Kansas Hunger Dialogue coming to Wichita
WSU will assemble the a team of faculty, administrators and students to participate. The Elliott School's Deborah Ballard-Reisch is on the event's planning committee.
The dialogue was developed in 2011 with the goal to build consensus agreements among Kansas colleges and universities regarding a statewide commitment to integrating hunger awareness, advocacy and action. What emerged was a vibrant consensus that Kansas could and should take steps to create awareness, action and advocacy to eliminate hunger at home and abroad.
Today, Kansas higher education remains committed to engaging college students, faculty, administrators and their neighboring communities to work together to alleviate hunger today and to think of new approaches to prevent others from suffering from hunger in the future.
This year, the dialogue will place an emphasis on the use of modern technology to engage communities, and it is anticipated that 25 institutions of higher education in Kansas will take part.
Keynote speakers include Robert Egger, founder and president of L.A. Kitchen, and Cindy Jones-Nyland, executive vice president of Marketing and Resource Management at Heifer Project International.
For more information, to register or to submit a proposal, visit the KHD website at http://www.k-state.edu/kscc/hungerdialogue/.
Kansas Campus Compact is a coalition of college and university presidents dedicated to building and strengthening the collective capacity of Kansas colleges and universities to integrate a commitment to civic engagement and responsibility into the higher educational learning environment.