Catching Waves: Using Engagement to Address Critical Issues
The Tenth Annual Continuums of Service Conference

April 12-14, 2007
Holiday Inn, San Jose, California

SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11

Time/Location Description
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Haas Center Open House

THURSDAY, APRIL 12

Time/Location Description
7:00 am - 5:30 pm Conference Check-In, Staffed Information Desk, and Bookstore

Near Gallery Boardroom

7:30 am - 2:00 pm Pre-Conference Sessions: Times vary

10:30 am - 2:00 pm Tour with San Jose State University and Their Community Partners
Meet at 10:15 at Conference Check-In

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Concurrent Session I

Break-Out Rooms

4:45 pm - 5:30 pm Welcome Reception with Light Hors d'Oeuvres and No-Host Bar

Poolside on the Patio

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Welcome: M. Brian Murphy, President De Anza College and Board Member California Campus Compact

Opening Plenary: Naming the Spirit of Our Work: The Holy Land is All the Earth

Louis Alemayehu, Poet, Activist, Educator and Lifelong Community Leader

Poolside at the Pavilion

6:30 pm  Dinner and Evening on Your Own

FRIDAY, APRIL 13

Time/Location Description
7:00 am - 5:30 pm Conference Check-In, Staffed Information Desk, and Bookstore

Mediterranean Center Foyer

7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast

Mediterranean Center

8:30 am - 8:45 am Welcome and Announcements

Mediterranean Center

8:45 am - 9:30 am Keynote Presentation: Public or Perish: Engaged Scholarship, Community, Connections, and the Future of the Academy

Manuel Pastor, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and  Community at the University of California at Santa Cruz

Mediterranean Center

9:30 am - 10:00 am Beverage Break

Mediterranean Center Foyer

10:00 am - 11:30 pm Concurrent Session II
Break-Out Rooms

11:30 am - 12:15 pm Beverage Break

Mediterranean Center Foyer

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch and Presentation of the 2007 Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence and Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education, presented to Carol Wilkinson, MiraCosta College

Mediterranean Center

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm Poster Session Presentations

Mediterranean Center Foyer

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Concurrent Session III

Break-Out Rooms

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Refreshment Break

Pavilion and Mediterranean Center Foyer

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Concurrent Session IV
Break-Out Rooms

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Networking Hour

Poolside on the Patio

6:30 pm Dinner and Evening on Your Own

SATURDAY, APRIL 14

Time/Location Description
7:00 am - 12:00 pm Conference Check-In, Staffed Information Desk, and Bookstore

7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast

Mediterranean Center

8:30 am - 10:00 am Concurrent Session V
Break-Out Rooms

10:00 am - 10:30 am Refreshment Break

Mediterranean Center Foyer

10:30 am - Noon Closing Plenary

Civic Engagement? What's That? We're Just Trying to Make Our Community Better: Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) as a Model for Engagement

YUCA Executive Director Oscar Flores, Associate Director Charisse Domingo, FIRE Program Coordinator Anna Turner, and Youth Organizers Sarait Escorza and Cyntha Cruz

Closing the Circle: Participant Remarks and Concluding Poem
Mediterranean Center