Annual Meeting
Study center staff, board members and partner organization representatives gather each year to share best practices and encouragement and to hear stimulating lectures to enhance their vision and work.
About the Annual Meeting
In the beginning, the Annual Meeting was our primary function. Over a decade later, it remains one of the central services of the Consortium, not to mention a highlight of the year for many center directors and staff.
The gathering, which takes place during the summer, includes a few keynote addresses designed to enhance our common vision and work; a lot of workshops, most of which are offered by center staff for center staff; and a healthy helping of free time to facilitate informal conversations and connections that are every bit as valuable as the sessions themselves.
You will hear academic experts addressing cultural and scholarly topics and center staff summarizing and reviewing their work with students and faculty, as well as outside experts addressing practical management issues such as fundraising, strategic planning and legal issues related to non-profit organizations.
2024 Annual Meeting
Monday, July 15 to
Wednesday, July 17
The North Carolina Study Center
Chapel Hill, NC
Pricing Information
- Member Study Center or Partner Organization Attendee: $365
- Non-member Attendee: $465
The 14th Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Christian Study Centers will be held at the North Carolina Study Center (NCSC) in Chapel Hill, NC. NCSC completed $2.4M in renovations on its 180-year-old historic home in fall 2022, which includes an updated kitchen, counseling room, and a library. The home is a 5-minute walk from the center of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, making it a convenient location for students to participate in programming or utilize the space for study. The 6,500+ sq. foot NCSC home and nearby on-campus buildings will provide Annual Meeting attendees with a taste of southern hospitality and community.
Important Information
Non-Members & Non-Partner Organizations: If you are not currently a member study center or partner organization, and are interested in attending the 2024 Annual Meeting, please contact our office at 434-296-3333.
Lodging: Please know that you will need to book your own hotel accommodations. Once your registration is complete, you will receive an email to acknowledge your registration and a link to CCSC’s block of rooms at The Graduate Hotel and AC Hotel Chapel Hill at a discounted rate. All registration fees are non-refundable after June 30, 2024. Thank you for your understanding.
Annual Meeting Featured Speakers
Plenary Keynote Speakers
Mia Chung
Concert Pianist & Executive Director of the Octet Collaborative
Pianist Mia Chung served most recently as Professor of Musical Studies and Performance at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, having joined the faculty in 2012 for her expertise in piano performance and interpretive analysis of tonal and atonal compositions. Chung’s CD and DVD recordings of works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms among others have earned high praise and awards. Chung was the first prize winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the highest national recognition for concert artists. She has since performed in numerous concert halls around the world including the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Symphony Hall in Boston, and Lincoln Center in New York City. Her latest topic of interest is Chinese modernist music composed after the Cultural Revolution. Chung’s first monograph, Chinese Emigré Composers and Divergent Modernisms: Chen Yi and Zhou Long, will be published in early 2024 by Cambridge University Press (Elements, Music After 1945 Series). Mia was inspired to establish and lead the Octet Collaborative at MIT after visiting Chesterton House at Cornell as a guest lecturer in 2018. Dr. Chung earned her BA magna cum laude in Music from Harvard College, a Master of Music degree from Yale University, and a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the Juilliard School.
Christopher Clemens
Provost & Chief Academic Officer at UNC
Christopher “Chris” Clemens, Provost and Chief Academic Officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has a passion for collaborating and building great things with others. Clemens arrived at UNC in 1998 from Caltech, where he was a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy. Previously, Clemens was a NASA Hubble Fellow at Iowa State University and received his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin (1994) and a Bachelor of Science in Astrophysics from the University of Oklahoma (1985). He is a dedicated mentor of graduate students and in 2012 received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring.
From 2012-2016, Clemens served as chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and from 2016-2019 as Senior Associate Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in the College. In his role as Senior Associate Dean, he supported the development of the new IDEAs in Action Curriculum, and advocated for building students’ capacities for public discourse and debate. In 2019-2020 he led the effort to establish the Program for Public Discourse and served as its acting director. In 2019 he became the inaugural Associate Dean of Research and Innovation for the College of Natural Sciences, and currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Convergent Science, a pan-campus institute that is supporting research teams as they develop ideas, inventions, and technologies for commercial or practical use.
Greg Jones
President of Belmont University
Greg Jones became president of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee on June 1, 2021. Prior to his appointment at Belmont, he served as the longtime dean of Duke Divinity School (from 1997-2010 and again from 2018-mid 2021). Between 2010 and 2018, he served in a variety of roles, including vice president and vice provost for global strategy at Duke University and provost and executive vice president of Baylor University.
Jones is the author or editor of 19 books, including the recently released Navigating the Future: Traditioned Innovation for Wilder Seas (with Andrew P. Hogue) which outlines his perspective on traditioned innovation as “a habit of being and living that cultivates a certain kind of moral imagination shaped by storytelling and expressed in creative, transformational action.” Other works include Christian Social Innovation, the co-authored Forgiving as We’ve Been Forgiven: Community Practices for Making Peace (with Celestin Musekura), the co-authored Resurrecting Excellence (with Kevin R. Armstrong), and the widely acclaimed Embodying Forgiveness. An ordained United Methodist minister, he has published more than 200 articles in a variety of publications.
Jones is also a gifted speaker, media contributor and thought leader in higher education, social innovation and theology. He recently joined the National Leadership Council for the Partnership for American Democracy and currently serves as a senior fellow at Leadership Education, which he founded, and senior fellow at the Fuqua-Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics.
Schedule
This is a preliminary schedule – times and events are subject to change leading up to the Annual Meeting. Thank you for your understanding!
Monday, July 15
2-3 pm: Reception @ NCSC
3:15-4:30 pm: Session I Workshops @ NCSC
5:15-6:15 pm: Dinner @ NCSC
7-8 pm: Keynote I – Christopher Clemens @ Kenan-Flagler Business School
Tuesday, July 16
Tuesday’s events will all take place at the Kenan-Flagler Business School
8-9 am: Continental Breakfast
9-10:15 am: Session II Workshops
10:15 – 11:15 pm: Break & Special Features
11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Keynote II – Mia Chung
12:15-1:30 pm: Group Photo & Lunch
1-5 pm: Optional Experiences/Free Time (excursion start times vary)
5-6 pm: Dinner
6:30-8 pm: Keynote III – Greg Jones
Wednesday, July 17
Wednesday’s events will all take place at the Kenan-Flagler Business School
8-9 am: Continental Breakfast
9-10:15 am: Session III Workshops
10:45 am-12 pm: Executive Director Keynote – Karl Johnson
12-1 pm: Lunch
Testimonials
It was a very encouraging and inspiring time! I appreciated hearing a wide variety of examples of study center programming, but even more valuable to me was the opportunity to make and strengthen connections with colleagues at other study centers. A highlight for me was the “spiritual history tour” of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, highlighting the role of Christians and Christian organizations at key moments in the university’s past. – Emily Wenneborg, PhD, Executive Director of Pascal Study Center at the University of Illinois
As a new Christian Study Center director, I found the Annual Meeting to be invaluable in meeting leaders of more established Centers and learning from their experiences. Beyond the particular sessions, the Annual Meeting was an inspiring manifestation of this vibrant and growing movement in Christian higher education. – Rick Ostrander, PhD, Executive Director of the Michigan Christian Study Center
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Questions? Email info@cscmovement.org
North Carolina Study Center
Chapel Hill, NC
