I feel confident most ACHE institutions work well with credit for military learning and experience.
Vets frustrated as colleges ignore experience
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
ACHE New England announces scholarships to attend national conference
ACHE New England is pleased to announce an opportunity to apply for a $500 scholarship to attend the 2009 ACHE national conference in Philadelphia in November 2009.
"We hope that the scholarship will help members who have never attended a national conference or whose institutions are unable to send them. We especially encourage new members to apply," said New England Chair Ellen Griffin.
Apply today!
Winners of three $500 scholarships at the ACHE New England regional conference in Bedford, NH on September 25, 2009.
"We hope that the scholarship will help members who have never attended a national conference or whose institutions are unable to send them. We especially encourage new members to apply," said New England Chair Ellen Griffin.
Apply today!
Winners of three $500 scholarships at the ACHE New England regional conference in Bedford, NH on September 25, 2009.
ACHE past president announces revised edition of ground-breaking book
Dr. Louis Phillips, a long-time member of ACHE and president in 1980-81, recently contacted us to let us know that his groundbreaking book, The Continuing Education Guide: The CEU and Other Professional Development Criteria is now availabe in a revised edition. First published in 1994, "the book has been used extensively by thousands of CEU providers, including many colleges and universities," said Dr. Phillips.
The Continuing Education Guide: The CEU and Other Professional Development Criteria
ISBN # 9780615294513
$29.95
To order, please contact Dr. Phillips at louphil@bellsouth.net or by writing to:
Louis Phillips, Ed.D.
2858 Ashton Hill Dr.
Dacula, GA 30019
The Continuing Education Guide: The CEU and Other Professional Development Criteria
ISBN # 9780615294513
$29.95
To order, please contact Dr. Phillips at louphil@bellsouth.net or by writing to:
Louis Phillips, Ed.D.
2858 Ashton Hill Dr.
Dacula, GA 30019
The Continuing Education Guide: The CEU and Other Professional Development Criteria is the first book ever written which explores in-depth how to interpret and use the continuing education unit (CEU) or other criteria used for professional development programs.
This revised second edition is an important reference source for beginning and experienced administrators and instructors. This guide addresses the CEU criteria, specific criteria used by over 20 different professions, and many aspects of the ANSI/IACET 2007-1 Standard.
Expanded chapters on needs assessments, learning outcomes, instructional strategies, assessment and evaluations explain how to improve program quality. Sample planning forms, needs assessment instruments, guides for writing learning outcomes, ways to select instructional strategies, assessment and evaluation forms are included.
Numerous tips are provided for instructors on how to use needs assessment data to tailor their presentations, how to engage and read audiences, how to address different learning styles and reluctant learners, and how to use instructional strategies as assessment techniques.
Monday, August 10, 2009
A Place to Take Kids at the ACHE Conference in Philadelphia
The Please Touch Museum in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia
http://www.pleasetouchmuseum.org/
If you are traveling to ACHE with children, the Please Touch Museum located in Fairmont Park is an excellent indoor activity that both kids and adults will love. The museum is located in a stunning historic building and inside, the designers have created a story and play-land that provides hours of fun. Check out the website and take a look at the exhibits. A note from someone whose been there…the website does not do the museum justice.
Sarah
Sarah Bradford
Director, Summer School Programs
ETSU School of Continuing Studies
Email: bradfors@etsu.edu
http://www.pleasetouchmuseum.org/
If you are traveling to ACHE with children, the Please Touch Museum located in Fairmont Park is an excellent indoor activity that both kids and adults will love. The museum is located in a stunning historic building and inside, the designers have created a story and play-land that provides hours of fun. Check out the website and take a look at the exhibits. A note from someone whose been there…the website does not do the museum justice.
Sarah
Sarah Bradford
Director, Summer School Programs
ETSU School of Continuing Studies
Email: bradfors@etsu.edu
Friday, August 7, 2009
The 2008 G.I. Bill
Should start impacting continuing education operations this fall. From usnews.com:
New Benefits Help Veterans Go to College
The family plan. Under the new GI Bill passed by Congress in 2008, another generation of war veterans—and their families—will begin receiving expanded educational assistance this year. The benefits are considerable—more than some Defense Department officials, who were concerned about the possibility of U.S. troops leaving the military to take advantage of the bill, had backed. The federal government will cover tuition and fees for vets at any public university. If they choose private universities, the government will cover the equivalent of the cost of the state's most expensive public university. The law also gives a $1,000 stipend for books and a fairly hefty monthly grant for room and board, equal to the military's housing allowance. Perhaps most striking, troops can transfer these benefits to their spouses and children, a measure that had been proposed by World War II widows—and promptly rejected by Congress.
