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Empower yourself.

Dr. Judy Ashcroft, Dean

Judy Ashcroft, DeanThis is a wonderful time to be guiding Continuing and Innovative Education into its second 100 years of service to the people of Texas. We are building on the past successes and creating new plans for realizing the awesome potential that resides in UT-Austin.

Our vision can be summed with this sentence: we are leaders in changing the world through integrating innovation, education, and service. We are teaching, research, and service all in one place.

We are taking quality educational opportunities to people everywhere, reaching them in their contemporary, busy, wired and media-savvy lifestyle, as well as in places very far from the original Forty Acres.

We are moving toward this vision and striving to make UT for you, too.

Judy C. Ashcroft, Ed.D.
Dean, Continuing and Innovative Education

Purpose

CIE builds on the four foundations of Continuing Education —quality, convenience, affordability, and flexibility, and the four foundations of DIIA —pedagogy, innovation, assessment, and collaboration.


News

“Exploritas” is unveiled as the new name for Elderhostel programs

September 28, 2009

Exploritas” is the new name for the programs offered by Elderhostel, the not-for-profit, lifelong learning group often described as “the nation’s first, and the world’s largest, educational… Read full story

CIE hosts FCC forum on the importance of broadband Internet for distance learning

September 23, 2009

On Monday, September 21, 2009, Continuing and Innovative Education (CIE) hosted a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) press conference on the importance of broadband Internet technology for distance learning. Commissioner… Read full story

Judy Ashcroft chosen president-elect of UCEA

July 17, 2009

CIE Dean Judy Ashcroft has been elected president-elect of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), a membership organization for public and private degree-granting colleges and universities and for nonprofits with a significant commitment to professional and continuing education. Ashcroft… Read full story