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The adult education holdings are collectively known as the
Alexander N. Charters Library of Resources for Educators of Adults.
Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 4 Feb 2010
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| 1 Jul 2024 | collection processed (JDW) |
Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | National University Continuing Education Association (U.S.) |
| Title: | National University Continuing Education Association (NUCEA) Records |
| Dates: | 1980-1996 |
| Quantity: | 11.75 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Administrative files, conference materials, interviews, and publications of NUCEA. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
The National University Continuing Education Association (NUCEA) was originally formed in 1915 as the National University Extension Association (NUEA). NUEA's focus was originally on establishing standards for correspondence schools and distance education, though its scope expanded considerably through the years. When it shifted to a division structure and gained 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in the 1950s, correspondence study was only one of five charter units. In 1980 NUEA reorganized itself away from the division structure to a more national focus; to reflect this, the name was changed to the National University Continuing Education Association (NUCEA). In 1996 the word "National" was dropped as membership had expanded internationally, and the name became University Continuing Education Association (UCEA). In 2010 the word "Professional" was added to reflect members who were new to higher education, and the name became University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA). In 2024 this title was dropped and the initialism, UPCEA, became the official name of the organization.
The National University Continuing Education Association (NUCEA) Records contains administrative files, conference materials, interviews, publications, and a small number of miscellaneous items of NUCEA.
Administrative files include financial materials, memos, minutes, reports, forms, directories, agendas, guidelines, handbooks, proposals, drafts, surveys, by-laws, and correspondence.
Subseries include Committees, Directories, Divisions, Regional reports, and Miscellaneous.
Committees are involved in governance, are grouped into administrative or special cohorts, and tend to focus on the association as a whole. Divisions are more specialized sectors of the organization aligned with a practical aspect, or specific association function, in the continuing education field.
Conference materials includes programs, proceedings, correspondence, evaluations, speaker biographies, seminars, and presentations from NUCEA annual, divisional, and regional gatherings. Also contains program and session recordings on audio cassette tapes.
Interviews contains transcripts and media tapes of an oral history project on past presidents.
Publications includes journals (Continuum and Continuing Higher Education Review), other series, brochures, newsletters (NUCEA News), a book, and miscellaneous materials.
Miscellaneous contains a telecommunication/distance education project, a poster, program tapes, and NUCEA materials made for the continuing education field.
This collection is arranged alphabetically. The majority of original folder titles were retained.
Access Restrictions:
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Access to audiovisual material requires advance notice to produce a use copy.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Lifelong Learning Trends: A Profile of Continuing Higher Education, 2nd and 4th edition; Challenges for Continuing Higher Education Leadership series: Global Interdependence-Issues and Opportunities, The Transformation of Rural America, and Economic Development in a Multicultural Society; Innovations in Continuing Education, Award-Winning New Programs series, 1982, 1984-1996 - all three periodicals separated from collection and transferred to serial department for cataloging.
See also the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) Records and the National University Extension Association (NUEA) Records.
In addition, Special Collections Research Center has dozens of manuscript collections relating to adult education, both of individuals and organizations. Please refer to the SCRC Subject Index for a complete listing.
Persons
Charters, Alexander N.
Corporate Bodies
National University Continuing Education Association (U.S.)
National University Extension Association.
University Continuing Education Association.
Subjects
Adult education -- United States.
Adult education.
Continuing education.
Educators -- United States.
International education.
Teachers, Training of.
University extension -- United States.
Genres and Forms
Electronic mail.
Audiotapes.
Correspondence.
Financial reports.
Interviews.
Journals (Publications)
Minutes (administrative records)
Newsletters.
Oral histories.
Proceedings.
Reports.
Sound recordings.
U-matic.
Videotapes.
Occupations
Educators.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
National University Continuing Education Association (NUCEA) Records,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Hilton T. Bonniwell [Past President], 1990.
Gift of the National University Continuing Education Association (NUCEA), 1995.
Gift of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), 1997-1998, 2000, 2007, 2010.
Gift of the University of Wisconsin [Madison]-Extension, 1994.
