A link to the form can be found on the Conference Services home page, or it can be reached directly at Crimson Event Center Reservation Form.

Once the forms are received and the requested date/s are validated, the requestor will receive an e-mail from Conference Services indicating approval or denial, and will also receive a set-up diagram request that must be returned to Conference Services as soon as possible.

Reservation requests must be received no later than 72 hours prior to event date. It is strongly suggested that you call Conference Services (357-2227) to check availability before submitting the form.

Approximately 1,200 attendees, originally from Ghana but now living across the United States, will meet in Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex. They will be staying in several residence halls and eating in Foster Dining Hall. This is a summer retreat for the church members, who are returning to IUP for the second consecutive year.

With the large number of people and additional vehicles on campus, extra police officers will be available to help with traffic flow, directions, and parking issues.

Participating students will travel to IUP from across the United States and from about 20 countries, including Ireland, Australia, Canada, Cayman Islands, England, Fiji, Georgia, Guam, Haiti, and more.

They will compete in more than 140 performance and nonperformance events to demonstrate their achievements and abilities in a wide range of categories ranging from chess to Bible memory and from basketball to art.

Students will be housed in various residence halls and will be using the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex and various academic and athletic facilities.

Conference Services acts as the campus liason with departments such as Dining, Housing, Facilities, Security, etc. for planning and sharing of information. We submit appropriate work orders in a timely fashion, help to create budgets, identify cost savings, prepare speaker contracts, encumber upfront costs, etc.

Don’t burden the office secretary with the task of planning your next event—contact IUP Conference Services for details to schedule a consultation and to verify coordination fees.

Hundreds of details go into an event; let our professional staff successfully accomplish your objectives. For an affordable fee, we provide services that include but are not limited to:

• Facility coordination (on and off campus)
  • site selection and inspection
  • housing and meals
  • audio visual coordination
• Participant registrations
  • arrange for online registration
  • collection of registrations
  • confirmation letters
  • on-site check-in
  • customized name tags, packets, and rosters
• Program support
  • contracts and travel expense reimbursement requests for speakers
  • preparation of agendas and event evaluations
  • duplication of hand-out materials
• Additional arrangements
  • banquets and receptions
  • coordination for exhibits
  • brochure and mailing preparation
  • assistance with budgeting

Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex 

The Kovalchick Complex, scheduled to open in 2011, is sure to meet and exceed all of your conferencing expectations.

Call now to book your upcoming events.

For more information and to reserve your event date, please call Kathleen Evanko, director, Office of Conference Services, at 724-347-2227 or e-mail at kathleen.evanko@iup.edu.

Participants come from all over the United States to this prestigious institute to learn advanced-level judging or how to judge a breed that is new to them. Participants will be in lecture workshops each morning, Monday through Friday, during which they will learn the different standards for judging the various breeds. In the afternoon they will be tested on what they have learned as they judge the different breeds during the mock dog show set up in front of Zink Hall.

There are seven different groups of dogs: Herding, Working, Sporting, Toy, Terrier, Non-sporting, and Hound. This year, each of those groups will have fourteen breeds throughout the week. If you would like to know which breed will be here each day, please e-mail the Office of Conference Services at conf-info@iup.edu for a complete schedule.

The event will be from 9:30 until 11:30 a.m., with the goal of speaking to men about their faith and to challenge them to be better husbands, fathers, sons, and employees.

The cost is $10 per person and includes continental breakfast.

Please e-mail contact@indianaexperiment.org to register. All men are invited.

The winning team will proceed to the semifinals, playing the victor of the Greensburg Central Catholic vs. Bedford game, ultimately playing for a spot in the State Championship Game.

The conference, being held in several locations on campus on March 26–27, 2010, is geared towards administrators, faculty members, teachers, and students in post-secondary, elementary, and secondary educational institutions, plus corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, community leaders, politicians, and social service advocates.

The keynote speaker will be Bill Strickland. Approximately 250 to 300 registrants are expected.

The Founders of NAME envisioned an organization that would bring together individuals and groups with an interest in multicultural education from all levels of education and different academic disciplines, and from diverse educational institutions and occupations.

At both the regional and national festivals, KCACTF participants are able to celebrate the creative process, see one another’s work, and share experiences and insights within the community of theater artists. The KCACTF honors excellence of overall production and offers student artists individual recognition through awards and scholarships in playwriting, acting, criticism, directing, and design.

The conference will be held in various buildings on campus, and is anticipated to have approximately 800 to 1,000 attendees.

Tickets may be purchased for $30 each for adults, and $15 for children under eighteen years of age and students. For additional information or to purchase tickets, please contact the NAACP office on Tuesday or Thursday between 10:00 a.m. and noon at 724-463-0631 or Dr. Edwina Battle Void at (724) 349-5038.

The theme for this year’s banquet is Perseverance: Staying the Course with the Economy, Education, and Family. The speaker will be Dr. Veronica Watson. Dr. Watson is associate dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at IUP and director of the Fredrick Douglass Institute.

Nurses are increasingly taking leadership in the emerging world of environmental health, and environmentalist leaders are increasingly discussing human health outcomes of environmental degradation. This is an opportunity to bring our two powerful communities together again to discuss how we might be able to work together on policy and legislative issues at the state level.

• Reinforce the link between health and the environment.
• Explore chemical legislative and policy issues.
• Explore opportunities for collaboration between state nursing association lobbyists and local environmental organizations.

The workshop is hosted by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association’s Environmental Task Force.

Deadline to register is September 14, 2009.

For more information and a registration form, please visit the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association website or download the workshop brochure (pdf).

“Every animal has the right to live without abuse and die without inflicted pain.”

Spring 2009 – Issue #2009-1

Get your tickets now! 

The Four Footed Friends’ An Evening For Paws will be a night to remember with Jeff Reed of the Pittsburgh Steelers as our guest celebrity! Everyone in attendance will have the opportunity to have their photo taken with Jeff Reed and get it autographed.

The event will be held at the Crimson Events Center (in Folger Hall) on the IUP campus. Tickets are $35 per person. Businesses and organizations can purchase a table of 8 for $250 and their name and logo will be displayed on the table.

For more information, please read An Evening For Paws flyer.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's Small Business Ombudsman Office will present free workshops across the state in the spring months. The workshop will be presented at IUP's Crimson Event Center in Folger Hall on May 27 from 8 a.m. to noon. Doors open at 7:45 a.m. Folger Hall is located on the corner of Maple Street and Pratt Drive on the IUP campus.

The workshops will provide basic energy efficiency information and are designed for business owners who have never attended energy efficiency workshops/training. Participants also will learn about financial and technical resources that are available for energy efficiency upgrades at businesses. Registration for the workshops is free, and the sessions are open to the public.  Funding for the workshops is provided through a U.S. Department of Energy grant.  

Additional information, registration forms, and brochures are available by contacting DEP’s Office of Energy and Technology Deployment at (717) 783-8411 or by visiting the DEP ombudsman website.

In addition to the DEP, the following entities also serve as sponsors:

Electrotechnology Applications Center (ETAC)
Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PennTAP)
SBDC Environmental Management Assistance Program (EMAP)
IMC, Inc.
The Pittsburgh Green Innovators
SMC Business Councils
Elizabethtown College
Indiana County Chamber Of Commerce
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Bucks County Community College
Wilkes University Environmental Engineering/Earth Sciences Department
PAEP Pollution Prevention/Energy Efficiency Roundtable