Agenda

Pre-conference Workshop:

The Beat Goes On: Teams that Thrive in Tough Times
- Chris Clarke-Epstein, CSP
Creating and sustaining a high performance team in the best of times isn’t easy. In today’s environment, it’s a significant challenge. Stress is up, budgets are tight and time is short. Leaders who don’t know how to look at and work with their teams creatively are losing ground. Much like directing a choir, leaders who learn how to manage the complex relationships inherent in teams position themselves and their teams for performances that demand an encore. During this highly interactive, engaging and content-packed session led by trainer and speaker, Chris Clarke-Epstein, CSP, you’ll learn and practice specific communication, trust-building and creativity skills that will create harmony so the music your team makes sounds sweet. Come prepared to:

• Look at your team in a new way
• Evaluate your team’s current reality
• Discover ways to actually do more with less
• Increase team creativity and innovation
• Create a self-motivated environment
• Develop an action plan for team success
• Have fun
  

Luncheon & Keynote Speaker
Conference Begins:

The Nexus: Knowledge-Economic Well Being-Quality of Life
- Terry Ludeman, Retired Chief of Office of Economic Advisors State of Wisconsin
We will discuss the clustering of knowledge workers and the environments that bring them together. We will look deeper at the importance of attracting knowledge workers and how they impact the ecpnomic well being of the communities they choose to live in. We will look at the places where those knowledge workers have chosen to migrate to. And we will look at the aspects of quality of life that are the keys.

Concurrent Sessions:

A Virtual Commencement for Graduates of Online Programs
- Linda Butterfield Cupp, Sandy Gummersheimer, Dolores Shearon, University of Missouri
While increasing numbers of University of Missouri graduates have studied online, those students and their families and friends often are unable to attend traditional commencement ceremonies because of distance. Last year, the university started bringing graduation to them in the form of a virtual ceremony. Visitors to the mini-site can read graduates’ names, geographic locations and degrees earned while listening to “Pomp and Circumstance” and the university’s alma mater play in the background. While there, family, friends and faculty have the opportunity to watch  short commencement addresses and to post congratulatory notes in a guest book for public viewing. The overwhelmingly positive response from graduates and their families, as well as from the university and local community, has brought considerable attention to MU’s distance education programs. This session is designed to help get you off to a solid start if your school is planning to recognize online program graduates with their own web site.

From a Six-Foot Sub to a Hundred Grand: Fund Raising on a Roll
- Chris DeIuliis, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Prior to managing the 5th National Summit on Smokeless and Spit Tobacco, the most DeIuliis had ever raised in support of an outreach program was six foot submarine sandwich. Yet, to lead a successful national conference in difficult economic times, he realized he would need to raise substantial funds. With essentially no experience in fundraising, he was able to garner approximately $100,000 in support funds from a variety of non-profit organizations, health entities and states. In this non-PowerPoint presentation, Chris DeIuliis will outline his journey, discussing tactical and strategic decisions, sharing what worked and what didn’t. This session is intended for those who are new to fundraising and those who have such experience, and will ultimately be an information sharing session.

New program ideas may come from anywhere – another institution, faculty member, a colleague, local newspaper article, a conversation.
- Connie Jeffries, Continuing Education for the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
This workshop follows specific steps taken to develop and implement a program conceived in a conversation between two “50-something” women. In conversation, they suddenly realized there were no conferences or events in the St. Louis area focusing specifically on women of their age and the wide-ranging challenges faced by so many women at that juncture in their lives. The idea evolved into an all-day event offering 24 workshops following four tracks – lifestyle, health, money, and personal/hobby topics. Health screenings were offered, and vendors provided samples - all of particular interest to women over 50. This “how-to” workshop will follow every step taken in planning and implementing Celebrating Women: Reinventing Ourselves after 50, which brings more than 300 women to the UMSL campus each year.

Concurrent Sessions:

Program Planning: A Model for Success
- Dan Gaymer, Eastern Michigan University
Program planning and development is the lifeblood of any continuing education unit. Developing new and relevant programming to meet the changing needs of the marketplace is a critical and complex process. In addition, many of us must partner internally to encourage and motivate academic units to deliver programs off-campus or online, and at other times we need a legitimate reason or process to say no thank you to departments who believe off-campus will save a declining program. Under any of these circumstances, having a formalized planning process can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of this important task.

Maintaining a fiscally sound CE unit during both Good and Bad Economic Times
- Debbie Robison, University of Missouri-Columbia
Maintaining a fiscally sound CE unit is a difficult challenge in the best of times. Weathering a bad economy and a falling state budget no doubt add to the challenge. This session will provide tricks of the trade to help you survive in any economy.

Three Technologies You Should Know About
- Clarence Maise, University of Wisconsin-Extension
Find out about three simple Web 2.0 tools that the presenter believes will have a profound impact on the way we work and teach. All the technologies demonstrated at the conference attendees can try for free online.

Keynote Presentation:

Success in Continuing Education: Some Rules to Live By!
- Marv Van Kekerix, University of Wisconsin-Madison

In-depth Concurrent Session:

What am I Supposed to do with This? Reporting Evaluation Results
- Mary Crave, University of Wisconsin-Extension
Many continuing education programmers have plenty of incentives to evaluate their programs – it may be a requirement of the department or the funder, for example. But after collecting data, many programmers are unsure of what to do with it or how to tell their story. This session will focus on simple ways to use program evaluation to inform programming, as well as to write simple but effective reports for various audiences. Participants will have an opportunity to write brief reports for various audiences.

UCEA National Address

Just Over the Horizon – The Professional and Continuing Education Landscape
- Kay Kohl, UCEA Chief Executive Officer
This session will look beyond the current economic recession and discuss developments and trends of relevance to professional and continuing education.  What are the implications for our field of the government’s focus on boosting educational attainment?  How might stimulus program funding help create new jobs? In what ways is expanding use of the web providing new opportunities for inter-institutional and international collaborations?  How are faculty enhancing learning with new curricula and innovative technologies in an era of budget cuts?

Concurrent Sessions:

Marketing in a Green Economy
- Marla Norton, University of Wisconsin-Extension
Remember when it wasn't easy being green? Well, today it is easier than ever. In today's green economy, it has become necessary to market the products and services of our organizations with sustainable methods. Online alternatives to mass printings and the use of sustainable resources for marketing martierals becoming the standard for today's marketing communciation's strategies.

What are the Needs of Learners in the Information Age?
- Jim Onderdonk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Patrick O’Shea, Harvard University
How student written Wiki Books for a required undergraduate education course at Old Dominion University may herald one alternative for learning for the future, a future defined by new roles for professors, students, writers, and publishers in traditional and continuing education. The presentation will also describe how such an approach exemplifies the principles of continuing education and may serve as a vehicle for the concept of heutagogy (self determined learning).

On the Road Again: Developing Faculty Awareness of the Public’s Needs
- Miriam Simmons, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The global economic, social, and cultural environment over the past decade is reshaping the teaching, research, and public service missions of public universities and colleges. How are we connecting faculty to the public’s needs? A study of the influence of a recurring UW-Madison faculty development program (the Wisconsin Idea Seminar) on faculty scholarship using Boyer’s (1996) domains of integration and engagement will be presented. Using qualitative research approaches, a sample of 29 faculty members were interviewed from a pool of nearly 250 on campus former faculty participants. The study found that approximately nine out of ten faculty members held elaborated, multi-dimensional commitments to the Wisconsin Idea and, by extension, to the University and to the state. Additionally, more than 80% found ways to integrate their research, teaching, and public service endeavors to address societal issues.