Course Category: Free for All-Inclusive Members

Busting Myths Around Your Market Position: Making Data-Informed Decisions

Is your market position supported by data or by anecdotes? The reality is that a surprisingly large number of institutions still work from the latter when defining their brand in a competitive landscape. Your institution might boast qualities such as: “academic excellence,” “diversity,” or “career readiness,” but would your students agree? With a data-informed understanding of your market position, you can start to break from this “sameness” and capitalize on what truly makes your institution or program unique. Join us for this webcast and learn what data you need to conduct a comprehensive market analysis that will ultimately inform your market position. You’ll learn where and how to access this data, and how to use it to make better informed decisions related to strategic enrollment planning, new academic program planning, or institutional endeavors.

Translating Experiential Learning into College Credit with Prior Learning Assessment

CBE programs are becoming more ubiquitous in higher ed, but there is still a lot of gray area around ensuring accountability that experiential knowledge is commensurate with college-level learning. Many are still trying to answer questions like: what’s the best way to award and represent this learning and knowledge? How can we ensure an equitable experience for all students? Join us to gain a deeper understanding of Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) and how to implement it at your institution. Assessment evens the playing field but must meet quality standards. During this webcast, our expert, Donna Younger, will demonstrate how PLA can address high attrition rates and achievement gaps as well as encourage students to kickstart their success outside the classroom.

Overcoming Three Common Challenges in Online Advising

Providing access to online academic support presents a unique set of challenges. This webcast will help online advisors understand how to build relationships with students given the unique needs and challenges that exist in online environments. Join us for this online training and hear how one institution reduced overlapping processes, broadened their outreach to students in different time zones, and improved their relationship-building through online communication.

Family Giving: Cultivating the Next Generation of Wealth

A top takeaway from the Millennial Impact Report notes that millennials support causes they are passionate about rather than institutions. However, what is often overlooked is that when deciding what to support, 75% of millennials say they would be likely or highly likely to support an organization if asked by a family member. Forty percent of affluent millennials took an active role in their family’s charitable giving before the age of 21. What does this information tell us? It reminds us that we need to start engaging our children of wealth early, and we need to involve their parents. Our speakers will frame the discussion around three case studies specifically chosen to illustrate different approaches to family philanthropy. Join us for a webcast on how to strategically engage the giving power of families.

Strategies to Improve the Effectiveness of Your Young Alumni Volunteer Program

Join us online to learn how Lehigh University has increased the effectiveness of their young alumni volunteer program, and take away strategies to better engage this critical audience and cultivate generations of future givers. Our speaker, Shannon Jaeger, will cover: Tracking strategies for progress and behavior Motivating and engaging volunteers on their level Aligning volunteer goals with advancement priorities Recognizing volunteers and sharing the impact of their efforts These strategies have improved involvement, retention, and giving habits amongst Lehigh’s young alumni. While the core examples will focus on this audience, many of the strategies and methods can be adapted for other volunteer groups you work with and manage.

Launching a Successful Competency-Based Education Program (Digital Recording Only)

Over the past few years, hundreds of institutions have considered creating and launching a new competency-based education (CBE) program.  Launching these programs can be overwhelming – successful programs require new knowledge and rethinking the way we do business. In this online training, your instructor will walk you through the important steps to create and launch a CBE program. The discussion will concentrate on the four stages of development and will provide an outline of each stage, including the tasks associated with each, with particular attention to the initial effort.

Designing an Incentivized STEM Mentoring Program for Equitable Success

Without key support structures in place, many students are likely to get discouraged in their STEM work after receiving a poor grade. North Hennepin Community College has developed an incentivized STEM mentor program that has resulted in an unprecedented pass rate for students who did not pass their first exam. Join us for this webcast and hear from our expert, Lisa Smith, who will share the structure, budget, and other important components for an effective incentivized STEM mentor program.  The success of this program resulted from the combination of a shared vision to never give up on students based on a low grade, a student incentive that complements their natural motivation, and faculty involvement.    

Engaging Students Through Creativity in Instruction

As instructors, we owe it to students to make classrooms as engaging as possible. There is a new, and welcome, attention being given to doing more to maintain student interest, to engage students in new and different ways, and to ultimately retain and graduate more students, especially those who are at-risk and may already feel disengaged from the college experience. Join us for this online training and hear from Joni Dunlap, Faculty Fellow for Teaching, who has seen growing success from encouraging faculty to incorporate elements that diverge from traditional lecturing into their classrooms. During this webcast, you will engage in a variety of activities and discussions to give you ideas for providing multiple avenues for learning with students.

How Ready Are You to Implement Your Strategic Plan?

It can be argued that developing strategic plans is an easier feat than pulling off a successful implementation. But, that doesn’t have to be the case. We’ve created this informal assessment to help you gain a better understanding of your institution’s readiness for strategic implementation by helping you identify strengths and potential pitfalls. This informal assessment is organized around 6 key areas of implementation: Alignment, Decision Making, Organizational Discipline, Collaboration, Culture, and Engagement and Inclusion.

Predictive Models for Enrollment: A Showcase of Three Examples

Predictive modeling is one of the most impactful and widespread methods that institutions are using to become more data-driven in their decision-making. Join us for an example-based webcast that will walk you through three different predictive models that one institution uses to predict yield at various stages of the enrollment funnel. Our expert instructor will walk you through an Inquiry to Enroll model, an Applicant to Enroll model, and an Admit to Enroll model. For each, we will discuss the following aspects: Rationale and strategy behind the model Analysis used Implementation Outcomes and results

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