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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.

Decision-Making Possibilities with Activity-Based Costing

What does it cost to offer a course, a service, or an entire degree to students? Understanding the true cost of what your institution offers through Activity-Based Costing (ABC) gives you real numbers to work with and allows you to make better decisions in the short and long-term. During this webcast you will hear about the decisions that New York Institute of Technology was able to make both before and after implementing ABC, and we will help you to connect what they were able to do to your own institution. You will gain an understanding of how the ABC model works and how you can use it to support decisions in: Capital planning Academic program review Strategic enrollment management

Create Inspiring Campaign Communications

Do your campaign communications need to be updated? Whether you are looking for communications advice regarding an upcoming campaign or simply looking for new ideas to refresh your current campaign, this webcast will help you generate aesthetically inspiring and donor-centric campaign communications. During this event, you will see several examples of communication pieces used throughout campaigns at several institutions.

Using Experiential Learning to Link Classroom Content to Real Life Situations

Experiential learning is a hot topic right now in higher ed, but few institutions have managed to integrate it meaningfully into their curriculum on a larger scale. Join us for a webcast to learn about how North Park University institutionalized experiential learning into its undergraduate curriculum through a full-scale redesign.  Every Wednesday, classrooms at North Park close in favor of on-the-ground learning with businesses, cultural institutions, and community leaders in the city of Chicago. During the webcast, you will walk through the questions and answers that allowed the University to incorporate experiential learning on an ongoing basis, including: What was the budget for this project? How do you restructure class schedules to accommodate experiential learning? How does the University arrange and coordinate site visits? How do you transport students? How do you assess learning and overall impact of the experiential lessons?

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