UPCEA Updates

UPCEA, the online and professional education association, announced today the 2024-2025 leadership teams for the Council for Chief Online Learning Officers and Council for Credential Innovation. The association extends its gratitude to the 37 member volunteers serving in leadership roles for these two bodies. 

The Council for Chief Online Learning Officers (C-COLO) and its members are focused on leveraging the strategic potential of online learning to transform institutions of higher education and society. Each UPCEA member institution has the opportunity to identify a chief online learning officer—the primary leader for an online, digital, or other technology-enhanced postsecondary enterprise, whether at the unit, college, or institutional level—to represent them on C-COLO. Institutional delegates to C-COLO are able to attend the annual Online Leadership Roundtable convening event, and participate in other exclusive content hosted by C-COLO.

The Council for Chief Online Learning Officers is led by the C-COLO Leadership, a volunteer group made up of C-COLO delegates from UPCEA member organizations. The 2024-2025 C-COLO Leadership is:

Sunay Palsole, Texas A&M University (Co-Chair)

Susan Seal, Mississippi State University (Co-Chair)

Evan Silberman, City University of New York

Jerry Rhead, Michigan State University

Tina Parscal, Colorado Community College System

Brooke Elliott, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Carmin Chan, Northern Arizona University

Julie Thalman, University of Cincinnati

Jocelyn Widmer, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Nathan Bullock, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Kemi Jona, University of Virginia

Erik Nelson, Columbia University

Julie Uranis, UPCEA (ex officio)

 

The Council for Credential Innovation (CCI) is composed of senior leaders charged with driving non-degree credential strategy at the unit or campus level, and key thought leaders from other nonprofit organizations and companies that are actively contributing to the development of the alternative credential space. Each UPCEA member institution has the opportunity to identify a representative to the Council for Credential Innovation. The Council and its leadership focus on leveraging the strategic potential of non-degree credentials and non-credit education and training to transform institutions of higher education as well as the talent marketplace.

The Council for Credential Innovation Leadership is a volunteer group made up of CCI representatives from UPCEA member organizations. The 2024-2025 CCI Leadership is:

Ryan Torma, University of Minnesota (Co-Chair)

Lena Patterson, Toronto Metropolitan University (Co-Chair)

Saira Cooper, Rice University

Clare Van Ness, California State University, Chico

Anne Reed, University at Buffalo

Melanie Booth, Higher Learning Commission

Sheila LeBlanc, University of Calgary

Mike Macklin, Colorado Community College System

Sallie Reissman, Wilmington University

Karen Battye, Auburn University

Mark McConahay, AACRAO

Michael Sugerman, Washington State University

Patricia O’Brien, NECHE

Michelle Claville, CHEA

Noah Geisel. University of Colorado, Boulder

Pranesh Aswath. University of Texas, Arlington

Shawn Miller, Rice University

Tyler Ritter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Kris Rabberman, University of Pennsylvania

Angela Jeantet, University of California Irvine

Allison Jones, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Dan Belyea, Maine Community College System

Candace House Teixeira, University of Southern California

Allison Ruda, Northeastern University

Doris Savron, University of Phoenix

Amy Heitzman, UPCEA (ex officio) 

 

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