Events

Attend or view webinars on your schedule, and connect with peers in your area at a regional event — especially useful for new or mid-level professionals. Share your lessons learned with colleagues by presenting a conference session, and get involved with the association by becoming a volunteer leader. Connect with other high-level leaders through fantastic networking opportunities during the Annual Conference and all our events. Webinars are free for UPCEA Members, and membership also provides discounts to all of our conferences and other events.

Conferences and Seminars

2024 MEMS | Marketing, Enrollment Management, and Student Success Conference | December 3-5, 2024 | Philadelphia, PA
DECEMBER 3-5, 2024

2024 UPCEA MEMS: Marketing | Enrollment Management | Student Success

Philadelphia, PA

2025 UPCEA Annual Conference | March 24-26, 2025 | Denver, CO | #UPCEA2025
MARCH 24-26, 2025

2025 UPCEA Annual Conference

REgions
MULTIPLE DATES

UPCEA Regional Salons

Virtual 

Free for UPCEA Members

SOLAR 2025: Summit for Online Leadership and Administration | July 22-24, 2025 | Portland, OR
JULY 22-24, 2025

2025 UPCEA SOLAR: Summit for Online Leadership and Administration

2025 Convergence: Credential Innovation in Higher Education | Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2025 | Washington, DC #credovation
SEPTEMBER 29-OCTOBER 1, 2025

2025 Convergence: Credential Innovation in Higher Education

Washington, DC

Save the dates for these upcoming events: 

  • December 2-4, 2025 | 2025 MEMS: Marketing, Enrollment Management and Student Success Conference | Boston, MA | Westin Boston Seaport District 
  • February 4-6, 2026 | 2026 Digital Transformation and Learning Conference (DT&L) | Virtual
  • April 15-17, 2026 | 2026 UPCEA Annual Conference | New Orleans, LA | Hilton New Orleans Riverside 
  • July 29-31, 2026 | 2026 SOLAR: Summit for Online Leadership and Administration | Boston, MA | Westin Boston Seaport District

Webinars & Chats

December 10, 2024 | 4:00-5:00 PM ET

Webinar | UPlift Mentorship Information Session

Join the UPCEA team to learn more about our exclusive mentorship program: UPlift. This is an opportunity to hear more about how the program is structured, hear from past mentees/mentors and get any questions you may have about participation in the 2025 program answered. Visit upcea.edu/uplift for additional program information.

December 11, 2024 | 4:00-5:00 PM ET

Coffee Chat | Repurposing Credit Courses to Noncredit

Hosted by the Program Planning and Implementation Network

You spoke (on CORe) and we heard you. Please join us for this hosted casual conversation where you can bring questions, share answers and connect with peers around repurposing credit courses for noncredit.

Click here to access the room at 4PM ET on December 11 or download our calendar invite below. 

Coffee Chats are informal, unrecorded, live opportunities to connect with UPCEA peers. Typically an hour or less, they provide time to discuss topics of interest, share ideas and connect with others in a casual setting.

December 12, 2024 | 1:00-2:00 PM ET

Coffee Chat | New England Region: Bridging the Gaps We Know

Hosted by the New England Region

Bridging from our regional Salon to the Annual Conference, we would like to provide an opportunity for participants to connect with leaders from the New England Region on specific topics of interest, which includes marketing, micro-credentialing, integrating employers into program design, international growth opportunities, and strategies to create bridges between PCO and other parts of our institutions.

Click here to access the room at 1PM ET on December 12 or download our calendar invite below. 

Coffee Chats are informal, unrecorded, live opportunities to connect with UPCEA peers. Typically an hour or less, they provide time to discuss topics of interest, share ideas and connect with others in a casual setting.

