Flagship Annualmtg09 Public Agenda

THE LANGUAGE FLAGSHIP ANNUAL MEETING AUSTIN, TEXAS MAY 30 – JUNE 2, 2009 AGENDA SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009 6:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m.

Welcome Reception and Dinner: Barton Creek Resort Pool Area Come meet your colleagues and let us welcome you to Texas. SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009

7:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

Flagship Continental Breakfast: Barton Creek Room Foyer Breakfast at your leisure.

9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

Open Meeting Time for Participants Rooms will be made available on a sign up basis for those wishing to use this time for group meetings.

9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

Arabic Flagship Assessment Team Meeting: Barton Creek Room C First of two scheduled meetings

11:00 a.m. 11:45 a.m.

Welcome to Flagship! New Members of the Flagship Family New Diffusion of Innovation Grantees: Capitol Boardroom Welcome the new Grantees and their partners

12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m.

Flagship Lunch Buffet: Hill Country Dining Room Lunch at your leisure.

12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m.

Flagship Post-BA/Fellowship Lunch Meeting: Capitol Boardroom Closed meeting  

1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.

Communications Team and Flagship Student/Alumni Meeting: Room TBD

1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.

Council Meetings • Chinese Overseas Council Meeting: Barton Creek Room A • African Language Council Meeting: Barton Creek Room B • Arabic Domestic Program Meeting: Barton Creek Room C

3:00 p.m.

Afternoon Break: Barton Creek Room Foyer

The Language Flagship Annual Meeting: May 30 - June 2, 2009 Agenda

SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 (CON’T.) 3:30 p.m. 5:20 p.m.

Council of Directors Meeting: Capitol Boardroom

3:30 p.m. 5:20 p.m.

Center Coordinators/Staff Meeting: Barton Creek Rooms A & B

5:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

Awards Ceremony and Reception: Outdoor Pavilion All in attendance. Note: The reception will be plentiful enough to accommodate diners into the evening; with tables for seating.

MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2009 7:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m.

Meet and Greet Continental Breakfast: Barton Creek Room Foyer Light breakfast and a chance to meet your colleagues

8:30 a.m. 8:40 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Comments: Forum Ampitheatre

8:40 a.m. 9:30 a.m.

The State of Flagship - Successes and Challenges: Forum Ampitheatre

9:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m.

Peer Exchange Visits: What have we learned from visiting each other? Forum Ampitheatre • Review of the Peer Review Process • Case Study of a Peer Visit • Next Steps and Recommendations

10:45 a.m. 11:05 a.m.

Break: Barton Creek Room Foyer

11:05 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

Concurrent Working Meetings • Best Practices in Communications & Branding from Your Institutions: Barton Creek Room A • Creating Effective K-12 Programs and Linkages: Barton Creek Room B • Effectively Establishing Flagship Assessment Standards: Barton Creek Room C • Flagship and Technology: Capitol Boardroom

12:30 p.m. 1:30 pm.

Lunch Buffet: Hill Country Dining Room

1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m.

Reports from the Working Meetings: Forum Ampitheatre

2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m.

Flagship Student Panel: Forum Ampitheatre

3:30 p.m. 3:50 p.m.

Break: Barton Creek Room Foyer

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The Language Flagship Annual Meeting: May 30 - June 2, 2009 Agenda

MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2009 (CON’T.) 3:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

Arabic Flagship Assessment Team Meeting: Barton Creek Room C Second of two scheduled meetings

3:50 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

Project Working Groups and Open Meeting Time Time for scheduled and unscheduled project sub-groups to meet Currently Scheduled: • Assessment Committee: Forum Ampitheatre • Peer Review Committee: Barton Creek Room A • Russian Domestic and Overseas: Barton Creek Room B • Student Group and Planning for an Alumni Group: Capitol Boardroom

5:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

Arabic Overseas Council Meeting: Barton Creek Room C

6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

Shuttles leaving from hotel to downtown Austin to various dinner venues

7:00 p.m.

Austin Dine Around Event: Downtown Austin Restaurants Sign up and join one of the various Austin dinner venues with your colleagues

9:00 p.m.10:30 p.m.

Shuttles return to Barton Creek from downtown Austin

TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2009 7:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m.

Meet and Greet Continental Breakfast: Barton Creek Room Foyer Light breakfast and a chance to meet your colleagues

8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

The Language Flagship Group: Forum Ampitheatre

9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m.

Concurrent Working Meetings: Challenges to Establishing Overseas Programs • Challenges of Establishing Overseas Undergraduate Programs with Hindi, Urdu, Swahili, and Yoruba: Barton Creek Room A • Establishing Multi-institutional Articulation with Overseas Programs with Chinese and Arabic: Barton Creek Room B • Articulating Domestic and Overseas Undergraduate Programs: Challenges and Best Practices: Barton Creek Room C • Using Assessment to Establish Points of Entry and Exit: Best Practices in Demonstrating Effectiveness: Capitol Boardroom

10:30 a.m. 10:50 a.m.

Break: Barton Creek Room Foyer

10:50 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

Creating Effective Overseas Programs: Forum Ampitheatre Presentation and Discussion (Group Leaders in Panel Format)

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The Language Flagship Annual Meeting: May 30 - June 2, 2009 Agenda

TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2009 (CON’T.) 12:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m.

Lunch Buffet: Hill Country Dining Room

1:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m.

Grants and Responsibilities: Forum Ampitheatre

2:45 p.m. 3:30 p.m.

Getting the Word Out: Communicating What We Do to Multiple Audiences Forum Ampitheatre Presentation by Flagship Communications Team

3:30 p.m. 3:50 p.m.

Break: Barton Creek Room Foyer

3:50 p.m.4:40 p.m.

Update on Engaging the Business Community: Forum Amphitheatre

4:40 p.m.4:50 p.m.

What are Three Expectations or Wishes you have of The Language Flagship? Group Exercise

4:50 p.m.5:15 p.m.

Summary and Next Steps: Forum Amphitheatre

5:15 p.m. 6:30 p.m.

Reception: Celebrating our Success as a Community of Innovators Governor’s Ballroom

6:30 p.m.

Group Dinner: Governor’s Ballroom

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