Program Committee members: Kris Sloan (Chair), Donna Adair Breault, Susan Finley, Tom Poetter, Tom Kelly, Gerda Wever, 
Jacob Easley, Kent den Heyer, Josh Diem 

Conference Theme Development: 

This year’s theme, “Democratic Responses in an Era of Standardization” was developed through early email exchanges among 
those on the committee and was presented to the entire council on February 17th.  Special thanks to Donna Adair Breault 
for initiating ths substance for this year’s theme! 

Call for papers: 

Based on this theme, the call for papers was sent out in the first week of 

March.  The deadline for conference submissions was initially set for June 15th, but extended to August 1st. 

Proposal Review Process: 

Proposals were distributed to the various strand chairs for blind, external review. It should be noted, that this year’s 
program committee, like last year’s had a “no reject” policy.  However, several proposals were sent back for revisions or 
clarifications. 

Proposals Numbers: 

The following includes the number of conference proposals submitted to each strand and the number of presenters represented: 

Arts-based Strand—19 (proposals)/33 (presenters) 

Public Moral Leadership—30/51 

Social Action—18/23 

Theory in Motion—34/72 

Writing—12/19 

Conference Program: 

Programs for this year’s conference were distributed electronically in early September. A final electronic version of the 
program—with abstracts—was sent to presenters in the first week of October. A hard copy of the program was distributed at 
the conference.  Special thanks to Louise Allen, Nancy Brooks, and Donna Adair Breault for printing hard copies of the 
conference program.  

Audio-Visual Equipment requests (for the 101 presentations): 

LCD Projector:  14 

Overhead:  9 

TV/VCR:  5 

Town Hall Sessions: 

This year, two town hall sessions were scheduled, one early in the conference (Thursday afternoon) and one late in the 
conference (Saturday’s last session).  Special thanks to Patrick Slattery for helping with each of the Town Hall sessions.