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Understanding Changing Roles in Continuing Education Units
Mary S. Grant, Ph.D.University of Wisconsin-Extension
Division of Continuing Education, Outreach and E-Learnin
The Study
• Two Big Ten Institutions• Both with Central Main Campus and multiple
regional branch campuses• Comparable in size, age, budget and
undergraduate enrollments• One CE is Centralized; One CE is decentralized
Comparison of Continuing Education Operations at University and State
Characteristic University State
Organization Centralized Decentralized
Relationship to Parent
University
Close Distant
Reporting Relationship of
Head of C. E.
Vice President Dean of College of Agriculture
Institutional policy
governing integration
Institution-wide directing efforts to Continuing
Education
None
Units Multiple and Large:
Conferences and Institutes
Non-Credit
Credit and Contracts
Finance
IT and Distance Education
Adult Student Advisors
Few and Small:
Conferences and Institutes
Non-credit
Credit and contracts
Finance
IT
Adult Student Advisors
Number of Staff
Large (more than 100)
Small (25-30)
Then and Now
Then Now Centralized: Control of Distance Education and all revenues
Centralized: Control of Distance Education; limits on revenues
Centralized: Growth of DE Centralized: Targeted growth of DE/revenue Centralized: No budget oversight committee Centralized: Budget oversight committee Decentralized: Control of Contract Credit in CE Decentralized: Control of Contract Credit in Colleges Decentralized: Relationship with Alumni Office Decentralized: No relationship with Alumni office
Money is the Root
• Matkin concludes that the financial structure is both a model for change and a target of some shifts in the underlying financial structure of higher education (2004).
• The university continuing education unit is increasingly being looked at as a resource in meeting the challenges of revenue production and increased access (Ebersole, 2003).
Discussion
• What major changes are impacting your CE unit?• Is you budget being cut, and if so, how much?• Is your unit expected to contribute revenue back
to the institution>• Are you losing or gaining oversight of activities?• What do you see as the three areas for growth in
the next five years• What are you doing to position your unit to be
successful in turbulent times?