AIHEC 2017 Winter Meeting & Capitol Hill Visits 

The AIHEC 2017 Winter Meeting and Capitol Hill Days will be held at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, DC on February 6-9, 2017. Travel days are Sunday, February 5 and LATE on Thursday, February 9 or Friday, February 10.  A USDA-AIHEC Leadership Group meeting is tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of Thursday, February 9. Click here for a detailed schedule of events.  (Check periodically for updates.)

Please note:  it is very important to register ALL participants for this meeting. Each TCU may bring up to FIVE participants without incurring a registration fee. The AIHEC Board of Directors approved a motion at the 2016 fall meeting to implement a registration fee for each additional participant beyond five per TCU.  A registration fee of $200, to help cover the costs of meals provided, will be assessed for participants over 5/TCU. TCUs registering additional participants will receive an electronic invoice upon registration. 

Please have ONE person register all those attending from your college, using the registration link below.  To help us accommodate Capitol Hill requests for names of all meeting attendees, please be sure to register all participants from your institution by 5:00 pm (EST) on Wednesday, January 25, 2017.

Important Webinars:  To prepare for the transition to the President-elect Trump Administration and our Hill visits, AIHEC will host a webinar (offered twice) to explain the context for Winter meetings and discuss key transition issues.  We will also cover TCU priorities, meeting format, appropriate attire, decorum and other issues.  The webinars will be: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 and Wednesday, Jan. 25, both at 2:00 p.m. EST. The webinar is the BEST way for you college to prepare for the meetings. We expect ALL participants -- especially students -- to participate in one of the two webinars. (You only need to participate in one webinar.) The links to the webinars are:

January 24, 2017 at 2pm: https://aihec.webex.com/aihec/onstage/g.php?MTID=e676e5e0e3e5ea897e49dfbfa8e1f9178

January 25, 2017 at 2pm: https://aihec.webex.com/aihec/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5348b0172d200a132e3c37716f167411

To reserve your hotel room: The AIHEC room block at the Washington Court Hotel is current full. As an alternative, AIHEC made a block of rooms available at the nearby Phoenix Park Hotel. Reservations can be made by contacting the PPH hotel directly. If you need a room or multiple rooms for the 2017 AIHEC Winter Meeting, please call the Phoenix Park Hotel toll free number 1-877-237-2082 or 202-638-6900 and identify yourself as a member of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium group. You may also register online by clicking here and entering the Group Code 21194 to obtain the AIHEC group rate: Single rooms are $229.00/night and Double Rooms are $259.00/night. You must reserve your room before January 9, 2017. The room block will end at that time, or when full, whichever is first, so reserve a room now if you have not already done so. 

Closest airport:  Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).

 

Closest Metro stop: Union Station, on the Red Line.  (If you take the Metro from DCA, take the YELLOW Line in the direction of Fort Totten to the CHINATOWN stop. You need to SWITCH TRAINS at Chinatown to the RED Line toward Glenmont, and exit at UNION STATION, then walk west, approximately 3 blocks to New Jersey Ave, NW. You may view the Metro map here.

Weather: 45 Degrees F - 30 Degrees F.

 

 

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