The Great Divide:
Bridging the Marketing Gap Between Strategies & Tactics

UCEA 95th Annual Conference Call for Proposals CE units often lead their institution in the creation of innovative educational opportunities. Innovation refers to the creation of educational programs, services, models, or practices that meet the emerging and evolving needs of the public, our students. The CE organization of the future will need to make innovation a central value and a conscious process. CE leaders at all levels of the organization need to understand the practice of innovation, how to develop an innovative culture, and how to lead an innovative organization. Attendees at this Conference will meet and hear from innovators from the fields of education, business, industry, and government. They will learn leadership skills that help them create or sustain an innovative organization. They will hear about best practices in creating educational innovations. They will meet with other CE professionals to share their experience, knowledge, and challenges. Under this theme “leading innovation” we provide four tracks: • Leadership as an innovative practice (e.g. risk taking, venture investment, entrepreneurship, building an innovative culture, developing and enabling staff creativity, etc.); • Technology as a method of innovation (e.g. online education, new forms of marketing, new internal processes, keeping up with technological change and student/customer demands, etc.); • Organizations as innovative seedbeds (e.g. new models of organization, new approaches to meeting customer needs, new types of CE organizations, new processes, structures, etc.); • Environmental/societal need for innovation (e.g. new programs to meet new educational needs, emerging workforce needs, educating the new student, education in the future, the future classroom, future pedagogy, the diversity of society and our students, etc.). Please visit www.ucea.edu/profdev/2010annconf for details and submission guidelines DEADLINES: Concurrent sessions: September 28, 2009 Best Practices Forum: September 28, 2009 Poster Presentations: September 28, 2009