December 17, 2024 | 4:00-5:00 PM ET

Coffee Chat | NEW DATE - Why are you doing this? Uncovering Purpose in your Credential Program

Curated by the UPCEA Council for Credential Innovation

The Credential Purpose Profile template, created by the UPCEA Council for Credential Innovation (CCI), is designed to illustrate alignment of features of alternative credentialing programs at work across higher education institutions. The profile is designed to be used as a thought partner by other institutions, employers or community partners to inspire new projects, uncover the purpose behind existing projects, consider different approaches, and discuss the nuance of the language used in an alternative credentialing program, such as the distinction between program offering and the credential artifact.

Join the CCI for a Strategic Conversation, an unrecorded, facilitated conversation among colleagues, organized to showcase the purposes behind alternative credential projects authored by members of the CCI leadership team at their home institutions, to learn more about the ways in which purpose intersects with institutional strategy and mission.

Moderators:

  • Ryan Torma, University of Minnesota
  • Lena Patterson, Toronto Metropolitan University

Click here to access the room at 4PM ET on December 17 or download our calendar invite below. 

Coffee Chats are informal, unrecorded, live opportunities to connect with UPCEA peers. Typically an hour or less, they provide time to discuss topics of interest, share ideas and connect with others in a casual setting.

January 16, 2025 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET

Coffee Chat | Understanding Biases in AI Outputs

Curated by the UPCEA Diversity & Inclusiveness Committee

AI tools such as ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLM) rely on source data to ‘train’ it. If that source data is not diverse enough, the outputs of AI might perpetuate biases and inequities we see in higher education today. For instance, asking an AI platform to produce an image of college students might produce students of one race and a narrow age range rather than those served by your programs. Join the D&I committee for a discussion on how we can address biases in the AI queries we write and how to evaluate AI outputs.

Rob Moore, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Educational Technology, University of Florida, will kick off our conversation with some background information on AI.

Dr. Rob Moore, an Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Florida, directs the IDEATE Research Lab in the Institute for Advanced Learning Technologies. His research explores how the processes and structures within digital ecologies influence learner experiences, focusing on digital microcredentials and MOOCs as transformative pathways for STEM education and careers. Dr. Moore uses systems and design thinking paired with machine learning techniques to identify patterns in learner behaviors and motivations, gaining insight into learners' intentions and how they achieve desired outcomes. He also investigates how technology integration affects the effectiveness of these educational and career pathways.

Click here to access the room at 3PM ET on January 16 or download our calendar invite below. 

Coffee Chats are informal, unrecorded, live opportunities to connect with UPCEA peers. Typically an hour or less, they provide time to discuss topics of interest, share ideas and connect with others in a casual setting.

January 23, 2025 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET

Coffee Chat | Leveraging UPCEA Membership for Professional Development and Succession Planning

Happy New Year! Join the Membership Team to ensure that you are getting the most out of membership to reach your individual and organizational goals for 2025! 

In this 45-minute session, we’ll discuss the exclusive resources, tools, and opportunities available to you as an UPCEA members:  

  • Learn with exclusive research and professional development  
  • Know peers and leaders in our field through our networks and recognition  
  • Do whatever it takes to help each other advance our professional and organizational succession plans and goals through collaborating, leading, and mentoring  

Coffee Chats are informal, unrecorded, live opportunities to connect with UPCEA peers. Typically an hour or less, they provide time to discuss topics of interest, share ideas and connect with others in a casual setting. 

UPCEA Members Only - Registration Required

February 6, 2025 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET

West Region Coffee Chat | Fostering Resilience in Times of Change

Hosted by UPCEA's West Region

Building upon November's West Region Salon on Leading Change in the Midst of Influential Factors, join colleagues for an informal, unrecorded opportunity to network and vibrant discussion around fostering resilience in times of change and approaches to practicing resilience. 

Click here to access the room at 3PM ET on February 6 or download our calendar invite below. 

Coffee Chats are informal, unrecorded, live opportunities to connect with UPCEA peers. Typically an hour or less, they provide time to discuss topics of interest, share ideas and connect with others in a casual setting.

