21st Century Citizens: Highlights from #ADPTDC13

By Jen Domagal-Goldman, National Manager, American Democracy Project

Illinois State students recreate new logo.

Five hundred and eighty-five faculty members, students, administrators and representatives from our national partner organizations gathered in Denver, Colorado for the third ADP/TDC Joint National Meeting (and ADP’s 11^th annual meeting), June 6-8, 2013. The theme of the meeting was “21st Century Citizens: Building Bridges, Solving Problems.” Representatives from nearly 100 four-year colleges and universities and 40 community colleges attended the event. One hundred and forty-five students attended the conference (compared to 95 last year). This was by far our most successful ADP National Meeting to date.

Comments from National Meeting attendees:

• “The ADP conference is, hands-down, my favorite conference of the year. It is a terrific place to share ideas in a friendly, collaborative setting.”
• “The whole conference was beautifully run, every plenary was enlightening and engaging. The sessions brought to light many different ideas, issues, challenges and gave our institution a lot to consider as we move forward with ideas of civic engagement on our campus.”
• “Honestly it felt like a constant barrage of empowerment and possibility…. Hearing the concepts which are driving this conference gave me, as a first time attendee, a hope which I have only felt on a few occasions.”
• “This was a very stimulating conference, and the diversity in attendance brings many good ideas but also a tremendously varied menu of how to implement ideas and make things happen!”

We kicked off the national meeting with pre-conference meetings and workshops on Thursday, June 6. Metropolitan State University of Denver, an ADP campus, hosted our first ever campus site-visit for conference attendees. Meeting participants were also able to attend workshops hosted by ADP’s Civic Health, eCitizenship, Stewardship of Public Lands and Global Engagement initiatives and it’s Political Engagement Project. Other meetings and workshops were hosted by  The Democracy Commitment, the Kettering Foundation,  Citizen Alum, the eJournal of Public Affairs, Public Achievement, Community Learning Partnership, Street Law, AAC&U’s Bridging Cultures grant program, AASCU faculty participating in our Urban Civic Minor grant project and AASCU’s Grants Resource Center.

Thursday afternoon’s opening plenary included welcome remarks from George Mehaffy and TDC’s Bernie

Opening performance by Metro State’s Chicano Studies performance group Journey Through Our Heritage

Ronan. Steven Jordan, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver, welcomed the large group to his city, followed by Melia Tagovailova – a recent Metro State graduate – who sang a beautiful and stirring rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Metro State’s Chicano Studies performance group Journey Through Our Heritage burst on to the stage to share with us a story of protest and personal reflection. We then heard keynote speaker Denise Fairchild – President & CEO, Emerald Cities Collaborative – talk to us about “getting on the bus” of social change (Listen to her plenary talk.) She discussed the importance of civic engagement in the sustainability movement, and how informed and engaged Millennials will be the movers of shakers we need to create lasting change; all we have to do is give them the tools, skills, and the information.

We began the day Friday with a series of early, but energizing breakfast sessions. Participants heard from national ADP/TDC partner organizations including: Community Learning Partnership, GiveGab, Echoing Green, Street Law, the eJournal of Public Affairs, NCoC, the National Issues Forums Institute, and The Foundation for Democracy in Africa.

CIRCLE’s Peter Levine addressing ADP/TDC National Meeting attendees.

Peter Levine, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs in Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Director of CIRCLE, The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, provided Friday’s plenary talk: A Defense of Higher Education and its Civic Mission (you can also listen to it here).

Following Peter’s talk, we announced the 2013 winners of the Plater Award for Leadership in Civic Engagement (see blog post) and the John Saltmarsh Award for Emerging Leaders in Civic Engagement (see blog post). Fresno State Provost William A. Covino was awarded AASCU’s 2013 William M. Plater Award for Leadership in Civic Engagement and Brandon Kliewer, Assistant Professor of Civic Engagement and ADP campus director at Florida Gulf Coast University, received the Saltmarsh Award.

After the morning plenary session, we broke into a series of featured and concurrent sessions. Friday’s Featured Sessions included panels on Purposeful Work: Educating for Citizen Careers, and Civic Pathways: Community College to University Transfer Programs; workshops about Preparing for the 2015 Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement and CIRCLE’s National Study of Student Learning, Voting & Engagement. There were also sessions about programs including The Human Library and ADP’s Global Challenges curriculum. Student presentations included one by SWER: Students Working for Equal Rights and another on multi-campus presentation on “Tweeting in Class!” Student Microblogging & Civic Practice. Three separate presentations constituted a featured session on Civic Learning in the Curriculum & Dialogue and Deliberation.

Throughout the day we successfully experimented with new session types including short Lightning Round presentations clustered by topic, a more dynamic poster session, and panels and workshops. This year’s Poster Session had 12 submissions. Posters were presented by students as well as faculty and staff. The posters highlighted results of various research projects on topics including hunger, voting, veterans on campus, gender identity, and global engagement.

Saturday brought a morning plenary session dedicated to the four student ADP/TDC video contest winners. In

Two students from both ADP and TDC speaking on civic engagement and its impact on their lives.

a panel moderated by Monroe Community College’s Verdis Robinson, Instructor of History and African-American Studies, ADP students Bianca Brown of Western Kentucky University and Rachel Wintz of the University of Alaska Anchorage spoke of their civic engagement journeys alongside TDC’s Justin Machelski of Delta College (Mich.) and Quinta Tangoh of Ohio’s Cuyahoga Community College.

Afterwards, meeting attendees were treated to another vast array of panels, workshops and other sessions including our annual Campus and Friends Showcase – an opportunity for our campuses and partner organizations to share their work and network with one another. More than 18 campuses and partner organizations hosted showcase tables this year. Attendees were also able to participate in roundtable discussions about a variety of topics on Saturday afternoon.

At the end of the day on Saturday, meeting attendees reconvened for a closing plenary featuring David Scobey, Executive Dean, The New School for Public Engagement (N.Y.). Scobey spoke about Post-Traditional Undergraduates and the Copernican Moment: New Models of Engaged Learning for the New Majority Student (listen here).

Afterwards, we celebrated the end of the conference with a closing reception at The Tavern, complete with dancing, a photo booth and a rooftop view of Denver.

It was an absolute honor to be surrounded by so many people who are passionate about and engaged in the struggle to protect and improve our democracy. ADP continues to be one of the most successful and dynamic civic engagement projects in the country thanks in large part to the tireless dedication of the dynamic individuals gathered in Denver.

We hope to see you in Louisville, Kentucky, June 5-7, 2014, for the next ADP/TDC National Meeting where we will continue our important work of preparing informed, engaged citizens for our democracy.

PowerPoints and other handouts from the meeting are available through the meeting’s mobile app for the next year.

Finally, to see more pictures from the meeting, visit the ADP Facebook Page. Please send any photos you took to adp@aascu.org so that we can upload them to Facebook!

Check out these ADP Pre-Conference Workshops & Meetings at #ADPTDC13

Already registered for our June 6-8, 2013
ADP/TDC National Meeting in Denver?

Haven’t yet, but been meaning to?

When you do, be sure to check out the array of pre-conference workshops and meetings being offered throughout the day on Thursday, June 6. While some of the meetings have attendance restricted to participants in a given initiative, many are open to all. Take time to learn more about ADP’s Global Challenges curriculum, about civic engagement grant writing, about our Stewardship of Public Lands work, or about making space for civic learning in your campus curricula. You’ll also find all of these pre-cons on the meeting website at: http://www.aascu.org/meetings/adptdc13/

All pre-conference workshops are on Thursday, June 6, 2013:

