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WACUBO 2008 Annual Meeting - The Program
May 4 - 7, 2008
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Mark your calendar for May 4th through the 7th and be ready to open your minds for “Connecting Campus Cultures” at WACUBO’s 70th Annual Meeting. This year’s meeting will be held in Phoenix, Arizona on the Gila River Reservation at the beautiful and enchanting Wild Horse Pass Resort. The Program Committee has put together a unique, educational, inspirational, and thought provoking program, featuring keynote presentations by the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation and powerful Native American Leader, Wilma Mankiller; noted psychiatrist, educator, author and healer Dr. Carl Hammerschlag; inspirational speaker Greg Bell; and leadership expert Laree Kiely. In addition there will be General Session addresses from Dr. Michael M. Crow, President of Arizona State University and Dr. David McClain, University of Hawaii System President. Biographies of each speaker and a synopsis of their presentations are listed below Complementing the Keynote and General Session speakers will be sixteen concurrent sessions, including the always popular “Tales from the Front” presented by our own WACUBO members. Concurrent sessions will include topic of Sustainability, Responding to Campus Violence, Emotional Intelligence, Immigration Issues, Customer Service, Accounting and Auditing Standards, Leadership, Ethics, Legal Issues, and IT Security and Disaster Recovery. If you need to pay by check, please download this registration form (pdf) For credit card registrations please click on the registration tab, above. If you need to cancel an existing registration, please click here to read our refund policy and then contact Dennis Klaus, Program Committee Chair ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Transportation from Airport to Hotel To book online go to: www.supershuttle.com and enter your discount code: URR8Y 1. Claim your luggage. Departure SuperShuttle Shared-Ride Van Service Keynote and General Session Speakers: Presentation Title: “What does it mean to be an indigenous person in the 21st Century” Synopsis: There is enormous diversity among indigenous people across the globe and in the United States. Each group has its own distinct system of governance, history, culture, and life ways. Yet many share common values such as a sense of interdependence with each other and with the land and an understanding that their lives play themselves out in a set of reciprocal relationships. Many indigenous people believe it is the values that have sustained them thus far and it is the values that will sustain them well into the future. Dr. Michael M. Crow: Michael Crow became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University on July 1, 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation’s leading public metropolitan research universities. Under his direction the university pursues teaching, research, and creative excellence focused on the major challenges and questions of our time, as well as those central to the building of a sustainable environment and economy for Arizona. He has committed the university to global engagement and to setting a new standard for public service. During his tenure ASU has marked a number of important milestones, including the establishment of major interdisciplinary research initiatives such as the Biodesign Institute, the Global Institute of Sustainability, and the Flexible Display Center; an unprecedented research infrastructure expansion, adding more than one million square feet of new research space; a dramatic increase in federal research awards; and the announcement of the four largest gifts in the history of the university. Prior to joining ASU, he was executive vice provost of Columbia University, where he oversaw Columbia’s research enterprise and technology transfer operations. A fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, he is the author of books and articles relating to the analysis of research organizations and science and technology policy. Presentation Title: "The New American University: A Concept to Advance Colleges and Universities, Both Public and Private, Nationwide" Synopsis: Arizona State University is leading an effort both to reconceptualize the nation's youngest major research university and to establish a new paradigm for public higher education through the creation of a prototype solution-focused institution that combines the highest levels of academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic, and maximum societal impact. Predicated on excellence, access, and impact, the "New American University" now emerging is a comprehensive knowledge enterprise committed to discovery, creativity, and innovation. The model has relevance for colleges and universities, both public and private, nationwide. Dr. David McClain: David McClain was appointed president of the 10-campus UH System in March 2006; he has served as the system’s chief executive officer since June 2004. Presentation Title: "Connecting Campus Cultures: The Leadership Imperative" Synopsis: Developing a high performing university requires vision and execution. Dr. Carl Hammerschlag: Dr. Carl Hammerschlag is a distinguished, Yale-trained psychiatrist, healer, best-selling author, columnist and faculty member at the University of Arizona Medical School. He is one of the early pioneer leaders in mind-body-spirit medicine (or psychoneuroimmunology) and an expert in integrating its practical applications. Presentation Title: "Taking Care of Spirit While Taking Care of Business" Synopsis:These are rapidly changing times in higher education; from demographics, to curriculum, financing, government regulations and an unbelievably burgeoning technology, we are deluged by requirements and numbers. The demands of our multi-tasking, technological world so emphasize the accounting stuff, that we sometimes lose sight of the soul of higher education; meeting people face to face, getting to know them, and helping them find ways to succeed. This is the stuff that makes us come to work with joy, and we need to nurture it. Greg Bell: Greg Bell helps individuals and organizations thrive by improving their relationships and communication (and making them laugh in the process). With his lively spirit and humor, he is an inspirational resource for motivational speaking and practical hands-on training. Greg has developed a series of customized programs that give people the skills they need to succeed in today’s diverse and change-driven world. The programs and tools he provides have been utilized by companies, organizations, and conferences of all sizes and disciplines. Greg’s own skills come from 20 years’ experience in business, law and athletics. He earned a bachelor’s and law degree at the University of Oregon, where he competed in college basketball and was consistently named Inspirational Player of the Year. For the National Association of Basketball Coaches, he helped launch the Coaches vs. Cancer campaign, an ongoing program that has raised millions of dollars for cancer research. Simply put, Greg knows how to build relationships and motivate people. Presentation Title: "Effective Communication in a Diverse Environment" Synopsis: How do you put people first and respect cultural differences while still focusing on the bottom line? How do you take a group of people with no common culture and turn them into a functioning team? Dr. Laree Kiely: Dr. Laree Kiely, President of The Kiely Group--Organizational Effectiveness Consultants--also served for 15 years as Professor on the faculty of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, where she taught in the graduate programs, Executive MBA, executive education, and facilitator and trainer programs. She has 25 years' experience consulting, facilitating, and teaching organizational behavior in the US, Canada, Australia, the Czech Republic, and the People’s Republic of China. Synopsis: In the world of a campus environment…establishing relationships can be difficult…sustaining them can prove to be even more difficult. The good news is: knowing the subtle influences that drive people can be learned, practiced and applied to any campus culture without eating up a lot of time. The purpose of this session is to give you the necessary tools and skills to move people and ideas, to lead through influence. Join us for a highly applied, interactive, practical session that will help you build and sustain relationships while making a positive, observable difference. Concurrent Sessions: Complementing the above Keynote and General Session speakers will be sixteen concurrent sessions, including the always popular “Tales from the Front” presented by our own WACUBO members. Concurrent sessions will include topics of Sustainability, Responding to Campus Violence, Emotional Intelligence, Immigration Issues, Customer Service, Accounting and Auditing Standards, Leadership, Ethics, Legal Issues, and IT Security and Disaster Recovery.
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