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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

Designing Your Course for Active Team-Based Learning

Implementing collaborative and team-based learning in large, diverse classes has proven to be an effective tool for improved student engagement and learning. The challenge is designing and facilitating your course to effectively identify students’ current knowledge and craft activities that promote a deeper understanding of the subject matter. Join us online to learn how to design your courses to incorporate team-based learning. Our expert instructor will cover how to: Build diverse student teams Assess teams’ current knowledge Create problem-based activities to promote critical thinking Evaluate the team-based experience Instructional designers, faculty developers and current faculty will leave this training with a proven and researched model for designing and facilitating team-based learning courses. During the webcast, we will demonstrate different team-based learning strategies through active attendee participation, allowing you to experience guided team interaction and dynamics.

Coaching as Supervision in Residence Life

Supervising staff in residence life is challenging–there is often a trade-off between process-driven management decisions and time-intensive mentoring. Spending too much time on the former undermines staff motivation and satisfaction, while the latter may leave little room for other duties. When faced with staff attrition and stretched resources, is your residence life supervision strategy as effective as it can be? Join us online to learn how the University of Washington implemented supervisory coaching in their residential life department to improve staff engagement. We will examine how coaching is different from other supervising strategies, and how your institution can use this strategy to improve staff development at multiple levels. You’ll also examine how to measure results and select the right way to employ supervisory coaching at your institution.

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

Taking a Case-Study Approach to Improving Academic Advising Assessment

Academic advising is an effective process to improve student success and completion. However, making the connection between advising and retention eludes many administrators who do not have the comprehensive data they need to demonstrate this connection. To comprehensively evaluate the success of academic advising, you must examine: Programmatic outcomes Student learning outcomes Return on investment Join us online to explore three different methods of evaluating academic advising, as well as the changes that can result based on your assessment. Using a case-study approach, this event will walk you through several different assessment examples to demonstrate how your campus can make a case for improvements in academic advising.

Capital Campaigns: Integrating
Student Involvement

Capital campaigns can be a source of excitement for the campus community, but can also be a source of questions, particularly from student organizations and leaders. How do campaign priorities get selected? Are tuition dollars being used to fund the campaign? Where is the campaign money coming from? Join us online to learn how the University of Michigan has strategically integrated student involvement in their capital campaign with the use of an official student campaign committee. From identifying, recruiting, and selecting students for the committee, to training them and empowering them to assist with campaign work, our expert instructors share a comprehensive case study that will leave you equipped to better involve and educate students on your campus.

Solving Retention Challenges with a Team Approach: A Case Study

Campuses continue to struggle with coordinating and solving campus-wide retention and enrollment challenges. Yet, the University of Tennessee used a problem-solving approach to pull together key partners to address an enrollment challenge. This approach worked so well that they have continued to meet to solve enrollment and retention challenges across campus, such as: Understanding why students leave Increasing low-income student success Balancing enrollment targets with financial goals. Join us to explore an alternative approach to solving enrollment and retention challenges. Using a case-study framework, this event will walk you through several different enrollment and retention challenges to demonstrate how your campus can make a case for rethinking key collaborations, success goals, and decision-making.

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

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