Call for proposals

2010 ACHE Annual Conference and Meeting
Hotel Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
October 20-23, 2010.

Continuing Education - Reflecting Upon and Responding to the National Agenda

To download the Call for Proposals Form, visit http://www.acheinc.org/ache2010/call_for_proposals.pdf.

You can view additional information about the conference at the 2010 ACHE Conference and Meeting http://www.acheinc.org/annual_conference.html.

The deadline for the Call for Proposals is Monday, February 1, 2010.

Please email your proposal to:

Dr. Jeffery Alejandro
Coordinator, Continuing Professional Education
Division of Continuing Studies
East Carolina University
301F Self-Help Center
Greenville, NC 27858
Phone (252) 328-9197
Fax (252) 328-9342
Email alejandroj@ecu.edu
Web http://www.cpe.ecu.edu/

Call for nominations

Dear Colleagues,


The ACHE Nominations Committee is currently accepting nominations for:

     • Directors-at-Large (two openings) and

     • Vice President.

The Association will present its slate of candidates in the March Five Minutes with ACHE. In order to submit a nomination, an online form is available at: http://tinyurl.com/ache-2010-nominations

Individuals may self-nominate or be nominated by a colleague. Once nominations are received, the chair of the Nominations Committee, Rick Osborn, will contact nominees with requests for additional information.

Please direct any inquiries to the Nominations Committee Chair:

Rick Osborn
Immediate Past President, ACHE
Dean, School of Continuing Studies & Academic Outreach
East Tennessee State University
OSBORNR@mail.etsu.edu
(423) 439-8300
(423) 773-3452 (cell)

ALL NOMINATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MARCH 1, 2010.

Participation as a Director-at-Large or as Vice President constitutes a significant opportunity to serve ACHE and continuing higher education. Nominees for Vice President must have served at least two years as a Director-at-Large. For a description of the roles and responsibilities of ACHE Officers, please consult the ACHE Guide for Officers and Board Members. (http://tinyurl.com/acheguide-officers-board)

We hope that you will consider nominating a colleague this year!

Call for Proposals

57th Annual Conference
Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE)
Fredericton, New Brunswick
June 1-4, 2010

For More Information

The 2010 CAUCE Conference Planning Committee invites proposals for concurrent sessions on creative continuing education that correspond with the following three conference tracks:

1. Creativity – catalyst for change
2. Models, strategies and methods to challenge the times
3. Embracing Diversity

Abstracts should be submitted in the proposed language of presentation (English or French). Simultaneous translation will not be available.

Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria:

o Relevance to the conference theme
o Learning outcomes for the audience
o Clarity of session objectives and organization of information
o Degree of originality of research or approach
o Presentation approach and level of participant engagement

Presenters will be advised of the status of their submissions by Monday, March 1, 2010. If your submission is accepted, you must provide a final paper (or other contribution to the conference proceedings) by May 3, 2010. Papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available to the delegates.

The deadline for abstract submission is Friday, January 22, 2010

Fill out the Abstract Submission Form by clicking here.

Dean Level Sponsor, Boston Reed College

Announces the winners of its drawing at 2009 ACHE Annual Conference and Meeting:

It was indeed our pleasure to be a Dean Level Sponsor at the 2009 ACHE Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania last month. Many conference attendees stopped by the Boston Reed table to learn more about partnering with Boston Reed and to enter our drawing for Napa Valley wine, made by Boston Reed's CEO, David Wignall.

This year's wine recipients are:

• Charles Hickox, Eastern Kentucky University, KY

• Mary Alice Burkhart, Austin Peay State University, TN

• Antoinette Coleman, Bowie State University, MD

• Richard Cheney, Central Connecticut State University, CT

• Linda Crosset, Indiana State University, IN

• Francine Fink, Becker College, MA

• Charlee Lanis - East Central University, OK

• Dr. Louann Waldner - College of Sequoias, CA

More tips on updating your vita

Several DOs and DON'Ts in Vita Preparation

DO make your vita a clear and concise summary of your professional qualifications. Like any good writing, every word should count.

DO try to obtain copies of several vitae from individuals who are at your stage of professional development or slightly ahead. One of the best ways to construct a vita is by seeing how others have done it.

DO take the time to create an elegant and inviting format, and be sure to laser print the final product on high quality paper. Style matters, and your vita should appear professional, uncluttered, and friendly to the eye.

DO be sure to check the vita carefully for mistakes and typographical errors. Without exception, it must be absolutely error-free.

DO have your faculty adviser, colleagues, family, and friends look over your vita before you send it out. They will undoubtedly spot weaknesses you have overlooked and may be able to suggest ways of overcoming them.

DON'T give the appearance of padding your vita by including such things as extra-wide margins, high school accomplishments, or excessive detail about your research and teaching experience (e.g., details associated with running an experiment, such as "I contacted participants, scheduled them for sessions...").

DON'T list irrelevant personal information such as height, weight, health, or military status. Listing your age, marital status, or the number of children you have is optional (unfortunately, such information can invite discrimination, particularly against female applicants), and excessive details should be avoided (e.g., names and ages of children). Listing hobbies and outside interests is also optional and should only be done if you feel it will enhance your image as a well-rounded professional.

DON'T list categories that have only item (with one exception: a section entitled "Publication" is acceptable for listing a single publication).

DON'T use category subheadings that are more ambitious than their content (e.g., "Articles, Publications, and Grant Proposals" followed by only one grant proposal). Later in your career, you can add some of these sections (for example, "Professional Activities" might include editorships, memberships in academic or grant-reviewing committees, consulting work, and so on).

Attention: ACHE Great Lakes Region (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Central Ontario )

Mark your calendars and plan to attend the ACHE Great Lakes Regional Conference in collaboration with the Illinois Council of Continuing Higher Education.

