Participant Responsiblities

You are responsible for attending the morning presentation and discussion sessions. Please be punctual! If some people arrive late, we either wait for them, in which case the people who arrived on time suffer, or we don't wait for them, in which case the people who arrived late suffer. Who deserves to suffer least? Right. We will start on time (unless, heaven forbid, the coordinator is late).

You are responsible for pursuing the prescribed exercises during the first afternoon session. The word is pursue, rather than complete, because many of the exercises are sufficiently extensive that you are not expected to complete them. This is by design and allows both for the varying background of different participants and for your varying interests and concerns. Most exercises include numerous components, each suitable for a particular level of experience and for different levels of interest.

You are responsible for proper care and return of materials borrowed from the East-West Center Resource Materials Collection (RMC).

You are responsible for learning from and teaching your fellow participants during the afternoon exercise session. By all means work together in doing the exercises insofar as this facilitates your learning. Many of your will have some specific knowledge or expertise that many other participants lack. Share your knowledge by assisting others, individually, in small groups, or by organizing a presentation of your own during the afternoon exercise session. Work together with other participants to organize such presentations whenever you think they facilite learning. Sharing you knowledge and expertise in this was will be a valuable learning experience for you as well as for your fellow participants.

You are responsible for developing a scenario planning exercise and for presenting a report on this exercise to the workshop during the last week of the workshop. You are welcome to team up with other participants for this purpose, but you are also welcome to work on your own if you prefer. If you want to team up, it is your responsibility to form the team in cooperation with other participants. The idea of the scenario planning exercise is to identify an area of application for the 2000 round census, work out specific census products for this application, and develop a plan for producing these products. There will be ample opportunity to ask questions about this exercise, but the initiative for developing it lies with you.

You are jointly responsible with your fellow participants for developing and presenting a report on this workshop for presentation to all Summer Seminar participants during the last week of the Seminar. See the workshop syllabus for timing. The tradition is for these reports to be both informative and humorous. This presentation is entirely the responsability of the workshop participants!. The coordinator and resource person are not involved!