The Wingspread Program: Conference Information
Purpose:
UW-Green Bay is one of twelve Midwestern institutions selected to participate in the Wingspread Fellows Program. Wingspread conferences are intensive meetings of experts gathered to discuss a variety of issues or problems that generally focus on topics of the environment, social sciences, education, or social work.
What is Wingspread?
Wingspread is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home built in the 1930s in Racine, Wisconsin, for Herbert Fisk Johnson of the Johnson Wax Company. In 1959, Mr. Johnson established The Johnson Foundation, a private foundation dedicated to hosting intellectual conferences. The conferences are held on the Johnson family estate and many of the activities take place in the home Frank Lloyd Wright designed.
You will meet many interesting people and hear new ideas--ideas that are current and on the cutting edge of action and policy today. It also presents you with a chance to "network" with business, academic, and community leaders. These people are genuinely interested in you, so you need to know how to establish your presence.
What are the Conferences Like?
The conferences begin at nine in the morning and last until about nine or ten at night. There are long hours with questions and stimulating conversation. As a Wingspread Fellow, you are expected to participate in the discussion. Each conference has a chairperson who will set the tone for the next few days. The conferences will vary as do the topics and participants, but one element remains; the discussion is intense and challenging.
See: http://www.johnsonfdn.org/ for more information on The Johnson Foundation and Wingspread.
Conferences Open to Wingspread Fellows:
Apply to attend an event as soon as you find one that interests you. Contact your Campus Coordinator for further details.
Connections Between Marriage and Health: Program and Policy Implications (NHMRC) 4 of 4
Statement of Purpose: To review the connections between marital quality and health outcomes and consider the implications for health care practice, training and policy.
Synopsis: This conference is the fourth in series and will review the connections between marital quality and health outcomes and consider the implications for
health care practice, training and policy. A growing body of research indicates there are strong effects of marital status and marital quality on health outcomes across the life cycle. This conference, a follow up to an earlier research symposium funded by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS, will review the key findings related to marital quality (positive and negative), and consider potential implications for health care practitioners and the healthy marriage field.
Dates: October 20-22, 2008 (Monday-Wednesday)– begins at 2:30 p.m. and adjourns at 12:30 p.m.
Fostering Innovation in Conservation on Agricultural Lands Through Philanthropy
Statement of Purpose: To foster innovations in conservation delivery on agricultural lands.
Synopsis: Philanthropists from across the country will gather to learn how the agricultural world has evolved from the 20th to the 21st century. The content and discussion will center on identifying these changes and how to cultivate future agricultural conservation investments that will yield strong environmental returns.
Dates: October 23-25, 2008 (Thursday-Saturday)– begins at 5:00 p.m. and adjourns at 3:00 p.m.
BRIEFING: 11th Annual Comparative Analysis of Racine Public Schools
Statement of Purpose: To inform the community concering the progress of RUSD.
Dates: October 30, 2008– begins at 4:00 p.m. and adjourns at 6:30 p.m.
Wingspread Revisited - Expanding Collaborative Regional Planning Around Southern Lake Michigan
Statement of Purpose: To engage policy officials and staff from regional planning agencies serving southeast Wisconsin, northeast Illinois, northwest Indiana, and southwest Michigan to assess progress made from the prior two meetings, identify issues and opportunities for future collaboration, and expand the existing agreement among the organizations to include southwest Michigan.
Synopsis: Since the first two Wingspread meetings in 2001-2002 and ensuing Wingspread Accord, the states surrounding the southern Lake Michigan basin have increasingly collaborated on interstate solutions of the social, economic, and environmental issues that affect the entire region. This third meeting will focus on issues that link the regional economy with the community and natural environment, such as climate change, freight planning, and green infrastructure.
Dates: November 5-7, 2008 (Wednesday-Friday)– begins at 5:00 pm and adjourns at 1:00 pm
The Lake Michigan Shorelands Alliance Summit
Statement of Purpose: To gather the leaders of the Lake Michigan Shorelands Alliance with their partners and allies to identify the most important steps for this Lake Michigan watershed initiative.
Synopsis: The Lake Michigan basin is one of Wisconsin’s most treasured and heavily used resources. The watershed is an essential component of the economic and cultural identity of our region, as well as supporting a unique and impressive array of biological diversity. Yet the basin is densely populated and growing at an unprecedented pace. If meaningful land protection is to occur in this region it must happen strategically and it must happen now. Gathering Waters Conservancy and the Lake Michigan Shorelands Alliance are taking action to ensure that we all work together to preserve this beautiful land along the shoreline for future generations.
Dates: November 9-11, 2008 (Sunday-Tuesday)– begins at 5:00 p.m.? and adjourns at 1:00 p.m.?
LOCAL: Improving Health Literacy in Wisconsin
Statement of Purpose: To develop the framework for a comprehensive and systematic statewide plan to reduce barriers to health literacy throughout healthcare and literacy organizations.
Synopsis: Representatives of four regional health literacy committeess will convene to develop the framework for a statewide plan to increase health literacy (the ability to read/comprehend and use effectively health and healthcare information) in Wisconsin.
Dates: Nov 12-13, 2008 (Wednesday-Thursday)– begins at 12:00 noon and adjourns at 1:30 p.m.
Contact your Campus Coordinator if you wish to attend an event.
For additional information on the events listed, contact Lisa Piche at The Johnson Foundation at (262) 681-3336 or email: <lpiche@johnsonfdn.org>. You may also visit our website at www.johnsonfdn.org