Mission
UPCEA advances leadership in professional, continuing, and online education by:
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Enhancing the ability of higher education institutions to provide high quality, continuing education programs by promoting standards of good practice in continuing higher education;
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Furthering public awareness about the role of professional, continuing, and online education in the public policy arena.
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Collecting data on administrative practices, such as management, marketing, and program development.
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Sharing scholarship through its professional journal, Continuing Higher Education Review, and sharing news about colleagues and program trends through its quarterly newsletter, InFocus; and studies by the Center for Research and Consulting.
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Promoting excellence through an awards program that recognize outstanding continuing higher education leadership, educational programs, student services, college and university administrators and faculty, and continuing education students.