October 4 | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Karen R. Stubaus, Executive Vice Chancellor for Administration, Rutgers UniversityDr. Karen R. Stubaus is Executive Vice Chancellor for Administration at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Douglass College, Dr. Stubaus received her Ph.D. in seventeenth-century American history from Rutgers. Responsible for a broad array of academic, budgetary, strategic, and policy matters across the university. Dr. Stubaus has also been a leader in increasing the diversity of the faculty and in promoting women’s leadership at all levels of the institution.
Dr. Stubaus teaches whenever she is able in the School of Arts and Sciences Department of American Studies and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as in the Rutgers Ph.D program on Higher Education. Her favorite course is Death and Dying in American History, which her students note “is not nearly as grim as expected.”
October 4 | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
In just the past year, momentum has shifted more rapidly than expected in a number of sectors and industries, which may dramatically impact related economies and ultimately higher education. Economies and industries are likely to be disrupted and workers shifted to new industries and growth areas. New demographics of power will come into place, which could place more support on new modes of learning such as badging and alternative credentialing. The UPCEA Center for Research and Strategy will show what it believes to be major changes on the horizon based on employer interviews, surveys of Millennials and Generation Z, occupational forecasts and scans of company and news sources.
Jim Fong is the founding director of UPCEA’s Center for Research and Strategy. In his role, Mr. Fong has analyzed demographic, occupational, technological and societal trends and data to help the higher education community better serve the adult and corporate learner. As the Center’s director, he works closely with dozens of colleges and universities annually in new program development initiatives, enrollment management and marketing process analyses and the review of online and continuing education portfolios.
Prior to joining UPCEA, Mr. Fong worked as a higher education strategic marketing and CRM consultant and researcher for two firms and prior to that was the Director of Marketing, Research and Planning for Penn State Outreach. At Penn State Outreach, he was responsible for strategic marketing, marketing management, research, creative and database teams. Mr. Fong played a major role in the early launch of Penn State’s World Campus by assessing new program needs and the development of marketing strategies and systems.
Jim holds an M.B.A., an M.S. in Applied Statistics and a B.S. in Mathematics, all from The University of Vermont. In 2004, UPCEA awarded him the Adelle Robertson Award as its Continuing Professional Educator for the year. That year, he also received the Mid-Atlantic Region’s Distinguished Service Award.
October 5 | 9:00 AM-10:00 AM
Business, industry, and changing demographics suggest the demand for traditional four year degrees will remain flat or decline, while alternative credentials will increase. Suppliers of alternative credentialing can come from a number of places, but will higher education keep pace? This presentation will showcase essential elements of the Alternative Credential landscape, including foundation support, advocacy for badging and micro-credentialing, institutional responses, and benchmarking data which defines the emerging trends in alternative credentials.
Dr. Richard Novak has been with the Division of Continuing Studies (formerly the Division of Continuous Education and Outreach) since its inception in July 1996. He has been engaged with online learning at Rutgers since 1998. He most recently served as Associate Vice President for Continuing Studies and Distance Learning and also Director of Special Projects for Academic Affairs at Rutgers.
He is also an associate member of the graduate faculty in the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, teaching face-to-face, hybrid and fully online courses beginning in 1993. Dr. Novak is Past-President of the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), the principal US organization for professional and continuing higher education. At Rutgers, Dr. Novak directs RutgersOnline, the centralized home for Rutgers University online degree programs using the Pearson eCollege course management system.
Dr. Novak provides executive leadership for a large and diverse University-wide division at Rutgers University that includes over 125 employees in 14 distinct units at over a dozen locations, that coordinate hundreds of credit and non-credit programs, enrolling thousands of participants, reaching audiences from youth to retirees and providing various support services across the University.
In 2004, Dr. Novak was presented the Walton S. Bittner Service Citation for Imaginative Leadership in the Advancement of Continuing Education and Distinguished Service to the Association by UPCEA. In April 2011 he was awarded the national Excellence in Online Administration award.
Wayne Smutz is Dean of Continuing Education and UCLA Extension at the University of California Los Angeles, a position he has held since October 2013. Prior to his current role, he was the Executive Director of the Penn State World Campus and Associate Vice President of Academic Outreach.
Dr. Smutz also is the Founding Dean of UCLA Global Online. This campus initiative is focused on establishing UCLA’s presence as a global university with respect to its educational offerings. It will include both campus based graduate-level programs and UCLA Extension certificates when it launches in Fall 2018.
Dr. Smutz is President of the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) and has served on its board for several years. He previously served on the boards of the Online Learning Consortium (formerly the Sloan Consortium) and the American Distance Education Consortium. He was a faculty member for the Institute for Emerging Leaders in Online Learning in 2011 and 2012. In 2011, he received the Sloan Consortium's John Bourne Award for Individual Achievement in Online Learning while in the same year Penn State's World Campus was awarded the Sloan Consortium's award for Institution Wide Excellence in Online Learning. In addition, he has received national and regional UPCEA programming and engagement awards.
A native Californian, he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a BA in History from the University of California at Berkeley, and the recipient of an MA in political science, along with a PhD in higher education, both from Penn State.
Ken Lindblom, Dean, School of Professional Development, Stony Brook University Ken Lindblom teaches English methods courses, graduate composition- rhetoric courses, adolescent literature, and directed the English Teacher Education Program at Stony Brook from 2003-2016. He was Associate Professor of English at Illinois State University (1997-2003). Before taking university positions, Dr. Lindblom was Director of the Mid-State Teacher Center and, before that an English teacher at Columbia High School in East Greenbush, NY. He holds New York State Permanent Teacher Certification in English, grades 7-12; a Ph.D. in English (Composition & Cultural Rhetoric) from Syracuse University; an MA in English from SUNY Albany; and, a BA in Writing & Literature from Southampton College (LIU). He has won eight awards for his teaching, and he was named a 2012 Educator of Excellence by the New York State English Council.
