Pathway to Civility Programming
May 15
8:00 a.m.
Registration/Continental Breakfast
Tippie Alumni Center-Tillotson Room
8:30 a.m.
Welcome by Center for Political Participation Director Daniel M. Shea
Remarks from Allegheny College Trustee Christian Allison
Tippie Alumni Center-Tillotson Room
9 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Why Explore Civility in Politics?
CPP Director Daniel M. Shea
Tippie Alumni Center-Tillotson Room
Short Break
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
First round of Provocation Exercise. Scholars at 6 different tables will encourage students to consider interesting, controversial, and provocative ideas in a small-group setting.
Tippie Alumni Center-Tillotson Room/Board Room
12:15-1:15 p.m.
Lunch.
Speaker Daniel Myers, RWJF Scholar in Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Tippie Alumni Center-Tillotson Room
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Central Michigan University Professor Jayne Cherie Strachan
Open Listening/group discussions on the Kettering Foundation’s National Issue Forum on the Federal Debt
Campus Center Rooms 206 and 301-302
BREAK
5:15 p.m.
Depart for Dinner/DJ at Silver Shores Restaurant, Conneaut Lake
Meet at Visitor Parking next to Brooks Hall
May 16
9:00 a.m.
Continental breakfast
Tippie Alumni Center
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
“The Role of Civility in Government & The Profession of Politics”
Speaker Daniel Post Senning, great-great-grandson of Emily Post and the manager of web development and online content at The Emily Post Institute
Tippie Alumni Center-Tillotson Room
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Second round of Provocation Exercise. Scholars at 6 different tables will encourage students to consider interesting, controversial, and provocative ideas in a small-group setting.
Tippie Alumni Center-Tillotson Room/Board Room
12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Lunch
Presentation by Donald W. Harward, President Emeritus, Bates College, Senior Fellow at the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and director of Bringing Theory to Practice
Tippie Alumni Center, Tillotson Room
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Professor Thia Wolf/students—California State University, Chico, Calif.
Town Hall Meeting Exercise.
Tippie Alumni Center—Tillotson Room
4:30 p.m.
Wiffle Ball/Softball game/Barbecue Dinner
Robertson Field
Meet bus at Visitor Parking next to Brooks Hall
8:30 p.m.
For those staying overnight, the film” Ides of March” will be shown.
Quigley Hall-Henderson Auditorium
May 17
8:30 a.m. Breakfast at Tippie Alumni Center
Departure