Event equipment rental for 2024 PHENND Conference: The Future of Higher Education in Camden

2024 PHENND Conference: The Future of Higher Education

Camden

Annual gathering for practitioners of campus-community partnership.

This gathering will be attended by 100-125 students, campus staff, faculty, and community organization staff active in community service, service-learning, and campus-community partnership work. While primarily targeting individuals who are part of the 25+ colleges and universities involved in the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND), this event is also open nationally to practitioners of campus community partnership.

Theme

This year's theme is The Future of Higher Education. As our partners at Bringing Theory to Practice write, "Higher education is at an inflection-point. It faces crises of precarity, of legitimacy, and of purpose. Change, big change, is coming. The stakes are high, and so is the urgency of the moment. Twenty years from now, college education will be very different for most students and most institutions. But the shape of that future is still up for grabs. There is no standing still; the options are to make change or be changed. The question that educators, students, and our public allies face is, what kind of change do we want? And what can we do about it?"