Annual Conference
NAPCE 2009 Annual Conference
October 15-17, 2009
The Historic Brown Hotel
Louisville, Kentucky
Fredrick Cardoza- Conference VP
Renewing Minds:
Serving the church and society through
Christian higher education
Featuring Dr. David Dockery
We live in a time of unprecedented change. . . .
The growth of human knowledge is incessant and, somehow, accelerating.
The application
of science staggers the capacity of our imaginations.
Technology seems near-omnipotent,
but its every quantum leap becomes immediately, yet inexplicably, obsolete.
This is the new
reality for Christian Educators— our world as scholar-practitioners.
Last Minute Information for 2009 NAPCE Conference Attendees
Dear Friends,
We will be so delighted to join you later this week in Louisville at the Historic Brown Hotel. It is going to be a dynamic time together.
During this year's conference, we have added a few program changes to make our conference a little more creative-- as well as more productive. One particular change is the addition of an entirely new program element we are calling "Study Initiatives."
Study Initiatives will be multiple break out options from which to choose, where we will seek to address some of the issues and challenges within the broader field of Christian Education. In the recent "MAPPING CE" study performed by Dr. Kevin Lawson and a team of researchers, several matters of importance to professors of Christian education were outlined. We will begin to look at many of these very issues in our Study Initiatives breakout groups.
Here are the sessions from which to choose and what you might want to bring to better prepare for collegial sharing and interaction at those sessions during our conference:
Adjunct Faculty Selection, Orientation, and Training: Think of ideas or bring written standards for equipping and training adjunct professors for quality control
Foundational Core Curriculum: Bring any documents or files you think would be helpful in a dialogue about building a suggested Foundational Core for inclusion in all standard Christian Education programs
Syllabus Sharing and Collaboration: Bring documents or files of your best and weaker syllabi for interaction with others
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.Brainstorming: Bring fresh ideas about how to gain respect as a C.E. prof within the broader institution
Models of Field Education Excellence: Bring printed documents or files that outline best practices or your institution's standards of field education/internship/practicum for interaction with others
Needed Textbook Collaborations: Bring ideas about what textbooks are needing to be written or updated/revised, and for which classes and programs.
If you will consider bringing any of these for the session you'd like to attend, it will help us make this a valuable and fruitful time of interaction.
Thank you and see you Thursday!
Call for Papers
Please consider sharing your research projects or special studies at this year’s conference.
We invite proposals that address the conference theme and its strands, but also other topics
of general interest to NAPCE members. The research can be empirical in nature or fit
more of a historical/theological model. A high quality of research workmanship is expected.
Questions may be directed to: Jonathan Kim, Ph.D., Associate Professor of CE, Talbot
School of Theology, Biola University, 13800 Biola Avenue, La Mirada, CA 90639. Phone:
[562] 903-4818 ext. 5519. Email: Jonathan.Kim@Biola.edu; CEPraxis@Gmail.com.
Submit your proposals via email to Jonathan.Kim@Biola.edu and CEPraxis@Gmail.com no
later than August 15th, 2009. Proposals should be 200 words or less and include the
author's name, email address, and place of employment or college/seminary/university.
Notification of acceptance will be emailed to authors by September 15th
Guidelines and submission procedure for research presentations (PDF)
Schedule
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER
02:30-05:30 REGISTRATION and NETWORKING GROUP SIGN UP
06:00-06:30 RECEPTION WITH REFRESHMENTS
06:30-07:45 DINNER (PROVIDED BY NAPCE)
07:45-09:00 PLENARY I
09:00-10:00 EXHIBITS OPEN
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER
07:30-08:15 BREAKFAST (on your own)
08:30-09:45 PLENARY 2
10:00-11:15 MAPPING CE INITIATIVES
11:30-12:30 CURRENT RESEARCH
12:30-05:30 LUNCH (on your own) & NETWORKING ELECTIVES
05:30-06:00 EXHIBITS OPEN
06:00-07:00 DINNER (PROVIDED BY NAPCE)
07:00-08:15 PLENARY 3
08:15-08:45 AUTHOR MEET AND GREET with EXHIBITORS
09:00 AFFINITY GROUPS/SPONTANEOUS GATHERINGS (new!)
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
07:30-08:30 BREAKFAST (on your own)
08:30-09:45 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/THEME APPLICATION
09:45-10:15 EXHIBITS
10:15-11:30 PLENARY 4
11:30 am Check-out
12:00 BOARD MEETING
Transportation
For transportation from the Louisville Airport (SDF) to the Brown Hotel call the hotel (502 583 1234) and ask for the Bell Stand. Let them know you need a ride from the airport. Go outside of the baggage claim area to the second curb and look for their bus. This is a free service as part of our contract!
Accommodations
The Historic Brown Hotel
 
The Brown Hotel
335 West Broadway
Louisville, KY 40202
1 502 583 1234
1
888 888 5252
Reserve now online
For reservations:
Use attendee code: NAPCE/AYME.
Indicate that you are with NAPCE to receive the $125 single or double occupancy rate.
The
cutoff for this offer is September 21st. Reservations will be accepted after this date on a
space available basis at the prevailing rate.
Registration
Please send your Conference Registration/Membership Renewal Form(pdf) with the appropriate fees in U.S. funds payable to NAPCE:
Dennis E. Williams
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
2825 Lexington Road, Louisville, KY 40280
Phone: (502) 649-3726
E-mail: mail@napce.org
Full Membership and Conference: $285
Graduate Student Membership and Conference : $165
Membership only: $65
Graduate Student Membership only: $35
Special price reduction for full conference
registration:
Schools registering 4 or more
professors at the fee ($285) may reduce
the fee by $85 each for the 4th or any
additional registrations
*International members: Please use a money
order or check from a US Bank for payment.
If
you do not have access to a US Bank, you can
arrange to pay in cash at the conference.
Registration reimbursement is available up to one week prior to the conference. After that the refund drops by 50%.
Exhibitors
Each year we invite publishers of Christian education materials to participate with us in the conference. Several options for involvement are available. These are listed on the Exhibitor’s Contract Form. This is an outstanding way for publishers to get the word out about their resources and it helps us as professors keep up-to-date on what is available.
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