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Teaching Your Service Learning Course Online

We know that high-impact practices support profound learning by promoting student engagement and real-world experience. Among those high-impact practices, service learning courses help students achieve a deeper understanding of course content. They can also shape their personal values and civic responsibility through reflection and participation in an organized service activity that serves community needs (Bringle, Hatcher, McIntosh, 2006). For these compelling reasons, many faculty members, divisions, and entire institutions had plans to offer robust service learning courses only to be disrupted by the global pandemic. However, it is still possible to teach service learning courses that are just as impactful in the online environment. Join us for this webcast, where our expert speaker—who has over a decade of experience teaching service learning courses online—will share example-based best practices to help you keep students engaged, serve community partners, and ultimately create dynamic learning experiences.

Increase Your ROI on Alumni Engagement Through Effective Data Analysis

Increase Your ROI on Alumni Engagement Through Effective Data Analysis December 17 – 18, 2020 Learn how to tell the story of your alumni relations efforts through data. Welcome to your course page for your virtual conference! We’ll be adding links to meeting rooms, schedules, social media, and course materials as they become available. Make sure to check back as it gets closer to your conference! DAY 1 DAY 2 ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:

Centralized and Integrated Leadership Development: A Model from Columbus State University

To ensure your faculty, staff, and students are prepared for the future of the workplace and are well positioned to become the leaders of tomorrow, it is vital to invest in their leadership development today. You likely already have many leadership development programs across your campus, but they might operate separately from each other, reach limited audiences, or struggle to self-sustain. A more effective way to offer leadership development is to create a single program that is easily accessible, inclusive to all, and embedded in the fabric of your everyday work. Join us online and learn how Columbus State University has done just that. No longer is their leadership development distributed across multiple departments across campus — instead, they have created a self-sustaining, centralized, and integrated model that embeds leadership training throughout the university. By having faculty, staff, and even students sit side-by-side to share perspectives, they are breaking down barriers and uniting the campus community. In addition, they extend their reach into the larger community by training and collaborating with organizations and business leaders. The benefit of a model like this is that all faculty, staff, and students receive the same message: that their leadership development is important and […]

Strategies for Leading Short-Term Initiatives on Your Campus

Strategies for Leading Short-Term Initiatives on Your Campus December 3 – 4, 2020  Expand your toolkit, so that you can fully engage your stakeholders and navigate barriers during your most critical campus-wide initiatives. Welcome to your course page for your virtual conference! We’ll be adding links to meeting rooms, schedules, social media, and course materials as they become available. Make sure to check back as it gets closer to your conference! DAY 1 DAY 2 ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:

Mitigating and Responding to Bias in Your Title IX Process

To ensure confidence in the fair and equitable grievance process, the new 2020 Title IX regulations require bias reduction training for all members of your Title IX team. Implicit bias is inevitable; we all have them. Even with awareness and regular training, bias may sneak into your process. What can you do to prevent it and how should you respond when it does present itself? Join us online to get tips and strategies from our expert faculty on how to recognize and mitigate bias during your grievance process. This training is designed to help you evaluate how bias shows up within your team and at various stages of your grievance process (e.g. during your line of questioning or when preparing reports), so that you can reduce the impact of bias in the final outcome of the case. Through discussions and scenario-based learning, you will identify ways you and your team can work together to encourage peer-to-peer accountability and reduce the impact of implicit bias during your Title IX process.

Supporting Your Primary Witness During a Title IX Cross-Examination

The 2020 Title IX federal regulations require live hearings to include a cross-examination of both parties by the other party’s Advisor. This revised process brings certain challenges. First, cross-examination can feel overwhelming, and even traumatizing to survivors of sexual assault who must recount and relive their trauma in front of others. Second, the process can feel debilitating to both parties, as their credibility and character appear under attack. Third, cross-examination can produce anxiety in the Advisor, who may struggle to navigate such emotionally charged conversations. Mismanaging cross-examination and witness preparation or lacking the tools to assist participants through the revised process can compound an already stressful situation. Join us for this webcast to learn how you, as an Advisor or Hearing Panelist, can have a more positive impact on the cross-examination by preparing both parties to endure the process. During this training, you’ll acquire a toolkit of simple yet profound grounding and communication strategies that you can use to engage your witnesses and make them feel as safe and comfortable as possible throughout the process. No two witnesses are the same and as such, your approach to cross-examination cannot be one-size-fits-all. Our expert will give you the toolkit you need […]

Practical Data Governance in Higher Education

Strong data governance ensures that your institution is using information well when making data-driven decisions and complying with mandates around the collection, use, and sharing of data. During the COVID-19 era, accuracy in presenting timely information transparently to students, employees, parents, and the public make data governance all the more critical. Learn concrete, practical steps for building collaborative data governance that will improve efficiency and quality for your campus data partners. During this webcast, you will: Understand legal, regulatory, and business requirements that necessitate data governance Design a data governance framework Establish critical personnel roles and responsibilities Make information readily available and discoverable to stakeholders

Using Annual Giving Data to Acquire and Retain Donors

Data analysis has the power to inform and transform your annual-giving decision making in a way that allows you to steer your shop towards growth. However, the key to effective data analysis is knowing how to use the right data and from where to obtain it, so that you can identify donor trends, grow your pipeline, and increase funds raised. Join us online to hear from the University of Washington on how to best use data to make informed decisions in order to retain, reactivate, and acquire donors. You’ll learn how to: Ensure you retrieve the right data from the sources that best support your analysis Examine how to use metrics to accurately segment donors Engage your donors effectively while moving them through your donor pipeline with greater intention

Develop Your Impact Reporting Strategy

Impact reports can be one of your most valuable donor stewardship and cultivation tools, but shops often lack an overall strategy to implement them efficiently and effectively. Especially now, when many advancement teams are facing reduced resources, reporting can be challenging and time consuming. No matter the size of your shop, you will leave this webcast with strategies for planning and scaling the work of impact reports in order to more successfully steward donors at all levels of the giving pyramid.

Developing a Collaborative Metrics Structure for Stronger Corporate Engagement

Effective corporate engagement efforts are hard to quantify, especially because the cycle of relationship development can take a long time. Measuring success by dollars in the door is clear-cut but also not representative of the relationship as a whole. Fairleigh Dickinson University has developed an approach to their metrics, which motivate, track, and monitor corporate engagement. Join us for this online training to learn how FDU has established and used team metrics in a collaborative way to support their corporate engagement goals. You’ll gain insights into how this structure promotes accountability as well as motivates and enables their team to progress and move forward. You will leave this webcast with tools and ideas that you can adapt for defining and measuring your own efforts.

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