The 29th International Lilly Conference on College Teaching

"Evidence-Based Learning and Teaching"

Miami University
Oxford, Ohio
November 19-22, 2009

Lilly Conference General Information

Weather and Dress

Bring comfortable clothes. You will find that attire at the conference varies from casual to dressy. Your dress for outside should anticipate variation in November weather. The forecast is calling for temperatures in the high 30s-low 40s (°F) with partly cloudy skies. Some sessions are not in the Marcum Center, so bring an umbrella in case you have to walk in the rain. The longest distance you might need to walk to a session is roughly 2 blocks.

Transportation

Airport Shuttle

The Cincinnati International Airport is about one hour south of Oxford in northern Kentucky off I-275. The Dayton International Airport is about one hour northeast of Oxford in Vandalia, OH off I-70. There are five shuttle/taxi services that will provide transportation to and from either airport. Please contact the company of your choice directly to make transportation arrangements. Note: It may be less expensive to rent a car at the airport.

Directions and Parking

For those of you driving to the conference, see the map of the Oxford area and a campus map.

Parking is free behind the Marcum Center and in the south lot of the Miami Inn. However, participants may park only in designated spaces. They are not permitted to park on the grass around Marcum Center; signage will be posted. If participants choose to disobey the signs, they are subject to citations/fines as issued by the MU Parking Office. Parking Garage Vouchers are available for purchase at the Marcum Center front desk for $5.00/each. The voucher will provide 10 entries to/exits from the parking garage (the parking garage location is indicated on your campus map). The Marcum Center will provide a complimentary shuttle to/from the garage to Marcum. Shuttles will run every 30 minutes beginning at 7:45 am and ending at 11:15 pm on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Registration and Lodging

Registration and Program Book

When you register for the conference at the Marcum Center, you will receive a nametag, program binder, map (located in your binder), and meal tickets (if you reserved meals). The program binder includes a detailed program agenda, abstracts of the sessions, theme tracks, a list of conference participants and their e-mail addresses, a list of participating institutions, and more. A "TV guide" version of the program agenda is in your program binder.

Lodging (for those with full accommodation)

If you registered with full accommodations, your name should be on your hotel's rooming list. We have prepaid your room as part of your complete conference package. When you check out, pay for your personal incidental costs such as long-distance calls. We regret that we may not have been able to give you your top lodging choice.

Lodging (for those seeking seperate accommodations)

If you did not sign-up for lodging when you registered for the conference, see the list of additional lodging options in and around the Oxford area.

Food and Drink

If you registered with full accommodations or reserved any individual meals, you received your meal tickets when you checked in at the Marcum Center. To enter the dining room, you must have a meal ticket for that meal and wear your nametag. Please note that changes to purchased meals and dietary restrictions can no longer be made.

If you did not purchase conference meals, there are plenty of dining establishments nearby in uptown Oxford (8 to 9 blocks from Marcum). The menu varies from fast food to moderately priced restaurants like Qdoba (Mexican) or Phan-Shin (Asian). More traditional fare may be found at 45 East or Sushi Nara. On campus there is a food court at Miami's Shriver Center (4 blocks away) as well as at Bell Tower Place, located in Ogden Hall, right up High Street on the left before you get to Campus Ave. Also, several local pizza and sandwich establishments will deliver to your lodging unit; the Marcum front desk may have menus and can recommend where to order.

For questions concerning other uptown establishments, feel free to ask anyone at the registration desk.

No-Smoking Policy

The following no-smoking policy, mandated by the State of Ohio, has been adopted by Miami University and applies to the Marcum Conference Center and the Miami Inn:

In order to promote the health of our students, faculty, staff & visitors, all Miami University campuses are designated Smoke-Free Environments, effective August 1, 2008. Smoking is prohibited in all University owned facilities and grounds. Smoking is only permitted in personal automobiles. The only exception will be designated smoking areas for guests staying at the Marcum Conference Center and Miami Inn.

Activities and Entertainment

Wednesday Night Dinner and Entertainment

If you are arriving Wednesday in time for dinner and would like to join a group to go uptown, meet at the Marcum registration desk at 7:00 pm and we will walk or drive together.

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Night Activities

We invite you to join conference attendees to socialize and discuss teaching and learning at the Miami Inn Tavern on Thursday night. There will be live music performed by the Oxford Gourd and Drum Ensemble. In addition to usual fare, the Tavern features an interesting collection of local microbrews and a variety of Scotch single malt whiskeys.

