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The Power of WE: Partnering for Impact
The Power of WE: Partnering for Impact
Are you an urban extension professional? Are you excited to share what your urban community has to offer? Would you like to learn from others’ experiences in the urban setting? Would you enjoy exploring another cool Southern city? If so, JOIN US for the 2025 National Urban Extension Leaders (NUEL) Southern and 1890’s Regional Conference!
Happening in the “Bull City” of Durham North Carolina from May 6-8, 2025, this NUEL conference provides extension professionals with an opportunity to grow as practitioners and educators in our vibrant urban environments across the southeast.
The conference theme: The Power of WE: Partnering for Impact, reflects the ongoing and necessary work of collaboration and innovation required in our urban extension practice to make the biggest difference for the communities we serve.
Your N.C. Cooperative Extension hosts at NC State University and NC A&T University are looking forward to seeing you in May!
Registration Information:
Registration Timeline:
Early Registration Rate $399 - February 15 - March 14, 2025
Regular Registration Rate $425 - March 15 - April 15, 2025
Late Registration Rate $475 – April 16 - May 2, 2025
*Late registration remains available online the week prior to the conference. Late registration is also available on-site.
Registrants are able to use their PayPal account, a credit card, or a debit card OR mail a check made payable to the Extension Foundation to PO Box 404, Gretna, NE 68028.
If you need to cancel your conference registration, email Susan Kelly at susan_kelly@ncsu.edu by Monday, March 31 to receive a 50 percent refund of your registration fee. Cancellations received after March 31 will not be eligible for a refund.
Click here to register for the NUEL Southern & 1890's Regional Conference
*On the registration site at checkout, you must enter a Voucher Code for the type of registration to get the correct rate - either EARLY or REGULAR - depending on when you register.
Hotel & Travel Information:
Unscripted Durham
Unscripted Durham
Book your group rate for Nationals Urban Leaders Southern Region
$199/night plus tax
$20/parking
Reservations must be made no later than April 18, 2025 to book with the group block.
✈️ Getting to Durham is easy. The Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) has 62 nonstop destinations to several states nationwide and is only 20 minutes away from Downtown Durham.
Call for Presentation Proposals:
🗓️ Submission Deadline: EXTENDED to Wednesday, March 5, 2025
🎯 Theme: The Power of WE: Partnering for Impact
We invite members of the Southern and 1890 regions to showcase innovative programming initiatives addressing urban, suburban, and peri-urban populations.
Presentation Types:
Team and/or Individual Presentations: 45-minute moderated sessions with Q&A.
Poster Presentations: Highlight projects, research results, or program summaries through visuals and brief narratives in a poster format, no larger than 48x60.
Lightning Rounds: Fast-paced 15-minute presentations plus Q&A.
ALL conference proposals should address NUEL’s focus areas, Strengthening Communities, Protecting the Environment, Improving Health, Enriching Youth, & Feeding our Communities: Local food systems and network, and/or NUEL’s 4 P’s framework (positioning, personnel, programming, partnerships) and/or the conference theme (The Power of WE: Partnering for Impact).
Mobile Learning Workshops
The Conference will feature four exciting Mobile Learning Workshops. All who register for the conference will receive an email with a link to register for your mobile workshop selection. There is no additional cost for the Mobile Learning Workshops.
Get the Dirt on Durham: Ag in the City
Get the Dirt on Durham: Ag in the City
“Keep it Dirty Durham” is a popular local saying meant to inspire you to embrace the grit and character of Durham. Uncover the dirty side of agriculture through Extension’s role in the city with the Briggs Avenue Community Garden nestled on a 47-acre NC State-owned property at the edge of downtown, including an orchard, apiary and new trails. Check out the Urban Demonstration Garden at the downtown Extension center and its nearby partnership with a local business, Cocoa Cinnamon, and the resulting elaborate (and very cool) container garden demonstration site.
Yes UCan: Exploring the Catawba Trail Farm
Yes UCan: Exploring the Catawba Trail Farm
Discover the work of the nonprofit Urban Community AgriNomics (UCAN) on the 176-acre Catawba Trail Farm just north of downtown. Explore the rich history of the Farm, from its role along the Native American Great Trading Path to its past as a plantation. See how UCAN has transformed the land and refurbished former farm buildings with a working community garden and education space to provide a place to improve fresh food access to the community—Growing Communities, One Seed at a Time!
From Tobacco Roads to City Streets: Discovering Downtown Development
From Tobacco Roads to City Streets: Discovering Downtown Development
Downtown Durham is hot! Identified as a foodie city and home to the AAA Durham Bulls that inspired the movie Bull Durham, Durham has something for everyone. It wasn’t long ago that Durham wasn’t considered all that hot and featured more empty storefronts than businesses. Experience the impact of Extension staying in the city and explore programs from Extension Master Food Volunteers, to Welcome Baby, and Kids Voting in a historic building site. Uncover the centerpiece of downtown’s revitalization—the American Tobacco Campus, a residential, office, retail, and entertainment site next to the ballpark and experience Durham’s resurgence.
Bull City Strolls: Steps through Time (Walking History Tour)
Bull City Strolls: Steps through Time (Walking History Tour)
Walk the streets of downtown to explore the history and future of Durham. Starting at the Museum of Durham History, a pocket museum in the site of the former Durham bus transfer station, find out what made the Bull City and learn from the story of transformation from a post-Civil War southern tobacco town to the City of Medicine and a University and research hub. See Black Wall Street, Durham Central Park, and experience history beneath your feet as you stroll.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, NC State University will honor requests for reasonable accommodations made by individuals with disabilities. Please direct accommodation requests to: Donna Rewalt or Katherine Williams. Requests can be served more effectively if notice is provided at least 15 days before the event.
N.C. Cooperative Extension promotes equal opportunity and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, political affiliation and veteran status.
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