In 2008, massive, open, online courses burst onto the higher education landscape when two Canadian researchers launched a course on the theory of connectivism...
As UPCEA’s 2019-2020 board president, it has been an honor to work with the many wonderful people who are committed to this organization. These individuals...
Retirees Enticed by Campus Life Patsy and Warren Nelms met and married while undergraduates at the University of Florida in the 1950s and raised two...
Sometimes the only way to convince yourself you must do something is to have someone insist you can’t. Maria del Carmen Gonzalez had dreams of going back to...
Karen Bull, dean of the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s Division of Online Learning, was running a leadership retreat in late February when her...
For more than a millennium, universities have awarded degrees to their graduates in much the same form as America’s academic institutions do today. Through...
[Author’s Note: This article was written just before the pandemic. I worried that my celebration of community in the streets of New Orleans would seem wildly...
March 2019 Dear Colleagues, It seems like a thousand years ago, but when serving as UPCEA president in 2012-1013 I proposed that the association rethink...
Within higher education—and beyond—there is tremendous and growing interest in innovation in educational credentialing. In the job market, educational...
In an era when many colleges and universities struggle to meet their enrollment targets, a few institutions have leapfrogged over that calculus by adding large...
