Wednesday October 2, 2019 |
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8:00am - 5:00pm |
Check-in, Registration and Information Table Open | |
8:00am - 11:30am |
Emerging Leaders Pre-Conference: Identifying and Leveraging Strengths for Leadership Excellence in Professional, Continuing, and Online Higher Education (Separate registration required) |
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| Participants of this pre-conference workshop will have an opportunity to explore their leadership strengths and ways of leveraging these strengths within the context of professional, continuing, and online higher education. Dr. Ralph Gigliotti, Director of Leadership Development and Research from the Rutgers University Center for Organizational Leadership, will lead the group in an interactive facilitation of the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment, and participants will discuss ways of applying their unique strengths to address the current needs of their unit, department, or institution. The session will conclude with an overview of recommended strategies for enhancing these strengths as individuals consider future leadership roles within higher education. | ||
| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Newcomer’s Welcome and Orientation |
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| 12:00pm - 5:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Open | |
12:00pm - 1:00 pm |
Welcome Luncheon + Housekeeping |
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1:00pm -2:00pm |
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| Join inspirational speaker, John Robinson, CEO and Founder of Our Ability, Inc. whose mission is to help people see beyond differences and to see the value we all hold inside ourselves. John states “I left corporate America after 20 years to give back to our community of individuals with disabilities and provide new opportunities for employment.” Our Ability, leads employers to discover the positive economic impact in building a talent pipeline to, and a culture around individuals with disabilities through educational workshops and seminars on disability and diversity. Hear John’s story and how his organization is dedicated to inspiring individuals with disabilities to achieve their dreams through education and employment as well as to educate able-bodied individuals about the differences in ability around us. | ||
2:00pm - 2:30pm |
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| 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Concurrent Sessions I | |
Fostering an Inclusive Environment by Providing Support to International Students The process of creating and evaluating the International Student Pre-Orientation program will be presented as an example of how to create similar programs. The discussion will include target competencies, activities planned, target audience, and evaluation tools. Participants will work in groups to develop mock programs for a diverse audience.
As higher education faces disruptive change like never before, Shippensburg University presents an interesting case study on how reinvention can be navigated on a continuum in the Professional Continuing and Online unit, within a higher education institution and at a state system where there is no escape from upheaval, uncertainty, and fear of transformation at every level. How do you lead a team through incredibly fast-paced disruptive change? How do you advocate and influence for your unit at the university level when the executive level completely turns over and organizational change is a daily way of life? How do you navigate a state system redesign on the fly? This session addresses how disruptions can affect culture, conditions, platforms, relationships, and structures. In this disruptive change, opportunities, collaborations, intentionality, and risk-taking can be used to our advantage to achieve new operational models that better serve the mission, vision and goals of the unit, the university and the system.
Reinventing student support for online learners means more than replacing in-person appointments with email and phone calls. Yet effectively supporting these students is no easy task, requiring a delicate balancing act of multichannel communication, on-demand resources and tailored interactions. Learn about a technology-enabled, scalable coaching program at Penn State University World Campus that’s lead to increased yield and retention while scaling to meet the needs of a growing — and changing — student population.
Learn how higher ed professionals established an alliance of business/industry and workforce partners to work towards solving talent and skill gaps. Attendees will begin devising their own workforce alliance strategy using The Skills Hub as professional education, civic engagement, and workforce model.
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3:45pm - 4:30pm |
General Session | Technology Speed Dating |
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| 5:30pm - 8:00pm | University Host Reception |
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| Join our host institution the University of Pittsburgh at their University Club and for tours of the Cathedral of Learning. The reception will be at the University Club on Pitt’s campus. Buses will be leaving the hotel at 5:30. We will begin with a guided tour of the Cathedral of Learning and then be escorted across the street to the university club for the reception. Buses will depart at 8pm for the hotel. | ||
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8:00pm |
Dinner on your own | |
Thursday, October 3, 2019
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8:00am - 5:00pm |
Check-In, Registration and Information Table Open |
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| 8:00am - 5:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Open | |
8:00am - 9:00am |
Breakfast and Regional Meeting |
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9:15am - 10:30am |
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| Engage in a highly interactive session with a panel of senior leaders on where our dynamic field is headed. Alternative credentials, shifting demographics, and new models are already shaping how institutions serve students. This group of panelists will provide their unique perspectives on organizational and market forces that are emerging, how they are responding at their institutions, and how UPCEA members will lead us into the near-term future (2025!). | ||
10:30am - 11:00am |
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| 11:00am - 12:00pm | Concurrent Sessions II | |
Building Your Professional Profile Your everyday job can be part of a bigger story. Learn about building your professional profile and actively shaping your career from those who’ve been there before. Hear about the key inflection points on their career paths, how to identify your own, and key steps you can take today to create the career opportunities you want for yourself, your teams, and your organization.
