UMassOnline Welcomes New CEO, Dr. Ken Udas

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Jennifer Brady

UMassOnline Director of Marketing Jennifer Brady Culminating a five month search and selection process, the University of Massachusetts announced today it has named Dr. Ken Udas to be the Chief Executive Officer of its online learning consortium, UMassOnline. Dr. Udas, who will begin his new role at UMassOnline on September 14th, was most recently the Executive Director of Penn State World Campus, created by The Pennsylvania State University in 1998 and which today offers more than 65 distance education programs to more than 10,000 learners in all 50 states and on all seven continents.

University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson, PhD, who was the founding CEO of UMassOnline, said Dr. Udas brings a rare and all-important set of diverse skills and experiences to his leadership role at UMassOnline. “The role of CEO of UMassOnline requires an individual whose knowledge and skills are strong in education, solid in technology, and visionary in management, development, and planning. In Dr. Udas we have clearly met this requirement. Dr. Udas has experienced, and understands, the all-important faculty and program development component which is key to UMassOnline’s future; the all-important technology component that has always distinguished our offering; and, he has been a vocal champion of online learning and teaching throughout his career.”

You can read the full news release, which details Dr. Udas’ extensive background and achievements by visiting UMassOnline’s website.

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OCW comes home « OpenFiction [Blog] on October 22nd, 2009 4:46 pm

[…] of the OCW Consortium. I also had the chance to say hi to Ken Udas, late of Penn State and now moved to UMass Online. Really great to have a thought leader like Ken in the […]

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