Meetings and Presentations

State Leader Meeting, October 16-17, 2008
Denver, Colorado

WICHE’s Non-traditional No More State Leader meeting convened state leaders from the three project states – Arkansas, Colorado, and Nevada – to share information, challenges, and strategies for success about how to better serve ready adults.

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PRESENTATIONS

• SESSION: State and Institutional Strategies for Success with Ready Adults: Efforts from Around the Country
  The Kentucky Adult Learner Initiative
  Melissa Bell, senior associate for academic affairs, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education

• SESSION: The Workforce Needs of the Future
  Adults, "Ready" or Not : The Role of Adult Learners in Meeting the Workforce Needs of the Future
  Brian T. Prescott, director of policy research, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education Printer-friendly version

• SESSION: Concurrent Working Groups
  Communications
  Terry Abramson, consultant

• SESSION: Prior Learning Assessment: Purposes, Methods, and Sound Practices
  ACE Center for Lifelong Learning
  James Selbe, assistant vice president, lifelong learning, American Council on Education

  Prior Learning Assessment (PLA)
  Janet Colvin, author Earn College Credit for What you Know (CAEL Publication)

• SESSION: Creating and Launching Your Statewide Marketing Campaign
  Creating and Launching Your Statewide Marketing Campaign
  Alice Anne Bailey, Southern Regional Education Board GO Alliance

HANDOUTS

• Getting Started: A Dozen Things You Should Know Before Conducting an Adult Learning Campaign College Access Marketing

• Outline of Key Steps to Creating a CAM Campaign

• Using Distance Education to Serve Ready Adults

• The Graduation Project

• WSU Distance Degree Programs Fact Sheet

CONCURRENT WORKING GROUP SESSION NOTES

• Student Services