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NAADA 2019 ANNUAL CONFERENCE BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA | JUNE 10-13 REGISTRATION BROCHURE WWW.NAADA.ORG WELCOME It has been 25 years since the National Agricultural Alumni & industries across this great nation, we always come back better Development Association Conference was hosted by Louisiana and stronger. Under the LSU stately oaks and broad magnolias, State University! We could not be more proud to welcome you you will leave this conference energized and renewed, ready to back to beautiful Baton Rouge, Louisiana. If this is your first time take on the challenges of the upcoming year. to our great state, you are in for quite the experience! So take it all in. You will have the opportunity to experience Louisiana is a special place. If you mention that little town of New phenomenal education sessions that push you to find your Orleans in casual group conversations, chances are someone has spirit of resilience and strength. The educational tours will cover a story to tell or experience to share. Outside of Bourbon Street everything from quintessential Louisiana with swamps and and the infamous haunts of New Orleans, Louisiana has so much plantations, to LSU campus traditions, to distilleries and breweries to offer. From the diversity of our agricultural industries to the with some agricultural production learning opportunities sprinkled diversity of our culture, we represent a vibrant gumbo that is in as well. uniquely characteristic and well recognized across the world. We hope you enjoy your time in the bayou and on behalf of As a transplant to Louisiana, I have come to love the culture that Louisiana State University, welcome to Baton Rouge! is so different, so passionate, and so resilient. In Louisiana we embrace a culture of giving, resilience, and celebration. There Amanda Martin is never a challenge we face that is too big to lend a hand to NAADA 2019 Conference Chair neighbors, rise above the trials and tribulations, and then relish in the celebration of life. We embody the spirit of resilience and with our theme “Resilience: Strength in New Beginnings.” You will see this message resonate throughout the sessions, keynote speakers and social celebrations. No matter the challenges that come our way in the agriculture colleges and 2019 NAADA CONFERENCE GOALS • Provide programming that creates meaningful experiences for NAADA members to take back to their home institutions. • Use southern hospitality as a platform to introduce new members to the NAADA family and encourage networking with our seasoned members. • Inspire NAADA members to create new beginnings and strategic goals for their teams. • Share with our NAADA family the diverse gumbo of a culture that makes up beautiful Louisiana and showcase that our uniqueness lies in our strength. • Encourage other institutions to embrace bringing their own diverse and unique ideas to the table. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome Message and Conference Goals 2 Conference Agenda 4 Keynote Speaker Information 6 Pre-Conference Activity 7 Spirit Night Information 7 Educational Session Information 8 Educational Tours 12 Registration Form (also available online) 13 ABOUT NAADA MISSION STATEMENT NAADA provides education, support and recognition for professionals and volunteers dedicated to expanding resources for advancing agriculture and related disciplines through land-grant and other colleges of agricultural sciences and partner programs. VISION STATEMENT NAADA will be the premier organization providing enhancement opportunities for professionals and volunteers in institutions of higher education and organizations associated with agricultural and related sciences. More information and registration available at www.naada.org 3 CONFERENCE AGENDA MONDAY, JUNE 10 7:45 AM - 6:00 PM Pre-Conference Tour: Tour of Zen-Noh Grain and SERVICE PROJECT AT THE Daytrip to New Orleans: America’s Favorite City BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK TUESDAY, JUNE 11 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Past President Breakfast 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM NAADA Board Meeting 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM Registration 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Service Project – Baton Rouge Foodbank 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM NAADA 101 Where: Baton Rouge Food Bank When: Tuesday, June 12 | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Track Networking Sessions In 1984, the Baton Rouge economy was • Alumni among the worst in the nation. The Greater Communications Baton Rouge Food Bank was organized to • aid in this problem in the fall of ’84 as an • Development outgrowth of Urban Ministries Coalition. • Student Professionals The Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank services 11 parishes in Louisiana: Ascension, • Volunteers Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Welcome Kickoff & PeliCAN Awards Coupee, St. Helena, St. James, West Baton 5:00 PM Opening Reception at Capitol Park Museum Rouge, West Feliciana, and a satellite distribution center in Tangipahoa Parish. 