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The 45th Annual PAACE Conference on Adult Education, the largest gathering of adult educators in Pennsylvania, will be held at the Penn Stater Conference Hotel, State College, June 1 - 3, 2010. Adult educators and those from related are invited to attend the premier professional development and networking opportunity for all aspects of adult education in Pennsylvania. Check back often for more updates.

Hotel Reservations:

You can now reserve your room for the 2010 PAACE Conference June 1-3, 2010 by calling The Penn Stater at 800-233-7505.

When reserving your room, please request the PAACE conference rate (be sure to stress the spelling as having a double A!). The rate for single or double occupancy is $99/night. Triple occupancy is $109/night.

Honorary Chair:

PAACE is pleased to announce the Honorary Chair for this year’s conference is Verizon.                     

Keynote speaker:

PAACE is pleased to announce the keynote speaker will be Byron Pitts. 

Prior to being named to the 60 Minutes team, Mr. Pitts was the network’s national correspondent. In that capacity he covered many of the biggest stories of the past few years.  He recently did a piece on illiteracy that ran on the CBS Sunday Morning show.

CBS News: Battling the Scourge of Illiteracy

Reminder about the change in conference dates:

Due to the financial crisis that is affecting most programs in the state, the PAACE conference will be moved to June 1 -3, 2010.  The conference will still be held at the Penn Stater in State College.

Please mark your calendars for these new dates.  These days are the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday right after Memorial Day.

Conference committees are being formed.  If you would like to help on a committee or be involved in the conference planning, please email Lori Keefer at lkeefer@gplc.org or call 412.661.7323 ext 131.