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Five Minutes with ACHE
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 What is the value of the Annual Conference and Meeting?
One of the more pleasant responsibilities of the ACHE president is to visit each of the organization’s regional conferences. During the business meeting at one of these conferences, the vice chair of the region asked the attendees whether they should consider cancelling their 2010 regional meeting. After all, the economy was weak, budgets were tight, and travel was difficult. After a brief silence, one fellow spoke up. “You know,” he said, “if we cancel our meeting ourselves, then what we’re saying to the decision makers is that it wasn’t very important to begin with.” — Read more... |
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The ACHE Member Community is growing!
Since the launch of the ACHE Member Community in February, we’ve made steady progress toward full implementation of all that the Community has to offer. In this month’s edition of Five Minutes, we’re excited to announce the following new features:
- On-line access to the Journal of Continuing Higher Education
*** Volume 57, Issue 1 now available!***
- Update your profile and upload a photo so other Community users can get to know you
- A Bulletin Board where Community members can ask questions and share ideas
- Institutional Representatives: Update your member listing online!
- Professional and Provisional members: Renew your membership online today!
Coming soon:
- Registration for the 2009 ACHE Annual Meeting and Conference
- Membership renewal for Institutional and Affiliate members
Have a blog? A MySpace or LinkedIn profile? Maybe you know of a website that you’ve found useful and you want to share it with the Community. We’ll be adding additional profile fields, including a place to list your favorites.
Membership dues for 2009
The membership dues renewal cycle for 2009 is finally closed. We want to thank all of you who have chosen to stay with ACHE and make this association a strong, viable resource for adult continuing educators looking for support as they navigate the waters of this often challenging profession.
We at the home office got to talk to many of you as we went about the task of getting everyone’s dues paid and information updated. So please visit the Community and check your information to make sure it’s up to date! You can log in via our homepage at www.acheinc.org.
Looking for Five Minutes submissions
We’re looking for submissions for the Five Minutes Learning Corner. Please send us articles on these or other topics of interest to continuing educators:
- Experiences in marketing a continuing education program
- The past and present of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- A profile of a unique continuing education program at your institution
- Experiences as a professor in adult continuing education
- Article or book reviews
Anything else you can think of that might be of interest to the ACHE membership! |
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Call for ACHE Research Grant applications
Deadline for submission: September 30, 2009
The purpose of the ACHE Research Grant is to promote the development and dissemination of new knowledge, theories, and practices in adult and continuing education. Grants of up to $3,000 may be awarded.
ACHE members or doctoral students with sponsorship from ACHE are eligible to submit research grant proposals. Members of the Research Committee, national officers and Board members are not eligible to apply for a grant. The Research Committee urges ACHE members to assist the Committee in contacting current doctoral students and their submission of a grant application.
ACHE Research Grant proposals will be evaluated using criteria found here.
For further information and questions, please contact Dr. Thomas Fuhr, Acting Research Committee Chair at fuhrtw@potsdam.edu or by phone 315-267-3089.
Almost time to vote! – Board of Directors and Vice President – Voting will take place June 1-15!
The slate of candidates for the ACHE Board of Directors and Vice President has been finalized!
Standing for Director-at-Large:
Standing for Vice President:
Voting will take place June 1-15, 2009. Log into the ACHE Member Community and follow the links from there!
2009 Annual ACHE Conference & Meeting
Philadelphia 2009 ~ Philadelphia, Penn., November 15-18, 2009
Please consider submitting one or more entries for The Crystal Marketing Award - Deadline June 1, 2009
The Crystal Marketing Award recognizes those institutions that achieve significant results from marketing communications tools to support any of their various continuing education programs. The strategic approach, overall quality, and results achieved are important criteria in determining the winner. A first-place award will be presented to the single entry that exemplifies the most creative and outstanding uses of marketing, either of a multi-faceted campaign or a single initiative. A number of honorable mentions may also be cited. Submission guidelines and nomination forms.
Journal for Continuing Higher Education
JCHE now online!