9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Global Challenges Workshop: Educating Globally Competent Citizens & Working Lunch (open to all)
This full day workshop introduces participants to numerous tools for educating globally competent citizens. AASCU Global Engagement Scholars describe how they have built interdisciplinary courses and curricula around the Global Challenges framework (population, resources, technology, information, economic integration, conflict/security and governance). Workshop leaders demonstrate the teaching materials and resources they have found most valuable in the courses they teach (including introductory, first-year, discipline-based and honors courses) and guide participants in anticipating how these same tools could be used effectively on their home campuses. Participants also have the opportunity to learn more about how to bring the national Global Challenges blended-learning course to their campuses. The blended learning model course, designed by the AASCU Scholars, includes a variety of teaching methods to deliver and facilitate classroom materials and activities. Participants will also be introduced to the new Global Challenges eBook written by the AASCU Scholars and published by Sourcebooks. Each participant will receive a faculty toolkit for using the global challenges content in campus courses and co-curricular programs. This practical and insightful workshop is ideal for institutions at want to deepen their commitment to providing effective international education in a variety of disciplines.
Registration Fee: $65
Presenters: Ken Hill, Lecturer of Education and Keisha L. Hoerrner, Associate Dean, University College, Kennesaw State University (Ga.); Darrell Hamlin, Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies, Shala Mills, Global Challenges National Course Coordinator and Brett Whitaker, Instructor, Leadership Studies, Fort Hays State University (Kan.); Nathan Phelps, Faculty, Honors College, Western Kentucky University; Martin S. Shapiro, Associate Professor of Psychology, California State University Fresno; Yohannes Woldemariam, Assistant Professor, International Relations and Environmental Studies, Fort Lewis College (Colo.); and Tina Zappile, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Campus & Community Civic Health Initiative Summit and Working Lunch (by invitation)
The Campus & Community Civic Health Initiative, presented in partnership with the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), serves as a signature program of the 10th anniversary of ADP. Launched at the ADP Meeting in June 2012, the two-year initiative is engaging 25 participating institutions to assess the civic health of their campuses and communities and to develop action plans to respond to what they find. The 2013 summit will provide participating schools with the opportunity to learn about national civic health research and models, present on their campus models and action plans, and work together to discuss successes and challenges of the first year of participation.
Presenters: Kristen Cambell, Chief Program Officer, and Kristi Tate, Director of Community Strategies, NCoC (Washington, D.C.); Heidi Kuester, CBISA Specialist, Lyon Software; and Jen Domagal-Goldman, ADP National Manager, AASCU

• Assessing Campus Civic Health while Teaching and Learning Research Methods
  Susan Orr, ADP Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Political Science; Dena Levy, Associate Professor, Political Science & International Studies; and Krishaon Ewing and Allyson Kehl, students at SUNY Brockport

• Doing Public Work: Democratic Engagement at UNCG
  Spoma Jovanovic, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Cathy Hamilton Director of the Office of Leadership & Service Learning, and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro

• “True Blue”: Evaluating Campus Civic Health at MTSU
  Mary Evins, Associate Professor of History and ADP Campus Coordinator, Middle Tennessee State University

9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Urban Civic Minor Working Meeting and Lunch (closed meeting)

9 – 11 a.m.
Political Engagement Project (PEP) Business Meeting (by invitation)
An informal gathering of representatives from PEP campuses to discuss progress toward infusing political education and engagement tactics into a variety of disciplines and courses. The business meeting provides participating campuses with the opportunity to discuss accomplishments and develop strategies for expanding PEP in the future.
Convener: Steve Hunt, PEP Faculty Chair and Professor of Communication, Illinois State University
9 a.m. – Noon
Stewardship of Public Lands Course Working Group (by invitation)

9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
eCitizenship Initiative Working Meeting (open)
The 2013 ADP national meeting provides a forum to learn from others and return to our campuses energized to continue our civic learning and engagement work. For the eCitizenship Initiative, our challenge is to energize cross-campus collaboration. To sustain our work between national meetings, we will use this pre-conference meeting to plan for the exciting future of eCitizenship in 2013-14. Together we will consider: 1) what we’ve been doing (campus reports); 2) planning 3-5 eCitizenship-themed webinars during the 2013-2014 academic year; 3) creating an eCitizenship online Toolkit of resources and best practices; and 4) undertaking collaborative research projects.
Conveners: Mike Stout, Associate Professor of Sociology, Missouri State University; Renee Bricker, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Georgia; Marc Kruman, Director, Center for the Study of Citizenship, Wayne State University (Mich.)

10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Metro State University Denver Site Visit (RSVP required; capped at 25)
Are you arriving in Denver prior to the official start of the American Democracy Project and The Democracy Commitment National Meeting on June 6? Metropolitan State University of Denver – an ADP campus – invites you to spend the late morning and early afternoon of June 6th experiencing our downtown campus and engaging with several of our initiatives that are advancing the University’s “urban land grant” mission.Visitors to our campus will interact with or experience:

• A one-day college readiness institute sponsored by the Center for Urban Education and designed for elementary students from the Denver Public Schools.

