Midwest educators gather to discuss AIDS prevention

UW–Madison will host the third in a series of regional conferences on HIV/AIDS and college learning April 2-4 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center.

Teams from university academic and student-affairs offices from around the Midwest will attend. Interested individuals are also welcome.

William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at UW–Madison, will deliver the opening address April 2 as part of the opening plenary session, which will take place from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Richard Keeling, director of University Health Services at UW–Madison and a national expert on HIV/AIDS prevention, will give the keynote address April 4, 9-10 a.m.

Conference participants will explore areas such as leadership, curricular change and course development, communication, service learning, new instructional technologies, and promising opportunities for collaboration between student affairs programs and academic curriculum.

Conference and session leaders are David Burns, director, Program for Health and Higher Education, Association of American Colleges and Universities; Gail Dinter-Gottlieb, dean of natural and social science, Buffalo State College; William R. O’Connell Jr., director, Health Education and Leadership Program, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators; Robert Shoenberg, senior fellow, AACU; and Louise White, director, Leadership and Health Policy Promotion Program, National Association for Equal Opportunity.

The conference fee is $200 for a campus team (up to four members) and $50 for each additional team member. The individual fee is $150. To receive a registration form, which must be returned by March 20, contact Christine Davis at UHS, 262-4728, cfdavis@facstaff.wisc.edu.

The conference, hosted by UW–Madison, is sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the National Association for Equal Opportunity, and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.