JumpStart Conference
WELCOME TO JUMPSTART 2025
The Milner Lab @Vanderbilt University is pleased to announce JumpStart 2025: Developing and Sustaining Centers and Initiatives that Matter to be hosted virtually on July 29, 2025. This year’s conference will focus on helping attendees visualize, organize, plan, and sustain centers, initiatives, and institutes that have a real impact on issues that matter in the work of improving policies and practices.
JumpStart 2025 will provide attendees an opportunity to learn with others about ways to:
(1) Build clear agendas,
(2) Workshop challenges,
(3) Establish collaborations, and
(4) Actualize concrete ways to move ideas into action.
The conference is designed for anyone, from those inside of higher education and beyond, interested in building knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to develop and sustain a center, initiative, or institute.
CONFERENCE AGENDA
All times Central Standard Time
9:00am – 10:30am: Opening Plenary Session
10:30am – 10:45am: Break/Virtual Networking
10:45am – 11:45am: Morning Breakout Sessions
11:45am – 12:00pm: Break/Virtual Networking
12:00pm – 1:15pm: Midday Plenary Session
1:15pm – 1:30pm: Break/Virtual Networking
1:30pm – 2:30pm: Afternoon Breakout Sessions
2:30pm – 2:45pm: Break/Virtual Networking
2:45pm – 4:00pm: Closing Plenary Session
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
DATE: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
TIME: 9:00am to 4:00pm CDT
LOCATION: Virtual via Zoom (A link will be sent to each registrant prior to July 29, 2025)
COST: Registration is $125. There is a cancellation fee of $25 prior to July 1, 2025 (no refunds thereafter).
CONTACT: Piersen Briggs (piersen.briggs@vanderbilt.edu)