• CAVEA, our Center for Advanced Visualization and Experiential Analysis, which is a new resource made available to community organizations.

• Workforce readiness and regional technological development from one of the nation’s premiere Aviation and Aerospace Science program.

• A conversation with Hungarian visiting engineering and architecture faculty on the topics of democracy and higher education.

• Water stewardship on campus and in the community from our unique One World, One Water Center for Urban Water Education and Stewardship.

Up to 25 guests are welcome to participate in this site visit. Lunch will be provided by MSU Denver. The group will depart from Marriott City Center at 10am and travel to campus by light rail (guests will be expected to purchase their own light rail tickets – a $4.50 roundtrip cost). Return to the Marriott City Center will be by 2:30 p.m. (Note: the ADP/TDC opening plenary begins at 3:30 p.m.)
To RSVP for this pre-conference site visit, please email Maggie Schaeffer at mschaef8@msudenver.edu by May 15, 2013. 

Noon – 3 p.m.
Developing a Winning Civic Engagement Grant Proposal (open to all)
This three hour workshop, sponsored by AASCU’s Grants Resource Center, covers (1) developing the proposal concept, (2) searching for the best funding source, (3) focusing in on the proposal idea, (4) establishing a timeline for development and implementation, and (5) outlining the proposal and project budget. Each participant will end the session with a proposal framework that meets the criteria of a selected funding agency and is ready for further development on return to his or her campus. Those indicating plans to attend the pre-conference activity will be given instructions on what to prepare prior to the meeting.
Limit: 15. RSVP required to adp@aascu.org
Presenters: Richard Dunfee, Executive Director, AASCU’s Grants Resource Center; Gregg Kaufman, Center for Engaged Learning, Georgia College; William M. Loker, Dean, Undergraduate Education, California State University, Chico; and Beth Olsen, Director of Grants Development, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Noon – 3 p.m.
Public Achievement Workshop (Open to all Public Achievement Coaches and Coordinators, RSVP to noelleg.johnson@gmail.com)
Last Spring Western Kentucky University hosted the first Public Achievement (PA) National Coaches Workshop as a way to connect coaches from across the globe. This workshop is intended to help develop the next level of PA – nationally and regionally – through networking, presentations and discussion. Most importantly, this workshop will build connections & student coaches will decide the best way to share their work throughout the year. This workshop gives us time to share advancements & problem solve. We will discuss the sustainability of PA and the creation of PA Regional Coordinators as means to ensure the future growth of PA programs throughout the US.
Convener: Noelle Johnson, Public Achievement Coordinator, Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility at Western Kentucky University

• How to Avoid Ethnocentric Community Projects: The Role of a Public Achievement Coach When Working with Intolerant Participants
  Bianca S. Brown, Public Achievement Coordinator, Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility at Western Kentucky University

Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Citizen Alum Moving Forward: Invitational Meeting (by invitation)
A facilitated, structured exchange among representatives of ADP/TDC campuses that are also members of Citizen Alum, a multi-institutional initiative launched in 2012 and based at the University of Michigan. Campus teams are a focal point of our work in broadening and deepening the culture of civic engagement on campus and in the region. Campuses that are sending teams to the inaugural Citizen Alum Summer Institute will report on what they learned through their preparation process. The scope will then expand as all teams point to breakthroughs and sticking points in developing their campus teams. The session will conclude with collective goal-setting for the coming year.
Convener: Julie Ellison, Citizen Alum Founder, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Co-Facilitators: Katherine Nordyke, Director of Citizenship and Service-Learning and Mary Ann Wood, Director of Public Affairs Support, Missouri State University

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Stewardship of Public Lands Workshop (open to all)
This workshop will share campus examples of projects and courses related to ADP’s Stewardship of Public Lands initiative and it’s annual Politics and the Yellowstone Ecosystem Seminar for faculty.

