Course Category: Free for All-Inclusive Members

Create an Alumni Volunteer Experience that Fosters Life-Long Engagement with Your Institution

Enjoy this recorded 3-part series, plus a bonus Q&A recorded session for members, which will provide strategies and new approaches to improve alumni volunteer recruitment, onboarding, and recognition, so you can get the most out of your relationships with your volunteers. Alumni volunteers are critical to the success of any advancement office. They add tremendous value to your events and communications. To ensure you maximize their impact, you need to recruit alumni volunteers that you can rely on. You need to set the right expectations when they are onboarded, so that you can direct their energy in a productive way. Meaningful recognition is also key to keeping your alumni volunteers engaged and satisfied. We’ve designed a collection of webcasts to help you explore the alumni volunteer management cycle and learn strategies for how to enhance the impact of your alumni volunteers.

Leveraging Alumni Interviews in the Admissions Process: A Case Study from the University of Pennsylvania

Most institutions are invested in engaging their alumni and recruiting more students, but is there a way to accomplish these two goals at the same time? Utilizing alumni in the admissions process is one way to engage them while also enhancing the experience of prospective students as they work their way through the enrollment funnel. Join us for this webcast to learn how the University of Pennsylvania designed and implemented an Alumni Interview Program to involve and leverage alumni in the admission process. You will hear how the infrastructure of the Penn Alumni Interview Program made applying to the institution more accessible to all by providing a venue for applicants to: Advocate for themselves Learn about student life from alum Contribute to the application process by providing a more holistic representation of variables that may not be captured in a standard application The director of this program, Patrick Bredehoft, will tell the story of how they have scaled the initiative to reach 24,000 active volunteers and 40,000 interviews annually. You will leave this training with new ideas, inspiration, and more confidence to adapt this type initiative to your institution’s unique context.

Strengthening and Aligning Academic Programs When Time is of the Essence

While never ideal, operating budget pressures may lead to an immediate need for strategic realignment of faculty and resources. These are tough decisions to make, and it’s always a balancing act to move forward quickly enough to offset further issues and carefully enough to foresee and minimize the impact on your faculty and staff. Our experts are two Vice Presidents with financial and academic backgrounds, who came together to turn around a community college campus facing closure. Learn how they quickly assessed the situation and determined their course of action based on continuous feedback from stakeholders, which resulted in important academic program structural changes over a three-year period. Now, they have a new process in place to ensure academic programs are on a continuous cycle of improvement and renewal. From their case study, you will learn key data-driven strategies to deploy resources and realign academic programs. Highlights will include: Curricular innovations to strengthen the culinary arts program New program development in growth areas such as business Repositioning faculty from less relevant programs to high demand areas Your registration to this webcast series will include entry to both sessions, which take place on June 11 and 25 from 2:00 – 3:00 […]

Fostering the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through Faculty Learning Communities

If your institution has faculty learning communities (FLCs), you’re already creating teaching projects that introduce innovations in the classroom, such as experiential learning components or online components. However, have you ever considered moving these projects beyond your institutional boundaries — to peer-reviewed presentations or publications on teaching and learning? Join us online to learn from a leader in the field how Miami University has used their faculty learning communities to grow the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). If you’re an institution with FLCs looking for easier ways to grow research, we’ll offer advice on how to grow your faculty into SoTL presenters in just one year.

Boost Student Recruitment with Online and Virtual Events

Agenda We will help you start brainstorming a strategy for online recruitment events by introducing you to how Penn State World Campus executes the following: Webinars Virtual open houses Other virtual platforms You’ll leave with advice on how to get started on your campus. Resources Download the presentation slides (PDF) Download the additional resources (PDF) Download the leftover questions (PDF)

Writing Workshop for Advancement Professionals

This online training is designed as an interactive workshop to enhance your advancement writing skills. We will cover a wide variety of advancement communications from solicitations to stewardship, including daily correspondence with alumni and donors, both digital and handwritten. In this two-day webcast series, both sessions will cover the six keys to effective writing and how they tie into the four pillars of donor communications. During the two 1-hr webcasts, you will have time to apply these skills to examples from your own shop.

Career Industry Cluster Model: Aligning Career Services with the World of Work

Most career services offices assign students to advisors based on the students’ majors. But a small handful of institutions, including Rutgers University and DePaul University, have restructured into a small number of career industry clusters — which help students think more broadly about career options and mirror more closely the future world of work. Join us online to learn how both Rutgers and DePaul have implemented this new career clusters model. Rutgers has six years of experience utilizing the model and can share success stories (including a spike in student engagement), while DePaul is new to the model and can speak to transition challenges. You’ll leave with ideas for cluster-specific programming, marketing, technology, and employer relations.

Give Your Students an EDGE through On-Campus Internships

With many employers claiming that college and university graduates lack skills necessary for real-world success, it’s especially important to help students build these skills starting in their first year. DePaul University is doing this through EDGE (Education and Development Grant for Employability) – an on-campus internship program for first-year students that links them to a department team for 5-10 hours per week. Students gain skills and experience that will help them in their future careers, and they also get workshops in career development and financial fitness. Join us online to start thinking about how to create a similar career development ecosystem on your campus. After describing DePaul’s EDGE program, we will share advice on how to define your own on-campus career development program – including how to identify and interact with campus partners.

Creating Safe Spaces for Students by Taking ACTION Against Microaggressions

Microaggressions are small, subtle moments when communication can be offensive, even when it’s not intended to be. Over time, they build up, create tension, and can have a long-lasting negative impact on the student. It can be difficult to confront these situations, for fear of making the situation worse. However, it is necessary to intervene to build community and trust and to ensure a safe space for your students. Come to this webcast to learn how to intervene the moment a microaggression impacts your student. You will be introduced to a framework that will guide you through how to: Ask the right questions to defuse the tension Respond to the microaggression in a way that creates a safe space for your students Take action to make the situation right

Making an Impact on Mental Health: How to Deliver with Peer Educators

With mental health concerns growing on college campuses, the need for prevention and promotion work on your campus is more critical than ever. The ability to engage your students in peer education is a much-needed solution as it allows you to effectively manage your counseling case load and resources, expand your reach, engage diverse students and reduce stigma in a non-threatening way. Join us online to hear how the University of Alabama at Birmingham has integrated peer educators throughout campus to create a culture of mental health awareness and tolerance. You will get advice on how to replicate the successes of UAB’s award-winning training program, as well as their events and outreach initiatives.

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