APLU 125th Annual Meeting

The A۰P۰L۰U Annual Meeting has become the premier event for public university leaders to share opinions on emerging topics, gain valuable professional development, and meet colleagues from across the nation. With the myriad challenges facing public higher education, it has never been more important for university officials to come together and discuss strategies for the future.

The 125th Annual Meeting will take place November 11-13, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in Denver, CO. Concurrent sessions begin Sunday at 8:30 a.m. The formal Opening General Session is at 5 p.m. The Annual Meeting will close with the Closing General Session on Tuesday, 9:30-11:00 a.m.

SUNDAY, November 11, 5:00 -6:30PM Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will deliver this year's keynote address during Sunday afternoon's Opening Session. Before being named as Secretary of Defense in 2006, Gates served as president of Texas A&M University.
SUNDAY, November 11, 10:30 - 11:45 AM Montana State University President Waded Cruzado will deliver the Seaman A. Knapp lecture. The Seaman A. Knapp Lecture is one of three rotating lectures presented by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and APLU honoring three historic Land-Grant University figures: Seaman A. Knapp, Justin Smith Morrill, and William Henry Hatch.
MONDAY, November 12, Noon - 1:30PM University of Texas El Paso President Diana Natalicio will deliver the biennial George Washington Carver Lecture. The George Washington Carver Distinguished Lectureship was established to honor one of the nation’s most eminent agricultural scientists, who as an African American, overcame many barriers to become a distinguished researcher, scholar and teacher.
TUESDAY, November 13, 9:30 - 11:00AM Federal budget expert, Barry Anderson, deputy director of the National Governors Association and longtime deputy director of the Congressional Budget Office and director of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division of the OECD will present on sequestration and the potential impact on federal funding for research and financial aid programs. Responses will be offered by John Sharp, chancellor of the Texas A&M System and former comptroller of the State of Texas, and Doug Roberts, director of the Institute for Public policy and Social Research at Michigan State University and former Treasurer of the State of Michigan.

The 2012 Annual Meeting marks the culmination of the Association’s year-long observance of the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln signing the Morrill Act in 1862, establishing the land-grant system of colleges, the basis for the nation's public university system. It will also celebrate the 125th anniversary of A۰P۰L۰U's founding, the nation's oldest higher education association.

View the Preliminary Program here.

A۰P۰L۰U encourages sponsorship of the Annual Meeting by the business community and other organizations. Complete details on sponsorship opportunities will be made available in the 2012 Sponsor Prospectus.