In her new book The 4 Pillars of Donor Relations, Lynne Wester of Donor Relations Guru® helps you rethink donor relations practices and offers specific tips for more powerful acknowledgements, stewardship and impact reporting, recognition, and donor engagement. Get this comprehensive guide to donor relations for your shop today, and transform the way you steward, recognize, and […]
Many institutions are not fully aware of the compliance expectations for their electronic and information technology (EIT) and often fail to meet accessibility requirements which can result in costly lawsuits and pesky OCR audits. EIT compliance is complex, yet manageable, and institutions have a duty to comply with the most recent OCR guidelines laid out […]
Campus recreation facilities have evolved into hubs for student academic, social, and physical engagement. Institutions as diverse as the University of Alabama, Macalester College, the University of Wisconsin – River Falls, and DePauw University have taken very intentional approaches to designing their recreation facilities in ways that contribute to an improved quality of life for […]
No matter what the size or budget of the advancement operation, there always seems to be more prospects than we have the time or resources to pursue. That’s why it’s important to focus whatever resources we have on our most promising prospects. The more time we spend with the truly philanthropic, the more our efforts […]
A SERIES ON DONOR ACQUISITION FROM JESSICA NENO CLOUDThis is the third in a series on donor acquisition by Jessica Neno Cloud, CFRE, the author of Successful Fundraising Calls: A Phonathon Scripting Workshop. Cloud is the assistant director for fundraising initiatives and planned giving at the University of Southern Mississippi Foundation. She practices evidence-based fundraising with a […]
by Stefanie Niles (Hollins University), Jeff Papa (SimpsonScarborough), and Patrick Cain (Academic Impressions) Enrollment management in higher ed has never been more complex. For many colleges and universities, technology has allowed for an exponential growth in student applications. This has redefined enrollment funnels and has made recruitment more challenging for modern enrollment professionals. Both Stefanie […]
A SERIES ON INNOVATIONS IN FUNDING ACADEMIC RESEARCH Ed Mason, president of EMNR & Associates, is writing this series to assist academic leaders in finding creative strategies to merge public/private funding for existing and new research initiatives. Mason has studied an array of collaborative partnerships between the two offices most focused on external funding (the development office […]
A CONTINUING SERIES ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS IN HIGHER ED by Mark Hartell, Capital Projects Consultant In the opening article of this series, I argued that project management soft skills are critical to the success of capital projects. We don’t build classrooms, libraries, labs and data centers for themselves; we build them for the […]
<- back to the main page of this report THIS IS ONE CHAPTER IN A FULL REPORT ON TASK FORCES IN HIGHER ED Academic Impressions has conducted a survey of 300 higher-ed professionals, and what we learned about task forces and committees in higher education was both revealing and powerful: On July 9, we shared […]
<- back to the main page of this report THIS IS ONE CHAPTER IN A FULL REPORT ON TASK FORCES IN HIGHER ED Academic Impressions has conducted a survey of 300 higher-ed professionals, and what we learned about task forces and committees in higher education was both revealing and powerful: On July 9, we shared […]