Administrative files
Conference materials
Interviews
Publications
Miscellaneous
| Administrative files | |||||||||||
| Committees | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Advisory committee on organizational issue publications series 1992-1995 - includes correspondence, a guide for authors, and 1993, 1995 issues | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Awards and honors committee publications 1985-1995 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Board subcommittee on organizational structure final report 1992 | ||||||||||
| Committee on guidelines and standards for continuing education (CGSCE) [formerly committee on liaison for accrediting and standards in continuing education (CLASCE)] | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Guidelines for assessment and evaluation of instructional programs 1990 - a collaborative document; includes drafts, reviews, comments, and correspondence (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Standards of good practice document 1985 - compilation of resources for NUCEA member institutions | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Long-range planning committee 1981-1982 - devised NUCEA’s strategic plan for 1980s | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Long-range planning committee 1981-1982 - includes drafts, meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports (6 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | NUCEA archives and history 1989-1990 - includes materials on the oral history past president project, correspondence, reports, and NUEA materials (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| See also Interviews | |||||||||||
| See also the National University Extension Association (NUEA) Records | |||||||||||
| Box 23 | NUCEA archives and history undated - unknown content (1 VHS tape) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Strategic planning committee, strategic directions for NUCEA 1991 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Professional development committee 1989-1996 - meeting minutes and notes, correspondence, brochures, surveys, and an internship program (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 24 | Professional development committee undated - the competent continuing educator, video program (2 VHS tapes) | ||||||||||
| Directories | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Association handbook 1987 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Black professionals in continuing higher education directory 1989, 1991 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Division of educational telecommunications, distance education directory 1988-1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Handbooks and directories of NUCEA 1982-1986 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Inventory of diversity programs and services in continuing higher education 1993 | ||||||||||
| Membership | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Directories 1987-1991 (4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Directories 1991-1995 (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Division of educational telecommunications 1991-1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Division of independent study 1990-1991, 1993-1996 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Division of international education 1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Division of summer, evening, and off-campus credit programs 1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Professional development handbook 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Resource directories 1989 - from the division of career counseling, advisement, and adult student services, and region 7 | ||||||||||
| Divisions | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Community development and services 1981-1985, 1990 - handbook, draft paper, brochure, and awards materials | ||||||||||
| Continuing education for the professions, historical binder | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Awards programs 1984-1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Bylaws and correspondence 1986, 1989-1990, 1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Conference programs 1986-1988, 1990-1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Executive committee 1986-1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Meeting minutes 1984-1992 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Newsletters 1985-1993 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Reports, grants, surveys, and membership 1985-1987, 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Environmental health and safety programs, course catalog 1991-1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 23 | Information services, awards competition winners 1985-1986 (1 U-matic tape) | ||||||||||
| Marketing and promotion | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | 4th annual strategic marketing planning awards competition 1994 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Awards for excellence in strategic marketing planning 1996 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Binder of materials 1991-1996 - includes conference materials, correspondence, division meetings and minutes, evaluations, forms, surveys, and publications (8 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 24 | Division awards 1986, 1988 (2 VHS tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Miscellaneous brochures undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Miscellaneous newsletters 1992-1993 | ||||||||||
| Regional reports | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Region 2 report 1996 - meeting minutes, correspondence, and newsletter drafts | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Region 4 membership attitudes and perceptions study 1986 | ||||||||||