After the Friday night plenary session, come to hear the Cincinnati Klezmer Project and join in the folk dancing in the Marcum 180s. This will also be another opportunity to meet new colleagues. Refreshments are on us. If you prefer a more relaxed and quiet setting by the fire, the coffeehouse at the Miami Inn Tavern features Al Cady on acoustic guitar.

Several optional Saturday night activities that are listed in the program will be opportunities to meet and talk with conference participants and celebrate the energy and diversity that are connected with teaching and learning. There is free entertainment at the Lilly Conference Concert, performed by the Miami University Steel Band, in the Marcum 180s. We will have drinks and refreshments (compliments of the Conference). There will also be a production by the Miami University Theater Department on Saturday night. Tickets for this event must be purchased separately through the University box office. More information about this production is available at the Theater Department's website.

For a Quiet Moment

If you would like a quiet moment to relax or read and you are not lodging at Marcum, you are welcome to use the West lounge (on the second floor of Marcum) or the Tavern at the Miami Inn when they are not in use for a session -- see the program agenda for details.

Communicating While You Are Here

The Marcum Center provides wireless internet access; however, if you would like to check your e-mail and to send encouragement to your students but do not have a laptop, you may use one of the stations in Marcum 102 when the room is not in session.

Attending Sessions

Preconference Workshops

If you have purchased meals at the conference and would like to join one of the featured presenters at a special presenter's round table, please check the Friday and Saturday luncheon tables and Friday dinner tables that are listed in the Conference Program section of this binder. Space at the presenter round tables is limited, so we recommend that you sign up at the registration desk. The round tables are available only at the Marcum Center. Ask at the registration desk for availability.

Contributed Papers and Sessions

There are several types of sessions, varying in length from 40 minutes to over 2 hours. The 40-minute contributed paper seminars are designed to give you just a flavor of a topic or project, not complete details or in-depth discussion. If interested in learning more, you are encouraged to arrange with the presenter to continue discussion later. See more information about each contributed paper is at Contributed Papers page.

A Conference dinner session (one hour). This is a new format which started in 2007 in which you conduct your session during either the Friday night Conference dinnertime period at a round table with a group of six or seven participants who have pre-registered for your session. You may bring a laptop (it must run on battery power; there will be no A/C access) and handouts. Upon your request we will provide a flipchart. Dinner presenters then may eat dinner together afterwards (if a meal-ticket was purchased).

The titles, abstracts, and proposals for contributed papers are available online. Please look these over before the conference to determine which sessions you would like to attend. The abstracts are also part of the conference program.

The proposal submission due date is July 1, 2009. Please visit the proposal submission page for more information.

Presenter Discussion Tables

If you have purchased meals at the conference and would like to join one of the featured presenters at a special presenter's round table, please check the Friday and Saturday luncheon tables and Friday dinner tables that are listed in the conference schedule. Space at the presenter round tables is limited, so we recommend that you sign up at the registration desk. The round tables are available only at the Marcum Center. Ask at the registration desk for availability.

Arrive at Sessions Early!

We recommend that you arrive at sessions early in order to guarantee seating. The multimedia and technology sessions in room 102 will have limited seating, so get to them especially early. For sessions that run concurrently, select more than one to attend--if your first choice is full, move to your second choice, etc. It is difficult to predict which sessions will be in demand, and room sizes vary.

Especially for Presenters

Printing and Copying

There are no facilities for making copies or computer printouts in the Marcum Conference Center. If you need copies of handouts for a presentation, the closest copying facilities are the Oxford Copy Shop in uptown Oxford (513-523-3636) and the Miami Print Center, located on campus in Gaskill Hall (513-529-6065).

If you would like to ship copies of handouts for presentations, please ship them one week in advance to:

Lilly Conference Presentation
(presenter's name)
Marcum Center
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056.

Please call the Marcum Center (513-529-6911) after November 15 to confirm their arrival.

A/V Equipment

The Conference Center can supply only the A/V equipment that you specified on your proposal cover sheet when you submitted your proposal. For electronic presentations (e.g., PowerPoint), you need to supply your own laptop and any necessary adapters to connect to a VGA display.

Celebrate Teaching and Learning!

We applaud your interest in excellent teaching and learning and hope that at the Lilly Conference you find inspiration, innovation, reflection, colleagueship, and celebration around teaching and learning! Come to participate and learn and take the energy back to your classes and campus.

Have a safe journey, and we look forward to seeing you soon!