The Association on Higher Education And Disability (ahead) 2015 Saint Paul Minnesota, July 13-18
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Overall ScheduleSunday, July 12th, 20153:00 – 6:00 pm Registration & Service Desks Open (Convention Center) Monday, July 13th, 20158:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration & Service Desks Open 9:00 am – 5:30 pm Day 1 of 2-Day Preconference Institutes 10:30 – 10:45 am Refreshment Break (provided) 12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch (on your own) 3:30 – 3:45 pm Refreshment Break (provided)
Tuesday, July 14th, 20158:00 am – 7:00 pm Registration & Service Desks Open 9:00 am – 5:30 pm Day 2 of 2-Day Preconference Institutes 9:00 am – 5:30 pm Full Day Preconference Institutes 9:00 am – 12:30 pm ½ Day Morning Institutes 10:30 – 10:45 am Refreshment Break (provided) 12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch (on your own) 2:00 – 5:30 pm ½ Day Evening Institutes 3:30 – 3:45 pm Refreshment Break (provided) 7:00 – 9:00 pm Welcome to Minnesota Reception! Wednesday, July 15th, 20158:00 am – 5:30 pm Registration & Service Desks Open 9:00 – 11:00 am Concurrent Block 1 11:00 – 11:30 am Refreshments (provided) 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Concurrent Block 2 12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch on your own 12:45 – 1:45 pm Lunch & Learn Sessions, SIG & Committee Meetings 2:00 – 3:00 pm Concurrent Block 3 3:00 – 3:30 pm Refreshments (provided) 3:30 – 5:00 pm Opening Keynote Session 5:00 – 7:00 pm Exhibit Hall Grand Opening and President’s Reception Thursday, July 16th, 20157:45 – 8:45 am SIG & Committee Meetings 8:30 am – 5:30 pm Registration & Service Desks Open 9:00 – 11:00 am Poster Session 1 in the Exhibit Hall & Light Breakfast (provided) 11:00 – 12:30 pm Concurrent Block 4 12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch on your own 12:45 – 1:45 pm Lunch & Learn Sessions, SIG & Committee Meetings 2:00 – 3:00 pm Concurrent Block 5 3:00 – 4:00 pm Extended Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall (provided) 4:00 – 5:30 pm Concurrent Block 6
Friday, July 17th, 20157:45 – 8:45 am SIG & Committee Meetings 8:30 am – 4:30 pm Registration & Service Desks Open 9:00 – 10:30 am Concurrent Block 7 10:30 – 12:00 pm Poster Session 2 with Refreshments (provided) 12:00 – 2:15 pm Awards Banquet Luncheon and Plenary Speaker 2:30 – 4:30 pm Concurrent Block 8 Saturday, July 18th, 20157:45 – 8:45 am SIG & Committee Meetings 8:30 – 11:00 am Registration & Service Desks Open 9:00 – 11:00 am Closing Plenary Session Noon Hotel check-out time Enhancing Programming & AccessRegarding Universal Access and Environmental ResponsibilityAHEAD continues to open new doors and set new examples for Conference implementation that elevate universal access, environmental responsibility, and unparalleled professional development for those involved in the intersection of disability and higher education. In 2015, AHEAD continues to refine enhancements in the design of the Conference to move toward a more strategic, inclusive, and responsible approach to the delivery of outstanding professional information. AHEAD provides opportunities for professional development to those who work to assure usable, sustainable, and inclusive higher education environments for students, faculty, and staff with disabilities and who believe society is ultimately enriched by difference. In response to full access and environmental responsibility, we are maximizing pre-planning efforts and the use of appropriate technological resources in planning for the delivery of program materials in accessible formats. In lieu of receiving paper handouts onsite, attendees at the 2015 Conference will access handout and presentation support literature in advance, via Internet download beginning two weeks prior to the events. This will afford attendees the opportunity to access as many different sets of information as they like, in the output format of their choice, well in advance of the conference. All registrants will be provided with easy-to-understand-and-implement instructions for accessing all presentation support materials. Enhancing this practice, materials for the 2015 events will be available both in text and PDF formats to attendees in advance. While providing the tremendous benefit of universal access for each attendee, this approach greatly reduces the burden on presenters and the environment created by providing handout materials for each attendee in each session – many of which go unused. As an added bonus, it offers attendees the opportunity to access handout materials from sessions that you’ll not be able to attend. The 2015 Program Chairs and Committees along with the AHEAD Staff and Leaders are committed to consistently improving the experiences of Conference attendees, and look forward to seeing you in St. Paul this summer! Scent- and Smoke-FreeIn an effort to provide the most comfortable experience possible for all attendees, the Conference organizers ask that attendees refrain from the use of scented products during all events and observe that all events are smoke-free. All indoor areas of conference venues are also smoke-free. Key Dates to RememberSave Money! Register (even if you can’t pay) by May 29, 2015 to get the very lowest registration rates. Specific Accessibility Requirements? Please