The Morgridge Center for Public Service is hosting the Wisconsin Idea Conference on April 9, 2024 to showcase and build capacity for robust community-university partnerships on April 9, 2024. The theme of the 2024 Conference, Community University Partnerships for Stronger Communities, emphasizes the importance of bringing together community and campus to create stronger communities, resilient systems, and a more just and equitable world. The Wisconsin Idea Conference Planning Committee is seeking proposals for breakout sessions at the 2024 Conference that will:
- Take participants through the process of building and maintaining community-university partnerships from the ground up, including sharing bumps in the road
- Demonstrate strategies for collaboration, resource sharing, and capacity bridging
- Cultivate collective knowledge on how to leverage relationships for policy change, partnership, and collective action.
- Describe how to go from partnership to policy change and social action
- Offer insights and critiques on university practices and policies for partnership
- Challenge participants to dream boldly and progressively about their community engagement practices
Campus and community partners are encouraged to submit proposals. Proposals are due January 15, 2024.