Submissions

Request for Proposals

UPCEA members are invited to propose content for 2024 Annual Conference concurrent sessions which reflect the varied areas of practice of the UPCEA community: leaders in professional, continuing, and online education. Especially of interest are presentations that are highly interactive in format, feature multiple presenters and institutions/organizations, and can address the needs of a wide range of institutional types and sizes, as well as diverse populations of credit and noncredit learners. 

 Proposals are due by September 22.

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• Alternative Credentials 
• Business and Operations
• Community and Economic Engagement
• International
• Marketing, Enrollment, and Student Success
• Online Administration
• Program Planning and Implementation 

• Note: the eDesign Collaborative will invite proposals for a track at the UPCEA 2024 SOLAR and Distance Teaching & Learning event, hosted July, 2024.

• Proposals are expected to highlight a deeply relevant topic and to explore trends and developments in our field, share best practices and innovative solutions, and/or examine controversial ideas which evoke debate and discussion.
• Proposals will offer learning outcomes/goals, a clear plan to engage the audience, and denote an anticipated presentation “level” (i.e. foundational, applied, or strategic).
• Presenters must be current members of UPCEA, either institutional or corporate. Proposals by corporate members must include a current institutional member as co-presenter. Information about UPCEA membership is found here.
• Proposals must include complete contact information for all presenters.
• Proposals which do not meet the above elements will be considered incomplete and will not be reviewed.

• Proposals will be selected to ensure the program offers a comprehensive, noncommercial, objective, and diverse content. Attention will be given to diversity of institutions, presenters and geographic location. Note: due to demand, members are limited to one concurrent session proposal per event. 
• UPCEA reserves the right to revise presentation titles, reassign the proposed track, or edit the session description of selected presentations for promotional and program publications.
• There will be approximately 70 concurrent sessions, typically 60 minutes in length. Digital copies of presentation materials will be collected from presenters in advance of the conference for dissemination via the event platform and/or mobile app.  

• Aug 21:    Request for Proposals announced
• Sept 22:   Proposals due 
• Late Nov: Selected proposals notified

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