2025 Conference Schedule

9:30 am: Student Pre-Conference Start

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: Site Visit Opportunities (details coming soon!)

4:30 - 6:30 pm: Welcome Reception

Featuring:

• Ken Workman, Duwamish Tribe and 5th generation Grandson of Chief Seattle

• Dr. Shane Martin, Provost, Seattle University

• DJ Tory J/dr. čınus, Tory Johnston (Quinault), guitarist, music theorist, PhD Candidate in Native American Studies at UC Davis, and lecturer of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington

7:00 am: Registration & Breakfast

8:00 am: Morning Plenary: COS*Talks - Join us to hear 3 unique perspectives on community engagement, the meaning of place and collaboration for the public good.

• Dave Jones, Center for Civic Engagement, Washington State University Pullman

• Dr. Elaine K. Ikeda, Executive Director, LEAD California

• Ken Workman, Duwamish Tribe and 5th generation Grandson of Chief Seattle, Council member of the Duwamish Tribe and Board President of Duwamish Tribal Services

9:00 am Concurrent Sessions

• Sense of Belonging, Service-learning and Under-represented Students

• Service-Learning and Tribal Relations

• Beyond One-Day Service: Engagement for Lasting Change

• Social Acceptability of Telehealth in the Marshall Islands: Case Study of Kwajalein Atoll

• Students Lead the Way: Transcending Barriers in Economics Education Through a Cohort-based, Culturally Informed Approach in Hawai‘i

• Developing Reciprocal Indigenous Partnerships at Religious Institutions

• Reciprocity in Action: Tribal Partnerships at The Evergreen State College

• Place-Based Justice: Anti-Racist University-Community Engagement in Action

• Catalyst: Unlocking College Potential

• Convening for creative collaboration

10:30 am Concurrent Sessions

• Bridging Identities: Navigating Power and Positionality in Community Engagement for Students of Color, First-Generation, and Low-Income Students

• Building Community Over Shared Meals

• Access and Detours: engaging student success in service learning, sustainability and place in a hybrid world

• Democracy Day

• Community Engaged Learning Student Support at Gonzaga University

• Learning Across Boundaries: Tools for Community Engagement & Leadership Development

• Growing Compassionate Community Stewards through Relational Care

• Engaging the Land[Grant]: Learning & Growing through Partnerships

• Leveling the Playing Field Through Pantry Partnerships

• Reflecting on Service-Learning's Origins, Achievements, Dilemmas and Possibilities

• Systemic Change to Transform the Indigenous STEM Student Experience

12:00 pm: Lunch

1:00 pm: Afternoon Plenary: Place Based Engagement: A Panel Discussion - Join us to hear partnership perspectives on place-based engagement.

Facilitated by Erica Yamamura, Co-Author, “Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education: A Strategy to Transform Universities and Communities.” Incoming Executive Director, Lead California

Featuring:

• Seattle University Youth Initiative

• University of Washington Seattle Othello UW Commons

• Evergreen State College Tribal Partnerships

• Whitman College Tribal Partnerships

• Ogden Civic Action Network

2:50 pm Concurrent Sessions

• Sustaining community partnerships for student success

• The impact of one community engagement experience on student success, retention, and sense of belonging.

• Indigenous Innovations -  Applying ʻĀina-based learning through a Sustainability Lens

• Leadership Practices of Place-based Community Engagement Professionals

• Social Mobility for Undocumented and Formerly Incarcerated Students

• Indigenous Approaches to Community Resilience in Higher Education

• Moving Beyond a Land Acknowledgment

• Diversifying Faculty by Counting Community-Engaged Teaching/Scholarship for Tenure

• Transcending Barriers and Bridging Institutions for Student Success

4:00 pm: Site visit opportunity (coming soon)

7:00 am: Registration & Breakfast

8:00 am: Morning Plenary: Centering the Student Experience: A Panel Discussion with Indigenous Students (student names to come!)

9:30 am Concurrent Sessions

• Deconstructing Place: Strategies for Community Engagement

• Preventing Burnout and Burn Through: Leaning into Structured Rest

• Queering Service and Community-Engaged Learning

• Indigenous Voices for Healing and Action in Higher Education

• Addressing Lateral Violence in Higher Education

• ACCESS Equity - a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning

• Washington Campus Coalition for the Public Good: Strategic Planning Kick-Off!

End of formal programming

11:30 am: Where we’ve been, Where We’re Going: Open coffee hour to reflect on the history and future of the field.