Program Leadership Committee Meeting with Program Committee Chairs and Vice-Chairs
5:00
Newcomer Orientation
6:00
PLN Executive Committee Meeting
Evening
Dinner on your own
Monday, August 28
7:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:00
General Session
Welcome, Thelma Sanders Hunter, PLC Chair
Welcome, Dr. Antonio Garcia Padilla, President of the University of Puerto Rico and Dr. Ariel Ramirez, Associate Dean and Assistant Director, University of Puerto Rico
Disaster Response Panel. "Extension's Response to Recent Disasters"
Joan Dusky, University of Florida
Gina Eubanks, Southern University AgCenter
Susan Holder, Mississippi State University
Mark Schexnayder, LSU AgCenter
Andy Vestal, Texas Cooperative Extension
9:45
Break
10:15
General Session (continued)
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Vincent Covello, Founder and Director, The Center for Risk Communication. Sponsored by EDEN.
11:00
Program Committees meet to prepare disaster responses (includes Administrative Advisors)
12:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00
Program Committee meet to continue disaster responses and begin their planned agendas
2:45
Break
3:15
Program Committee Meetings (includes Administrative Advisors)
Evening
Dinner on your own
Tuesday, August 29
7:00 a.m.
8:00
PLN Continental Breakfast
Program Committee Meetings
AEA Breakfast
AEA Meeting
ASRED Breakfast
ASRED Meeting
9:45
Break
10:15
Program Committee Meetings
(Joint committee time if needed)
AEA Meeting
ASRED Meeting
12:00 p.m.
Lunch, General Session
Program committees present "Where Do We Go From Here?" disaster response action items.
Wrap-up by Eded member.
1:30
Program Committee Meetings (includes Administrative Advisors)
(Joint committee time if needed)
2:45
Break
3:15
Program Committee Meetings (includes Administrative Advisors)
(Joint committee time if needed)
Evening
Special Cultural Evening hosted by the University of Puerto Rico (Registration and fee required)
Wednesday, August 30
7:00 a.m.
PLN Continental Breakfast
AEA Breakfast
ASRED Breakfast
7:00 a.m.
Program Leadership Committee Meeting
8:00
Program Committee Meetings
First Joint Session of AEA and ASRED
10:00
Break
10:30
Program Leadership Committee presents action and information items to AEA & ASRED
Second Joint Session of AEA and ASRED with Program Leadership Committee
12:00 p.m.
PLN adjourns
Lunch - AEA/ASRED
1:00
2:15
2:30
AEA Meeting
Break
AEA Meeting
ASRED Meeting
Break
ASRED Meeting
3:00
AEA and ASRED Meetings adjourn for the day
4:00
President's Reception and Botanical Garden Tour
President Padilla and the University of Puerto Rico will be our hosts for a tour and light reception in the beautiful UPR Jardín Botánico. A Puerto Rican musical group will provide entertainment. For your convenience, bus and van transportation will be available and will return to the hotel by 8 p.m. Dinner is on your own.
