Gaining Faculty Buy-In for Student Success Initiatives and Programs

Learn practical strategies to help you successfully gain faculty buy-in for student success initiatives and programs. Collaborating across campus to achieve student success requires diligent work, planning, and intentional tactics on the part of student services staff. Not every outreach to faculty is successful, but this webcast will help you put your best foot forward. You will get distinct tactics and a comprehensive resource to help you gain buy in for various student success initiatives, including: Faculty Advising Early Alert Programming First Year/Second Year Experience Tutoring/Supplemental Instruction (SI) University Welcome Events Engaging Faculty in Professional Development Adopting Quality Standards for Online Courses See an example of Bernadette’s practical approach to faculty buy-in with early alert here!

Increasing Student Engagement in Financial Literacy Programming

Financial literacy programming is more crucial than ever as average student debt climbs to over $33,000 and as federal financial aid funding is increasingly tied to retention and graduation rates. Despite this fact, professionals charged with designing and facilitating their institution’s financial literacy programs struggle to engage students and encourage participation. As a result, many financial literacy programs lack student attendance and involvement in critical conversations. Join us for an online training that will help increase student participation in your financial literacy programs by showing you how to: Involve students in program design and delivery Market your programs to different segments of your student audience Assess the effectiveness of your programs

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

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.

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

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.