UCEA Annual Conference

UCEA's Annual Conference brings together some 800 continuing higher education professionals for sessions addressing broad topics of interest to the profession as well as special sessions and workshops focused on particular areas of interest, including distance learning, quality assurance, leadership, marketing, programming for older adults, and research, to name just a few.

The UCEA 94th Annual Conference will be held in Boston, MA on April 1 - 4, 2009.

Transcending Boundaries

Professional and continuing education has much to offer in these demanding times, as we are the people in higher education who know how to work-and thrive-at the boundaries: boundaries between our institutions and the world near and far; between the established and the experimental; between risk and reward. Our acquired skills in perceiving, negotiating, and transcending boundaries puts on us an important obligation, and opens to us a special opportunity, to lead in defining and addressing the needs of students, institutions and communities in this rapidly evolving world.

Toward those ends, our committee has identified four Conference themes:

engaging with communities and working collaboratively to solve problems affecting their well-being;
developing educational strategies to address the changing nature and needs of the workplace;
promoting accountability through the establishment of assessments to track student achievement and evaluations of institutional effectiveness;
creating innovations - technical, programmatic, and conceptual - that will carry us forward.

Call for Proposals

The Conference Planning Committee for the 2009 UCEA National Conference solicits recommendations and nominations for presentations to inform our annual “learning event.” Our program should address important issues and trends in the field of professional and continuing education. We seek thought-provoking proposals that will stimulate discussion and contribute to the on-going professional education of our colleagues.

We especially encourage proposals that integrate the current work of multiple institutions and that draw out general principles of wide applicability. Pay close attention to pedagogy in your planning and seek instructional formats that model best practices and demonstrate active learning. Most sessions are 75 minutes in length. All must provide adequate time for dialogue between the attendees and the presenters.

Please submit a formal proposal using the form provided, or, if you’d like to discuss a possible presentation, send email to our program planning chairperson, Karen_Sibley@Brown.edu, and one of the committee members will be in touch with you.

Call for Proposals for UCEA 94th Annual Conference (PDF file)
Call for Proposals Submission Form (DOC file)

Proposals must be emailed by September 8, 2008, to meetings@ucea.edu

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For further details on the Association's conference programs, please contact Natalia Kats, Director of Conferences, at 202.659.3130 or nkats@ucea.edu.