Continuing education can help institutions to transform their commitments to equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization, and Indigenization into the systems and practices that make up daily operations, writes Simon Fraser University Dean of Lifelong Learning Julia Denholm. Denholm urges readers to understand these values as foundational concepts from which other goals can be pursued. They also serve as criteria through which tasks such as program design and curriculum development can be interpreted. Denholm argues that continuing ed’s flexibility makes it particularly well positioned to lead this work. “Through this lens, [continuing education] divisions are not simply revenue generators—they are engines of mobility, inclusion and transformation across higher education,” writes Denholm.
