Welcome
On behalf of the conference committee and Southern Utah University I am pleased to welcome you to the Experiential Learning Leadership Institute Annual Conference! The conference also extends a welcome on behalf of our co-hosts the National Society of Experiential Education and Northern Arizona Honors College. I hope you’ll find your time spent with us rewarding both professionally and personally.
The Experiential Learning Leadership Institute is an organization dedicated to professional development for engaged educators in higher education, K-12, and non-profit organizations. In addition to the conference we host annual leadership retreats, publish the peer-reviewed Journal of Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, and offer low and no-cost consulting work at your institution or ours.
The ELLI Conference has a distinct “personality” as an event, offering not only traditional conference sessions but off-site educational excursions and fast and fun Pecha Kucha presentations. While here we encourage you to not just attend a conference, but have an experience!
ELLI Conference attendees are engaged professionals in an array of high-impact, experiential pedagogies. You will have the opportunity to meet colleagues who specialize in community engaged learning, study abroad, intercultural connectivity, internships, leadership development, outdoor education, environmental awareness, civic activism, field research, entrepreneurship, and more. We invite you to mine this diversity for transferable values, activities, and methods. This is a chance to explore the potential found in trans-disciplinary teaching and learning. Like any good hands-on learning exercise, this conference will ask for you to invest in the experience to get the most out of it.
We look forward to getting to know you better over the next few days and are extremely grateful that you’ve chosen to join us in networking, teaching, learning, and improving the ways in which we serve our students and communities.
Thank you!
John “Jeb” Branin
Executive Director of the Experiential Learning Leadership Institute
