2011 Annual Meeting

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2011 NAICU Annual Meeting Registration 

Media Registration

Preliminary Schedule

Hotel Registration:  Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill

Preliminary Annual Meeting Highlights:

 

• Robert Putman -- Ten years ago, his book on the collapse and renewal of American community, Bowling Alone, helped shape the fabric of our society over the decade to follow. Now he's applied those same incisive skills to an examination of religion as co-author of the just-published American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. This influential author and scholar will walk attendees through the complex interaction of religion and politics over the past half century, and what it bodes for our future.
  
  
• Mark Emmert's Emerging Game Plan -- Several months into what is arguably the nation's highest-profile sports position, the new National Collegiate Athletic Association president will talk about what he's learned, heard, and seen in his whirlwind first few months, and what his priorities will be for the NCAA's future. His visit to the NAICU Annual Meeting will be highly participatory, including a break-out session to address Division III issues specifically.
  
  
• Mark Shields Looks at the Mind and the Mood of the Nation -- He's been called "the wittiest political analyst around," with four decades of observing and savoring the country's politics and proclivities. Now as we begin a shift and a sharing of power in Washington, this nationally-respected commentator will turn his analytical skills and his great good humor on where strange congressional bedfellows may take us over the next couple years.
  
  
• Higher Education and The Future of American Health Care -- Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, will discuss the nation's political, economic, and health care realities - and how they represent an enormous challenge for higher education. In the near future, our campuses will face health reform implementation, the challenge of educating health professionals for a new health care system, and and managing health care services for students, faculty, and staff in their role as key community providers. Given a nation deeply divided politically, a severely restrained economically, how do colleges and universities prepare for a myriad of challenges.
  
  
• Can Socrates Download?: Learners and Learning in the Digital Age -- How is digitalization changing the expectations of today's learners? In what ways are our colleges responding -- or not? How can innovation reinforce liberal arts education and help advance it in the current climate? A forward-thinking team from Abilene Christian University will engage attendees in a conversation about how they have worked with Apple to connect emerging technologies to learning.
  
  
• Leaders from Congress -- The Annual Meeting schedule also features our usual array of visits by key elected officials and Hill staffers. 
  
  
• "Academies" on Government Relations and Public Relations -- We're again offering these two popular half days of sessions, with speakers who will offer valuable insights and information for presidents and their government relations and communications staff on cutting-edge issues in these areas.
  
  
• Plus Plenty of Networking -- As in past years, you'll also have ample opportunity to visit with your colleagues at a full slate of social activities. And of course, we'll once again give you an opportunity to make those all-important Hill visits with your congressional delegation.
  

Start:	Sunday, January 30, 2011
End:	Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Location:	Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.