Professional Development 

UCEA Fall 2007 Regional Awards

• New England Region Awards
• Mid-Atlantic Region Awards
• South Region Awards
• Mid-America Region Awards
• Great Plains Region Awards
• West Region Awards

New England Region Awards

Continuing Education Faculty Award

• William Parsons

Continuing Education Innovation and Creative Programming in Credit

• Ellen L. Birchander and Lillian L. Glickman, University of Massachusetts Boston

Continuing Education Innovation and Creative Programming in Non-credit

• David H. Swendsen, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Continuing Education Student Awards

• Roberto Cruz, University of Connecticut
• Virgenmina Viera, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Outstanding Service to Continuing Education

• Carol M. Vallett and Cynthia Belliveau, University of Vermont

Mid-Atlantic Region Awards

Administrative Support Services

• Common Syllabus Tool, UMUC

Business/Industry/Government Linkage

• 2007 Industry Summit on Mining Performance, Penn State University
• Developing an IT Occupational Partnership, Penn State Berks
• University of Maryland DUI, UMCP

Continuing Education Student Award — Degree Candidate

• Kulsum Malik, UMUC
• Margaret L. Sweetwood, Widener University

Credit Program Development

• CCJS 320 Introduction to Criminalistics, UMUC

Faculty and Staff Development

• Identifying and Reducing Math Anxiety, UMUC

Marketing and Promotion — Print Publication

• Stone Canoe, University College of Syracuse

Non-credit Program Development

• Nonprofit Management Certificate Program, The Corporate University at Millersville University
• Summer School in Statistics, Pennsylvania State University

Outstanding Faculty Service

• Pedro M. Ferreira, Widener University

Programs for Special Populations

• Drugs and the Criminal Justice System “Inside/Outside”, University of Delaware

South Region Awards

Continuing Education Faculty Award — Non-credit

• Greg Creech, Emory University

Professional Continuing Educator Award

• Siva Kumari, Ed.D., Rice University

Program of Excellence — Credit

• LUCHA: Language Learners at the University of Texas Center for Hispanic Achievement, University of Texas at Austin

Program of Excellence — Non-credit

• Accelerated Learning ESL: PDVSA Project — Petroleos de Venezuela S.A., University of Houston

Mid-America Region Awards

Continuing Education Support Specialist Award

• Shari Grindley, University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign

Creative Program — Non-credit

• Deyang International Leadership Development Training Program Center for Organizational Resources and Rinker Center for International Programs, Ball State University
• Historic Preservation, Northwestern University
• Human Capital Academy Train to Work Program, University of Central Missouri
• Joint Critical Infrastructure Conference, University of Cincinnati
• Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth, Kent State University

Excellence in Teaching and Faculty Service Award

• Darrel Bigham, University of Southern Indiana and William T. Horner, University of Missouri — Columbia

Great Plains Region Awards

Credit Program Award

• Department of Social Work Online Part-Time Master of Social Work (MSW) Degree Program, University of North Dakota

Excellence in Teaching Award

• Ann Dennison Murray, Kansas State University

Innovations and Contributions Award

• ExpanSIS — A Multi-Institutional Student Information System, Institute for Academci Alliances and Office of Mediated Education, Kansas State University

John L. Christopher Outstanding Leadership Award

• Elizabeth E. Stevens, Kansas State University

Non-credit Program Award

• Dietary Managers Course, University of North Dakota
• Honorable Mention: Health Physics Exam Review; Colorado State University

Support Specialist Award

• Cindy Bracciano, Continuing Education, University of Kansas and Aaron Stroot, Kansas State University

West Region Awards

Outstanding Administrative Process Or Service

• UCLA Extension Writers’ Program’s Cyberhouse: An Online Open House, University of California, Los Angeles

Outstanding Credit Program

• Green Building and Sustainable Design Certificate Program, University of California, Davis

Outstanding Non-credit Program

• Making Good Decisions: Training, Assessment, and Certification Program for Resource Management Act Decision-makers, The University of Auckland

Outstanding Non-traditional Student

• Mary Jane Oatman-Wak Wak, Lewis-Clark State College

Professional Contributions to Continuing Education

• Carolyn Shadle, Ph.D., California State University, Long Beach