Temple University’s Vocational Certificate in Urban Greening and Sustainable Landcare focuses on two major concerns: sustainability and green industries, and sustainable career paths for citizens returning from incarceration. Industry-specific competencies are integrated with skills and networks that tackle numerous barriers faced by returning citizens, through creative instructional design and diverse partnerships. This case study will facilitate broader discussion around the ways in which higher education institutions can best serve students re-entering urban communities and workforces.
Ask any continuing education unit their challenges involving their university’s marketing department, and you’ll probably get an earful. This session will include a presentation on how to begin bridging the gap between PCO and institutional marketing units to create a better understanding of today’s “traditional” student in order to more collaboratively effectively market to them.
This session focuses on the partnership approach that drives online course development at Pitt’s College of General Studies. With support from Pitt’s Center for Teaching and Learning, the College of General Studies created a flexible framework that tailors online course building support to faculty while maintaining consistent, rigorous standards. The presenters will reflect on the opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned and invite attendees to share their ideas and experiences with course development and online administration.
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12:00pm - 1:15pm |
Luncheon and Awards Ceremony |
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1:30pm - 2:30pm |
General Session | The Transformation of Adult and Continuing Education - Sarah Bauder |
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| Continuing and adult education departments have historically served the non-traditional student who are now the quiet majority at colleges and universities across the United States. Over the years, through various disruptions, Continuing Education divisions nationwide have been successful in their efforts to maintain strategic agility and address education gaps through innovative and unique teaching programs and modalities. Higher Education is now in the midst of significant economic, technological, and demographic disruption. Continuing Education departments are well positioned to be the catalyst that helps institutions to transform and meet the needs of students and the workplace. | ||
2:30pm - 3:00pm |
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| 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Concurrent Sessions III | |
Committee Work as an Intentional Professional Development Strategy… No, Really! Committees - we’re all on them. So why not try to make them more useful by broadening their scope and weaving in intentional professional development as a goal and activity? This session will provide case studies of committees that in addition to their primary role, provided professional development opportunities for its members through the actual work of the committee. This session provides an adaptable framework, strategies, and examples for doing do.
In 2018, Syracuse University launched the Office of Online Student Success to provide exceptional and holistic success and retention strategies for online students. This session will explore how we have set the stage for scalable collaboration across functional units. We will engage participants tangibly on the online student experience: comprehensive and proactive student communication strategies and community-based initiatives to familiarize students with online learning and set them up for a differentiated and successful student experience.
This session will describe a 60-year old highly traditional non-profit teaching institution’s transition to offering evidence-based, technology enhanced highly interactive courses. The presentation will model teaching techniques we incorporate into our courses and modules as we motivate and train faculty to move online and to update their existing courses. We will highlight new types of educational offerings including combining credit and non-credit courses and workshops into new micro-credentials and badges.
Interest around micro-credentialing is exploding and higher ed is no longer the only credential source for working professionals. Institutions developing a micro-credentialing initiative must have a clear strategy in order to avoid missteps, and PCO leaders must ask key questions to point their institution in the right direction. This presentation will invite you to determine the right questions for your institution, while sharing questions and answers that are driving a micro-credentialing strategy at Penn State.
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4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Networking Social Reception |
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| 5:30pm | Dinner on your own |
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Friday October 4, 2019 |
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| 8:00am -11:00am | Check-In, Registration and Information Table Open |
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| 8:00am - 11:00am | Exhibit Hall Open | |
| 8:00am -8:30am | Emerging Leaders Capstone Session (Separate registration required) | |
8:00am -9:00am |
Breakfast |
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9:00am -10:00am |
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10:00am -11:00am |
Closing General Session | Why Can't We All Just Be the Same? - Lemar White |
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