2015 Knowledge Commons Summit
Hosted by IRSC
Center for Media and Journalism Studies Small Business Development Center Center for Civic Engagement
Wednesday, October 14 - Friday, October 16
THE KNOWLEDGE COMMONS SUMMIT AT
INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE
The Knowledge Commons:
The idea of the Knowledge Commons is linked to some straightforward and well-recognized principles related to the health of both communities and democracy. For a community to be anything more than a disparate collection of individuals, there must be a shared set of values, truths, and interests that unites it. These elements are reflected in a sense of common identity, and they are supported by and reflected in the stories that bind people together – stories of origins, of the community’s place and importance in history, and so on. Without this foundation, communities devolve into conflicts of competing interests and ideologies, a condition that makes representative government deeply problematic. This common ground is what is meant by the term “Knowledge Commons.”
The Tragedy of the Knowledge Commons:
As a result of the rise of consumerism, the emergence of mass media, and the ubiquity of the Internet, the Knowledge Commons is becoming increasingly fragmented and the conditions for healthy communities are being eroded. The “tragic” element of this decline stems from the fact that the Knowledge Commons supports the very technological and social progress that could lead to its eventual decline. Yet unlike the traditional sense of the ‘tragic,’ this decline is not inevitable: Education is the key, but a form of education that extends the classroom to the public sphere and makes civic engagement and social responsibility the focus of academic life.
The Knowledge Commons Summit at Indian River State College
This Summit explores the connection between higher education and the health of local, regional, and global communities. Participants will complete the program with the practical strategies and intellectual resources necessary to change the academic culture of today’s colleges and universities to support a more civically-oriented curriculum.
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2015 IRSC KNOWLEDGE COMMONS SUMMIT Meet Our Keynote Presenter
Our Stake in the News Media: Journalistic Values that Support Healthy Democracy Here and Abroad
John Dinges Godfrey Lowell Cabor Professor of Journalism Emeritus, Columbia University
John Dinges, the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor of Journalism Emeritus at Columbia University, is an author and former correspondent in Latin America. He was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot gold medal in 1992 for his writing on the region. He has served as foreign editor and managing editor (the #2 position in news) of National Public Radio News. Prior to that he worked as an assistant editor on the foreign desk of the Washington Post. He is currently the senior consultant with the Carter Center for its “Preventing Democratic Crises in the Americas” project, and a frequent contributor of articles, in Spanish, to various Latin American news media, including Caretas (Lima), Clarin (Argentina) and El Mostrador (Chile).
Based in Chile 1972-78, he covered the Allende government, the military coup and the first five years of the Pinochet government for the Washington Post, Time, ABC News and other publications. He later covered the civil wars in Central America.
He is the founder of the Centro de Investigación e Información Periodística (CIPER) in Chile, which was awarded the prestigious New Journalism prize in 2008 conferred by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, founded by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. He also was a co- founder of APSI, the first independent news magazine established during the dictatorship. And in 2010 he established ArchivosChile, an investigative journalism center based at the University of Chile’s Institute for Communication and Image.
His books include The Condor Years: How Pinochet and his Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents (The New Press 2004); Assassination on Embassy Row, (Pantheon 1980) (with Saul Landau), and Our Man in Panama: The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega (Random House 1990; Times books 1991). All three have been translated into Spanish. He is the editor and co-author of two guides to public radio ethics and journalistic standards: Sound Reporting (Kendall-Hunt 1992) and Independence and Integrity (NPR 1995).
As NPR managing editor, Dinges shared two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia awards for excellence in broadcast journalism. Last year, he received the Leo C. Lee Award for “lasting commitment to Public Radio journalism,” conferred by the Public Radio News Directors Inc.
John Dinges has a B.A. from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, in English and philosophy; three years of post-graduate studies in theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria; and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University.
