Association of American Colleges & Universities

10:00 am – 7:00 pm

Conference Registration

12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Campus-Community Visit to Trinity University and RAICES (separate registration and fee required)

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Pre-Conference Workshops (separate registration and fee required)

7:00 pm – 8:15 pm

Welcome and Keynote Address
The National Security Threat We Are Ignoring—The Failure of American Education to Prepare Students for the Future
Margee M. Ensign, President—Dickinson College

8:15 pm – 9:00 pm

Welcome Reception and Posters

8:00 am – 8:45 am 

Breakfast

8:00 am – 8:45 am 

Newcomers Welcome

9:00 am – 9:30 am 

Featured Session
Mountaintop Initiative: From Creative Inquiry to Sustainable Impact
Khanjan Mehta, Vice Provost for Creative Inquiry and Director of the Mountaintop Initiative—Lehigh University

9:45 am – 10:45 am

Concurrent Sessions

11:00 am – 12:15 pm

Concurrent Sessions

12:15 pm – 2:15 pm 

Lunch on Your Own

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm 

Featured Sessions

Educating Entrepreneurial Global Citizens
Amir Reza, Dean of Babson Academy for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurial Learning and Dean of Global Education—Babson College

Synergizing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Global Education is Necessary to Confront Twenty-First Century Challenges 
Amer F. Ahmed, Founder and CEO, AFA Diversity Consulting

3:15 pm – 4:30 pm 

Concurrent Sessions

4:45 pm – 6:00 pm

Roundtable Discussions and Happy Hour

8:00 am – 8:30 am 

Continental Breakfast

8:30 am – 9:30 am

Concurrent Sessions

9:45 am – 10:45 am

Concurrent Sessions

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Closing Plenary
The Global Next Door: Local Engagement, Accompaniment, and New Forms of Diversity
David Hernández, Associate Professor of Latina/o/x Studies, Mount Holyoke College