| Region 4 secretary’s reports | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Board of directors and executive materials 1986-1993 - includes trustee retreat, treasurer's report, strategic directions, and meeting minutes | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Business meetings 1987-1993 - includes minutes, agendas, reports, and correspondence (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | By-laws and guidelines 1985, 1987-1989 - includes secretary's role and responsibilities document | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Committee materials 1991-1993 - includes awards programs, correspondence, membership information, and reports | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Conference materials 1989-1992 - includes programs, schedules, correspondence, and meetings | ||||||||||
| See also Conferences, NUCEA region 4 | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Correspondence 1988-1990 - includes memos, messages to regional members, and executive materials (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Divisions 1987, 1990-1991 - includes budgets, reports, awards programs, and meetings/conferences | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Executive committee 1985-1993 - includes meeting minutes, agendas, reports, correspondence, memos, and financial materials (12 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Executive committee 1985-1993 (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Membership 1986-1987, 1990 - surveys and a profile of constituents | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Miscellaneous materials 1992 - includes a round table on regional issues, guidelines, standards, and correspondence | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Newsletters, NUCEA news 1989-1991 | ||||||||||
| See also Publications, Newsletters | |||||||||||
| Box 9 | Officers and committee members 1986-1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Region 4 task force on diversity report 1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Region 4 treasurer’s reports 1984-1992 - includes correspondence, meeting minutes, regional committees, and financial materials like checks, statements, ledgers, expenses, invoices, and reports (4 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Region 4 treasurer’s reports 1984-1992 (9 folders) | ||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
| Box 10 | Board of directors’ meetings 1995-1996 - includes minutes, charts, correspondence, strategic planning, and reports | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Final report of NUCEA continuing higher education leadership (CHEL) project 1990 - to WK Kellog Foundation | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | NUCEA guidelines, visions and values 1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 10 | Survey of member institutions 1982-1985 - includes data, tables, reports, and statistics (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | Survey of member institutions 1982-1985 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Conference materials | |||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA 70th annual, Louisville, KY 1985 | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA 71st annual, Portland, OR 1986 | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA 72nd annual, Kansas City, MO 1987 | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA 73rd annual, Philadelphia, PA 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA 74th annual, Salt Lake City, UT 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA 75th annual, New Orleans, LA 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA 76th annual, Miami, FL 1991 | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA 78th annual, Nashville, TN 1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 19 | NUCEA 78th annual, Nashville, TN 1993 - program and session recordings (38 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA 79th annual, Atlanta, GA 1994 | ||||||||||
| Box 20 | NUCEA 79th annual, Atlanta, GA 1994 - program and session recordings (28 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA 80th annual, Anaheim, CA 1995 | ||||||||||
| Box 19 | NUCEA 80th annual, Anaheim, CA 1995 - program and session recordings (6 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 20 | NUCEA 80th annual, Anaheim, CA 1995 - program and session recordings (35 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 21 | NUCEA 81st annual, Boston, MA 1996 - program and session recordings (51 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA caucus on state telecommunications network 1991 | ||||||||||
| Box 11 | NUCEA conference facilities and services directories 1985, 1989 | ||||||||||
| NUCEA division of business, industry, and labor | |||||||||||
| Box 11 | 6th – 13th annual national professional development 1981-1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | 14th annual national professional development, binder 1989 - includes proceedings, programming, evaluations, and speaker biographies and presentations (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 12 | 15th annual national professional development, binder 1990 - includes proceedings, programming, evaluations, and speaker biographies and presentations (6 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | 16th – 18th annual national professional development 1991-1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | NUCEA division of conferences and institutes 1990-1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | NUCEA division of humanities, arts, and sciences 1986, 1988, 1990-1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | NUCEA region 1 1980-1983, 1985-1987, 1991 | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | NUCEA region 2 1986, 1988-1989, 1991, 1994 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | NUCEA region 3 1984-1986, 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | NUCEA region 4 1983, 1985-1989 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | NUCEA region 5 1985-1986, 1988-1989 - conferences focus on professional development | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | NUCEA regions 6 and 7 1991, 1995 | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | NUCEA Washington DC symposium 1982 | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | Rutgers University, University of California, and NUCEA, protecting the environment 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | Seminars 1987-1989, 1991, 1994, 1996 - NUCEA and/or cosponsored sessions, such as youth, environmental, alumni, older adults, and professional development programs | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | Survey of NUCEA conference offices undated | ||||||||||
