Friday Focus: Nurture Your Career and Yourself
In celebration of National Distance Learning Week, UPCEA is highlighting key resources each day that showcase how online and professional education leaders continue to drive innovation, resilience, and transformation. It’s Friday—a perfect moment to pause, take a breath, and focus on you. Your career, your growth, and your well-being all deserve attention. UPCEA offers ways…
Future-Forward: Trends and Strategic Directions in Online and Professional Education
In celebration of National Distance Learning Week, UPCEA is highlighting key resources each day that showcase how online and professional education leaders continue to drive innovation, resilience, and transformation. Higher education is standing at the edge of rapid transformation, where the choices made today will define the universities of tomorrow. From shifting learner demographics and…
Online Leaders Have a Community — and It’s UPCEA
In celebration of National Distance Learning Week, UPCEA is highlighting key resources each day that showcase how online and professional education leaders continue to drive innovation, resilience, and transformation. Behind every successful online learning initiative is a strong community of leaders who share ideas, solve challenges, and push the field forward together. At UPCEA, that…
Data-Informed Decisions: Why You Need Data and What Data You Should Curate
In celebration of National Distance Learning Week, UPCEA is highlighting key resources each day that showcase how online and professional education leaders continue to drive innovation, resilience, and transformation. Data is the language of modern leadership. In an era of constrained resources and heightened accountability, online and professional education leaders can no longer rely on…
The Decade of the COLO: Why Online Leadership Matters
In celebration of National Distance Learning Week, UPCEA is highlighting key resources each day that showcase how online and professional education leaders continue to drive innovation, resilience, and transformation. As higher education continues to navigate economic pressures, evolving technologies, and shifting learner expectations, one thing has become clear, strong online leadership is no longer optional;…
UPCEA Joins National Opposition to Federal Compact | Policy Matters (October 2025)
Major Updates UPCEA Joins National Opposition to Federal Compact UPCEA has joined with over thirty higher education associations to make a statement opposing the federal government’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The coalition, coordinated by ACE, warns that the compact would impose federal conditions on what and how colleges teach, threatening academic…
UPCEA Announces Exclusive Partnership with the International Distance Education Benchmark Project (IDEBP)
Collaboration empowers online education leaders with confidential benchmarking, data-driven insights, and strategic decision-making tools WASHINGTON, D.C., October 29, 2025 — UPCEA, the online and professional education association, has announced an exclusive partnership with the International Distance Education Benchmark Project (IDEBP), a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to help higher education institutions strengthen their digital learning strategies through…
AI Tools Are Driving Prospective Student Decisions, UPCEA and Search Influence Research Shows
Half of prospective students use AI tools weekly, and early-adopting institutions stand to gain in enrollment visibility. NEW ORLEANS, La., October 13, 2025 – 50 percent of prospective students now use AI-powered search tools at least weekly, making artificial intelligence a critical first step in discovering and evaluating higher education programs. The 2025 AI Search…
Professional, Continuing, and Online Education Update by UPCEA
- College grads who land better jobs right out of school still earn more than their peers 5 years into their careers, study finds - CNBC
- Navigating AI Adoption in Higher Ed: College Presidents on Student Learning vs Operational Efficiency - University Business
- Dual Degrees and Stackable Credentials Gain Value as the New Currency of Global Careers - APN news
- New front door to the internet: Winning in the age of AI search - McKinsey
- How to shift AI from a shortcut to a learning partner - Rudy Gonzalez, University Business
- Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI - David Gewirtz, ZD Net
- How People Around the World View AI - Jacob Poushter, Moira Fagan, Manolo Corichi, Pew Research
- Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground - Natasha Singer, New York Times
- America is slipping in higher education. The slide starts long before college. - Courtney Brown, Lumina Foundation
- Why Online Learning is the Future of Education Worldwide - Daily Blend, Vocal.Media
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