The 2009 Achievement Conference, "Outside the Box, Beyond the Book: Strategies for Learning," will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at The Nittany Lion Inn on Penn State's University Park campus. This ninth annual event is presented by the Black Graduate Student Association and co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Equity, the Office of Graduate Educational Equity Programs, the Office of Undergraduate Education, the Commission on Racial/Ethnic Diversity, the Forum on Black Affairs, the Africana Research Center, and the Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering and Development in Africa.