2009 Lilly Conference Welcome

We are pleased to welcome you to the 29th Annual International Lilly Conference on College Teaching.

This weekend event has become a "teaching retreat" as well as a conference. The Marcum Conference Center is on a beautiful, wooded site at the edge of the Miami University campus, one of America's premier college settings. The University, with its timeless Georgian architecture, and Oxford, with its brick streets and small shops, make an attractive location for learning.

In past years, many deans and chief academic officers have supported the attendance of a team of their faculty at the Conference as reward and recognition for an outstanding teacher, as encouragement for a junior faculty member, or as an opportunity for the team to bring new teaching and learning ideas back to campus. Institutions planning Teaching and Learning Centers have found the Lilly Conference an excellent place to meet and "scout" some outstanding teacher-scholars.

Full- and half-day pre-conference workshops will be held on Thursday, November 19th, and the opening plenary will be given on Thursday evening. A variety of seminars and workshops are scheduled all day on Friday and Saturday, and on Sunday morning. The conference ends with lunch following the closing plenary on Sunday.

Contributed paper presenters are invited to submit manuscripts about their teaching innovations for review for publication in the international Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. The Journal answers Ernest Boyer's call, given in his 1990 Lilly Conference keynote, for opportunities to publish the scholarship of teaching. Those contributed paper presentations that are directed towards learning communities are also invited to submit manuscripts for review and publication in the new Learning Communities Journal. The first issue will be released in 2009.

Keynote speaker: Michael Wesch

We are proud to announce that the keynote speaker for the 2009 International Lilly Conference will be Michael Wesch, 2008 CASE Professor of the Year, Anthropology, Kansas State University. He is author of "A Vision of Students Today" which can be seen courtesy of YouTube: