More than 500 faculty members, students, administrators, and representatives from our national partner organizations gathered in San Antonio, Texas for the second ADP/TDC National Meeting, June 7-9, 2012. The theme of the meeting was “Civic Engagement 2.0: Re-Imagining, Strengthening and Deepening Our Civic Work.”

At this year’s meeting, attendees reported enjoying the dynamic energy created by the large number of students that attended the ADP conference. All told, 95 students attended the ADP National Meeting.

We kicked off the conference with pre-conference meetings and workshops on Thursday, June 7. ADP’s newest Civic Engagement in Action series national initiative, our Campus & Community Civic Health initiative with the National Conference on Citizenship, CIRCLE, and Lyon Software, held its first Civic Health Summit workshop for the 25 participating campuses. Other pre-conference workshops were held by ADP’s eCitizenship and Global Engagement initiatives, as well as The Democracy Commitment, the American Commonwealth Partnership (emerging from ADP’s Civic Agency initiative) and AASCU faculty participating in our Urban Civic Minor grant project. ADP’s Political Engagement Project held a pre-conference meeting to assess their progress in the last year and to plan for the year ahead.