Wednesday, October 5th
8:30am Leadership: See Your Work Through Different Lenses (Pre-Conference) Nuts and Bolts: Environmental Scanning for Strategic Success in Continuing Education (Pre-Conference)
11:30am Newcomers' Welcome: Opening the Conversation
12:00pm Princeton: Past and Present (Welcome Luncheon)
Speaker: Eve Mandel, Curator of Education at Historical Society of Princeton
1:30pm General Session: Employer Panel
From Perception to Reality—Understanding Employer Challenges, Priorities and Mindset
2:30pm Vendor Showcase/Networking Break
3:15pm Town Hall Meeting with UPCEA CEO Robert J. Hansen, Ph.D.
5:30pm Awards Celebration at the Nassau Club of Princeton

Thursday, October 6th
8:00am Breakfast: UPCEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Business Meeting (All are encouraged to attend)
9:00am Keynote Speaker: Peter Smith, Harnessing America's Wasted Talent
10:00am Vendor Showcase/Networking Break
10:30am Conversation with Peter Smith Measuring what Matters: What do your students think? Ways to Better Serve Those Who Serve Our Country
11:45am Results of Management Survey (Luncheon)
Speaker: Jim Fong
1:15pm Learning from our Sponsors Mobile Phones Ring in a New Advertising Medium Lessons in Leadership: Wisdom and Wit from the Warrior and the Artist
2:15pm Vendor Showcase/Networking Break
2:45pm Re-Visioning Undergraduate Adult Education: Creating a Curriculum with a GPS Market Trends for Non-credit Professional Education – A Cross-sector Conversation
4:00pm

Colleague Conversations
(Break-out discussions)

  • Articulation Agreements
  • Prior Learning Assessment
  • Academic Advising
  • International Students and Programs
  • Difficult Conversations
  • Online Faculty/Course Evaluations
  • Student Services
  • Assessment of Student Learning
  • Conferences
  • Internal Marketing: Making the Case for CE- Deans and Directors
5:30pm Dinner on Your Own
Optional Activity: Walking Tour of Princeton

Friday, October 7th
8:00am Breakfast/Institutional Representative Meeting
9:00am Keynote Speaker: Dr. James W. Hughes, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
10:00am Vendor Showcase/Networking Break
10:30am Double Dipping: Using Technology to Extend Your Programming Using Advisory Boards in Continuing Education
11:45am Closing Luncheon
Service Project: La Salle Academy
12:45am Adjourn
1:00pm Special UPCEA Mid-Atlantic Peer Learning Circle
Lifelong Learning: Seniors Learning in Retirement
4:00pm Adjourn