discussion: Overcoming divides in campus-community partnerships. What can we do better?
Participants: Dr. Nina Wallerstein and WKKF Community Leader Network Fellows Hakim Bellamy, Carmen Lopez, and Gabriel Sanchez
Moderated by Dr. Art Kaufman, Vice Chancellor for Community Health Services
10:45 am — 11:45 am Forum Discussion
11:45 am — 12:15 pm Reconvening
12:15 pm — 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Adjourn
