We are now soliciting requests from member institutions to host the 2009-2010 Imagining America Regional Meetings.

These day-long meetings are intended to stimulate dialogue and action regarding our major IA projects, the Tenure Team Initiative on Public Scholarship (TTI) and The Curriculum Project (CP).  Hosts may choose to focus the entire day on one of these initiatives, dedicate a half day to each, or take up another model, such as a regional conference on some aspect of public scholarship or practice in the cultural disciplines.  Organizing sustainable regional collaboration is another aspect of these gatherings. 

We encourage the full participation of graduate students in these meetings, while offering them an additional opportunity to talk together, perhaps over lunch.  We also recommend community partner inclusion if The Curriculum Project is on the agenda.

We anticipate holding one Regional Meeting a month, from December 2009 through January, February, March, and April of 2010.  Priority will be given to institutions (and/or locations) which have not hosted a Regional Meeting during 2008-2009, when they took place in Springfield, MO; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Blacksburg, VA; St. Paul, Minnesota; and Chicago, IL. 

To indicate your interest in hosting a Regional Meeting or to ask for more information, please contact Jan Cohen-Cruz (jcohencr@syr.edu, or 315-443-8788) or Juliet Feibel (jufeibel@syr.edu; 315-416-2929) at your earliest convenience, but certainly by May 15, 2009.

Regional Meetings 2009

During this academic year, Imagining America is sponsoring several meetings throughout the consortium to stimulate dialogue and action regarding major IA initiatives: the Tenure Team Initiative on Public Scholarship (TTI) and the Curriculum Project (CP). These meetings take the format of a convening model piloted last June for the TTI working conference.  

CP = Curriculum Project
TTI = Tenure Team Initiative on Public Scholarship