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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!

Reframing Student Activism as a Vehicle for Student Leadership Development

Student activism has always been an important vehicle for marginalized students to not only practice civic engagement but to also raise awareness of perceived social injustices related to their collegiate experience. Despite all the opportunities student activism presents, most institutions still carry a negative attitude or feel ill-prepared to engage with such initiatives. Instead of proactively guiding and mentoring students through the process, they often fall into the trap of waiting until students create a rumble. From the students’ perspective, there is often a lack of clarity on campus policies and resources that can provide guidance on how to raise concerns without completely disrupting the day-to-day campus routine. There lies an opportunity for campus leaders to teach students about intent vs. impact and about how civic engagement can help develop their leadership skills and potential. Join us and our seasoned speaker online to reframe activism from a threat or problem to an opportunity for student growth and leadership development.

Creating a Training Model to Increase Faculty Engagement in Students’ Mental Health

Faculty are on the frontline when it comes to student mental health, but many are not comfortable acting in or navigating this space. Instead of generically training your team with off-the-shelf materials, provide a more intentional and impactful way to integrate these key players in your mental health initiatives. This webcast, developed with David Reetz, Director of Rochester Institute of Technology’s Counseling Center, provides a faculty engagement training model that is faculty-centric and action-oriented. You’ll gain insights into the different components of this successful training model that you can immediately adapt and apply to your own unique institutional context. Prepare your faculty to minimize triggers and take action towards establishing a positive tone and an accepting climate for students with mental health concerns.

Engaging and Celebrating First-Generation Students and Faculty on Your Campus

Institutions often struggle to support first-gen students as many of them hide their status or are unaware that they may qualify as first-gen. By helping students to self-identify, your student support teams are better able to connect them with first-gen faculty, alumni, and other students. Hearing from others who have had similar experiences and learning how they coped and dealt with various difficult challenges can be the catalyst the first-gen student needs to feel valued and understood and to complete their degree successfully. Join us for this online training to learn how to support your first-gen students on your campus so they take pride in being the “first to go” in their family. This webcast is designed to give you a framework for supporting these students that will help you organize your efforts across numerous departments as a cohesive unit. During this webcast, you will learn how El Camino College and University of California, Los Angeles involved faculty and various departments on campus to improve the success of their first-gen students by creating online and in-person support programs and maintain the momentum of the programs.

Keys to Creating a Powerful Partnership Between Advising and Career Services at Your Institution

Institutions everywhere are looking for ways to integrate academic advising and career services functions into a coordinated or unified approach. Join us online to learn how Florida Atlantic University was able to cross-train their advising and career services teams to gain an understanding of each other’s knowledge base and ultimately build a more cohesive model. You will learn how to accomplish this difficult work on your own campus. Note: This training focuses on how your teams can build the right structures to enable effective interactions with students; it will not focus as much on specific interactions with students.

Training for Advancement: Assess Your Data Integrity and Establish Data Cleaning Priorities

Most of us struggle to collect accurate and relevant data from our alumni, but many of us have not evaluated our databases to create a holistic picture of our strengths and weaknesses. Even fewer shops have formalized processes in place to regularly assess the efficiency and quality of different data channels. Join us for this interactive webinar to learn a comprehensive approach to assessing your data integrity. Our faculty will dive deep into the criteria of data quality and provide you with strategies and practices to keep your data clean.

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