Continuing And Executive Education

from JBRUCE on 2008-12-22

My own experience in this area (I served concurrently as Dean of Distance Learning while serving as Dean of the Graduaet School at MTU) is that nothing much will happen without central advocacy and leadership, to include advocacy for intellectual property for the faculty, central marketing, and central 'templating' of budget and development processes.  In my opinion a reasonable forward step for Clemson would be to alglomerate the various now highly dispersed portions of DL at CU into a single unit; if the preponderance of the courses and programs are graduate then logic would suggest that one option to be discussed should be centralization into a subsidary unit of the gradaute school--where the necessary marketing, fainacial, support--and advocacy--already exists.

from JLINDLE on 2008-12-18

Given the number of professional licenses and certificates that many Clemson undergrads attain, Continuing Education and Executive Education plays a significant role in graduate programming from CEUs to Certificates (State, Federal, and potentially Clemson's Grad School) to parallel credentialing along with graduate degrees.

Friday, Tomorrow, December 19 at 1 pm the Taskforce is holding a Continuing and Executive Education summit.  Please come and/or post ideas for the task force on its web site:

http://www.clemson.edu/president/budget/taskforces/contined/index.html

Without your input, the mapping of current and potential opportunities for Clemson's role in this area isn't very clear.  Typically, involvment by individual units in professional and continuing education is not well documented and the map is fragmented.  Your participation in helping the Taskforce establish current and future activities is vital.