UPCEA members want meaningful change -- change that will make a difference to their institutions, their units, their students, and their careers. With a leadership team profoundly committed to a change agenda, UPCEA has a once-in-a- generation opportunity to reinvent the Association and, in the process, strengthen the profession itself. This Special Leadership Summit is a lynchpin in the strategic planning process that will take place over months leading up to and shortly after the Annual Conference. Deans, associate deans, directors and those in leadership roles in the Association will assemble to review and discuss the implications of results from the “Discovery Phase” of the planning process.
      After a presentation by McKinley Marketing and a robust dialogue about the study’s implications, you will be asked to help shape the strategic goals and directions that will focus and guide our work together in the next few years.
      This is a difficult time in the history of higher education, and for our society in general. But it is also a time characterized by remarkable opportunities to reinvent ourselves. Now more than ever, continuing educators must play a leading role.