Oct 23, 2015 - Moving the World Forward: Exploring a Future in Public Service. 2015 Conference Agenda. THURSDAY, OCTOBER
Moving the World Forward: Exploring a Future in Public Service 2015 Conference Agenda THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2015 By 6:30/7:30pm 8:00pm-10:00pm
Students arrive/check in at hotel Diversity Jeopardy & Dinner (Hotel Lobby)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015 7:45am-8:15am
Group leaders will meet you in the lobby of the hotel to transport you to the IMU. Groups will leave every 10 minutes between 7:45am and 8:15am.
8:00am-9:00am 9:00am-10:00am
Breakfast & Mingling Welcome and Opening Remarks SPEAKER 1: Michael McGuire, Executive Associate Dean, SPEA SPEAKER 2: Erin Mann, PPIA; Laurel McFarland, NASPAA SPEAKER 3: Michael Wilkerson, Director of PPIA Moving the World Forward Conference & Director of Arts Administration Programs, SPEA VIDEO: Tavis Smiley Welcome
10:00am-10:45am
Getting to Know You Session SPEAKER: Lynn Nguyen, Associate Director, Civic Leaders Center
10:45am-11:00am
Break & Snack
11:00am-12:00am
Panel: Paths to Saving the World SPEAKER 1: Claudia Avellaneda, SPEA SPEAKER 2: Brad Fulton, SPEA SPEAKER 3: Shahzeen Attari, SPEA
12:30pm-2:00pm
KEYNOTE: Ta-Nehisi Coates (Musical Arts Center) INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: Brian Watts, SPEA student MODERATOR: Michael McGuire, Executive Associate Dean, SPEA
2:00pm-3:00pm
Lunch & Group Discussion: Ta-Nehisi Coates Reading DISCUSSION LEADER: Ashlyn Nelson, SPEA
3:00pm-4:45pm
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Challenge of Being a Minority Policymaker Interactive discussion exclusively with PPIA students
5:30pm-7:00pm 7:00pm
Dinner Banquet (SPEA Atrium) Cultural Event Group leaders will meet you at SPEA to escort you to the Musical Arts Center to see a production of Dead Man Walking by the IU Opera.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2015 7:30am-8:00am
Group leaders will meet you in the lobby of the hotel to transport you to SPEA. Groups will leave every 10 minutes between 7:45am and 8:15am.
8:00am-8:45am
Breakfast & Mingling with Current Students & Alumni *Head Shot Opportunity Get your professional photograph taken, for free! There will be two other time slots (12:00-12:50pm; 5:00-6:30pm) where the photographer will be around to take photos.
8:45am-9:50am
10:00am-11:55pm
Opening Address: “How to Get into Grad School” Henry Wakhungu, Senior Lecturer, SPEA Jennifer Forney, Director of Undergraduate Programming, SPEA Megan Siehl, Director of Graduate Services, SPEA Topics in Public Policy I: Breakout Sessions You will get to attend 2 sessions. All sessions will be offered twice: 10:00am-10:55am AND 11:00-11:55am
Option 1: EDUCATION AND SOCIAL POLICY Access to education, inequity in education, education reform, diversity in higher education. FACILITATORS: Ashlyn Nelson, Associate Professor, SPEA Jeannine Bell, Professor, Maurer School of Law Option 2: IMMIGRATION POLICY Undocumented communities, underrepresented groups, immigration reform. FACILITATOR: Myrna Garcia, Latino Studies Program
immigrant
advocacy,
Option 3: THE POWER OF NONPROFITS Nonprofit management, economic empowerment, public-private partnerships, generating new ideas, how nonprofits and public sector organizations raise money to support their missions. FACILITATORS: Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Associate Professor, SPEA Jill Nicholson-Crotty, Associate Professor, SPEA Option 4: HEALTH CARE POLICY Health care reform, health and education, public health, global public health FACILITATORS: Vickie Perez, Assistant Professor, SPEA Coady Wing, Assistant Professor, SPEA 12:00pm-12:50pm
Lunch
1:00pm-1:50pm
Young Alumni Panel Leila Viera (MAAA ’15) Sabine Justilien (MAAA ’15) Jasmine Burditt (MPA ‘15) Alexa Lopez (MPA/MAAA ‘15) Julian Glover (MPA ’15)
MODERATOR: SPEAKERS:
2:00pm-3:55pm
Topics in Public Policy II: Breakout Sessions You will get to attend 2 sessions. All sessions will be offered twice: 2:00-2:55pm AND 3:00pm-3:55pm)
Option 1: WORKING WITHIN GOVERNMENT TO CREATE CHANGE Learn about government work—how to work within the system to generate policy that matters FACILITATORS: Antonette McCaster, Lecturer, SPEA Dan Grundmann, Lecturer, SPEA Option 2: CIVIL SOCIETY AND SOCIAL POLICY How organized groups shape government action, and how you can work towards facilitating this FACILITATOR: Matt Baggetta, Assistant Professor, SPEA Option 3: INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND GLOBAL CHANGE International affairs, global development, global poverty, intercultural communication, comparative perspectives FACILITATOR: John Karaagac, Lecturer, SPEA 4:00-4:55pm
Current SPEA Student Panel MODERATOR: SPEAKERS:
5:00-6:45pm 7:00pm-11pm
Yasmine El-Gohary (MPA ’16)
Alberto Velázquez (MPA ’16) Ricardo Andres Bello (MPA ’16) Dan Esposito (MPA/MSES ’16) Laura Yates (MPA/MSES ’16)
Free Time Dinner Banquet 7:00 PM: DINNER 7:30 PM: KEYNOTE, Paul Helmke, Professor of Practice, SPEA; Director, Civic Leaders
Center 8:30 PM-11 PM: MUSIC, DANCING, MINGLING
11:00pm
Group leaders will meet you at Neal Marshall to walk back to hotel. Groups will leave every 10 minutes between 11:00pm and 11:30pm.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2015 10:00am-12:00pm
Brunch and Conference Closing Remarks KEYNOTE, Julian Glover (MPA ’15)
12:00pm
Check out of hotel rooms, depart for the Indianapolis Airport
