Course Category: Free for All-Inclusive Members

Accurately Calculate and Interpret the CFI

Through university and college examples, you will learn the fundamental accounting principles behind the CFI (Composite Financial Index). You will also discover how to avoid common misrepresentations of the data so you can be more confident in using this tool to support stakeholder conversations about your institutional financial performance. You will learn: Key concepts behind the ratios Fund accounting principles with a focus on expendable net assets Examples of the impact of incorrect computations How to avoid common overstatement of the CFI Ensuring clean and accurate source data for your CFI Conditions for a strong peer analysis and pitfalls to avoid

Key Questions to Produce Effective Data Visualizations

As a steward of data at your institution, you must interface with a variety of end-users, each of whom has unique goals, responsibilities, and needs. These variables impact how they will use and make decisions with the data visualizations you provide. The conversations you have early on with these stakeholders are critical in ensuring you can deliver data to them in the most relevant, impactful way. This webcast will provide an overview of how to frame conversations and ask better questions on the front-end to produce better results.

Overcoming Bias in Your Title IX Investigative Process

With the rise of complex sexual misconduct cases, the potential for imposing bias in our investigative process is high.  This webcast will examine the intersection between bias and Title IX investigations to ensure an objective and fundamentally fair investigative process. Join us for this webcast and gain the confidence, knowledge, and skill set to ensure that personal bias does not directly impact decisions. You’ll also receive resources that will review the concepts of microaggressions and bias more generally to help you and your team get the conversation started, and the webcast itself will dive into specific tools and practice to help you uncover bias in your Title IX processes.

Leveraging Metrics to Improve Advancement Events

Learn how to comprehensively and objectively assess the success of your events and develop criteria for successful ones. Join Lynne Wester to learn an evaluation model and gain insights on how to collect data before, during, and after events to comprehensively evaluate success. Tools to Evaluate Your Advancement Events These resources are included in your registration to help you gather feedback and evaluate your events: Follow-up communications for attendees and non-attendees Editable 21-criteria evaluation form Event summary document Lifetime value of event attendees workbook

Learning to Lead Through Conflict

Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a conflict and you wish the other person would do more? Do you want them to be more of a “partner” than an “antagonist?” Conflict in the workplace can become toxic quickly. Rather than letting it fester, create an opportunity to emerge stronger as individuals and as a team. Take a step back, drop those assumptions, and join us for this 60-minute webcast as we work through five common scenarios, such as “The Ghost Conflict” and “The Grudge Holder,” and show you how you can effectively lead yourself, and others, through to the other side.

Integrate Academic and Career Resources to Improve Student Success

With growing numbers of commuter and non-traditional students who do not spend their free time on campus, it’s especially challenging to connect students to the services designed to help them succeed.  Cal State Fullerton is addressing this issue through its Student Success Team (SST) model, which embeds a group of faculty, academic advisors, student affairs, and career services into every college within the university. In this webcast, Elizabeth Zavala-Acevez will describe how CSUF embarked on this partnership between student affairs and academic affairs that has helped her institution see an 11% increase in graduation rates.  She’ll pay special attention to the role of career services in this model, which moves beyond its physical career center to engage students where they are.

Evaluating the Strengths and Weaknesses of Your Team

After assembling a team of intelligent and motivated individuals at your institution, you might be wondering how to evaluate their effectiveness. After all, even the strongest and most productive teams can benefit from understanding where they are excelling and where they could use some additional work. We want to make that task easier for your by helping you informally review the strengths and weaknesses of your team. The following 5 lessons will review some best practices around team building.

Making the Business Case for Active Learning Spaces

Whether you’re justifying use of funds or seeking funding for your active learning space initiative, your project scope will need evidence to support your request. Our experts will guide you through ways to collect and incorporate the most compelling data so you can effectively communicate the need and what it will cost. Join us for this 60 minute webcast and learn essential front-end research strategies that you can use and apply during the vision, design, and budgeting phases.

Creating Support Structures to Help Grads Develop a Professional Identity

Graduate students, unlike their undergrad counterparts, often do not have dedicated student support systems. However, not all graduate students want to pursue a career in academia and many need avenues for seeking career options, gaining professional skills, and preparing for life after higher education. During this training, you will learn how Virginia Commonwealth University was able to provide support in four critical areas to help grads make the transition from student to professional, including: Interviewing skills Understanding professional culture Knowing your options for careers Dealing with anxiety through the transition For each of these topics, we will discuss what sub-topics were included, how the support was staffed and resourced, the format the support was given in, and a suggested timeline for when the support was given. You will leave with plenty of ideas for how to replicate similar support for your graduate students.

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