be sure to register by June 12th , 2015 so AHEAD can make sure everything is set and ready to go. AHEAD has negotiated great rates with a variety of wonderful hotels convenient to the St. Paul River Center where the conference will be held. However, the rate availability will expire on June 19th , 2015 or whenever the blocks sell out; whichever comes first. Please remember to book as early as possible. Featured Presentations & EventsOpening ReceptionTuesday, July 14, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Join us for the official kickoff of the AHEAD 2015 Conference at the Welcome to Minnesota Reception! This is a perfect opportunity to meet up with colleages and friends from conferences past, and a great chance to meet new people! Featuring local food and beverages set to the backdrop of some fantastic live music, this reception is the perfect way to start the week. Opening Plenary featuring Dr. Susan BurchWednesday, July 16, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm We come together at the beginning of our week to see colleagues and friends, meet AHEAD leadership, and to hear about the great work AHEAD is doing on behalf of our members and higher education around the globe. We welcome Dr. Susan Burch, professor of American Studies and former director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity at Middlebury College as our keynote speaker. The 25th anniversary of the ADA invites us to reflect, collaborate, and imagine forward. In this interactive plenary session, Dr. Burch will center on coalition and practice in disability history. Key questions we’ll consider together include: What factors shape our relationships to disability and to disabled people? What other stories are possible, and how might these transform our work and lives? And what roles can disability resources play in this next chapter of history? Highlighting lessons drawn from the ADA’s history and legacy, Burch will offer new ways of approaching coalitional learning and work. This session encourages attendees to imagine forward spaces of opportunities for those engaged in disability resources, disability studies, and higher education inclusion work. Dr. Burch’s research and teaching interests focus on deaf, disability, race, and gender and sexuality in late nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. history. Susan is the author of Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II (2002) and coauthor with Hannah Joyner of Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson (2007). Her co-edited anthologies include Women and Deafness: Double Visions (2006), Deaf and Disability Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (2010), and Disability Histories (2014). Susan also served as editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of American Disability History (2009). Her work has received various awards and honors, including a NEH grant, National Archives Regional Residency Fellowship, Mellon Foundation grant, and Fulbright Scholars award. Susan also is a cofounder and board member of the Disability History Association and has served on the Society for Disability Studies’ board of directors. AHEAD Awards LuncheonFriday, July 17, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm The annual awards luncheon is one of AHEAD’s most popular events; we all gather over a lively meal to meet old friends and new colleagues. You’ll hear highlights of AHEAD’s year and future developments. We will honor those who excel in their contributions to disability services in higher education, and celebrate the work done in the 25 years since the passage of the ADA. Closing Plenary featuring Kevin KlingSaturday, July 18, 9:00 am – 11:00 am We are excited to welcome Kevin Kling, charming storyteller and narrator of 2013’s The Real Thing, a documentary on disability in the media, to close the 2015 conference on an engaging and thought-provoking note. Monologist and playwright Kevin Kling grew up in Osseo, Minnesota and graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College. He has performed his plays in Sweden, Sydney and Perth, Australia, Edinburgh, Scotland and in the Czech Republic. His autobiographic piece Home and Away premiered at the Seattle Rep and moved to Second Stage Theater, off Broadway, under the direction of David Esbjornson, where it received a received a Drama Desk Award nomination. His plays have been produced at The Goodman Theater, The Jungle Theater, the Denver Center Theater, Seattle Rep, the Cincinnati Playhouse, Interact, the Guthrie and regional theaters throughout the country. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The McKnight Foundation, The Minnesota State Arts Board, The Bush Foundation, The Jerome Foundation. He is a McDowell Fellow and has received the Whiting Award, the A.P. Anderson Award, the VSA Jeahny, and the Eric Peterson Award. He appears often at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, is a commentator for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and has authored five books published by Borealis Books, The Dog Says How, Holiday Inn, Big Little Brother, Big Little Mother, and On Stage with Kevin Kling. His book, Come and Get It, was chosen as the 2012 Minnesota Center for Books Arts “Winter Book”. Kevin has produced six storytelling CDs. His website is: www.kevinkling.com |