About 100,000 student vets and their families are expected to take part in the program this school year. They will be further aided because some 575 private universities have joined what's known as the Yellow Ribbon program, in which the institutions have agreed to offer grants that will cover the difference between their own pricier tuition and that of state schools. To encourage schools to sign up, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will pick up half of the cost of the program.
But despite these benefits, some hurdles to student veterans remain. The cost of attending even the priciest public universities in some states is so low that vets will qualify for little federal reimbursement if they choose to attend the far more expensive private schools.
And the recession has reduced the endowments and income of some colleges to such an extent that they now are not able to make up the difference in grants or take part in programs like Yellow Ribbon.
The legislation also has some puzzling loopholes. Thousands of National Guard members who have served on active duty for years, for example, will not be eligible because they were called to service under Title 32, a measure that governs response to domestic emergencies or homeland-security missions. Congressional officials attribute such oversights to hurried negotiations in the run-up to last year's vote on the bill, and defense officials say that they plan to offer a legislative fix in the 2011 budget.
New Benefits Help Veterans Go to College
The family plan. Under the new GI Bill passed by Congress in 2008, another generation of war veterans—and their families—will begin receiving expanded educational assistance this year. The benefits are considerable—more than some Defense Department officials, who were concerned about the possibility of U.S. troops leaving the military to take advantage of the bill, had backed. The federal government will cover tuition and fees for vets at any public university. If they choose private universities, the government will cover the equivalent of the cost of the state's most expensive public university. The law also gives a $1,000 stipend for books and a fairly hefty monthly grant for room and board, equal to the military's housing allowance. Perhaps most striking, troops can transfer these benefits to their spouses and children, a measure that had been proposed by World War II widows—and promptly rejected by Congress.
About 100,000 student vets and their families are expected to take part in the program this school year. They will be further aided because some 575 private universities have joined what's known as the Yellow Ribbon program, in which the institutions have agreed to offer grants that will cover the difference between their own pricier tuition and that of state schools. To encourage schools to sign up, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will pick up half of the cost of the program.
But despite these benefits, some hurdles to student veterans remain. The cost of attending even the priciest public universities in some states is so low that vets will qualify for little federal reimbursement if they choose to attend the far more expensive private schools.
And the recession has reduced the endowments and income of some colleges to such an extent that they now are not able to make up the difference in grants or take part in programs like Yellow Ribbon.
The legislation also has some puzzling loopholes. Thousands of National Guard members who have served on active duty for years, for example, will not be eligible because they were called to service under Title 32, a measure that governs response to domestic emergencies or homeland-security missions. Congressional officials attribute such oversights to hurried negotiations in the run-up to last year's vote on the bill, and defense officials say that they plan to offer a legislative fix in the 2011 budget.
ACHE New England announces Fall Forum
The Association for Continuing Higher Education-New England and Hesser College present:
Helping Adults Learn: Skillful Teaching in Today’s College Classroom
Featuring internationally acclaimed scholar in adult education
Stephen Brookfield
Friday, September 25, 2009
SERESC Conference Center
29 Commerce Drive
Bedford, NH 03110
Get registered today!
Helping Adults Learn: Skillful Teaching in Today’s College Classroom
Featuring internationally acclaimed scholar in adult education
Stephen Brookfield
Friday, September 25, 2009
SERESC Conference Center
29 Commerce Drive
Bedford, NH 03110
Get registered today!
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Metropolitan College in New Orleans Closes Its Doors
UNO cutting its night school
by John Pope, The Times-Picayune
Saturday August 01, 2009, 9:20 PM
The image is part of the American dream: the shift worker who puts in a full day on the job and then heads to night classes to earn a college degree and build a better life.
To accommodate these students -- people who are older than the typical collegians and have jobs, mortgages and families -- colleges not only offer evening classes but also have set up departments to make things easier for them.
Among four-year colleges, major departments offering night classes have existed at Tulane and Loyola universities and the University of New Orleans.
But last month, in implementing steep budget cuts, the University of New Orleans announced the closing of Metropolitan College, which has housed these classes and UNO's international programs.
Formed in 1980, Metropolitan College had enrolled 952 students just before Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005. Enrollment was 643 in the spring of 2006, according to UNO figures, and 703 last fall. Its budget for the 2008-09 academic year was $4.7 million.