• Longwood@Yellowstone: Transcending the Compartmentalization of General Education through a Pedagogy of Place
  Alix D. Dowling Fink, Dean of the Honors College and Associate Professor of Biology; Heather G. Lettner-Rust, Assistant Professor of English; Mark H. Newton Longwood University

• Real and Imagined Wolves in Literature and Political Life
  Elizabeth Latosi-Sawin, Professor of English, Missouri Western State University

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Political Engagement Project Pre-Conference Workshop: Exploring Strategies to Educate for Democracy (open to all)
The Political Engagement Project (PEP) has the goal of developing a sense of political efficacy and duty on the part of undergraduates as well as a set of political skills that students will need as they engage with the political world. In this pre-conference workshop, presenters from PEP campuses will share best practices for integrating political engagement into the curriculum and co-curriculum. The workshop includes recommendations for recruiting faculty and students, using social media to foster political engagement, and no-cost strategies for assessing student learning. Convener: Steve Hunt, PEP Faculty Chair and Professor of Communication, Illinois State University

• Co-curricular Approaches to Political Engagement: Integration with Other ADP Initiatives at Kennesaw State University
  Ralph J. Rascati, Associate Vice President for Advising, Retention and Graduation Initiatives, Dean of University College adn Professor of Biology, Kennesaw State University (Ga.)  

1:30 – 3 p.m.
eJournal of Public Affairs Editorial Board Meeting (Invite Only)
Editorial Board Members will be sent a meeting agenda prior to the ADP conference. This agenda will include the Editor’s Annual Report, a review of the past year’s issues, updates on status of future issues, any business updates, and discussion points.
Convener: Andy Lokie, Editor, eJournal of Public Affairs, Missouri State University

1:30 – 3 p.m.
The Civic Curriculum: Exploring Learning Objectives for Civic Literacy and Engagement(open to all)
This pre-conference session will explore one of the central themes of this ADP conference. Many conversations about preparing engaged citizens focus on co-curricular activities such as service learning experiences, or convening deliberative forums regarding specific issues. Our focus in this session will be on how, as educators, we need to be clear about the intent of civic education. What knowledge, attitudes and skills do college students need to prepare them for informed engagement? What learning and teaching objectives frame our civic education efforts? Where in the curriculum are these learning goals addressed?  This pre-conference discussion will be an occasion for us as educators to talk about civic learning objectives and how we explore them in the curriculum. The session co-presenters are co-authors of a college-level civics text entitled The Democracy Project, which is a work in progress. They invite others who are actively working on the civic curriculum to join us in talking about what you regard as key learning objectives, how you incorporate these objectives in their courses, and what we are learning about our students’ experience with civic learning.
Co-chairs: Elizabeth Gish, faculty member, Honors College, Western Kentucky University; Keith Melville, Kettering Foundation and Fielding Graduate University and John Dedrick, Vice President and Program Director, Kettering Foundation

2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
ADP Orientation (open to all)
Is your campus new to ADP? Is this your first ADP meeting? This session introduces you to ADP and gives you a chance to meet and talk with George L. Mehaffy, ADP’s founder, and Jen Domagal-Goldman, ADP’s national manager. Come learn what ADP is all about!
Facilitators: George L. Mehaffy, Vice President for Academic Leadership and Change and Jen Domagal-Goldman, ADP National Manager, AASCU

#ADPTDC13: CIRCLE’s Peter Levine to Give Plenary Talk

Friday, June 7, 2013 | 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Plenary Session: A Defense of Higher Education and its Civic Mission
Presenter: Peter Levine, Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Director of CIRCLE, Tisch College/CIRCLE, Tufts University

The liberal arts and the civic mission of higher education are under attack in this time of economic crisis and political polarization. In several states, policies are pending to raise tuition for majors that do not lead directly to jobs. We should not be offended by this kind of critique. We charge a lot of money for tuition, and citizens are entitled to ask what we produce for it. But we can proudly and forthrightly make the case for the civic mission of the higher education. The purpose of the liberal arts is to prepare people for responsible citizenship, and the best forms of civic engagement are intellectually challenging. They are the liberal arts in action. Research shows that civic education at the college level makes people into better workers. And engaged universities address many serious public problems, including unemployment, that matter to citizens and policymakers.

You’ll find a blog post by Peter on this topic here.

Peter Levine is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs in Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Director of CIRCLE, The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. He studied philosophy at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, receiving his doctorate in 1992. He has been a research associate at Common Cause and Deputy Director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal. Levine is the author of the forthcoming book We are the Ones We have been Waiting for: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America (Oxford University Press, fall 2013), five other books on philosophy and politics, and a novel. He has served on the boards or steering committees of AmericaSpeaks, Street Law Inc., the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, the Kettering Foundation, the ABA’s Committee for Public Education, Everyday Democracy, and the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.

