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2009 Annual Conference
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Thursday, April 27:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. This opening breakfast session is included in the registration fee and is an important component of the 2009 UCEA conference. All those attending the conference are assigned randomly to a table. This gives everyone an opportunity to meet and talk with new colleagues from across the nation and around the globe. A facilitator at each table invites each table member to talk briefly about their institution, their role, how its continuing higher education unit is configured, and how the challenges facing higher education in the last five years have impacted their institutions. This session starts the conversation about the larger themes of the conference at the level of individual institutions and professionals. Everyone is encouraged to attend and participate over breakfast. 8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Why University Lifelong Learning Is Essential for Economic Growth…AND Recovery in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis – A U.S./European Dialogue Sustainable Partnerships: Building Hope by Pushing the Rope Inter-institutional partnerships can provide considerable hope for the future, but working out the details may be much like pushing a rope. Continuing education units have historically provided leadership in forming such partnerships, especially for increased efficiencies online. The current state of the U.S. economy, changing student demographics, rising “customer” expectations of students, and the increased revenue needs of institutions make inter-institutional partnerships even more attractive and more risky for CE professionals than ever before. Should your institution partner with another institution to deliver programs more cost-effectively? What characteristics would help make such a partnership sustainable? Is the CE unit the appropriate arena for leadership in building such partnerships? This session will offer concrete examples of inter-institutional partnerships and examine why some succeeded and others failed. A Leadership Deficit: Workforce Education Needs of the U.S. Nonprofit Sector The U.S. nonprofit sector employs nearly 10 percent of the nation’s workforce and encompasses over 1.6 million organizations. In less than a decade 75 percent of the executive directors and senior managers of America’s nonprofits will be retiring. This managerial loss has the potential to cripple private and government social services across the country. Discover how your continuing education program can be part of the solution to this workforce crisis perfect storm. A new emphasis in the American economy on alternative energy sources and sustainable practices seems inevitable—part of a global transformation now underway. This session will consider the role of continuing education in increasing skills and capacity to be successful in this new environment. Topics include anticipating and addressing needs for education in sustainable business practices; green building, sustainable design and land-use planning; energy efficiency and alternative energy sources; water resource management and stewardship; and social entrepreneurship. Speakers will consider the value of collaborative organizational partnerships, inside and outside the institution, and the importance of incorporating sustainability into CE unit structure and activities. Giving Students What They Want (To Get the Results You Want) Despite efforts to create Web-based content that engages students, many schools now realize “friends” networks, blogs and lifestyle/entertainment content attract more “clicks.” Your preferred content and their preferred content need not be mutually exclusive. This presentation explores content and technology strategies that fuse student and administrator needs in one seamless environment to enhance student academic success and retention. Capitalizing on Distance Education to Transform Institutions: New Approaches to Programs, Capacity Building and Service Delivery The online medium allows colleges and universities to reach out to new market niches while also serving existing students better and more flexibly. E-learning technologies invite different approaches to the provision of learning and services. Online learning provides faculty members and senior administrators the opportunity to rethink and reconstruct the service delivery model, often improving cost-effectiveness through innovation and inter-institutional collaboration. 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. This year’s Exhibit Hall will be full of outstanding companies ready to meet your every program need! It’s a one-stop shop for hardware, software, customized resources and support services. 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Presiding: ROBERT WILTENBURG, Washington University in St.Louis, UCEA President
Climate, Development, and Security: Challenges and OpportunitiesSpeaker: Adil Najam 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 pm Chinese and American Universities and their Relationships with the Business CommunityPresiding: Robert Wiltenburg, Washington University in St. Louis, UCEA PresidentPresenter: William C. Kirby, Harvard University William C. Kirby is the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University, and Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He is also Honorary Visiting Professor at Peking University, Nanjing University, Chongqing University, and Fudan University. A historian of modern China, Professor Kirby’s current research projects include case studies of Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China and the United States. Before coming to Harvard in 1992, Professor Kirby was a Professor of History and Dean of University College at Washington University in St. Louis. Note: Lunch is open to UCEA Institutional Representative, their alternates, or their designees only. Separate registration and fee required. 