2014 Strategic Planning Stakeholders Conference

The 2014 Strategic Planning Stakeholders Conference will be conducted in Dede III and Dede I on Tuesday, March 4, 2014.  Please join us in discussing and celebrating our progress towards achieving our strategic goals and initiatives.

The schedule is as follows:

8:00 – 8:30           Continental breakfast in Dede III.

8:30 – 9:00           Seminar 1 – Diversifying the Faculty (Provost Biff Williams)

9:00 – 10:15        Seminar 2 – Improving Four Year Graduation Rates – Why it is important (President Bradley, VP Diann McKee, AVP Susan Powers, AVP Josh Powers, and Dean Linda Maule)

10:15 – 10:30      Break and move to Dede I

10:30 – 11:30      Strategic Plan Progress from President Bradley

11:30 – 1:00        Lunch and Keynote speaker Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Reservations will be necessary for the Strategic Planning Conference so that appropriate arrangements can be made for lunch.  Your choices for lunch are Beef or Vegetarian.  To RSVP, contact Rhonda Terstegge at Rhonda.Terstegge@indstate.edu.

Keynote Speaker Bio:

Abdul-Hakim Shabazz has been covering and writing about state and local government in Indiana since 2004. Overall, he has more than 20 years of experience in writing and talking about the issues that affect real people.  He is the host of Abdul at large on WIBC radio in Indianapolis and also writes in the Indianapolis Star, NUVO Newsweekly, and TheStatehouseFile.Com.  He’s also a frequent panelist and contributor to RTV 6’s Indianapolis This Week and Inside Indiana Business.

Abdul is also the editor and publisher of IndyPolitics.Org, which has been recognized by the Washington Post two years in a row as one of the best political blogs in the nation.

Abdul earned his degree in broadcasting and journalism at Northern Illinois University. He has a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from the University of Illinois and a law degree from St. Louis University. He serves as “Of Counsel” at the Indianapolis law firm of Lewis & Wilkins.  He also serves on the faculty at both Ivy Tech Community College and the University of Indianapolis. He teaches speech for Ivy Tech and business law at UIndy’s MBA program.