April 30, 2025 | 10:00-11:00 AM ET (16:00 CET)

Webinar | Lifelong learning for health and wellbeing

Presented by eucen, UPCEA, AAACE, and CAUCE

Join representatives from eucen, UPCEA, AAACE and CAUCE for eucen's annual Seminar Across the Atlantic. This online event is an open event offered by the coordinating associations. Register for this important conversation around lifelong learning for health and wellbeing. 

Presenters:

  • Amy Heitzman, UPCEA
  • Tricia Berry, AAACE (tentative)
  • Sheila LeBlanc, CAUCE (tentative)
  • Carme ROYO, eucen (tentative)

Past Events

2024 DT&L and SOLA+R Conference | July 22-24, 2024 | Minneapolis, MN
JULY 22-24, 2024

2024 Summit for Online Leadership and Administration + Roundtable (SOLA+R) and Distance Teaching & Learning Conference (DT&L)

Minneapolis, MN

2024 UPCEA Annual Conference
MARCH 26-28, 2024

2024 UPCEA Annual Conference

UPCEA 2023 MEMS | Marketing. Enrollment Management. Student Success. | Portland, OR | November 29 - December 1, 2023
NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 1, 2023

2023 UPCEA MEMS | Marketing | Enrollment Management | Student Success

Convergence: Credential Innovation in Higher Education | November 1-3, 2023 | Washington, DC
NOVEMBER 1-3, 2023

2023 Convergence: Credential Innovation in Higher Education

Presented by UPCEA and AACRAO

Washington DC
Capital Hilton

UPCEA West Region Map | New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
OCTOBER 19, 2023 | 10:30AM-2:30PM PT

West Region Salon

UPCEA Mid-Atlantic Region Map | West Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York
SEPTEMBER 28 2023 | 1PM - 5PM ET

Mid-Atlantic Region Salon

UPCEA New England Region Map | Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
AUGUST 2, 2023 | 11AM - 3 PM ET

New England Region Salon

2023 Distance Teaching & Learning (DT&L) and Summit for Online Leadership and Strategy + Roundtable (SOLA+R) Presented by UPCEA and University of Wisconsin-Madison July 25-27, 2023 Madison, Wisconsin
JULY 25 - 27, 2023

Distance Teaching & Learning (DT&L) +
Summit for Online Leadership and Strategy + Roundtable (SOLA+R)

Presented by UPCEA and University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI

UPCEA South Region Map | Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia
JULY 13, 2023 | 12PM - 4 PM ET

South Region Salon

UPCEA Central Region Map | Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota
JUNE 20, 2023 | 1PM - 5:30 PM ET

Central Region Salon

UPCEA 2023 Annual Conference | March 22-24, 2023 | Washington, DC
MARCH 22 - 24, 2023

2023 UPCEA Annual Conference

Washington DC
Washington Hilton

MEMS | Marketing, Enrollment Management, and Student Success | United for Success | November 30 - December 2, 2022 | New Orleans, LA
NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 2, 2022

2022 UPCEA MEMS | Marketing | Enrollment Management | Student Success

New Orleans, LA

The Ritz-Carlton

UPCEA South Region Map | Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia
NOVEMBER 2-4, 2022

2022 UPCEA South Region Conference

Atlanta, GA

JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead

UPCEA New England Region Map | Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
OCTOBER 26-28, 2022

2022 UPCEA New England Region Conference

Providence, RI

Renaissance Providence

UPCEA West Region Map | New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
OCTOBER 20, 2022

2022 UPCEA West Region Salon

UPCEA Mid-Atlantic Region Map | West Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York
OCTOBER 12-14, 2022

2022 UPCEA Mid-Atlantic Region Conference

Philadelphia, PA

Wyndham Philadelphia Historic District

UPCEA Central Region Map | Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota
SEPTEMBER 28-30, 2022

2022 UPCEA Central Region Conference

Columbus, OH

Sheraton Columbus at the Capitol

The 38th Distance Teaching and Learning Conference | August 3-5, 2022 | Virtual
AUGUST 3-5, 2022

2022 Distance Teaching & Learning Conference