Volume 57, Issue 1 of the Journal of Continuing Higher Education was recently published by our new publishing house, Routledge (part of the Taylor & Francis Group). As part of the exciting new opportunities provided by our new agreement, you can now access the Journal online via the ACHE Member Community. Go to www.acheinc.org and log in with your username and password. Once you’re logged on, the link for Journal is on the left hand menu.
Call for Manuscripts is now open
The Journal of Continuing Higher Education is currently accepting manuscripts for the August-December, 2009 issue and beyond and encourages ACHE members to write for publication. For best consideration for the August-December issue, manuscripts are requested by June 15. — Read more... |
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ACHE Mid Atlantic 2009 Spring Conference
March 29 - March 31, 2009
The Woods Resort and Conference Center
Mountain Lake Road, Hedgesville, WV
On March 29, 2009 members of the ACHE Mid-Atlantic Region convened in Hedgesville, WV for a few days of work, networking and fun. The participants had an opportunity to “get away from it all” and enjoy the quiet and scenic landscape of the The Woods Resort and Conference Center. The conference kicked off with a dinner and coffee house entertainment provided by an icon of the region, Jerry Hickerson. The following two days included great food, educational workshops and reuniting with great friends. If you were unable to attend this year, be sure to make plans to attend next year. The Mid-Atlantic Region always finds a way to be productive and have a great time at the annual conference and meeting. See you in 2010!
Visit the ACHE Mid-Atlantic website at for more information about our conference, including business meeting minutes, a link to our photo album, and conference presentations.
ACHE Northeast 2009 Spring Conference
ACHE Northeast 2009 Spring Conference
Administration, Technology, and Unlocking the Barriers to Successful Distance Learning
Friday, April 24, 2009
9 am - 2 pm
Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, NY
ACHE Northeast held its biannual conference entitled "Administration, Technology and Unlocking the Barriers to Successful Distance Learning" on Friday, April 24, 2009. The conference was co-sponsored by Onondaga Community College, who recently joined ACHE as an Institutional member. Presentations at the one-day conference focused on Administrative and Faculty viewpoints and approaches to distance learning. An afternoon panel, consisting of experienced administrators, faculty and online students provided their personal perception of online learning based on their own experiences. Tom Fuhr, ACHE Director-at-large, discussed updates form the ACHE Board Meeting. The Conference drew approximately 50 attendees.
2009 ACHE South Spring Conference
ACHE South 2009 Spring Conference
April 27-29, 2009
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
ACHE South and LACHE held their 2009 annual conference April 27-29, 2009 at the historic Hilton Capitol Center in downtown Baton Rouge. The theme for the conference was Building Bridges: Exploring the Past, Discovering the Future of Continuing Education.
Visit the ACHE South website at for more information about our conference, including conference presentations. |
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This section of Five Minutes focuses on articles of interest to the adult continuing education community, and includes an array of topics. If you have a topic you would like to us to write more about, please let us know!
Professional Educator Profile: Marthann Schulte, Ph.D.
— Royce Young
Marthann Schulte, Ph.D., is a professor at Park University in Parkville, Missouri. She handles mainly online courses and is active in ACHE as she is on the program committee for the Philadelphia conference. She recently visited with Royce Young, a member of the University of Oklahoma Outreach Marketing and Communications Department, about her career choices. — Read more...
Review of Prior Learning Portfolios: A Representative Collection
A book by Denise M. Hart and Jerry H. Hickerson
"CAEL's newest publication, Prior Learning Portfolios: A Representative Collection, is a comprehensive set of materials and information about the historical context for prior learning assessment (PLA) that will assist PLA administrators practitioners, adult learners, faculty engaged in the learning assessment process, institutions making the case for offering or continuing to support PLA programs, and governments supporting and encouraging such programs. It is just the professional resource that has been needed in adult higher education for many years. Assessment professionals will find this to be one of the most beneficial sources of information and tools they will put to use in multiple venues. The CD-ROM with sample portfolio information is the icing on the cake of tools for PLA practitioners!"
Jacqueline Johnson, Ph.D.
President, Jacqueline Johnson & Associates, LLC
Management and Higher Education Consulting |
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Subscribe to the new International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
2nd Sloan-C Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning
NUTN 2009 – Annual Conference on Distance Education: Quality in Motion
10th National Outreach Scholarship Conference
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