UCEA Membership Categories and Benefits

The University Continuing Education Association is an institutionally-based membership organization. Its membership is composed of regionally accredited, degree-granting universities and colleges. Individuals at these member institutions are eligible to join the Association as professional members. The Association's membership categories are described below.

Institutional Membership
Affiliate Membership
Professional Membership

Institutional Membership

Institutional membership applies to degree-granting, regionally-accredited colleges and universities that are incorporated in the United States. An institutional membership includes one professional membership for the institution’s official representative, who receives all mailings of the Association and participates in the business meetings and elections of the Association on behalf of the institution. The annual dues (PDF ) for an institutional member is based on the institution’s FTE and the highest level of degree awarded by the institution.

Affiliate Membership

Affiliate status (which is non-voting) is available to colleges and universities outside the United States, and to non-profit organizations with an interest or current activities in the field of continuing higher education. Each affiliate member has an official representative who receives all mailings of the Association. As of July 2001, non-U.S. colleges and universities that are accredited by their country’s higher education authority have the option to become institutional members of the Association.

Benefits of Institutional and Affiliate Membership

Professional Development

Extend your continuing education network, discover valuable partnership opportunities and develop new connections with leaders in the field at UCEA's annual Executive Assembly.
Enhance your employees effectiveness on the job by encouraging them to master new knowledge and competencies through UCEA's professional development Modules.
Expand your employees' professional knowledge base by supporting their participation in UCEA's Communities of Practice, which provide face-to-face and electronic connections with like professionals and the chance to work collectively on solutions to common concerns.
Develop the leadership talents of your continuing education professionals through their involvement in UCEA's regional and national program and governance bodies.
Take advantage of cutting-edge national professional development conferences and seminars sponsored by UCEA.

Management Solutions

Learn how different types of colleges and universities organize their continuing education and professional studies programs and and assess the optimal structure for your own organization.
Utilize UCEA's website to access news, best practices, surveys, and professional development information.
Take advantage of UCEA's connections nationally and internationally to strengthen your institutions continuing education efforts.
Exchange ideas, best practices, and strategies with peers from coast to coast and learn from their successes and challenges.

Governmental Relations

Receive advance reports on national legislation, policies, and funding opportunities of relevance to continuing higher education.
Ensure that the interests of continuing higher education are represented to the Congress, federal agencies, and the media.

Information and Analysis

Stay informed about the latest best practices and issues in continuing education through UCEA's award-winning InFocus newsletter, the Association's electronic update for members only, and the Continuing Higher Education Review, UCEA's scholarly journal.
Enlarge your understanding of the implications of emerging trends for the field through UCEA's issue papers, management monographs, and Lifelong Learning Trends, the Association's factbook on national trends relative to continuing education.

National Recognition

Bring national recognition to your institution through UCEA's national awards program, which honors outstanding achievement and innovation by colleges and universities nationwide.
Promote your continuing education programs by listing them in national directories published by UCEA and by connecting your electronic catalog to UCEA's website.

Professional Membership

All professional staff at UCEA member institutions and affiliates are eligible to join the Association as professional members.

Benefits of Professional Membership

Inclusion in an organized network of continuing higher education colleagues
Opportunities to improve your professional expertise through UCEA's Annual Conference, special interest seminars, and regional conferences
Recognition of your professional achievements through national and regional awards programs
Access to UCEA's governmental and public information resources
Chances to develop leadership skills through participation at regional and national levels
Affiliation with one UCEA Commission and two Communities of Practice, focused on professional specializations within the field of continuing higher education
Opportunities to showcase your professional expertise before national and regional audiences
Publications containing timely information and data about issues, trends and practices in the field.
Access to UCEA members-only website areas and listservs

The professional membership fee includes:

A listing in and copy of the UCEA Membership Directory Who's Who in College and University Continuing and Professional Education
Subscription to the Association's award-winning newsletter, InFocus
Continuing Higher Education Review, the Association's scholarly journal
20 percent off price of all other UCEA publications
Reduced registration fees for UCEA conferences and seminars
One Commission and two Community of Practice affiliations
Opportunities to hold office at the regional and national levels and to serve on UCEA committees
Opportunities to join Knowledge Networks with collegues who share special interests in emerging areas such global expansion and online publishing

Membership +Plus fee includes (in addition to above):

Lifelong Learning Trends (fifth edition), a fact book that illustrates and explains demographic trends affecting continuing higher education
Organizational Issues Papers on current management issues of concern to continuing education units
Periodic Survey Summary reports of original research conducted by UCEA
An additional Community of Practice affiliation

The annual professional individual membership dues are $50 per year; for the Membership Plus category, the dues are $75 per year.

For further information about membership in UCEA, please contact: Cyrus Homayounpour, Director of Membership, at 202. 659.3130; mail: cyrus@ucea.edu.