Incentivizing Faculty and Staff Retirement Webcast Recording

Many institutions incentivize retirement as a reaction to unstable fiscal situations rather than proactively managing the process to find a mutually beneficial solution for the institution and employees. In this online training, you will learn how Cedar Crest College approached this thorny faculty issue by implementing a respectful and phased approach to retirement. Similarly, you will hear how the college was able to provide its staff financial freedom to retire. You will leave this training with an understanding of the structure that made this mutually beneficial arrangement possible, including the timing of the roll-out as well as the financial and academic impact of the retirement incentives program.

Impacting Fundamental Campus Safety Issues Webcast Recording

When looking to improve campus safety, many institutions immediately turn to high-tech solutions that may not be affordable. However, your campus can meaningfully affect campus safety by more actively addressing a number of smaller, yet critical campus safety issues without necessarily spending a lot of money. Many campuses find this list of smaller updates to be overwhelming and this can result in staff not knowing where to start. Learn how your institution can create the partnerships and processes needed to identify, communicate, and resolve fundamental campus safety issues on your campus. You will leave this training better able to impact four major areas of campus safety, including: Access and points of entry Grounds safety Vandalism and broken items Policy and protocol

FERPA for Advancement: Train Your Whole Shop

Train your entire shop on important FERPA regulatory obligations to protect your institution from civil liability, negative publicity, and possible exclusion from federal aid programs. This program will cover: Which general shop information is covered under FERPA regulations How to determine if a particular piece of shop information is covered or exempt How the regulations have changed your shop’s obligations Case studies for particularly troubling, yet common, information How the FERPA requirements fit into your greater regulatory obligations Every staff member needs to be trained on FERPA. Add the recording to your training library to train new hires and give veteran fundraisers a refresher.

Selling Your Value to Adult Students

More than ever, you need to have a clear value proposition and clear messaging to differentiate yourself from your competitors who offer specific adult-focused undergraduate, graduate, and/or degree-completion programs. Join us to learn what aspects of your program you should be emphasizing to your prospective adult student markets. Throughout this training, you will see numerous institutional examples of successful communications for non-traditional students across multiple channels.

Proven Approaches to Building
Corporate Engagement

Gain tactics and review multiple models for better engaging corporate partners. You will learn new ideas for comprehensively approaching multi-dimensional corporate, foundation, and industry relationships. Our expert instructors will share best practices for: Identifying potential high-impact corporate, foundation, and industry partners Using relationship-building strategies and tactics that result in integrated relationships Developing metrics for measuring success in your corporate engagement efforts

Academic and Financial Partnerships: Creating a Comprehensive Engagement Plan for
Budget Implementation

Learn how to better focus your budgeting process to engage finance and academic leaders in the research, design, and implementation of a budget model. We will highlight phases of an academic leadership engagement plan for authentic collaboration. Following this webcast, you will be better prepared to: Structure your budget timeline to allow for collaboration Provide training and support for committee members and leadership Build guiding principles to ensure the budget meets your strategic priorities Use visual displays to build consensus and improve transparency Create a continuous improvement feedback cycle for ongoing monitoring This program is designed for financial and academic leaders who are considering a new or improved budget model within their department and/or institution.

Prioritizing Marketing Tactics for
Adult Student Recruitment

Learn which marketing channels you should prioritize to see greater engagement and return on investment in the graduate student market. Focusing specifically on St. Thomas University’s graduate programs, our expert instructor will present an in-depth case study of the various tactics and channels the University is using to market to prospective graduate students, including web, social media, SEO, paid advertising, and various non-digital channels. You will see which of these channels have been most successful and which have not, and we will discuss what that means for how you should go about prioritizing your own marketing tactics for prospective graduate students on your campus.

Recurring Gifts: Strategies to Grow Your Program

Learn key strategies needed to revamp or establish a successful and sustainable recurring gifts program. During this webinar, we will focus on: Positioning your recurring gifts program to donors Processing recurring gifts and complying with standards Collaborating within your shop to grow your program Whether you have an existing program or are just getting started, this event will give you the skills and ideas you need to run a more successful program.

Key Decisions for Decentralized
Budgeting Implementation

Join us online to discuss the pros, cons, and impact of critical decisions related to revenue and expense allocation in a decentralized budget model. Featuring lessons learned from Miami University and South Dakota State University, this training is perfect for institutions who are preparing to implement decentralized budgeting at their institution but want to do so in a deliberate and planned manner. This training will help you determine your own method for: Establishing provisions for specialized programs Determining recovery and chargeback for facilities and administrative costs Accounting for off-campus provisions and cross-listed courses Ensuring appropriate oversight, decision making, and communication

Creating Brand Awareness in the Adult
Student Market

Learn how you can increase your brand relevance and become “part of the conversation” among a growing adult student market. Through numerous institutional examples, this webcast will teach you how you can position your specific programs and services to appeal more directly to prospective adult students. Whether your institution is looking to begin bringing in adult students for the first time, or is trying to strengthen your existing brand awareness among adult students, you will leave with ideas for applying what you learn to both improve and better position your own offerings.