2021 Regional Conferences to be Virtual, Free for Members
I’m pleased to share with you that UPCEA’s 2021 Regional Conferences this fall will again be completely virtual AND free of charge to our members! I invite you and your teams to connect, network, share and learn with us online in fall 2021.
Until then, session recordings, slides, and other materials from the 2020 Regional Conferences are available and free for members in UPCEA’s private member community, CORe. Visit the Library in the Open Forum, and expand the “2020 Regional Conference Presentation Recordings” folder to peruse more than 55 hours of session recordings plus other materials from all five regional events.
We heard clearly from UPCEA members like you that institutional budget and travel restrictions would severely limit access to in-person events for many of our members in 2021. UPCEA’s regional conferences are a cornerstone of the association’s access mission, and we were heartened to welcome more than 2,000 UPCEA members to the virtual regional conferences in 2020.
More information about the 2021 Regional Conferences will be available soon. The Regional Conference Planning Committees are hard at work putting together events with synchronous and asynchronous sessions, online networking events, and dynamic sessions responsive to our current landscape.
In the meantime, be sure to take advantage of other free resources for UPCEA members, including:
- Free webinars and chats — UPCEA webinars and chats are always free for members. Learn more about upcoming events.
- Research, benchmarking and blogs — Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, research and benchmarking with blogs from UPCEA Senior Fellow Ray Schroeder, and UPCEA Chief Research Officer Jim Fong. Explore UPCEA’s blogs.
- Real-time engagement in CORe — Connect with your 9,000+ UPCEA peers to get answers to questions, discuss key topics or issues, and share and exchange knowledge in CORe (Collaborative Online Relationships), UPCEA’s members-only community and virtual discussion platform. Visit CORe.
- Exclusive member content — CORe’s online library includes benchmarking studies, conference session slides and recordings, best practices, templates, lesson plans, and more. Visit CORe.
Bob Hansen is the CEO of UPCEA. Since 2010, Hansen has reinvented the century-old organization – creating the Center for Research and Strategy in 2011, establishing a number of initiatives focused on the association’s unique role in online leadership and management, and positioning the association as an important advocate for policy issues related to non-traditional and online learners. The association has more than doubled in size during Hansen’s tenure by successfully diversifying revenue. Hansen previously served as Associate Provost for University Outreach at the University of Southern Maine, and as Assistant to the Governor for Education in Illinois. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame.