Free workshop on distance education state authorization being offered virtually

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State is once more co-hosting a free digital workshop in November on the subject of state authorization that addresses points for Pennsylvania establishments that take part in State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements, or SARA.

The PA-SARA Workshop will likely be held from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 17. Penn State Outreach and On-line Schooling’s Workplace of Compliance and Contracts and the Pennsylvania Division of Schooling are the co-hosts for the seventh straight 12 months.

Annually the workshop brings collectively increased training professionals from throughout Pennsylvania who work within the discipline of state authorization for distance training to listen to information and updates from nationwide and state leaders and to community and ask questions. 

Registration is presently open till Nov. 11. 

“Regardless of ongoing challenges on account of COVID-19, we had been capable of once more create an occasion that will likely be supplied on-line and freed from cost to contributors in order that this vital occasion can proceed to be supplied,” stated Teri Spence, director of the Outreach and On-line Schooling Workplace of Compliance and Contracts.

This 12 months’s audio system embody the next:

• Gina Wetten, increased training affiliate, and Lynette Kuhn, chief for the Division of Greater Schooling, Entry, and Fairness, each with the Pennsylvania Division of Schooling.
• Marianne Boeke, senior director for analysis and state help and interim president for NC-SARA.
• Jeannie Yockey-Positive, normal counsel for NC-SARA.
• Jana Walser-Smith, director of interstate compliance and member outreach of the State Authorization Community.
• Elisa Jaden, director for the Southern Regional Schooling Boar area to NC-SARA.

“We’re excited to have the ability to as soon as once more provide the workshop freed from cost and just about to accommodate extra participation throughout the commonwealth,” stated Shawna Pryle, compliance specialist within the Workplace of Compliance and Contracts.

The State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements present a voluntary, regional method to state oversight of postsecondary distance training. States that be part of SARA conform to comply with uniform processes for approving their eligible establishments’ participation and for coping with different states’ establishments. Greater than 2,200 faculties and universities nationwide take part in SARA.

Visit the workshop’s website to register and discover extra data.