The University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host the 2015 Gulf-South Summit on service-learning and civic engagement through higher education March 11-13, 2015 at the Little Rock Marriott downtown. There will be over 250 attendees and over 100 programs ranging from keynote speeches to roundtable discussions and interactive workshops and presentations.
Entitled “Building Bridges Between Education and Engagement,” this year’s Gulf-South Summit keynote speakers will include Mary Alice Morgan (Macon, Ga.), Senior Vice Provost for Service-Learning at Mercer University, and Hannah Vann (Macon, Ga.), former president of STOP and Coordinator of Community Engagement at Mercer University, presenting their case study on ending sex trafficking in Macon, Ga.; Minnijean Brown-Trickey (Vancouver, formerly of Little Rock, Ark.), a member of the Little Rock Nine, will discuss her on-going activism to end social injustices; and Tania Mitchell (Minneapolis, Minn.), an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, who will discuss her study of alumni and the effect community engagement experiences have on their lives. For more information on the keynote speakers, click here.
Since 2003, the Gulf-South Summit has provided a forum to discuss the challenges and successes of higher education’s drive toward true community engagement by facilitating discussions on best practices, sharing research, and fostering a professional network of engaged scholars, students, and practitioners.
Participants are coming from 20 different U.S. States ranging from the east to the west coast and over 70 different higher education institutions and service-learning organizations, including the University of Chicago, Georgia Tech, Rhodes College, Spelman College, and Tulane University. In addition to UALR and the Clinton School, universities from Arkansas including University of Arkansas, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, University of Arkansas at Monticello, and the University of Central Arkansas will participate. SEC schools represented include Auburn, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, and Tennessee.
Being held in Arkansas for the first time, the Gulf-South Summit is co-hosted by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, with sponsorship from the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau and Westrock Coffee.
For a full list of events scheduled, to register as a participant, or for other information, visit www.gulfsouthsummit.org/