Chancellor Tim Ryan insists that act was a matter of administrative streamlining to save money by eliminating duplication. Besides, he said, the courses still exist, but the administrative aspects have been transferred to academic departments, with, for instance, the history department handling courses for traditional and nontraditional students.
But others in the field of continuing education worry that such a move, similar to changes made to Loyola University's City College as part of post-Hurricane Katrina restructuring, eliminates the support structure that these students need.
Because these students can face difficulties such as caring for sick children, dealing with job-related stress and stretching a paycheck -- difficulties that don't confront most traditional college students -- they need a school structure that understands their situation and caters to their needs, said Richard Marksbury, dean of Tulane's School of Continuing Studies.
"They're going to school to better themselves, so you have to learn to work with them, " he said. "One shoe size doesn't fit all."
Different priorities
Rick Osborn agrees. He is the president of the Association for Continuing Higher Education, a national organization.
"What tends to happen is that institutions tend to think they can decentralize and let various academic departments deal with nontraditional students, " said Osborn, who will become East Tennessee State University's dean of continuing studies this month.
"Those students get neglected, " he said, "because faculty and departments are focused on 18-year-olds."
This is an attitude Harriet Royce, 44, has confronted frequently. A receptionist at a downtown law firm, she is working on an undergraduate degree at UNO and studying to become a paralegal.
"Professors who teach day students and get stuck with a night class sometimes say, 'You better get your priorities straight, ' " she said.
"I don't know what to say, " Royce said. "My priorities are straight, but I have to pay my bills. Their lives are on the campus. They don't realize what it's like to juggle classes and a job and get a paper done. Sometimes, it's very disheartening to hear that."
Royce had been able to take classes at Metropolitan College's downtown office, but next semester she will have to hurry after work to attend classes at the Lakefront campus or UNO's Jefferson Parish site.
'Lost in the shuffle'
She also will lose access to the staff members in the downtown office who kept longer hours to accommodate nontraditional students who needed the computer or might arrive late because their bosses wanted to talk to them after their shifts ended.
Because those people spent their careers working with nontraditional students, they "understood that your situation was different from that of a 24-year-old student who was working at Starbucks, " she said.
They are vital in these programs, Marksbury said, because they can help nontraditional students adjust to college life -- no small chore, he said, because many of these students are the first in their families to go to college.
Without such easily accessible, empathetic personnel, "I'm afraid they're going to lose a lot of the older students, " Royce said of UNO. "A lot of people like me are lost in the shuffle."
Ryan doesn't think the situation will be so dire.
While acknowledging that nontraditional students have "special needs, " he said, "we have those same kinds of students on our regular campus -- adult students coming at night. We're used to dealing with that."
To try to accommodate them, Ryan said counselors accustomed to dealing with these students and their situations will be at all of UNO's sites in the New Orleans area.
"We're trying to accommodate them better, " he said, "and we think bringing them into the mainstream will do that."
One-stop shop
This system can work, as long as there is a center that is tailored to deal with nontraditional students, said Melissa Landry, admissions counselor for Loyola's Evening Division.
The Evening Division had been the name given to this part of Loyola before 1970, when City College was created. After the post-storm restructuring, colleges took over academic responsibilities, and the Evening Division became what Landry called "a one-stop shop" for nontraditional students that also offers four degree programs.
"It's an art form over here to do as much as we can when the student is on campus, allowing them to handle parking and tuition and financial aid all in one place, " she said. "We have tried to get with various offices on campus to try to streamline things to get students extended hours so when they get off at 5 o'clock, they don't have to worry about an office's shutting its doors."
Even though City College doesn't exist anymore under that name, "we never stopped serving those students, " Landry said.
http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2009/08/uno_cutting_its_night_school.html
by John Pope, The Times-Picayune
Saturday August 01, 2009, 9:20 PM
The image is part of the American dream: the shift worker who puts in a full day on the job and then heads to night classes to earn a college degree and build a better life.
To accommodate these students -- people who are older than the typical collegians and have jobs, mortgages and families -- colleges not only offer evening classes but also have set up departments to make things easier for them.
Among four-year colleges, major departments offering night classes have existed at Tulane and Loyola universities and the University of New Orleans.
But last month, in implementing steep budget cuts, the University of New Orleans announced the closing of Metropolitan College, which has housed these classes and UNO's international programs.
