Inaugrual CBR Conference: Space for Reflection, Networking, Scholarship
Saturday, April 17, 2004
On a spring Saturday on Georgetown's blooming
campus, over 100 conference attendees chose to stay indoors and take advantage of this unique opportunity to share successes and challenges in their work on service- learning and community-based research.
Reflective of our thematic focus on the "Roles of Faculty, Student, and Community Stakeholders in CBR," conference participants represented a broad spectrum of interests, backgrounds and experiences in community- based research. Over 60 faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, representing 14 institutions of higher education, attended from throughout the mid-Atlantic region. In addition, almost 40 percent of conference attendees came from outside academia, representing 26 CBOs offering services in areas such as K-12 education, housing, employment, social welfare, and cultural enrichment.
One participant noted in our post-conference survey, that what made the conference such an enriching experience was the "great energy among the participants and enthusiasm to share their experiences, both during and between sessions." The overall positive feedback is an inspiration and the constructive suggestions will make next year's conference an even bigger success. We'd like to hear from everyone - so if you haven't already done so, please click on the link to answer the brief survey. Also, many thanks to Emily Athy, Sean Garrett, Phil Guthrie, Karen Lynch, Nicole Richardson, and Miranda Wilson for their outstanding assistance during the conference.
As we look forward to next year's conference - tentatively scheduled for mid-April at the George Washington University Marvin Center - we hope to offer a wider range of presentations and venues: workshops on innovative teaching techniques and research methodologies; multimedia virtual tours of community projects; interactive poster sessions; as well as papers delving into the important work being done through the greater Washington area. We hope to see you at our 2005 Conference!
