Are you getting ready to arrive in Corvallis?
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) with answers from the Conference Organizers!
Where do I sign in? We will have a registration table set up at 3pm Monday in the International Living and Learning Building, conference dormitory space. If you are staying in the dorms, just walk downstairs and find the table! If you are coming from the Hilton Garden Inn, it’s a short walk. Registration will end at 5pm. Registration will resume the following morning in the Memorial Union, the main conference site.
How can I park on campus? Hopefully, you will not need to! If you are staying in the dorms or the conference hotel, the campus is right there and the conference site a short walk. If you are coming from elsewhere in or out of town, you will need to arrange to purchase a parking pass for the day(s). They are about $10 per day and you can find information here
How do I get to the downtown opening reception? Our opening reception is a pretty casual get together at a food truck court called Common Fields. It is easily walkable from campus (0.7 miles from the dorms. 1 mile from the MU conference site). Corvallis is flat and the weather is expected to be perfectly lovely (low 70s). The nicest walking path is down Campus Way, which then becomes Madison Avenue. There is parking downtown if you are driving. And we also have free city buses, although they only run until 6pm. You can find information on the bus routes here.
Are there any special tricks to getting around Corvallis in general? YES! Avenues are named after US Presidents in sequential order running West-East, with Washington the furthest South. The main avenue north of campus is Monroe (President #5). Cross-streets are numbers, with 1st running North-South against the Willamette River. Downtown is essentially 1st to 5th, Jefferson to Jackson. OSU sits mostly between 15th to the East and 26th to the West, and then Monroe to the North and Washington to the South. If you take 9th street North past the first 15 presidents, you get to the area of town that has big box stores and franchise restaurants.
Where can I eat? We will provide a list of breakfast and lunch restaurant options for you when you register. We hope you will join us for the Banquet Wednesday night. For other dinners, we recommend going downtown and seeing what strikes your fancy. Corvallis has a lot to offer!
And for those of you getting ready to attend the parallel ZOOM ONLY Conference:
When do I get the zoom links for the panels? We will be sending those out to all zoom registrants shortly before the start of the conference. We will be sending those to you using the email you registered with. If you do not receive those zoom links before Monday afternoon, please contact us at wcsa2022conference@gmail.com
