Detailed Schedule

10:30 a.m. 

Registration opens (BUY TIX!) Be sure to check out our sponsors' tables!

11:30 a.m.

Buffet lunch

12:00 p.m.

PROGRAM OPENS Welcome and table talk exercise - Trygve Throntveit, Dean's Fellow for Civic Studies, CEHD

12:30 p.m.

City government and civic renewal - Featuring St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter & Burnsville Mayor Elizabeth Kautz Interviewed by Jim Scheibel, Professor of Practice, Hamline University and former mayor of St. Paul

1:30 p.m.

Immigration as a moral, legal, and economic issue Featuring Laura Bordelon, Sr. Vice President for Advocacy, MN Chamber of Commerce; Catalina Morales, Lead Immigration Organizer, ISAIAH; Fatima Said, Executive Director, Project FINE; & Lt. Giovanni Veliz, Minneapolis Police Department Interviewed by John Keller, Executive Director, Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

Refreshment break & student performance

Featuring Brian Neff, Nuevo Flamenco/Classical Guitarist and B.S. candidate in Kinesiology, CEHD

3:00 p.m.

Minnesota's "Ban-the-Box" campaign

Featuring Kevin Lindsey, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Rights; Justin Terrell, Executive Director, Council on Minnesotans of African Heritage; & Sarah Walker, Founder, MN Second Chance Coalition Interviewed by Stephanie Sisco, PhD candidate in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD

4:00 p.m.

Civic purposes of higher education

Featuring Ron Anderson, Vice Chancellor of Student and Academic Affairs, Minnesota State; Mary Hinton, President, College of St. Benedict; & Bob McMaster, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota Interviewed by Harry Boyte, Senior Scholar for Public Work, Sabo Center for Democracy, Augsburg University

4:45 p.m.

Closing with commitments

5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Reception