The Summit for Online Leadership and Administration (SOLA+R) brings together key campus leaders – provosts, deans, faculty and teams directly engaged in the management, delivery and teaching of online programs. This comprehensive experience brings together all the elements of the online enterprise in a holistic way—from teaching and learning to leadership and administration—preserving the salient issues for these two distinct professional communities, while catalyzing dialogue across all facets of the larger field.
Audience
UPCEA member institutions represent a variety of continuing and online education units — large and small, credit and noncredit programs, traditional and online courses and degrees, certificate programs and outreach efforts to build access for nontraditional students. SOLAR attendees will include:
Customized Sponsorship Options
UPCEA is open to customized options to help you reach your goal and build brand awareness. Contact Brandan Kaiser, bkaiser@upcea.edu, for information.
Options include, but are not limited to:
Corporate Membership
We invite you to learn more about UPCEA and take advantage of the benefits afforded the corporate community. Contact Brandan Kaiser, bkaiser@upcea.edu to learn more.
Affiliated Events Policy
The association has gone to great lengths and expense to negotiate and contract for a reduced room rate at conference hotels. That rate is based upon the projected attendance at the meeting. If corporate member and nonmember attendees elect to stay at other hotels, it subjects the association to attrition penalties that can cause significant financial loss to the association. We count on our corporate community to support the association, and one of the ways to do that is to honor our efforts to secure a sufficiently large room block at a reduced rate at a first-class hotel/conference venue.
For these reasons, corporate member and nonmember attendees are prohibited from holding any meetings (briefings, seminars, etc.) within a 25-mile radius, targeting professional, continuing, and online leaders in higher education during the scheduled hours of UPCEA events unless otherwise negotiated and scheduled with and by UPCEA. Any such meeting occurring within 36 hours before or after the UPCEA conference must be coordinated with UPCEA and, space permitting, be held at the conference hotel. This policy helps ensure that the association’s contracted obligations to the hotel for guest rooms and food and beverage minimums are met, which is essential for the financial health of the association and its members. If UPCEA cannot find space for the corporate member or nonmember attendee’s event at the contracted hotel, we will work to help find alternative space. In no circumstances, however, is it permissible for a corporate member or nonmember attendee to contract a separate hotel block, either at the conference hotel or elsewhere.
UPCEA reserves the right to prohibit corporate member and nonmember attendees who violate this policy from exhibiting or participating at UPCEA events.