{"id":546859,"date":"2010-04-29T09:50:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=44003"},"modified":"2010-04-29T09:50:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:50:51","slug":"shinagel-receives-service-citation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546859","title":{"rendered":"Shinagel receives service citation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extension.harvard.edu\/alumni\/about\/welcome.jsp\">Michael Shinagel<\/a>, Harvard dean of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dce.harvard.edu\/\">Continuing Education<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extension.harvard.edu\/\">University Extension<\/a>, is the recipient of the 2010 Walton S. Bittner Service Citation from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucea.edu\/\">University Continuing Education Association<\/a> (UCEA). The award recognizes him for his outstanding contributions to continuing education at Harvard, and for service of major significance to UCEA.<\/p>\n<p>Among Shinagel\u2019s achievements cited are his work with Harvard\u2019s human resource department to establish the Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP) in 1976; his expansion of the Harvard Extension School from fewer than 200 courses and 6,000 students in 1975, to more than 600 courses and 14,000 students today; the creation of Harvard Extension School master\u2019s degree programs in the liberal arts that have graduated 2,000 individuals to date; and his service as editor of UCEA\u2019s \u201cContinuing Higher Education Review\u201d for the past 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>Admired by his continuing education decanal counterparts around the world, Shinagel\u2019s contributions to his institution and UCEA are summed up by Mary McIntire, dean of Continuing Studies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rice.edu\/\">Rice University<\/a>: \u201cMike generously helps all who seek his advice or opinion. He encourages younger people in the field, not only by example, but by maintaining an active interest in their careers and accomplishments. He has succeeded so admirably at Harvard, in the community, and in the field \u2026 we are fortunate to have him among us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Shinagel, Harvard dean of Continuing Education and University Extension, is the recipient of the 2010 Walton S. Bittner Service Citation from the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA). The award recognizes him for his outstanding contributions to continuing education at Harvard, and for service of major significance to UCEA. Among Shinagel\u2019s achievements cited are his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}