Experience three highly regarded UPCEA #SOLAR25 sessions with your campus community!
SOLAR attendees, through their conference evaluations, helped the UPCEA team identify sessions to feature in SOLAR Encore. As UPCEA Board President, Rob Bruce, shared at the event, UPCEA understands the power of a dynamic portfolio. Pilots such as SOLAR Encore lead to new opportunities and programs for members, ones that reflect the needs of members and their institutions.
SOLAR Encore is designed to address the limited time and travel budgets of UPCEA members. Rather than offering a costly event streaming package which bifurcates UPCEA’s resources between in-person and streaming experiences, UPCEA is focused on making in-person AND virtual experiences great, independently of one another. The research is clear, remote learners viewing distant in-person instruction is not ideal, so we have applied that research to our portfolio strategy. UPCEA continues to hybridize its portfolio with intentionality. Rather than adding a streaming package to an in-person event, while that may be efficient, we do not feel that is what higher education professionals need or want.
Attendance is free for UPCEA Members.
Unlike streaming packages, where sessions are often selected by the staff, we used attendee feedback to determine the SOLAR Encore sessions. The following sessions will be featured at SOLAR Encore:
Clicks, Codes, and Consequences: Understanding Student Conduct and the Law in Online Classes
This engaging, interactive session offers practical strategies for addressing student misconduct in online learning environments while maintaining compliance with legal standards. It presents common challenges such as academic dishonesty, cyberbullying, and inappropriate online behavior, connecting them to key legal frameworks, including FERPA, Title IX, and due process requirements. In addition, it will introduce academic reviews, address disability law, and integrate applications about AI law. Be prepared for case study discussions, role-playing exercises, and collaborative problem-solving scenarios.
Program Onboarding: Unlocking Opportunities for Growth and Impact
Discover a collaborative approach to onboarding new academic programs with the support of an academic innovation team and instructional designers. This session outlines strategies for aligning program goals with institutional priorities, designing engaging learning experiences, and fostering faculty readiness through professional development. Emphasizing cross-functional collaboration and iterative design, it provides actionable steps to streamline program onboarding while maintaining quality and innovation. Ideal for administrators, faculty, and support staff, this presentation equips attendees with a practical framework to ensure successful program launches and continuous improvement in higher education.
Navigating Dynamics with Position and Organizational Structure Changes
Promotion? Reorganized? Job change? Vision/Goals change? Each requires a different mind set and interactions. Just as a lobster might not recognize it’s in a boiling pot of water with slow increases in temperature, online leaders may miss, or choose to ignore, changes in their environment that should trigger some reflection, evaluation, and ultimately a decision to remain in their role or commit to finding a new one. Join the panel of online education leaders with lived experience in these situations to hear how they navigated such changes. Attendees can expect to have a candid and frank discussion on how you assess your environment and embrace your ‘next’.