2003 Fall Bush Faculty Development Conference
Integrating Social Responsibility at South Dakota State University
Tuesday, August 26th, 2003
8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Performing Arts Center
Brookings, South Dakota

Keynote and Workshop Speaker: Paul Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time and associated Scholar at Seattle's Center for Ethical Leadership.

Paul Loeb has spent thirty years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment-- asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain, and how we as educators can get a new generation involved as responsible citizens.  He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, Utne Reader, Academe, Teaching Tolerance, Redbook, the International Herald Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor, been interviewed on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN, NBC News, and the BBC and lectured at over 300 colleges throughout the country.

Breakout Sessions featuring reports from the Social Responsibility Task Force and results of faculty and student surveys on the topics.  Panels include topics such as service learning, land stewardship graduation requirement, student engagement in social responsibility, and managing disruptive classroom behavior.