Real Stories. Real Impact.
Discover the people, programs, events and ideas shaping the future of learning and our community at UW Continuum College.
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Ensuring a Timely Graduation
January 01, 2023
A rising senior, Marysia Koltonowska ensured she had the credits to graduate on time with the help of UW Summer Sessions.
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Welcome to the new Golden Age of Education (Puget Sound Business Journal)
November 30, 2022
While on its surface living to 100 seems like great news, Rovy Branon writes, there is so much cultural stigma around aging that people dread the idea rather than welcoming it.
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Universities Looking Beyond the Traditional For-Credit Semester Experiences (Inside Higher Ed)
November 15, 2022
Exploring the twin topics of how can those who have accrued learning outside the classroom better communicate their skills and knowledge to employers, and how can states facilitate the granting of credit for that learning in academic institutions.
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Episode 6: Learn/Earn/Relearn/Our Turn — Team Reflections
November 07, 2022
In this bonus sixth episode of Learn/Earn/Relearn, the podcast team looks back on the series — lessons learned, concerns uncovered, inspiration, excitement and opportunities revealed.
Rovy and Hanson also connect dots between our five episodes and the continuing questions: How do educators prepare the workers of the future? And how will the very nature of education have to change in response to advances in technology and longevity?
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Reflecting on Our Roots to Define Our Future: Establishing a Path for Lifelong Higher Ed (Modern Campus)
November 04, 2022
EvoLLLution editor-in-chief and podcast host Amrit Ahluwalia is joined by Rovy Branon to discuss the ins and outs of delivering on the 60 Year Curriculum vision and reflect on how colleges and universities can transform into true hubs of lifelong learning.
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Episode 5: End of the Beginning — The Genesis of Our New Future
November 01, 2022
Petri-dish grown “meat,” bio-engineering, synthetic DNA, and life extension are just a few trending topics that lead to critical and sometimes uncomfortable conversations. How do educators, parents and workers prepare themselves and others for such a complex and unknown future?
Co-hosts Rovy Branon and Hanson Hosein speak with renowned quantitative futurist and author Amy Webb about what the future might look like and how we need to think and prepare so that we’re ready for it.
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Episode 4: Learn for Life — When is it Time to Go Back to School?
October 25, 2022
Transitioning into an ambiguous future — whether your own or your organization’s — is tricky. Hosts Rovy Branon and Hanson Hosein say given increasing life spans and the acceleration of technology and its impacts on our work lives, well, institutions of learning may need faster revolving doors.
Guests Anne Szeto and Danial Powers spend a lot of time thinking about how to help others prepare for a future that may not exist today. What are recruiters looking for? And how can education prepare future leaders with so many unknown variables in play?
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Episode 3: Reskilling & Upskilling — Learn Long and Prosper
October 11, 2022
Explore what it means to reskill, upskill and shift industries. Are institutions of higher education meeting students where they are and when they are ready?
In this episode, Rovy Branon and Hanson Hosein are talking with guests Asha Aravindakshan and Paul Fain about just that — meeting students where they are, personally and professionally.
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Episode 2: Tech, AI, and the Speed of Change
September 27, 2022
Can we hack our biology for longer lives or instantaneous access to information? Will your kid need a flyer’s license in addition to (or instead of) a driver’s license? And on a somewhat more serious note, should we fear that AI is coming for all our jobs? In this episode, Rovy Branon and Hanson Hosein discuss these ideas and more with guests Elizabeth Scallon and Kence Anderson.
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Episode 1: (Re)Skills Lab — Andrew Scott & The 100-Year Life
September 13, 2022
In this episode, UW’s Rovy Branon and Hanson Hosein speak with longevity expert Andrew Scott about the changes and the opportunities this new reality presents. His ground-breaking work on longevity, economics, and the value and effect technology and longevity combined will have on the wider society, is shaped by his professional connections to academia, industry, social pioneers and policymakers around the world.
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Making Programming Accessible to Everyone
August 04, 2022
With a knack for simplifying complex concepts and making class fun, Sabet Vallejo is making programming come alive for her students.
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The 60-Year Curriculum With Dr. Rovy Branon (Trending in Education)
June 02, 2022
Rovy Branon joins Trending in Education podcast host Mike Palmer in a conversation about reaching and teaching adult learners across the full span of their lives.
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Going Back to Work
April 22, 2022
A UW Certificate Scholarship helped Corine Rigby gain the skills she needed to step back into the workforce with confidence.
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Dr. Rovy Branon on the Growth and Future of Continuing Education (The Higher Ed Geek)
March 16, 2022
Rovy Branon shares his perspective on the current moment for continuing education, what is making it especially relevant for students right now, and how to achieve success in this space moving forward.
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How Your High Schooler Can Set Themselves Apart in the College Application Process (ParentMap)
September 22, 2021
Leslie Rome, the director of the UW Youth & Teen Programs her tips on how high school students can use university enrichment programs to help set themselves apart during the college application process.
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“Two women continue to help me be a better person.” (Christensen Institute – Who You Know)
May 03, 2021
Rovy Branon discusses how he was fortunate to have two educators in his life that helped influence his career trajectory.
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A Virtuous Cycle: Driving Equity Through Financial Gifts in the Non-Credit Space (UNBOUND)
March 04, 2021
Discover how UW Continuum College scholarship programs put professional certificate programs in reach of underserved segments of our community.
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11 UW certificates — and Counting (University of Washington Magazine)
March 01, 2021
Ed Jones has completed more UWPCE certificate programs than anyone else, and he’s busy working on his next one.
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Is the 60-Year Curriculum the Future of Learning? (Next Avenue)
December 03, 2020
Why some folks say: Goodbye, lifelong learning and hello, "long life learning."
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60 Years of Higher Ed — Really? (The New York Times)
October 10, 2019
The idea that college education is over after four years, or even eight or 12 is so — yesterday.