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2015 IRSC KNOWLEDGE COMMONS SUMMIT Wednesday, October 14, 2015
6 : 0 0 – 6 : 3 0 P M Networking Opportunity & Social Hour
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
6 : 3 0 – 6 : 4 5 P M Welcome
Anthony Iacono, Ph.D. – Vice President of Academic Affairs
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
6 : 4 5 – 7 : 1 5 P M Dinner
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
7 : 1 5 – 8 : 1 5 P M Knowledge Commons Address
Bruce Fraser, Ph.D. – Associate Dean of Communications, Humanities and Social Sciences
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
2015 IRSC KNOWLEDGE COMMONS SUMMIT Thursday, October 15, 2015
8 : 0 0 – 8 : 3 0 A M Welcome and Continental Breakfast
Cedrick Gibson, Ph.D. – Assistant Dean of Business Technology
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
8 : 3 0 – 9 : 1 5 A M Cultivating the Right Disposition: The Knowledge Commons and Civic Health
Mathew Brooks, Ph.D. – IRSC Faculty, English, Communications, and Modern Languages Department
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
9 : 3 0 – 1 0 : 3 0 A M General Education: Fulfilling the Promise of the Knowledge Commons
Sarah Mallonee, Ph.D. – IRSC Faculty, English, Communications, and Modern Languages Department
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
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1 0 : 3 0 – 1 1 : 1 5 A M The Knowledge Commons & Service Learning: In the Air and on the Ground
CONCURRENT SESSION Joe Palencik, Ph.D. IRSC Faculty, Humanities Department Veronica Tempone, IRSC Faculty, English, Communications, and Modern Languages Department
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
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Business Marketing and Business Culture: Bridging Public and Private Interest
Cedrick Gibson, Ph.D. Assistant Dean of Business Technology Jack Hopkins, Associate Regional Director, SBDC at Indian River State College
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-309
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1 2 : 3 0 – 1 : 1 5 P M One Book One College: How Library Initiatives Shape Public Thinking
CONCURRENT SESSION Mia Tignor – IRSC Faculty, Miley Library
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
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Community Partnerships and Cultural Sensitivity: A Business Perspective
Arlene Green – IRSC Faculty, Business Technology Department
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-309
1 : 3 0 – 2 : 1 5 P M The Public-Private Intersection: International Business and the Knowledge Commons
Emily McHugh – International Trade Consultant, SBDC at Indian River State College ▪ School of Business
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
2 : 3 0 – 3 : 3 0 P M Keynote Address:
Our Stake in the News Media: Journalistic Values that Support Healthy Democracy Here and Abroad
John Dinges – Godfrey Lowell Cabor Professor of Journalism Emeritus, Columbia University
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
3 : 3 0 – 4 : 0 0 P M Discussion and Reflection
Bruce Fraser, Ph.D. – Associate Dean of Communications, Humanities and Social Sciences Cedrick Gibson, Ph.D. – Assistant Dean of Business Technology
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies, Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
4 : 0 0 – 5 : 0 0 P M Institute for Academic Excellence Open House & Conversation with John Dinges
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
5 : 3 0 – 6 : 1 5 P M Neurodome Presentation
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2015 IRSC KNOWLEDGE COMMONS SUMMIT
Friday, October 16, 2015
8 : 0 0 – 8 : 3 0 A M Welcome and Continental Breakfast
Bruce Fraser, Ph.D. – Associate Dean of Communications. Humanities and Social Sciences
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
8 : 3 0 – 9 : 1 5 A M Exploring History’s Relevance: The Knowledge Commons, Deep Context & the Civic Mind
Michelle Carrigan, Ph.D. – IRSC Faculty, Humanities Department
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
9 : 3 0 – 1 0 : 1 5 A M What is Critical Thinking, Really?
CONCURRENT SESSION John Carpenter, Ph.D. – IRSC Faculty, English, Communications, and Modern Languages Department
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
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Morality, the Media, and the Knowledge Commons
Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D. – IRSC Faculty, Humanities Department
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-309
1 0 : 3 0 – 1 1 : 1 5 A M Public Spheres: Academic Service Learning Across the Curriculum CONCURRENT SESSION Jon Glover, Ph.D. – IRSC Faculty, English, Communications, and Modern Languages Department
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
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Understanding the Need for Cultural Competence in the Communities That We Serve
Danny Hoey, Ph.D. – Administrative Director of Minority Affairs
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-309
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1 2 : 3 0 – 1 : 3 0 P M Closing Remarks
Cedrick Gibson, Ph.D. – Assistant Dean of Business Technology
Kight Center for Emerging Technologies Institute for Academic Excellence, Bldg. V-125
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Kight Center
Planetarium
LEGEND O — Occupational Building A — Ben L. Bryan, Sr. Administration Bldg. P — Anne Wilder Aquatic Complex B — Business Development Center P5 Tennis Courts C — Tomeu Center for Career & P6 Racquetball Courts Academic Advancement Q — Radio Station - WQCS E — National City Careers Building R — Classroom Building/ F — Administration Annex Wynne Black Box Theatre FSU — Brenda & Vernon Smith Center for S — Leroy C. Floyd Administrative Medical Education Services Building G — Gymnasium T — McAlpin Fine Arts Center H — Mary L. Fields Health Science Center U — Child Development Center I — Crime Lab V — Kight Center for Emerging J — Classroom Building Technologies KSU — Koblegard Student Union & River Shop W — Crews Hall L — Miley Library & Academic Support Center Y — Brown Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship M — Print Shop
N — Science Center/Hallstrom Planetarium
Directions to the Main Campus
From I-95 or the Florida Turnpike (North or South): Exit 129 at Fort Pierce. Go east on Okeechobee Road. Bear to the right onto Virginia Avenue. See the Main Campus on the right just past the intersection of Virginia Avenue and 35th Street.
2015 IRSC KNOWLEDGE COMMONS SUMMIT REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Name: Title: Institution: Street Address: City: State: Zip Code: Phone Number: Email Address:
Registrations due Thursday, October 8, 2015
Registration Fee: $90 (to include dinner on Wednesday evening) $75 (Thursday & Friday only) $25 (IRSC Faculty)
Special hotel rates available at Holiday Inn Express & Suites Fort Pierce, Florida (772) 464-5000 (see hotel flyer on website)
PAYMENT METHODS:
Online at: http://www.irscfoundation.org/p/217/2015-knowledge-commons-summit
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By mail: Send completed registration form with check payable to IRSC Foundation to:
Mr. David Liddle, Controller Indian River State College Foundation, Inc. 3209 Virginia Avenue Fort Pierce, Florida 34981-5596
If you have questions, contact Dr. Bruce Fraser, Associate Dean of Communications, Humanities and Social Sciences [email protected], (772) 462-7691