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Be a Part of the Conversation

Higher education faculty and administrators, students, and community partners are invited to join important conversations about the role that higher education can play in ensuring that women have the opportunity to define their own new American Dream.

There are many ways that you can participate at the summit. Because we want to emphasize and support conversation and action, we are inviting you to articulate your own plan for participation. We will be offering several distinctive and communal sessions (e.g. our opening Call to Action, Oxfam Hunger Banquet, World Café Dialogue, and Town Hall), but you may also choose to share your own knowledge and expertise in interactive presentation sessions (e.g. Pecha Kucha and ED-Talks) or play a role in our Poverty Simulation.

To share your ideas at the summit and reserve a space for your voice in this conversation, please complete this form so that we can add you to our summit agenda. Deadline for proposals is February 17, 2012.

As a summit participant, I would like to (check all that apply, must select at least one):

Converse Be a part of the conversation by attending the gathering, listening, and engaging in multiple dialogues. Please enter your contact information below and we’ll add you to our participant list!

Share Share my own research, pedagogical strategies, community initiatives, or co-curricular programs in an interactive session or idea art exhibit. Share your contact information and fill out the Session Proposal and we’ll add your voice to the conversation (if space is available)!

Host Host a table at the Network Gallery to share information about my organization. Please enter your contact information below and we'll add you to our gallery list!

Role Play Play a role at the Poverty Simulation. Select this checkbox to see role playing options.The Poverty Simulation gives family participants the opportunity to experience, even if only for an hour, the life of a person in structural poverty, and to understand the barriers that prevent people, especially working class women and children, from escaping it. For service provider participants, the Simulation helps them to share their understanding of how institutions (from pawn shops to health care centers) treat poor clients and allocate resources. This experience can also expand understanding for service provider participants—in the past, many have given feedback indicating that they learned a great deal—but these volunteers are expected to have some background either living in poverty themselves, serving poor families professionally, or both. For example, if you have utilized SNAP benefits (like 33 million other Americans at the current moment) or have some experience working at a payday loan place, you would be a great volunteer service provider. If you have not lived in poverty, other than the kind of financial stress induced by graduate school, we would love to have you participate as a family member. Share your contact information and let us know how you’d like to get involved.

 

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Session Proposal
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Tell Us About Your Ideas
What new ideas will you bring to the gathering to share with others?

Share Your Idea:
Provide an abstract of your work or a description of an innovative program or project (200 words or less, please)

Give It a Title:
Please provide a creative title for your idea.

Questions:
Share three key questions that your work attempts to answer, or that your idea inspires others to discuss.

Choose a format:
The Chronicle of Higher Education has recently highlighted a new trend for knowledge-makers: the design of “UNconference” gatherings where participants can come together in UNtraditional ways to exchange and share ideas. We’ve adopted some of those methods for our summit. Please tell us which “UNconference format” will provide the most meaningful and creative way for you to share your idea. For a description of these formats, see our Session Formats page (opens in a new window).
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