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Outreach and Engagement CoP Lunch The Outreach and Engagement CoP is an active group that strives to provide members with opportunities for learning and constructive interaction with professional colleagues. Those attending will have an opportunity to learn about best practices at other institutions, as well as share their own Conference and Professional Programs CoP Awards Lunch The Distance Learning CoP will have its Annual Business and Awards lunch. Community of Practice SessionsOutreach and Engagement CoP: Building on a discussion to better understand outreach and engagement conceptually, and the role of continuing education in its advancement organizationally, two prominent co-facilitators will offer remarks about their work at different institutions. This session will be a highly interactive experience that will offer participants an opportunity for learning, exchange of ideas, and networking, and the give the CoP an opportunity to better understand and support the interests of its members. Quality Assurance CoP: What are the critical pieces that continuing education units must bring together for successful collaborations aimed at broadening access? This presentation offers a multi-layered analysis of such partnerships, including financial and curricular issues. The need for continuing education units to be learning organizations will be highlighted. Military Education CoP: A panel of the senior officials representing each of the military Services will talk about the online capabilities each has created so the military can find a school that meets their needs and then apply online for their military tuition assistance benefit. All accredited schools can register in the Services search tools to make it easier for the military to find their school. There will be lots of time to ask questions and meet the Service Voluntary Education Chiefs. Distance Learning CoP: The Online Development Institute at the UM-St. Louis was created to help faculty make a smooth transition to online teaching. Learn how the continuing education unit created a no-frills infrastructure to support online development, including approval of a scalable funding stream. The pilot program has placed CE strategically for the campus’ online effort. Conference & Professional Programs CoP: This session explores how student written WikiBooks for a required undergraduate education course at Old Dominion University may herald a new approach to textbooks. How will this technology adapt to a future defined by new visions of the classroom, and new roles for professors, students, authors, and publishers in traditional classrooms, virtual worlds and in lifelong education? The presentation will describe the experience at Old Dominion and present a continuum for discussion of some of the characteristics of textbooks for the future. Liberal Learning CoP: Liberal Education encompasses many disciplines across the university. It is usually at the core of distribution requirements for undergraduate degrees, and the skills learned in its classes are valued widely by employers. Yet “liberal education” is also a vague term, open to various interpretations, and the process and methods of liberal education are as diverse as its subject matter. This roundtable discussion seeks to explore what exactly liberal education means to continuing education professionals. Where, when, and how does liberal learning take place, and what is its value to so-called non-traditional students? Join your colleagues for an exploration of the theory and practice of liberal learning, especially in these times of economic distress. 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Keeping Up with the Joneses 3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Highlights from the 2008-2009 UCEA Survey of International Education Programs Effective Leadership of a Small C.E. Organization with Great Ambitions: Goals, Metrics, Team Creation, Consistency Succession Planning: Preparing a Current and Future State Government Workforce for a Changing Workplace To meet the California state government’s workforce crisis, the College of Continuing Education (CCE) at Sacramento State University is working with state government agencies to deliver a global training and workforce development solution. The program offers three-tiered training for executives, managers and supervisors, connects training with significant statewide initiatives impacting the workforce and turns the classroom into an experiential laboratory to explore solutions with global, enterprise-wide application. Arts and Enterprise: Reframing Creative and Applied Arts Education for the Future Creative arts education is enjoying a rebirth. Long held as a challenging career choice, arts is merging with enterprise as industry demands of its employees critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Some proclaim the MFA as the new MBA. The ever-broadening role of the liberal arts can lead to more career paths for people drawn to the arts, as well as a whole new world of innovation and interpretation for executives, scientists, and techno buffs alike. As CE provides curricula rich in business and technical methodologies, it should consider the role of creative thinking in powering new ideas and driving innovation. Is creativity the last great hope in the new economy? Could creativity be the new investment of choice? In this panel, CE leaders discuss the rise in some arts fields, popular interest in good design, Baby Boomers leaving corporate jobs to pursue a passion, and why it’s imperative that CE reinforce the value of the creative process across all professions. Content Management, Learning Assessment, and Continuous Improvement In this session you will learn to manage content and digital rights, collect and deploy aggregate data on student performance, utilize effectively available technology for assessing student performance, and create feedback loops for documentation of performance and continuous improvement of your CE offerings. Smart Marketing in Recessionary Times 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. 6:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. For more information: contact Natalia Kats, UCEA Director of Conferences, at nkats@upcea.edu or 202.659.3130. |
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