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2024 PAE Executive Roundtable

Oct 22 – 23, 2024
Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, CA

Join EAB’s annual fall roundtable for professional, continuing, and online (PCO) education leaders where you’ll have the opportunity to engage in highly interactive, executive-level conversations about the most pressing challenges facing higher education today.

Event Details

Audience: The September 17-18 and October 22-23 sessions are limited to provosts, vice presidents, and heads of professional, continuing, and online education, and registration for each session is limited to one attendee per institution.

The team session on October 8-9 is limited to provosts, vice presidents, and heads of professional, continuing, and online education, and/or one additional #2. *This team session is at capacity. To be added to the waitlist, please email [email protected].

Expand each session below for information about meeting location, hotel accommodations, and reservations.

September 17-18, 2024 - Washington D.C.

This session is limited to provosts, vice presidents, and heads of professional, continuing, and online education.

Meeting Location
EAB
2445 M Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
202-747-1003

Hotel Accommodations
Park Hyatt Washington, DC
1201 24th Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
202-789-1234

Reservations:
$299/Deluxe King or Double
Reservations: 877-803-7534
Please make your reservation by August 26, 2024.
Mention 2024 PAE Roundtable to access our preferred rate or book online here.

Please make your reservation at your earliest convenience, as space and rates are subject to availability. For alternative hotel information, contact us at [email protected].

October 8-9, 2024 - Washington, D.C. - Team session

*This session is at capacity. To be added to the waitlist, please email [email protected].

This session is limited to provosts, vice presidents, and heads of professional, continuing, and online education, and/or one additional #2.

Meeting Location
EAB
2445 M Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
202-747-1003

Hotel Accommodations
Park Hyatt Washington, DC
1201 24th Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
202-789-1234

Reservations:
$299/Deluxe King or Double
Reservations: 877-803-7534
Please make your reservation by September 16, 2024.
Mention 2024 PAE Roundtable-October to access our preferred rate or book online here.

Please make your reservation at your earliest convenience, as space and rates are subject to availability. For alternative hotel information, contact us at [email protected].

October 22-23, 2024 - Los Angeles, CA

This session is limited to provosts, vice presidents, and heads of professional, continuing, and online education.

Meeting Location and Hotel Accommodations
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center
425 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
310-206-8585

Reservations:
$279/Room
Reservations: 855-522-8252
Please make your reservation by September 30, 2024
Mention 2024 PAE Roundtable to access our preferred rate or book online here.

Please make your reservation at your earliest convenience, as space and rates are subject to availability.

Please reference our alternative hotel list near the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center.

Agenda

Day One

12:00 p.m.
Guest Arrival and Registration
Lunch Provided

1:00 p.m.
Anticipating the Next Wave of Competition and Challenge: The PCO State of the Sector
Jennifer Lerner

  • Examine critical trends at the undergraduate and K-12 levels that will negatively impact graduate and adult enrollment and success in 5-10 years—and how your unit can be prepared to respond
  • Assess updated data on graduate and online market concentration, market share trends, and growth opportunities
  • Explore ways to effectively counter negative public perceptions about the ROI of higher education

2:30 p.m.
Shaping the Market in the Age of GenAI: How to Navigate Hype and Future-Proof the PCO Portfolio
Jon Barnhart and Jon Rice

  • Interrogate the current and future realities of GenAI’s impact across industries and workplaces
  • Understand why your current market listening strategies won’t help you understand GenAI, and what leading indicators to begin tracking instead
  • Examine likely GenAI implementation scenarios and learn how to use them to inform your unit’s portfolio and curricular strategies
  • Deep dive into GenAI impacts on key fields including health care administration, finance, and cybersecurity

4:45 p.m.
Adjournment

5:30 p.m.
Networking Dinner

Day Two

8:15 a.m. 
Optional Session: Spotlight on EAB’s Adult Learner Recruitment Service
Available for only the September 17-18 and October 22-23 meeting dates.

8:30 a.m.
Networking Breakfast

9:00 a.m.
Shaping the Market in the Age of Gen AI: How to Navigate Hype and Future-Proof the PCO Portfolio (Continued from Day One)
Jon Barnhart and Jon Rice

10:30 a.m.
Building Momentum for Growth: Prepare for the Next Wave of Competition and Challenge
Lauren Edmonds

  • Explore findings from the 2023 Organizational Benchmarking Initiative survey to understand key features of the high-revenue PCO unit and the structures and policies that support growth
  • Discuss case studies of how top institutions have implemented robust, holistic student services for online students
  • Consider strategies for making principled, evidence-based tradeoffs in planning for PCO unit growth within the realities of constrained institutional budgets

12:00 p.m.
Adjournment

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Experts associated with this event

EAB Experts

Jon Barnhart

Director, Research Advisory Services

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Lauren Edmonds

Senior Director, Research Development

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Jennifer Lerner

Jennifer Lerner

Senior Director, Professional and Adult Education Forum

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Jon Rice

Jon Rice

Associate Director, Research Advisory Services

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