Formed in 1980, Metropolitan College had enrolled 952 students just before Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005. Enrollment was 643 in the spring of 2006, according to UNO figures, and 703 last fall. Its budget for the 2008-09 academic year was $4.7 million.
Chancellor Tim Ryan insists that act was a matter of administrative streamlining to save money by eliminating duplication. Besides, he said, the courses still exist, but the administrative aspects have been transferred to academic departments, with, for instance, the history department handling courses for traditional and nontraditional students.
But others in the field of continuing education worry that such a move, similar to changes made to Loyola University's City College as part of post-Hurricane Katrina restructuring, eliminates the support structure that these students need.
Because these students can face difficulties such as caring for sick children, dealing with job-related stress and stretching a paycheck -- difficulties that don't confront most traditional college students -- they need a school structure that understands their situation and caters to their needs, said Richard Marksbury, dean of Tulane's School of Continuing Studies.
"They're going to school to better themselves, so you have to learn to work with them, " he said. "One shoe size doesn't fit all."
Different priorities
Rick Osborn agrees. He is the president of the Association for Continuing Higher Education, a national organization.
"What tends to happen is that institutions tend to think they can decentralize and let various academic departments deal with nontraditional students, " said Osborn, who will become East Tennessee State University's dean of continuing studies this month.
"Those students get neglected, " he said, "because faculty and departments are focused on 18-year-olds."
This is an attitude Harriet Royce, 44, has confronted frequently. A receptionist at a downtown law firm, she is working on an undergraduate degree at UNO and studying to become a paralegal.
"Professors who teach day students and get stuck with a night class sometimes say, 'You better get your priorities straight, ' " she said.
"I don't know what to say, " Royce said. "My priorities are straight, but I have to pay my bills. Their lives are on the campus. They don't realize what it's like to juggle classes and a job and get a paper done. Sometimes, it's very disheartening to hear that."
Royce had been able to take classes at Metropolitan College's downtown office, but next semester she will have to hurry after work to attend classes at the Lakefront campus or UNO's Jefferson Parish site.
'Lost in the shuffle'
She also will lose access to the staff members in the downtown office who kept longer hours to accommodate nontraditional students who needed the computer or might arrive late because their bosses wanted to talk to them after their shifts ended.
Because those people spent their careers working with nontraditional students, they "understood that your situation was different from that of a 24-year-old student who was working at Starbucks, " she said.
They are vital in these programs, Marksbury said, because they can help nontraditional students adjust to college life -- no small chore, he said, because many of these students are the first in their families to go to college.
Without such easily accessible, empathetic personnel, "I'm afraid they're going to lose a lot of the older students, " Royce said of UNO. "A lot of people like me are lost in the shuffle."
Ryan doesn't think the situation will be so dire.
While acknowledging that nontraditional students have "special needs, " he said, "we have those same kinds of students on our regular campus -- adult students coming at night. We're used to dealing with that."
To try to accommodate them, Ryan said counselors accustomed to dealing with these students and their situations will be at all of UNO's sites in the New Orleans area.
"We're trying to accommodate them better, " he said, "and we think bringing them into the mainstream will do that."
One-stop shop
This system can work, as long as there is a center that is tailored to deal with nontraditional students, said Melissa Landry, admissions counselor for Loyola's Evening Division.
The Evening Division had been the name given to this part of Loyola before 1970, when City College was created. After the post-storm restructuring, colleges took over academic responsibilities, and the Evening Division became what Landry called "a one-stop shop" for nontraditional students that also offers four degree programs.
"It's an art form over here to do as much as we can when the student is on campus, allowing them to handle parking and tuition and financial aid all in one place, " she said. "We have tried to get with various offices on campus to try to streamline things to get students extended hours so when they get off at 5 o'clock, they don't have to worry about an office's shutting its doors."
Even though City College doesn't exist anymore under that name, "we never stopped serving those students, " Landry said.
http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2009/08/uno_cutting_its_night_school.html
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The ACHE Website is listed
in 100 Excellent Continuing Ed Sites for Teachers.
(http://www.onlineeducation.net/2009/08/04/100-excellent-continuing-ed-sites-for-teachers/)
(http://www.onlineeducation.net/2009/08/04/100-excellent-continuing-ed-sites-for-teachers/)
Reserve your room
I hear that the Sheraton Society Hill has run out of king sized beds.
I assume that's a sign that it's filling up, so if you haven't made your reservations--you better hurry!
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