6:45 PM Welcome to LSU Agriculture with Dr. Bill Richardson In the 11 parishes served, more than 135,000 Greetings from LSU with Provost Stacia Haynie people (or almost 16% of the population) are food insecure. Food insecurity means that an individual does not know where or when they will find their next meal. Food- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 insecure households may not always be food 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Registration insecure, but it may reflect a household’s need to decide between basic needs, such 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast Keynote: Weathering the Storm, Chip Kline as housing or paying bills, and purchasing nutritionally adequate foods. 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Break On average, the Greater Baton Rouge Food 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Education Track Session 1 Bank distributes approximately 250,000 pounds of food and other products (such as 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Break cleaning supplies and toiletries) per week. 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Education Track Session 2 Without the thousands of volunteer hours 11:45 am - 1:00 pm Lunch with Bickford Lecture: Resilience, James Carville each year, the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank would be unable to provide food to the 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM Break many children, seniors, and families facing hunger in our community. 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Education Track Session 3 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Break 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Education Track Session 4 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break 4:30 PM Spirit Night at Burden & Rural Life Museum 4 CONFERENCE AGENDA CONTINUED... THURSDAY, JUNE 13 ACCOMMODATIONS 7:30 AM - 7:00 PM Registration 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast and Annual Meeting 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Break 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Education Track Session 5 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM Beg, Borrow, and Steal Session • Alumni • Communications HILTON BATON ROUGE CAPITOL CENTER • Development – Early Career 1-5 Years 201 Lafayette Street Development – Mid-Career & Managers 5+ Years • Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70801 • Student Professionals Phone: (225) 344-5866 • Volunteers Group Rate: $129 11:20 AM - 1:00 PM Invitational Lunch - Michigan State University Room Block Deadline: Room block 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM Break deadline is: May 20, 2019 or until the 1:15 PM - 5:00 PM Educational Tours room block is exhausted, whichever 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Break comes first. Group Name: NAADA 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM Reception 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Dinner and Awards Program at Hotel AIRPORT INFORMATION 9:00 PM 2nd Line Band to Downtown Baton Rouge Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (BTR) The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (BRT) is only about 8 miles away from The Hilton Baton Rouge. The Hilton offers complimentary shuttle rides to and from the airport. Taxi rates run around $20 USD. View full details at www.naada.org/conference-hotel 5 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS KEYNOTE SPEAKER Kline represents the governor on the Governor’s Advisory James Carville, Manship Fellow, Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration, and Conservation, Professional-in-Residence—Manship the Louisiana State Mineral & Energy Board, and the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council. School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University KEYNOTE SPEAKER James “The Ragin’ Cajun” Carville is Stacia L. Haynie, Executive Vice America’s best-known political consultant. President, Provost, Louisiana State His long list of electoral successes University evidences a knack for steering overlooked campaigns to unexpected landslide victories and for re-making Executive Vice President and Provost political underdogs into upset winners. Stacia Haynie has been an active member of the LSU community since joining the Carville’s most prominent victory, the 1992 win for the Presidency Department of Political Science in 1990. by William Jefferson Clinton, cemented his status as a major Dr. Haynie served as Dean of the College political player. In recent years, Carville has focused his strategic of Humanities and Social Sciences before being named Interim thinking on international campaigns reaching more than 23 Executive Vice President and Provost in the LSU Office of Academic countries around the globe. Affairs. Dr. Haynie earned the J. W. Annison Jr. Family Alumni Professor at LSU and has served in a number of administrative A best-selling author, actor, talk show host, and public speaker, positions on the campus including Department Chair, Associate Carville returned to his home state of Louisiana in 2008, where Dean and Interim Dean of the LSU Graduate School, as well as Vice he is now a prominent advocate for the city of New Orleans and Provost for Academic Affairs. recently wrapped an almost decade long professorship at Tulane University to join LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication. Dr. Haynie received a bachelor’s degree in theater in 1981 and a master’s degree in political science in 1986, both from Midwestern KEYNOTE SPEAKER State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.