Julius M. Nolte Award for Extraordinary Leadership is given to an individual in recognition of unusual and extraordinary contributions to the cause of continuing education on the regional, national, and/or international level.
Recipient: Jay A. Halfond, Boston University
Walton S. Bittner Service Citation for Outstanding Service in UPCEA is given to express appreciation to a member for outstanding service in professional, continuing, and/or online education at his/her institution, and service of major significance to UPCEA.
Recipient: Shelly Yu-Tze Wang, California State University, Fullerton
Adelle F. Robertson Emerging Professional Continuing Educator Awardrecognizes the scholarship, leadership and contributions to the profession of a person who has entered the field within the past five to ten years.
Recipient: Dr. Heather K. Hunt, University of Missouri
Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature recognizes the author and publisher of an outstanding work of continuing higher education literature.
Recipient: The Business of Innovating Online, Edited by Kathryn E. Linder, Oregon State University Ecampus
Dorothy Durkin Award For Strategic Innovation In Marketing And Enrollment Management recognizes an individual for achievement in strategic planning, marketing innovation or enrollment management success.
Recipient: Anca Matcovschi, Utah State University
UPCEA Excellence In Teaching Award is presented to individuals who have provided outstanding teaching, course development, mentoring of students, and service to continuing education.
Recipient: Amy Simons, University of Missouri, Columbia
UPCEA Outstanding Professional, Continuing, And/Or Online Education Student Award: Credit recognizes outstanding student achievement in professional and continuing education.
Recipient: Maria del Carmen Gonzalez, California State University, Fullerton
UPCEA Outstanding Program Award: Credit recognizes outstanding professional and continuing education programs allowing students to earn academic credit.
Recipient: GVSU Physician Assistant Studies, Grand Valley State University
UPCEA Outstanding Program Award: Noncredit recognizes outstanding professional and continuing education programs that do not offer credit.
Recipient: OSU Introductory Tribal Finance and Accounting Certificate Program, Center for Executive and Professional Development, Oklahoma State University
UPCEA International Leadership Award recognizes an individual for representing innovative leadership in one or more of the following areas: educational programs and services; administrative practices; collaborations and partnerships; or research.
Recipient: Elizabeth Ivy Quansah, Auburn University
UPCEA International Program Of Excellence Award recognizes a program engaged in activities that promote the exchange of knowledge and ideas of global significance.
Recipient: Certificate of Engineering Projects Evaluation (EPE) and Certificate of Engineering Projects Management (EPM), University of Miami
UPCEA Business & Operations Award for Operational Excellence recognizes outstanding individual contributions in operations, entrepreneurial, and intra-preneurial work that move an UPCEA member institution into a more favorable position, specifically in financial, human, administrative and IT operations in professional, continuing and online units at postsecondary institutions.
Recipient: Jason J. Matjasic, University of Pennsylvania
UPCEA Excellence In Advancing Student Success Award recognizes an individual or program for advancing the success of students in both credit and non-credit programs.
Recipient: Innovations for Student Success, Western Governors University
UPCEA Strategic Innovation In Online Education Award recognizes an institution of higher education that has set and met innovative goals focused on online education and been strategic in the planning, development, implementation and sustainability in line with the institutional mission.
Recipient: Teaching Online Prep Program (TOPP), Kapi‘olani Community College
UPCEA Outstanding Service in Postsecondary Instructional Design Award recognizes outstanding service to the field of instructional design through modeling and disseminating research, best practices, innovative methods, and/or mentorship, all for the betterment of the instructional design community.
Recipient: Penny Ralston-Berg, The Pennsylvania State University
This award was presented at the 2020 Summit for Online Leadership and Administration + Roundtable in New Orleans of February 5, 2020.
UPCEA Engagement Award recognizes an outstanding mutually-beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources between a UPCEA member institution and one or more external constituents such as local communities, corporations, government organizations, or associations.
Recipient: College & Career Pathways for Alternative Education Students: A Partnership between Riverside County Office of Education and University of California, Riverside Extension