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Global Considerations for a Modern Campaign

International alumni are often overlooked in campaign efforts. However, a campaign is a great opportunity to engage your institution’s increasingly diverse constituents. While many institutions may be intimidated by the prospect of a global campaign, your shop can successfully accomplish a global campaign by: Identifying your international alumni base Gathering and reviewing important alumni data Planning international events and donor visits Join us online to assess your institution’s readiness for taking your campaign global and intentionally plan for international alumni involvement in every stage of your campaign.

Fundraising Essentials: Advancing Your Career for Underrepresented Professionals

While the advancement profession has grown increasingly diverse, senior management and chief advancement officer roles remain largely male and white. Women have made strides into senior management roles across the field in recent years, but many are not compensated at the same level as their male counterparts. As institutions attract increasingly diverse student populations, it is important that the diversity of the campus community is reflected across the administration as well. Now is the time to create your career plan and focus on moving into a senior management role. Join us online to gain the tools to guide your career path towards senior management while effectively negotiating compensation and overcoming perceived performance gaps. Our expert instructor will address the following key questions: How do you become an executive director, vice president, or associate vice president of advancement? How do you map your career path to get to the top position? How do you negotiate a competitive salary? How do you assess your professional environment for growth?

Engaging Faculty to Improve Corporate Relations

Effectively engaging corporate partners can be challenging for academics. Differences in philosophy and work design lead to gaps in partner expectations. Understanding the mindset and goals of your corporate partners is key in creating more effective industry relationships for your institution. Join us for an online training that demonstrates the 7 “industry approved” strategies to more effectively work with corporate research partners. Our expert instructor will provide practical tips for: Unifying working processes Adapting to corporate expectations Developing partnership growth Aligning future research paths

Ideas from the For-Profit Sector on Making Your Program More Competitive

Can you describe your institution as nimble? Do you offer programs that meet the needs of adult learners? Does your institution effectively use online education to reach non-traditional learners? Do you offer practitioner-oriented programs? Proprietary institutions have successes we can learn from. Use the insights from an instructor that has experienced both sides of the fence. Take lessons learned from the for-profit sector to enhance your program’s competitiveness, student success, and persistence. J. Joseph Hoey will share best practices and case studies to illustrate innovations often used by the proprietary marketplace that are directly applicable to traditional institutions. Join us to learn models that you can incorporate into the way education is delivered at your institution. We will examine: Building education around the student Learning outcomes that connect learners and the workplace Flexible course and program offerings Steps to support students towards matriculation The role of prior learning assessment

Summer Bridge: Building and Measuring
Campus Connection

Students who are provisionally admitted to college or otherwise considered “at-risk” often face unique academic, social, or emotional challenges during their transition. Summer bridge programs aim to address these transitional issues through support and remediation. The challenge is knowing which elements to prioritize and what works at your institution. Are you doing enough to create a sense of student connection on your campus for success into their second year and beyond? Join us online to learn how your institution can take a strategic approach to summer bridge programs and at-risk student success. We focus on three key components of summer bridge programs and identify effective strategies for measuring student engagement and campus connection. Our expert faculty showcases the SOAR program at University of Central Florida, a summer bridge program that boasts student retention rates of 90%.

Academic Coaching: Models for Student Success and Retention

Academic coaching is a powerful retention tool for at-risk, probationary, international, and other critical student populations. Coaching allows students to have one-on-one conversations with professionals who help them set academic goals and fill any gaps that exist between academic advising, tutoring, career services, and counseling. An in-house academic coaching model is a cost-effective approach to serving high-risk student groups. Join us online to explore two success-driven approaches to academic coaching. Highlighting the coaching program at the Florida State University, our expert instructor will share the steps for building, evaluating, and improving an academic coaching model on your campus.

Staffing and Structuring a Successful Marketing Communications Department

The work of campus marketing and communications departments continues to evolve and expand. This often results in an increased pressure to demonstrate impact and value. Many campus marketing teams are decentralized, in need of reorganization, struggling with the impacts of digital and social media, and lacking the resources needed to accomplish the tasks that are now considered “critical” in higher education. Join nationally recognized higher-ed marketing experts Elizabeth Scarborough and Jason Simon online to explore new ways of organizing your marketing team to maximize results. We will discuss required skills and opportunities for revisioning your department’s role and purpose, examples of various institutions’ marketing organizational charts, and how to decide which structure might be best for your campus.

7 Strategies for Integrating Student Blogging into ePortfolios

Many academics are searching for new strategies to showcase evidence of student learning. At the same time, students increasingly desire coursework that reaches beyond the boundaries of their campus to showcase academic and personal growth. The use of blogging in ePortfolios is a perfect solution to meet assessment and student engagement needs. Join us for a webcast as we examine seven key strategies for incorporating personalized learning into ePortfolios with the use of student blogging. Our expert instructor will walk you through the process of integrating blogging into the ePortfolios of both courses and programs. Further, we will examine the major challenges you stand to face, including: Determining the appropriate hosting platform Prompting quality student reflection Providing efficient instructor feedback Leveraging blogging to influence learning assessment

Managing Online Course Workload

Facilitating successful online courses can be major time drains for instructors if not approached correctly. As the number of online courses that each faculty member is asked to facilitate increases, effectively managing and maintaining course quality becomes difficult. Utilizing best practices for the design, management, and facilitation of online courses will improve instructors’ capacity to deliver high quality programs in an efficient manner. Join our expert instructor for an online training to learn innovative approaches for efficiently managing your course workload in online instruction. We will discuss time efficient strategies for: Designing courses and assignments Providing personalized student feedback Facilitating productive discussion boards Integrating just-in-time course improvements

Creating Giving Circles to Increase Annual Giving

A strong and diversified alumni giving pipeline can increase your annual giving numbers and help your shop insulate itself from future fundraising downturns. One way to diversify your annual giving portfolio is to create an affinity-based giving circles program, which helps to alleviate donors’ doubts about unrestricted giving. Join us online to consider a new model for growing and retaining your alumni donors. You will be introduced to Illinois Wesleyan University’s “giving circles” model, which upon its launch saw a 300% increase in participation and converted 15% of participants from young alumni non-donors. Along with a comprehensive program overview, you will learn tactics for: Selecting and training program “influencers” Integrating the program into your current efforts Building buy-in for the program Monitoring progress Scaling the program for your institution

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