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Increasing Degree Pathways for Stop-Out Students

Many stop-out programs settle for offering a limited number of degrees and little flexibility concerning the timelines for degree completion. The leadership at the University of Memphis reached higher, building a comprehensive, decentralized program that offers returning students more degree options that can be attained more quickly. Join us in an online training to learn more about the University of Memphis’ premier stop-out program, including the steps, challenges, and opportunities addressed throughout its development. You will leave with tips on: Building an entrepreneurial culture for degree completion Establishing defined roles and responsibilities Strengthening partnership to develop credit granting options Securing required resources

Aligning Student Affairs Operations with Your Institutional Strategic Plan Webcast Recording

Learn how you can better align your student affairs department’s mission, vision, and priorities with your institution’s overall strategic plan. This webcast will show you how to update the way your department works to advance the goals of your institution as a whole. We will focus on analyzing your: Current operations Positions Organizational structure Budget Workflow and tools

FERPA Hot Topics: Big Challenges Solved Webcast Recording

Although the FERPA regulations have not changed significantly in the last several years, new violations and compliance challenges have arisen. In this webcast, you will hear how several institutions handled challenging FERPA cases and learn to successfully navigate FERPA challenges of your own. During this training, Dr. Helen Garrett, also known as the FERPA Princess, will walk through the facts of each case, what action was taken, and how you can avoid potential pitfalls of your own. After participating you will be better prepared to comply with FERPA cases, including nuanced and difficult scenarios.

Branding Your Career Services Department (Webcast Recording)

Learn to use an intentional branding effort to effectively communicate the creative and effective work of your career services office. During this training you will hear how the University of Miami’s Toppel Career Center successfully branded themselves and will take away five strategies for developing and articulating your own brand. Through effective branding, you can increase your office’s visibility, relevance, and even resources.

Capitalizing on the Dream and Design Phases of Appreciative Advising Webcast Recording

While many advisors are working to implement the Appreciative Advising® model on campus, the Dream and Design phases often fall short. Though it may be difficult to easily measure outcomes within the Dream phase, it directly informs the Design phase of the model. Learn how to facilitate the Dream phase of Appreciative Advising to better solidify your students’ aspirations and use the Design phase to outline a plan that will help achieve them.

Improving Career Services with Data Webcast Recording

Learn how you can update your career services reporting strategy with existing resources. You will be provided ideas and resources to help ensure that you are collecting the right data to better analyze your office’s performance. Obtain tips for how to better identify, track, and analyze metrics in order to: Harness the power of analytics in the career center Increase student engagement Develop tailored programming Advocate for resources tied to outcomes Make data-informed decisions

Launching an Academic Success Coaching Model in Advising

Learn how you can improve your advising model to include coaching conversations that go beyond basic course selection. Highlighting Florida Atlantic University, we will show how they created another “level” of advisors who serve as academic success coaches for their at-risk students. We will discuss how to identify and prioritize specific student populations for coaching and how to maximize campus partnerships to increase the odds of success for at-risk students. You will leave this training better equipped to update your advising model to include elements of academic success coaching.

Deferred Maintenance: Reducing Your Backlog Webcast Recording

Learn about a model in which you can merge master planning processes with comprehensive condition audits in order to reduce deferred maintenance backlogs. Tim Carey, Associate Vice President for Facilities at Ithaca College, will highlight: The power of linking deferred maintenance to campus planning processes The specific tactics Ithaca College used to reduce their backlog How you can begin to experience similar success no matter what your campus context Even if your institution is not getting ready for a planning process, you will leave with tips on how to reduce your deferred maintenance backlog more thoughtfully / systematically. A Short Broadcast This is a short broadcast designed to showcase thoughtful practices in higher education. You will hear a colleague’s success story, learn main successes and challenges of a model, and have the opportunity to ask questions and receive a few pieces of advice about how to proceed on your campus.

Effective Gift Agreements: Documenting Donor Intent Webcast Recording

This training provides the insights needed to create effective gift agreements that appropriately align both your donors’ intents and your institution’s needs. Understanding the elements of a legally sound agreement and exploring key case studies will equip you with the tools to create an enriching donor experience that avoids putting your institution at risk. We will also take a closer look at critical partnerships and how best to partner and collaborate with gift officers.

Improving Your Admissions Ambassador Program for Better Campus Visits Webcast Recording

Join us for a webcast that will showcase the admissions ambassador programs for campus visit at Oklahoma State University and Hendrix College. Our instructors will provide details about how their programs are structured, and how student tour guides are trained, managed, and evaluated, including: How the recruitment, interview, and selection process for admissions ambassadors works What topics are included in ambassador training and examples of materials used How disciplinary situations with ambassadors are handled How performance is evaluated You will leave the webcast with new ideas for improving your own admissions ambassador program on your campus.

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