Over the Horizon:

The New Landscape for Professional and Continuing Education

The 2009 Executive Assembly focuses on the near future…beyond the current economic recession. Just how are the changing economy, the digital culture, shifting demographics, and increasing globalization creating a new landscape for higher education, and especially for professional and continuing education? The Assembly provides a forum where you can discuss trends, issues, ideas, and strategies being employed by college and university continuing education CEOs with your peers from across the country.

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

8:00–8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
After the Crash: Adapting Creatively to Resource
Constraints, Devising Effective Responses to Workforce Needs, Fostering Collaborations Systematically

8:30–9:30 a.m.
Promised Efficiencies of Online Education?
Role of Outsourcing, Consortia, Blackboard, Open Source, Moodle and More
Panel:
WAYNE SMUTZ, Penn State University
SIMONE JONAITIS, Grand Valley State University
ROBERT TOLSMA, University of Colorado Denver

Discussion Chair: JUDY ASHCROFT, University of Texas-Austin

9:30–9:45 a.m. Break

9:45 a.m.– 11:00 a.m.
Alternative Financial Models: Issues of Cost and Price and Building Institutional Capacity
Panel:
FRED PAWLICKI, University of Kansas
MERNOY HARRISON, Arizona State University
JEFFREY ROSEN, Loyola University of Chicago

Discussion Chair: THOMAS GIBBONS, Northwestern University

11:00 a.m.–Noon
Workforce Learning and Development in Tough Times
Panel:
PATRICIA MALONE, SUNY Stony Brook
BILI MATTES, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

Discussion Chair: BYRON BOND, Eastern Michigan University

Noon–1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:45–3:00 p.m.
Quality Assurance in a Time of Shifting Paradigms: Re-thinking Accreditation
Presenter: SYLVIA MANNING, President, Higher Learning
Commission, former Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago

3:00–3:15 p.m. Break

3:15-4:15 p.m.
Realizing New Value with Partnerships: Internal, External, and International
Panel:
CHARLES EVANS, University of Illinois
JEET JOSHEE, California State University at Long Beach
DON SWOBODA, Western Kentucky University

Discussion Chair: DAVID SCHEJBAL, University of Wisconsin
4:45–5:45 p.m. Reception

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

8:30–9:15 a.m.
The Current Professional and Continuing Education Landscape
Presenter: KAY KOHL, UCEA

9:15–9:30 a.m. Break

9:30–10:30 a.m.
Economic Futures and Possible Implications for Professional and Continuing Education...
in Light of History...or Not
Presenter: STEVE FAZZARI, Professor of Economics, Washington University

HOTEL DETAILS

A block of rooms for Assembly attendees has been reserved at the following hotel:

Hotel Allegro
171 W. Randolph
Chicago, IL 60601

Reservations: 800.643.1500 or 312.325.7211

The UCEA group rate for a single/double is $189. Please make your hotel reservation by calling the hotel directly. The cut-off date for this rate is Friday, August 7, 2009.

MEETING LOCATION: University of Chicago Gleacher Center, 450 Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, IL 60611

REGISTRATION FEE: $465

(Note: This invitation is intended for the institutional representative and/or alternate representative from a UCEA member institution.)