Course Category: Free for All-Inclusive Members

Assessing Incoming Student Readiness for Online Learning

Evaluate the preparedness of your incoming online students in a more meaningful way. This webcast will teach you how to implement proven assessment strategies and improve upon the assessments that you already have in place. You will leave better prepared to answer questions such as: How can I best evaluate the writing, reading, and critical thinking skills of my incoming online students? Can I administer my assessments without creating barriers in the application process? Should I outsource my assessments or build my tools in-house? How do competency-based assessment and prior learning relate to intake assessment? Throughout the webcast, we will review several examples of assessments in various formats. You will get action-planning resources for you to take and begin to make adjustments to your current assessments or develop new ones that are specific to your campus.

Revitalize Your Video Marketing Strategy: A Case Study from Beloit College

Join us for a unique webcast that will showcase how Beloit College recently revitalized its video strategy by integrating videos that are clever, quirky, humorous, but most importantly, authentic to their institutional brand. You’ll hear about the challenges they faced trying to strike the balance between story and substance, while staying true to the student experience. Learn how Beloit College recreated their video marketing strategy through a mapping process that was connected to their institution’s five brand drivers. Gain ideas, tactics, and inspiration that can be adapted into your own video marketing strategy. Come see what your peers in the higher ed space are doing to leverage the power of video among prospective students.  

10 Powerful Strategies to Beat Procrastination

Research shows that approximately 25% of us are chronic procrastinators.  We tend to accept procrastination as an inevitability, and yet it can wreck careers, marriages, and health, if not managed.  If you fall into this category, you likely identify with this cycle:  Cycle of Procrastination  You have something to do.  You probably don’t want to do it. Maybe you think it will take too much time, or maybe the details confuse you. In any case you’re anxious about it.  To avoid the negative feelings and thoughts, you choose something else to do. The “something else” may be productive. Meanwhile, the original task waits for you, and you feel guilty for not completing it.  The shadow of the task leads to even more stress and even more avoidance. You experience self-talk like “I will feel like doing it later” or “I will have more time tomorrow.”  You eventually start and finish the task, but it takes longer than it should and is usually a painful process.  Join us online to take the first step towards escaping this pernicious cycle. We’ll offer 10 powerful strategies to deal with procrastination, and we’ll bust the myth that you do your best work under pressure.   

Tools for Reflecting on Professional Development

Make the most of your professional development opportunities by reflecting on the experience, what you learned, and potential next steps. We’ve gathered the following tools to get you started.

Tools for Training Advisors

Are you tasked with the training and developing of academic advisors at your institution? Leverage the tools in this suite to round out your training plan. We’ve included resources that span three categories: Foundational Information Job Aids, Tools, and Activities Resources for Faculty Advisors Check back periodically to see what’s new!

Collaborating with Campus Partners to Expand Volunteer Opportunities

Many shops struggle to be intentional when matching volunteers to the kind of opportunities they are most passionate about. Ensuring that your volunteers feel like they are making an impact is critical to fostering the continued relationship. Your shop can be more intentional and practical in your process of connecting volunteers to programs by: Collaborating with faculty and staff to identify volunteer opportunities on campus Surveying volunteers and faculty Developing clear job descriptions for volunteers Join us for this webcast and learn how to audit your current volunteer opportunities, partner across campus to locate various volunteer roles, and create meaningful matches that suit your volunteers and institution. You will gain practical knowledge and ideas to set in motion on your campus to maximize the impact of your volunteers and their efforts.

Uncovering Resilience in Students with Mental Health Concerns: A Case Study

In today’s higher education landscape, a growing number of students are struggling with decreasing resilience, which frequently harms their academic performance and collegiate experience. As this trend continues to prevail, there is a growing realization that student resilience must be discussed holistically, with special focus on mental health. Well-being and resilience should be considered as critical components of a student’s academic and vocational success. In response to this issue, a handful of institutions are leading the way in creating and implementing innovative programs that address the relationship between mental health and resilience—by helping students improve skills related to emotional fortitude, grit, and social support. Join us for this webcast to learn how UMass Amherst has developed a new evidence and strengths-based healthcare program to enhance students’ resilience skills and help them flourish even in the face of mental illness. Participants will learn both short and long-term ways to implement a similar program on their respective campuses.

Practical Data Governance in Higher Education

  Agenda Establishing a Data Governance Framework at Your Institution Identifying drivers for data governance Identifying stakeholders Strategic direction vs. tactical & practical needs Avoiding common pitfalls Launching and Managing Data Governance Obtaining a data governance information system Establishing a culture of collaboration Crafting data definitions and other vital deliverables Collaborating effectively with vendors Resources Download the presentation slides (PDF) Download the additional resources (PDF) Download the leftover questions (PDF)

Developing a Scorecard to Prioritize Your Corporate Partners for Holistic Engagement

Corporate engagement staff generally do not have time and resources to develop a comprehensive and intentional strategy. Learn how to build a more effective approach that will help you rank and prioritize your partners to ultimately identify your best leads with the strongest viability. Join us for this webcast to learn how to develop a unique and innovative corporate partner scorecard and identify what characteristics and data you should be looking at. You will leave this training able to better support and bolster more holistic engagement strategies by: Strategies for determining the right size of your portfolio Quantifying and prioritizing prospects Engaging leadership and faculty in your planning efforts

Are You Looking for a New Way to Evaluate Your Projects?

Modified from a process used by the US military, the before-action and after-action review cycle described here provides a structure for project reviews focused on process-improvement. Download this job aid to get started with more purposeful project reviews today!

Loading survey...