Registration: To register for the Midwest conference, click here for the online registration system. (InterVarsity staff and their family members: Contact Rachel Bawden for special instructions on how to register.)

Attention West Coast Faculty: Faculty Ministry is also offering a West Coast Faculty Conference at InterVarsity’s Campus by the Sea. Click here to register and for additional details.

The fourth annual Midwest Faculty Conference, New Opportunities in the Academy: A Mission Possible, will be held at Cedar Campus, June 20-26, 2009. We are pleased to announce that our featured speaker will be Dr. John Sommerville, Professor of English History, Emeritus, at the University of Florida, and member of the Faculty Ministry Advisory Council.

About C. John Sommerville

C. John Sommerville is most recently the author of The Decline of the Secular University (Oxford , 2006). Two more books will soon be appearing on related subjects, from Baylor University Press and Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishers. He is Professor Emeritus of English History at the University of Florida, but his interests have also included the history of the media (How the News Makes Us Dumb) and of attitudes toward children (The Rise and Fall of Childhood). His nine books and 30-some articles are on a wide variety of topics. After doing graduate work at the University of Iowa, Sommerville began his teaching in the Western Civilization program at Stanford University, before moving to a permanent position at the University of Florida. A Member of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton and Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions, he also recently contributed to the Pew Younger Scholars’ Mentoring Program.

Registration

To register for the conference, click here for the online registration system.

To make a payment, check your account balance, or update your registration, click here to log in to your event account.

Attention InterVarsity staff and their family members: Contact Rachel Bawden for special instructions on how to register.

Fees

Registration fee: $150 per adult

Adult fees for room and board
Family cabins (with private bath) – $455 per adult
Lodge rooms – $345 per adult
Tent/RV sites – $235 per adult

Child fees for room and board
Children 13 and older – $185 per child
Children 2-12 – $125 per child
Children under 2 – $60 per child

More information about housing options is available from the Cedar Campus website.

Travel

Flying? Check out flights into Pellston Regional Airport,, located at 1321 N. US Highway 31 in Pellston, or into Sault Ste. Marie Airport.

After you reserve your flight, send your flight information to Rachel Bawden, so that we can arrange to have someone pick you up and drive you to Cedar Campus.

Driving? If you are driving, maps and directions are available from the Cedar Campus web site.

Housing

Cedar Campus features a variety of housing options for singles, couples, and families, including cabins, rooms in the lodge, and campsites for tents and RVs. More information about housing options is available from the Cedar Campus website.

What To Bring

Cedar Campus has an excellent list of what to bring and (perhaps more importantly) what not to bring. You can read it here.

Families & Children

Those who choose to bring their families to this conference will enjoy a wonderful experience of being involved in a variety of activities together.

Seminars

An additional aspect of the week are the elective seminars offered as part of the evening program. These seminars will reflect the wide variety of disciplines and interests of those who attend the conference.

Seminars offered in the past have included:

• Practicing Spiritual Disciplines
• Challenges and Opportunities for Women Faculty: A Christian Response
• Naturalism and Some Implications
• Best Practices: Discover How Others in Our Midst Are Being a Redeeming Rnfluence among the People, Ideas, and Structures of Higher Education
• Memoir Writing
• Contemporary Art and Religious Thought
• The Theme of Vocation in the Life and Writing of Dorothy Sayers
• Genesis 1-2: Literature, Theology, and Science
• “Everyone can do it”: Art Workshop with Hands-On Lessons and Discussion
• Faculty Wives Discussion
• Evangelicals, Politics, and Christian Public Discipleship
• This is my Father’s World: Christian Worldview in Light of Scientific Advances

These seminars provide added value to the conference experience, and most people participate even though they are all optional. Perhaps you too might have a topic, question, activity that you would enjoy leading. If so, let us know.

Further Information

A summary and photos from the 2008 Midwest Faculty Conference is available. You can also read reflections from past Faculty Conferences.

Cedar Campus is an InterVarsity conference and training center, located in the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, forty miles east of the Straits of Mackinac. You might be interested in knowing more about this beautiful place in God’s creation via a brief history.

Questions?

Please contact Rachel Bawden, Associate Director, InterVarsity Faculty Ministry, through this contact form.