2008 Annual Conference and Meeting

We have pictures!  We have presentations!  We have the Proceedings!  Sorry.  Just a little bit excited still about all the fun we had in Nashville.  And I still can’t get over the team from Murray State, whose resident photographer, Cooper Levering, spent the entire conference taking pictures.  To see them, go to our conference photo album: http://picasaweb.google.com/achehomeoffice.

Presentations

Carol Aslanian was the presenter for our pre-conference session.  Her topic was on recruiting adult students and her presentation can be viewed here: http://www.acheinc.org/2008_conference/AslanianPreConference.pdf.

Dr. Andy DiPaolo gave an intensely thought-provoking keynote presentation on the future of online learning.  In his keynote presentation, Dr. Dipaolo sought to “address the promise and peril of internet delivered education, identify the changing education needs and expectations of professionals and their employers, provide advice on the institutional strategies to successfully offer continuing education at a distance and offer a  vision of the future of online delivery in support of lifelong learning.”  Dr. Dipaolo’s presentation can be viewed here: http://www.acheinc.org/2008_conference/DiPaoloGeneralI.pdf.

Compass Knowledge Group, an innovator in online learning solutions, held a lunch-time presentation on the Economics of Online Learning that played to a packed house.  View his presentation slides here: http://www.acheinc.org/2008_conference/Econ-OnlineLearning-Snow.pdf.

Our other keynote speakers included

• Dr. Brian Pusser, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Virginia, spoke on the Political Economy of Continuing Education in the 21st Century
• Bob Valentine and Dr. Bob McGaughey, whose session was titled “What You Say is What You Get: Communicating on the Job in 2008.

See the Nashville Proceedings for more information on these presentations: http://www.acheinc.org/2008_conference/2008Proceedings.pdf.

Awards

The award winners for 2008 were:

SPECIAL RECOGNITION                      
Michele Shinn

MERITORIOUS SERVICE                      
Robert J. DeRoche
John Yates

EMERITUS                                           
Nancy Gadbow
Rosemary Wade Owens
John Yates

CREDIT PROGRAM                              
Rose State College and Tinker AFB
“Employee Leadership/Supervisory Training Programs”

NON-CREDIT PROGRAM                      
Oklahoma State University
“Energy Conference”

CRYSTAL MARKETING AWARD
Western Kentucky University
“2007 Carroll Knicely Conference Center Holiday Campaign”

MARLOWE FROKE AWARD                                               
Jeff E. Hoyt
Scott L. Howell
Lee J. Glines
Cary Johnson
Jonathan S. Spackman
Carrie Thompson
Chandler Rudd
“Assessing Part-Time Faculty Job Satisfaction in Continuing Higher Education: Implications for the Profession”

CREATIVE USE OF TECH                    
Clemson University
“The Sandbox: Teaching with Technology Experimental Classroom”

OLDER ADULT MODEL PROGRAM AWARD
Clemson University
"Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Clemson University"

OUTSTANDING SVCS TO UNDERSERVED POPULATION
University of Maryland University College
“Better Opportunities Through Online Education"

RECOGNITION                        
ACEware Systems, Inc.

Finally, to find out more about the conference as a whole, the proceeding for the 2008 ACHE Annual Conference and Meeting can be accessed here: http://www.acheinc.org/2008_conference/2008Proceedings.pdf.