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All ADEC Meeting
Sheraton Crystal City Hotel
Washington, D.C.
May 1-3 2006

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Monday, May 1  
6:00 PM Members can begin setting up displays of online learning offerings including posters and hand-outs (Ballroom C)
6:30 PM Board of Directors Meetings & Dinner (Crystal Room II)
   
Tuesday, May 2  
7:00-8:00 AM Continental Breakfast (Ballroom C)
8:00-8:30 Opening Plenary (Ballroom C)
Welcome and Opening Remarks
  • Dr. John Kelly, Chair, ADEC Board of Directors, Vice President for Public Service and Agriculture, Clemson University

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  • Dr. Cheng-i Wei, Dean and Director, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Maryland-College Park
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    8:30-9:00 Plenary: Review of the ADEC Strategic Plan - Issues, Organization and Accomplishments (Ballroom C)
  • Kelly - ADEC Board of Directors - Total Group Discussion
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    9:00-10:00 Plenary: Network Futureing: A Vision Process for Consensus (Ballroom C)
  • Matthew Mitchell, Senior Associate, WSU Center to Bridge the Digital Divide, Washington State University
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    10:00-11:00 Break and Strategic Plan Subcommittee Breakouts (Ballroom C, Crystal Rooms II and III)
    11:00-12:00 Planery: "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" - Challenges Facing Higher Education and Roll of Distance Education (Ballroom C)
    Participants from NSF, The National Academies, and Sloan Foundation
  • Presiding: Frank Mayadas, Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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  • Lee Zia, Program Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation
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  • Deborah D. Stine, Associate Director, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, and Study Director, National Academies Christine Mirzayan S&T Policy Fellowship Program, The National Acadamies
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  • Bruce Chaloux, Direcotr, Electronic Campus, Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)
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    • 12:00-1:00 PM

    ADEC Annual Awards Ceremony and Lunch (Crystal Rooms V & VI)
    Theme: "Rapid Response - Katrina, Rita and Beyond"

  • Presiding: John Kelly

  • Awards Chair: Thayne Dutson, Dean Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University
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    1:00-2:00 PM Presentations by Award Winners (Crystal Rooms V & IV)
  • Webb-Godfrey-Hill Award Winner (20-30 min.)
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  • Excellence in Distance Education Award Winner (20-30 min.)
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    2:15-3:30 Plenary: Hurrican Stories - Rapid Response (Ballroom C)
    IHETS
  • David Cory, State Networks Senior Engineer, Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS)

  • Max Gordon, Assistant Director of Network Operations, Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS)

    • Sloan - The Sloan Semester
  • Frank Mayadas, Sloan Foundation

  • Bruce Chaloux, SREB
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    • 3:30-5:00 Plenary: Workforce Development and Course Sharing: Models that Work (Ballroom C)
  • Presiding: Gary Miller, Associate Vice President for Outreash and Executive Director, Continuing & Distance Education, The Pennsylvania State University

  • Carla Craycraft, Assistant Dean for Agricultural Communications, University of Kentucky

  • Barbara Kirby, Assistant Director, Academic Programs, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University
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  • Valorie McAlpin, Director of Online Learning, College of Agricultural & Natural Resources, University of Maryland-College Park

    • Shibboleth/Middleware
  • Greg Monaco, Director for Research, Great Plains Network, University of Kansas

    • Responders
  • Michael Mullen, Associate Dean, Academic Programs, University of Kentucky

  • Leon Slaughter, Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Maryland-College Park
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    5:00-5:30 Plenary: All ADEC Business Meeting (Ballroom C)
      Dinner on own
       
    Wed., May 3  
    7:30-8:00 AM Continental Breakfast (Ballroom C)
    8:00-8:45 Plenary: National Digital Library for Agriculture (NDLA) (Ballroom C)
  • Peter Young, Director, National Agricultural Library
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    • 8:45-9:45 Plenary: Community Informatics Panel (Ballroom C)
  • Presiding: Ken Spelke, Associate Dean for Information Technology & Research, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois

  • Paul Adams, Prairienet Director, University of Illinois

  • Ann P. Bishop, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois

  • Bertram Chip Bruce, Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois

  • David King, Executive Director, Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System and Purdue University
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    10:00-11:00 Concurrent Sessions:
    Digital Web Services (Ballroom C)
  • William McCaughan, Dean, OSU Extended Campus, Oregon State University
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    New Content Management System and Marketing (Crystal Room III)
  • Fred Piazza, Director, Web and Application Development, Louisiana State University AgCenter

  • Mark Claesgens, Photographer/Editor, LSU AgCenter
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    11:00-12:30 Plenary: Broadband's Economic Impact and Innovation in Community and Wireless Technolgies(Ballroom C)
  • Presiding: Steven Conn, Chief Technology Officer, ADEC

  • Marvin Sirbu, Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Industrial Administration, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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  • Kate Carey, Executive Director, Ohio Learning Network
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  • Robert Dixon, Chief Research Engineering, OARnet and Office of the CIO, The Ohio State University

  • Alan Escovitz, Director of External Affairs, Office of the CIO, The Ohio State University

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    • 12:30-2:00 Plenary Lunch and Speakers (Ballroom C)
  • Presiding: Daniel Godfrey, HBCU Coordinator, ADEC

  • Mortimer Neufville, Executive Vice President, NASULGC

  • Taylor Byrd, Director of Learning Technology, Department of Agribusiness, Alabama A&M University

  • Lillie Ward, Director, Mobile Information Technology Center, Fort Valley State University

  • Terry Magel, Director of Continuing and Distance Education, Kentucky State University
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    • 2:00-3:00 Plenary: Western Hemisphere Initiative (Ballroom C)
  • Renan Aguero Alvarado, Coordinator, Food and Agriculture Knowledge Center, Agricultural Research Institute, University of Costa Rica
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  • Jorge Antonio Flores, Director, e-Learning Center, Zamorano University
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  • James French, Director of Technical Leadership and Knowledge Management, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IIAC)
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  • Gabriel Roberto Robles Valle, Director, Training and Conferences Area, Tropical Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE)
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    3:00-4:15 Plenary: International Development Panel: Agriculture, Education and Health (Ballroom C)
  • John Thomas, Director, Office of Agriculture, Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, USAID

  • Martin Hewitt, Higher Education Community Liaison for the Agency and Program Officer, Office of Education, Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, USAID
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  • Noreene Janus, Advisor, Information Technology for Development, Office of Engineering & Infrastructure, EGAT, USAID
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  • Felipe Manteiga, Managing Director of Agricultural Programs, Millennium Challenge Corporation
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    4:15-4:30 Plenary: Closing Remarks and Wrap-Up (Ballroom C)
    Closing Power Point