From 2008-2013, Ken Lindblom was editor of English Journal, the oldest and most widely-read, peer-reviewed national journal devoted to teaching English grades 6-12. He co-authored the fourth edition of Making the Journey: Being and Becoming a Teacher of English Language Arts (Heinemann 2016), and has a follow-up series due out from the National Council of Teachers of English beginning in Fall 2017.
Lindblom has authored or co-authored over a dozen essays on theory, history, and practice of the teaching of writing and English for peer-reviewed journals, including Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education, English Journal, Rhetoric Review, The English Record, Journal of Advanced Composition, and Journal of Pragmatics, and several essay collections. He co-authored the book, Grammar Rants, with Patricia A. Dunn (Heinemann 2011). He has presented dozens of papers at national conferences, including the annual conventions of the National Council of Teachers of English and the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Nora Lewis, Vice Dean, Professional and Liberal Education, School of Arts and Sciences, University of PennsylvaniaNora Lewis, appointed Vice Dean for Professional and Liberal Education in 2010, has been a member of the full-time professional staff in the School of Arts and Sciences since 1993. Prior to becoming Vice Dean, she was Executive Director of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS). She has also served as Executive Director of LPS and interim director of Penn's English Language Programs.
Ms. Lewis has 20 years of experience in international higher education. Her responsibilities have included teaching English as a second language, program development and coordination, marketing, recruitment, student services and advising, and general administration. Her publications include journal articles and book chapters on the role of input and interaction in second language acquisition (with Teresa Pica and Lloyd Holliday); on intergenerational approaches to adult literacy and ESL programming (with Gail Weinstein-Shr); and on language planning and policy in the former Soviet republics. Her research interests focus on the role of learner production and feedback in second language acquisition. She is a member of NAFSA, AACRAO, TESOL, and UPCEA.
Ms. Lewis holds a B.A. in English from the College of William and Mary and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Moderator:
Dr. Robert J. Hansen was named Chief Executive Officer of the University Professional & Continuing Education Association in September 2010. Under Hansen’s leadership, UPCEA has grown by 125% in the past six years. He established a number of initiatives targeting the association’s unique role in online leadership and management under the umbrella of the National Council for Online Leadership: the Summit for Online Leadership and Administration, the Online Leadership Roundtable for chief online learning officers, and the UPCEA Hallmarks of Excellence in Online Leadership. He also established the UPCEA Hallmarks of Excellence in Professional and Continuing Education, advancing two frameworks to provide a set of standards that reflect the ambitions, potential, and importance of units that serve adult learners.
Hansen previously served as Associate Provost for University Outreach at the University of Southern Maine, a regional public university located in Portland, Maine. Prior to that position, he spent six years at Saint Xavier University of Chicago as Assistant to the President & Secretary of the Corporation, and then as founding Executive Director of Orland Park Campus & Off-Campus Programs. Hansen also previously served as Assistant to the Governor for Education in the administration of former Illinois governor, Jim Edgar. Hansen earned a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Illinois, an M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame.
October 5 | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
The rapidly diversifying face of colleges and universities in the United States require that we are able to manage intercultural relationships from different backgrounds. We are all working in a multicultural institution, with students, faculty and staff from all over the world. This makes for a very diverse, vibrant community – and at times, a rather confusing one. This session will promote intercultural competence and heighten cross-cultural awareness. You will engage in a presentation and discussion about culture, values, perceptions, and communication styles and cultural patterns of thought and behavior that will help you understand the basic concepts, theories and issues of intercultural communication related to intercultural relationships and how these concepts apply to your personal and professional lives.
Dr. Rodolfo (Rudie) Altamirano is the director of the International Student and Scholar Services at the University of Pennsylvania. His main responsibility is to provide overall leadership in determining and implementing organizational and campus-wide strategies including the delivery of quality services and programs to international students, scholars, faculty, staff, exchange visitors and community members. Dr. Altamirano coordinates Penn’s International Students Advisory Board (ISAB) and International Partners Outreach Group (IPOG). He conceptualized and is spearheading Penn’s Intercultural Leadership Program (ILP). He has developed creative endeavors and innovative programs to advocate for international education and intercultural learning. He has previously served in international education leadership positions at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. He holds a doctoral degree from Michigan State University. He was elected national Chair of KCISSS (Knowledge Community for International Students and Scholars
He was a recipient of the International Education Administrators Fulbright award. He has presented and conducted more than a hundred immigration, cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution workshops nationally and internationally. He has developed creative strategies and innovative programs to advocate for international education and intercultural learning. He enjoys traveling to different cultures because of the colorful educational experience that he gains from these journeys. He cherishes meeting students from all corners of the world because of the cross-cultural learning opportunities that are within his grasp. On the other hand, He savors sharing his cultural experiences not only through formal workshops that he conducts but also through the informal interactions that he has with the students, scholars, staff and faculty. He is greatly fascinated with learning the cultures and languages of the world. He and his wife have three beautiful daughters.
October 6 | 8:30 AM-9:30 AM
We’ve all heard about the importance of creating a strong professional network, and that you should build it before you need it. Easy to conceptualize and harder to implement. The UPCEA Emerging Leaders program is an excellent opportunity to build relationships with other professional, continuing, and online education professionals while gaining leadership skills and tackling a project which can benefit your institution. This panel presentation will include personal experience and insights from alumnae of the Emerging Leadership program, from the current and future facilitator and how it helped them to be more involved in UPCEA. Examples of how they have continued to network will be provided.