Course Category: Free for All-Inclusive Members

Communicating Financial Aid and Affordability to Admitted Students Webcast Recording

Do you need a more concise and streamlined approach for communicating financial aid to admitted students and their parents? This example-based online training walks through considerations for proactive and effective financial aid communication during the narrow window of time between admittance and enrollment. Included will be expert approaches from two diverse case-study institutions and many examples of impactful communication tactics.

FERPA Lessons and Quizzes

This member exclusive package of six 20-30 minute practice lessons with educational quizzes will help your entire front-line staff test their FERPA knowledge. Each lesson covers specific nuances of FERPA as they pertain to a department or campus area. FERPA affects every area of campus, so use these resources to train current and future faculty and staff and build your FERPA training library. Practice lessons include: If you’re an enterprise Academic Impressions member, these lessons and quizzes can be shared across campus. Inquire today about becoming a member!

Customizing Your Peer Mentor Program: Best Practices in Developing a Peer Mentoring Framework

This online course will help you design targeted peer mentor programs to improve the success of specific student populations. Using best practices, this course will help you design a peer mentor model, train your mentors, and address important challenges of your mentee population. You will leave with a plan to improve your peer mentor program for one or more of these populations:

Moving to a Strategic Sourcing Model

With nearly 25% of institutional costs coming from purchasing, institutions across the sector are looking for ways to push beyond transactional approaches to procurement. In response, strategic sourcing is emerging as a valuable method for lowering procurement costs by leveraging spending patterns and optimizing supplier relationships. Join us for these two online trainings that walk through necessary infrastructural elements to any strategic sourcing effort and identify key areas of focus for successful implementation on your campus. Our expert facilitator brings firsthand experience of this approach, and a keen understanding of how to achieve success with this model. This online training will have a particular focus on: Garnering stakeholder support for strategic sourcing shifts Addressing staffing and technology considerations for your model Conducting a comprehensive spend analysis Establishing a commodity strategy Discussing tactics for sound relationship management

Admissions Skill-Building: Core Training for New Counselors

Training of new Admissions counselors is often, out of necessity, much too hurried and perfunctory. The training that new counselors receive has historically been focused on the everyday duties of the job (travel, reading and processing applications, CRM systems, etc.), accompanied by lots of “just in time” training where other key competencies are concerned. But in today’s intensely competitive environment, it is no longer sufficient to let your Admissions counselors go out and begin recruiting for you without having adequate training on key, all-important soft skills. Join us for a trio of online training programs that will help get your new and entry-level Admissions counselors up to speed. These three 45-minute webcast sessions are focused on strengthening universal core competencies that all Admissions counselors must possess in order to be successful in their roles: How to discuss and think about value in higher education Effective counseling skills with prospective students and families Strategies for building connections and relationships with other key external stakeholders

Evaluating Online Faculty

With the growth of online education, institutions face the challenge of effectively measuring the quality of online teaching and the teaching competencies of their online faculty. Rather than using new practices tailored to a specific online learning environment, many institutions use basic evaluation methods that are not responsive to individual course considerations. Applying new practices specifically designed for your online environment will allow you to increase course quality, student success, and faculty engagement. Join us for an online course that will help you develop an innovative faculty evaluation plan that is built for online programs. Over the course of 4 modules, our expert instructors will: Guide you through an audit of current online faculty evaluation to identify strengths and opportunities Share a variety of evaluation models and tools to help you integrate best practices into the evaluation of your online faculty

Predictive Analytics for Improved Student Success Interventions

This two-part online training series will help you identify key predictive data, use that data to select retention programming, and assess the overall effectiveness of your interventions. Expert instructor, Russ Little, brings knowledge and experience from across the nation. You will learn: Strategies to inventory and map your current intervention strategy How to utilize predictive data in selecting student success interventions Measures and processes to evaluate your retention impact Approaches to demonstrating student support programming ROI You will leave this webcast better able to use predictive data to create tailored retention plans for your students.

Recruiting, Hiring, and Retaining Diverse Faculty

Learn how you can improve your institution’s ability to recruit, hire, and retain diverse faculty. This training is split up into three modules and covers: Diversifying your search process and search committee Following Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action guidelines Writing inclusive position announcements Organizing a welcoming campus visit Utilizing pre-employment agreements On-boarding diverse faculty Implementing sustainable retention strategies

Strategic Enrollment Management for
Community Colleges

Join us for two online sessions that will show you how to plan for and implement a Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) structure on your campus for the first time. Using case studies rooted in the practical leadership experience of our instructor, you will gain an in-depth overview of how to take the necessary steps toward implementing a SEM structure at your institution. In session one, Planning for SEM at Community Colleges, we will focus on making the case for a SEM model at community colleges and discuss how you can approach the initial planning process on your campus. You will learn a number of smart practices and strategies about how two-year institutions should approach the planning process and will explore critical questions surrounding the adoption of SEM. If you are just beginning to consider SEM at your institution or are in the early stages of planning your model, this session is for you. In session two, Implementing SEM at Community Colleges, we will focus on moving from the planning to the implementation stage of your new SEM model. You will learn how to operationalize new marketing and recruitment tactics, education and training, and technology improvements. If you have already made progress with […]

Private Business Use Compliance in
Higher Education

IRS regulations have made private business use (PBU) a concern across both public and 501(c)(3) campuses. In particular, the adoption of Schedule K reporting requirements to IRS Form 990 has emphasized the need for 501(c)(3) institutions to revisit IRS post- issuance tax compliance standards. For this reason, you need to quickly combine campus cooperation, proper documentation, and accurate calculation to ensure your institution is compliant. Join us for a two-part online training series that will cover PBU requirements for public and 501(c)(3) institutions. Session 1, will cover appropriate steps in working with campus partners to communicate and gather PBU information. Session 2, will work more exclusively with gathered data to explore PBU calculation and remediation. Included in both sessions will be various communication steps, PBU survey samples, calculation principles and red flags, and best practices in remedial action.

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