Well-known market realities compel institutions of higher education to advance their mission by making bold academic alignment decisions. Academic leaders must continually re-evaluate the effectiveness and relevance of their academic programs, structures, and organizational alignment. If they are no longer serving them well, there’s an imperative to reevaluate the organizational model to become a leaner and stronger entity with opportunities for growth.

Join us for this unique, intimate event that will help you navigate the immense structural and cultural challenges of an academic realignment or restructure project. Whether you are considering academic restructure at the department, college, or institutional level, this program will provide you the knowledge and planning tools to strategically evaluate your situation and identify the right approaches for your unique institutional context. You will learn how to:

• Identify the key integrated planning areas to reevaluate your academic offerings
• Assess your current situation and target areas for strategic growth
• Adapt and tailor existing models, such as: merging schools or departments, converting programs, discontinuing majors and minors, creating program clusters, and more
• Rethink traditional leadership roles and responsibilities to strengthen decision-making
• Face and embrace campus culture and conflict amidst constant change

This full day workshop will provide you with the necessary tools and mindset to spur innovation on your campus. The traditional approach in higher education is problem and solution focused. By contrast, the design thinking methodology shifts the approach to open up possibilities, fine-tune options, and zero in on implementation. It also encourages students and faculty to be directly involved in the choices we make as institutions to the industry’s most pressing challenges. During this full-day workshop, you will learn:

• How design thinking is used in higher education specific to academic innovation
• What the design thinking process looks like with the opportunity to practice each step
• How to incorporate empathy as a design tool for innovation
• Strategies and resources to facilitate design thinking exercises on your campus

After experimenting with real issues at hand, you will leave with a prototype of your design thinking exercise for a specific academic innovation on your campus.

This workshop will benefit high-level academic and executive leadership including:

Have you ever gone to a training only to find that you came back with great ideas but don’t have the time, support, or skills needed to make the changes?

Academic Impressions has produced thousands of trainings and we have learned that utilizing a coach after attending a training helps provide accountability and bridges the training with the on-the-ground work of getting the job done.

As a result, we are now offering success coaching on select trainings.

• Purchase this training + 3 one hour follow up success coaching calls.
• Work with an assigned coach who has extensive experience in higher ed.
• Get individualized support to help you follow through on what you’ve learned.
• Workshop your plans, run your ideas by someone and get additional help/practice.

Learn More About Success Coaching.