| Interviews | |||||||||||
| Release forms | |||||||||||
| Box 13 | NUCEA oral history project, past presidents 1988-1990 | ||||||||||
| Tapes - presidential terms in parentheses | |||||||||||
| Box 22 | Bonniwell, Hilton (1986-87) 1988 (4 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Charters, Alexander N. (1965-66) 1988 (4 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| See also the Alexander N. Charters Papers | |||||||||||
| Box 22 | Donehower, Grace (1979-80) 1988 (2 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Drazek, Stanley (1965-65) circa 1988-1990 (1 audio cassette tape) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Ervin, John (1975-76) 1989 (2 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Fischer, Floyd (1971-72) circa 1988-1990 (1 dictaphone audio cassette tape) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Gessner, Quentin (1982-83) 1988 (2 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Goddard, Joseph (1981-82) 1989 (2 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Goerke, Glenn (1973-74) 1989 (2 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Hadley, Paul (1976-77) 1988 (2 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Hunter, Armand (1972-73) 1988 (2 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Miller, Harold (1987-88) 1989 (2 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Snider, John (1985-86) 1988 (4 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | Walker, T. Howard (1967-68) 1989 (2 audio cassette tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 22 | White, Thurman J. (1960-61) 1990 - no corresponding transcript (1 VHS tape) | ||||||||||
| Transcripts - presidential terms in parentheses | |||||||||||
| Box 13 | Bonniwell, Hilton (1986-87) 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 13 | Charters, Alexander N. (1965-66) 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Donehower, Grace (1979-80) 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Drazek, Stanley (1965-65) circa 1988-1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Ervin, John (1975-76) 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Fischer, Floyd (1971-72) circa 1988-1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Gessner, Quentin (1982-83) 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Goddard, Joseph (1981-82) 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Goerke, Glenn (1973-74) 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Hadley, Paul (1976-77) 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Hunter, Armand (1972-73) 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Miller, Harold (1987-88) 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Robinson, Stanley (1968-69) 1989 - tape erased after interview | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Snider, John (1985-86) 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Walker, T. Howard (1967-68) 1989 | ||||||||||
| Publications | |||||||||||
| Box 14 | Annual reports 1989-1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Brochures undated - includes membership information, North American fellows' program, and general association/continuing education information | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Challenges for continuing higher education leadership series, corporate/campus collaboration 1984, 1987 | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Expanding access to knowledge: continuing higher education; NUCEA 1915-1990 1990 - book about NUCEA/continuing education history in honor of their 75th anniversary | ||||||||||
| Box 14 | Innovations in continuing education series 1983 | ||||||||||
| Journals | |||||||||||
| Box 14 | Continuing higher education review, volume 51 1987 (3 issues) | ||||||||||
| Box 15 | Continuing higher education review, volume 52-58 1988-1994 (21 issues) | ||||||||||
| Box 16 | Continuum, volume 45-48 1980-1984 (14 issues) | ||||||||||
| Box 17 | Continuum, volume 49-50 1985-1987 (6 issues) | ||||||||||
| Box 17 | Lifelong learning trends: a profile of continuing higher education, 3rd edition 1994 | ||||||||||
| Box 17 | Miscellaneous materials 1980-1981 - includes forms, correspondence, and guides about continuum | ||||||||||
| Box 17 | Miscellaneous publications 1990, 1995 - includes a workforce development booklet, prison education newsletter, and general continuing education materials | ||||||||||
| Box 17 | Newsletters, NUCEA news 1984-1989 - circa 60 issues (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 18 | Newsletters, NUCEA news 1989-1996 - circa 55 issues (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 18 | Steal these ideas series 1995 | ||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
| Annenberg School of Communication (ASC)/Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) project - explores telecommunication opportunities for higher education; funded a NUCEA study | |||||||||||
| Box 18 | ASC/CPB project overview and course examples 1987 | ||||||||||
| Box 18 | NUCEA final report 1983 | ||||||||||
| Box 18 | NUCEA grant proposal 1981 | ||||||||||
| Box 18 | NUCEA interim report 1983 | ||||||||||
| Box 23 | Heritage and vision 1990 - unknown content, programs produced by University of Wisconsin-Extension (4 U-matic tapes) | ||||||||||
| Box 18 | NUCEA 100 years of correspondence by mail, 1892-1992, stamp poster 1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 23 | NUCEA 1990 - unknown content (1 VHS tape) | ||||||||||
| Box 18 | NUCEA funding resources for international continuing education programs undated | ||||||||||
| Box 18 | NUCEA principles of good practice for continuing education programs 1993 | ||||||||||