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FLC Conference Program Schedule
Registration Information and Costs
Presenters: Keynote and Closing Plenary
FLC Conference Program Schedule
Registration Information and Costs
Presenters: Keynote and Closing Plenary
I am pleased to welcome you to the FLC Conference. There are several items I will share with you as you make preparations to attend.
New construction, which started Monday, has blocked the usual routes to the Marcum Conference Center. To see a map of detour routes, click here.
Bring comfortable clothes. You will find that attire at the conference is casual. Your dress for outside must anticipate variation in June weather. Temperatures vary from 60°F at night to 90°F during the day. Bring an umbrella in case you have to walk in the rain.
The titles and abstracts for sessions are available online. Please look these over before the conference to determine which sessions you would like to attend. They will also be available online in room 102 of the Conference Center when presentations are not in session there.
When you register for the conference at the Marcum Center, you will receive a name tag, program book, map, meal tickets (if you reserved some), and TV guide version of the program agenda. The program book includes a detailed program agenda, abstracts of the sessions, theme tracks, list of conference participants and their email addresses, list of participating institutions, and more.
If you reserved lodging at the Marcum Center or Miami Inn, when you check in at the front desk, your name should be on their list. We have prepaid your room as part of your conference package. When you check out, pay for your personal incidental costs such as long-distance calls. Those arriving by plane in Cincinnati and reserving our shuttle transportation have been given lodging in the Marcum Center or the Miami Inn. We regret that we may not have been able to give you your top lodging choices.
Look online at our directions to Miami University and a map of the Oxford area to locate routes to the Marcum Center or for your hotel.
You will receive your meal tickets when you register at the Marcum Center. If you have ordered a vegan or low-fat diet, your name tag will alert the servers to bring you your special meal. Since the food will have been ordered and prepared, you cannot change your preference at the conference. To be served you must have a ticket and wear your name tag.
For those of you not having meals at the Marcum Center, there are plenty of eating places nearby in uptown Oxford (8 to 9 blocks from Marcum). The menu varies from fast food to intermediate places like The High Street Grill (our favorite), Attractions, Pedro's (Mexican), or Phan-Shin (Chinese). An excellent restaurant in town is The Alexander House (523-1200). On campus there is a food court at Miami's Shriver Center (4 blocks away). The front desk at Marcum or your lodging unit should have an Oxford Visitors' Guide with the locations of the restaurants. Also, several local pizza and sandwich places and restaurants will deliver to your lodging unit; the front desk may have menus and may recommend where to order.
Although the fare at the receptions will include wine and beer, there is no bar in the Marcum Center. However, there are some bars uptown within walking distance, and the bar in the tavern of the Miami Inn will be open for limited hours.
The following no-smoking policy, mandated by the State of Ohio, is in place at the Marcum Conference Center and the Miami Inn: No smoking is permitted in any conference rooms, hallways, tavern, or club room; smoking is permitted in some guest lodging rooms.
For those of you driving, see the map of the Oxford area and a campus map on the Web site. Marcum is in the northeast quadrant of the campus map, and the Miami Inn is in the northwest quadrant. Although in different quadrants, the distance between the Inn and the Marcum Center is just one block. Parking is free behind the Marcum Center and beside the Miami Inn.
If you are flying to the Cincinnati Airport and have reserved shuttle transportation with us, after your flight arrives, come out into the terminal ground transportation pick-up area and look for a van with the words "Miami University Marcum Conference Center and Inn." They will circle until they find you. If you have difficulty finding your shuttle, or your arrival is delayed and you are unable to make your shuttle pick-up time, please call the Marcum Center, (513) 529-6911, to reschedule your pickup. Your departure time from the Marcum Center or the Miami Inn will be posted in the lobby of the Marcum Center on Saturday.
Although you can go online at the Marcum Conference Center, there are not any facilities for making computer print outs. To check your e-mail, you may use one of the stations in Marcum 102 when there are no conference sessions going on there.
If you need multiple copies for a presentation, the closest copying facility is Copy Nation in uptown Oxford.
If you would like a quiet moment to relax or read and you are not lodging at Marcum, you are welcome to use the East or West Wing Lounge (on the second floor of Marcum) or the tavern at the Miami Inn when they are not in session--See the TV guide version of the program agenda.
We invite you to join us at the Friday evening party. There will be live music and tables at which to join conference attendees to discuss teaching, learning, and faculty learning communities.
If you have any questions, please call (513) 529-9266 or e-mail us at lillyconference@muohio.edu, Have a safe journey, and I look forward to seeing you soon.
I applaud your interest in excellent teaching and learning and hope that at the FLC Conference you find inspiration, innovation, reflection, colleagueship, and celebration around teaching and learning! Take the energy back to your campus.
This project has been supported in part by a grants from the US Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) and the Ohio Board of Regents.