For more information about the 2013 ADP/TDC National Meeting, visit here.

#ADPTDC13: Global Challenges Pre-Conference Workshop

Thursday, June 6, 2013 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Global Challenges Workshop: Educating Globally Competent Citizens & Working Lunch
Open to all; $65 registration fee to cover cost of lunch

This full-day workshop introduces participants to numerous tools for educating globally competent citizens. AASCU Global Engagement Scholars describe how they have built interdisciplinary courses and curricula around the Global Challenges framework (population, resources, technology, information, economic integration, conflict/security, and governance). Workshop leaders demonstrate the teaching materials and resources they have found most valuable in the courses they teach (including introductory, first-year, discipline-based, and honors courses) and guide participants in anticipating how these same tools could be used effectively on their home campuses.

Participants also have the opportunity to learn more about how to bring the national Global Challenges blended-learning course to their campuses. The blended-learning-model course, designed by the AASCU Scholars, includes a variety of teaching methods to deliver and facilitate classroom materials and activities.

Participants will also be introduced to the new Global Challenges eBook written by the AASCU Scholars and published by Sourcebooks. Each participant will receive a faculty toolkit for using the global challenges content in campus courses and co-curricular programs. This practical and insightful workshop is ideal for institutions at want to deepen their commitment to providing effective international education in a variety of disciplines.

Lunch will be served. Registration fee: $65

Presenters: Steven Elliott-Gower, Director, Honors and Scholars Program, Georgia College; Ken Hill, Lecturer of Education and Keisha L. Hoerrner, Associate Dean, University College, Kennesaw State University (Ga.); Darrell Hamlin, Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies, Shala Mills, Global Challenges National Course Coordinator and Brett Whitaker, Instructor, Leadership Studies, Fort Hays State University (Kan.); William Payne, Dean, School of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth; Nathan Phelps, Faculty, Honors College, Western Kentucky University; Martin S. Shapiro, Associate Professor of Psychology, California State University Fresno; Yohannes Woldemariam, Assistant Professor, International Relations and Environmental Studies, Fort Lewis College (Colo.); and Tina Zappile, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

#ADPTDC13: Have YOU Registered Yet?

By Jen Domagal-Goldman, National Manager, American Democracy Project

Registration Open for the 2013 ADP/TDC National Meeting

June 6-8, 2013 | Marriott City Center | Denver, Colorado

“21st Century Citizens: Building Bridges, Solving Problems”

http://www.aascu.org/meetings/adptdc13/

NOTE: Many pre-conference meetings and workshops have been added to the program!

Registration Fees:
The registration fee includes all program sessions and materials; wine and cheese reception on Thursday; breakfast on Friday; and lunch and closing reception on Saturday.

• Individual Fee: $545
  Register as an individual if only one person from your ADP/TDC campus is attending.
• Team Member Registration Fee: $485
  If more than one person from your ADP/TDC campus is attending the meeting, you may use the Team Member Registration Fee.
• Student Registration Fee: $395
  Registration rate for full-time undergraduate and graduate students at AASCU/ADP/TDC colleges and universities.
• Non-Member Registration Fee: $625
  Register as a non-member if you or your organization are not AASCU/ADP/TDC campus members.

How to Register:
Please select among the three options below:

• OPTION 1:
  Express Online Registration
  NOTE: Please click this LOGIN HELP if you have trouble using the online registration form.
• OPTION 2:
  Register via the downloadable registration form, to be mailed or faxed in.
  Download Form (doc)
• OPTION 3:
  You may also contact Felicia Durham at (202) 478-4673 to register for this meeting.

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Accommodations

Denver Marriott City Center
1701 California Street
Denver, Colorado 80202
Toll-free: 800-228-9290

Hotel accommodations for the 2013 ADP/TDC National Meeting can be booked directly with the hotel by calling toll-free 877-303-0104 and referring to the group rate for the ADP/TDC Annual Meeting (please use the acronyms for the group name).

You may also reserve your room online here.

Room Rate
The special conference rate is $169 (single/double/triple/quad) plus 14.85% tax (current tax rate may change). To obtain this rate, you must call the hotel by May 14, 2013.