February 10 – 12, 2010 in Chicago

Please click here for details and be sure to register soon. It’s sure to be a great conference.

Listen up those in the Northeast Metropolitan Region (New Jersey, New York metro area, Europe, Africa, Middle East)

Listen up those in the Northeast Metropolitan Region (New Jersey, New York metro area, Europe, Africa, Middle East).  Please go here now: http://acheinc.org/region/NEmetro/index.html.  New bylaws have been posted.  Please go read and vote on them!

K-State Hosts Higher Education Dialogue

Kansas State University’s Division of Continuing Education hosted the Kansas dialogue workshop “Difficult Dialogues, Rewarding Solutions” on September 14th in Manhattan, Kansas, sponsored by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC). The session was facilitated by Chris Rasmussen, MHEC Vice President for Research and Policy Analysis. The dialogue from the meeting will lead to the development of strategies for Kansas to address the difficult issues of expanding higher education while keeping it affordable to students, families, and state governments.

Caption: Sue Maes, Dean of the Division of Continuing Education, Kansas State University, Kurt Schulz, President of Kansas State University, and Lana Oleen, MHEC Commissioner, lead discussions at the gathering held at K-State.

Howard University closes

its continuing education unit.

Peggy Berry informed ACHE today that "Howard University has decided to discontinue its continuing education program (Howard University Continuing Education, HUCE) effective October 31, 2009. " Institutions sometimes think they can just absorb all that continuing education does within other units, but those units typically exist to serve only the traditional campus students. The adults, the nontraditional students, the distant students--they either get served poorly or they migrate to other colleges and universities.

Adult Education Research Grant Opportuity

SU Library's Special Collections Research Center invites applicants for adult education research grants

The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at Syracuse University Library invites applicants to its Alexander N. Charters Adult Education Research Grants-in-Aid Program, now in its third year. As much as $5,000 of grants-in-aid will be awarded in 2010 to researchers in the history and practice of adult education who wish to use the collections in SCRC's Charters Library. The actual amount of each award will depend upon the scope of the research outlined in the applicant's proposal.

The Charters Library of Resources for the Educators of Adults (http://scrc.syr.edu/charterslibrary ) is the world's most comprehensive collection of English-language materials in the field of adult and continuing education. Among the resources available to researchers are: more than 55 discrete manuscript collections, 2,100 books, 50 professional journals, 220 newsletters, 400 sound recordings, 100 video-recordings, 10,000 photographs and some 2,800 master's theses and dissertations in the field. Online finding aids to the manuscript collections are available on SCRC's website at http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/ead/subj_list_from_db.htm#adult_ed .

With more than 145,000 printed works and 2,000 manuscript and archival collections, SCRC is home to some of SU's most valued treasures, including early printed editions of Gutenberg, Galileo, and Sir Isaac Newton, as well as the library of 19th-century German historian Leopold Von Ranke. Holdings are particularly strong in the 20th century; they include the personal papers and manuscripts of such luminaries as artist Grace Hartigan, inspirational preacher Norman Vincent Peale, author Joyce Carol Oates, photojournalist Margaret Bourke White, and industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague, as well as the records of organizations such as avant-garde publisher Grove Press. SCRC regularly hosts exhibitions, lectures, and classes and offers fellowships and internships in library instruction and conservation.

The application deadline is December 1, 2009, and winners will be announced by January 15, 2010. To apply, submit a letter of intent outlining the proposed research topic, including the term of stay, proposed budget, a current résumé, and the name, with contact information, of one professional reference to:

Mary Beth Hinton
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Library
222 Waverly Ave.
Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-2010
Phone: 315-443-9763

ACHE and the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame partnering at ACHE 2009 in Philly

ACHE is pleased to announce that we are hosting the 2009 International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, to be held at 6:00 p.m. on November 17, 2009 at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

All ACHE conference attendees are welcome to join this ceremony.

There is no extra cost to attend, so come and be inspired!
 
For more information, visit http://acheinc.org/ache2009/Hall_of_fame.html or contact Mitzi McCraw at mitzi@ou.edu.

CEANY 46th Annual Conference happening soon!

The Continuing Education Association of New York is hosting its 46th Annual Conference at the Gideon Putnam Resort in Saratoga Springs, NY October 7-9.  For those ACHE members in the Northeast, Northeast Metro and New England regions, this will be a great opportunity to share ideas about continuing education at your local level.

About the Gideon Putnam Resort

Renowned 2300-acre resort hotel in the Saratoga Spa State Park, is located 30 miles from Albany. Gideon Putnam boasts a full-service spa and fitness center, and many dining and entertainment options in nearby downtown Saratoga Springs.

Visit the CEANY conference website at http://www.ceany.org/conference2009  for more information!

The Lumina Foundation's

latest issue of Focus is out. Titled "No More Kid Stuff," it highlights adult students and features some of their compelling stories.

You can download the issue at http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/focus_archive/Focus_Fall_2009.pdf">http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/focus_archive/Focus_Fall_2009

Share your thoughts on proposed changes to the ACHE Constitution and Bylaws

During the Annual Business Meeting at ACHE Philadelphia, the ACHE membership will cast their vote on a slate of proposed changes to the ACHE Constitution and Bylaws. Most notable amongst the proposed changes are some substantive changes to ACHE's membership categories.

Please visit the following links to see our current Constitution and Bylaws and the text of the changes you will be voting on in November.

Current Constitution and Bylaws

Complete text of the proposed changes

Current membership categories

Proposed membership categories

ACHE is a member-driven organization; your input is critical to the success of this process, so please comment below!

Vets frustrated as colleges ignore experience

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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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.

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 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.

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

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.

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!