From the CEO

While you are leading campus responses to the pandemic, our goal is to help you stay connected to the larger PCO community. This community, this professional association, is one of your greatest assets during this challenging time. Now more than ever we are learning from each other. Helping each other solve problems. Supporting each other. 

  

I invite you to make the most of a number of new opportunities to learn from and connect with your UPCEA colleagues. I am pleased to share with you two new complimentary webinar series and two frequently-updated resources related to the pandemic: 

 

• UPCEA Ask Me Anything (AMA) Series
  Weekly starting April 1, 2020
  UPCEA AMAs are a series of 30-minute virtual chats during which speakers will answer questions submitted by participants in a more informal setting. Speakers will share insights on a specific topic relevant to professional, continuing, and online postsecondary operations. After registering, participants will have an opportunity to contribute questions and up-vote the questions post by others using slido. UPCEA AMAs are not recorded, although a summary will be posted on CORe following the event. Registration information is available on the UPCEA events page. 
• UPCEA Webinar Series: Leadership and Strategy in Challenging Times
  Thursdays @ 3:00 PM ET, April 16-May 21, 2020
  Leveraging select content designed for the now-cancelled 2020 UPCEA Annual Conference, UPCEA is curating a seven-part, weekly webinar series featuring UPCEA leader-practitioners as presenters. This dynamic series will include presentations on the topics of utmost importance to professional, continuing, and online education, and fills the need for vital content and community during this challenging time. Registration information is available on the UPCEA events page. 
• Threads Tagged COVID-19 in CORe
  Many peer-to-peer resources are being shared on discussion threads in our exclusive member community, CORe. Look for threads tagged with “COVID19.” 
• Curated List of COVID-19 Resources
  This curated and frequently updated site features news and resources on remote work and teaching, continuity of operations, and more for PCO practitioners. 

 

Please check back at upcea.edu for the latest information, blogs, and additional resources relevant to the PCO community. 

  

Thank you for your membership and support during this time. I’m proud of our community and look forward to working together in the better days ahead.