Pre-registration was requested, but walk-ins and those who are pre-registered should check in at the onsite registration table, which is open at 6:15 pm Friday in Quigley Auditorium, and at 8:15 am Saturday at Ford Chapel.
Friday, March 17
Quigley Auditorium
- 7:00 pm
- Keynote Speech: “Church-College Relations: A View from the Academy”
- Dr. Joanne Berger-Sweeney, President, Trinity College
- Keynote Speech: “Church-College Relations: A View from the Academy”
- 7:50 pm
- Break
- 8:00 pm
- Keynote Speech: “Church-College Relations: A View from the Church”
- The Rev. Dr. Peter D. Weaver, United Methodist Church Bishop, retired
- Keynote Speech: “Church-College Relations: A View from the Church”
Saturday, March 18
Ford Memorial Chapel
- 9:00 am
- Paper Session One: “An Ever Widening Gap: Allegheny College and Methodism over the Years”
- Presenters: Charlie Waid, Allegheny ‘25
The Rev. Jane Ellen Nickell, Ph.D., Allegheny College Chaplain, retired
- Presenters: Charlie Waid, Allegheny ‘25
- Paper Session One: “An Ever Widening Gap: Allegheny College and Methodism over the Years”
- 10:00 am
- Break
- 10:30 am
- Paper Session Two: Historical Perspectives
- “The Ties that Bind: Methodism’s Early Relationship with Allegheny College”
Presenter: The Rev. Susan Lyn Moudry, Ph.D., Ordained Elder, Western Pennsylvania UMC Conference - “‘This Peculiar Convocation’: The Thoburn Jubilee and Allegheny’s Missionary Legacy”
Presenter: June Meadow Gromis, Former Allegheny Student
- “The Ties that Bind: Methodism’s Early Relationship with Allegheny College”
- Paper Session Two: Historical Perspectives
- 12:00 pm
- Lunch (provided), Tippie Alumni Center
- 2:00 pm
- Paper Session Three: Aspects of Affiliation
- Please note that the start time for this session has been changed from 1:30 to 2:00.
- “Doing Good: Institutions, Cultures, and Enabling Morally Virtuous Action”
Presenter: The Rev. Erik Hoeke, Ordained Elder, Western Pennsylvania UMC Conference and Th.M. student in Moral Theology, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry - “Looking Back as a Means to Live Forward: Claiming One’s Institutional Truth in Order to Foster an Equitable and Inclusive Campus Community”
Presenter: James Puglisi, D.Min., Allegheny ’84, Ministry Formation Manager with Ascension Wisconsin - We regret that Rev. Lynette Moran will be unable to attend the Saturday afternoon session, but we look forward to including her paper in the published record of the symposium.
- “Doing Good: Institutions, Cultures, and Enabling Morally Virtuous Action”
- 3:30 pm
- Break
- 4:00 pm
- Keynote Speech: “The State of United Methodist Higher Education”
- Melissa Spas, Allegheny ‘03
Vice President of Religion, Chautauqua Institution
- Melissa Spas, Allegheny ‘03
- Keynote Speech: “The State of United Methodist Higher Education”
- 5:00 pm
- Dinner (on your own)
- 7:00 pm
- Closing Session
- Please note that the closing session and dessert reception have been moved to the Tippie Alumni Center.
- Dr. Ron Cole, President, Allegheny College
- The Rev. Cynthia Moore-Koikoi, Bishop, Western Pennsylvania UMC Conference