Course Category: Virtual Training Recording

The Ins and Outs of Publishing Your Scholarly Work: A Training for Faculty Researchers

The reasons to publish your scholarly work range from practical to noble. Whether it be to advance your career, position yourself to receive extramural funding, advance your field, or achieve status and recognition, publishing makes you an important player in your discipline and is a prerequisite to achieving tenure. This training will provide an overview on publishing including why you should publish, where to publish, how to develop a strategy that is in line with your overall career aspirations, and how to accept that initial manuscript rejection is part of the process and use it to your advantage.  

Improving Campus Collaboration for Effective Parent and Family Giving

From the moment a student signs their letter of intent to the day they graduate, parents of undergraduate students typically have a 4-year window to give to your institution. Your development strategy for parent and family giving needs to be strong and should be a collaboration between student affairs, enrollment management and alumni relations. When communication to parents across these divisions is aligned, it can foster an environment of engagement that leads to more giving. Join us online to learn how the parent and family giving model at the University of California San Diego fosters a collaborative environment that leads to effective and impactful parent and family giving. Our expert instructor will also discuss: The variety of programming that parents and families can contribute to, from student organizations to on-campus activities. How to use data to identify parents and families most likely to become development prospects and volunteers. Stewardship strategies that keep parents informed and engaged throughout their giving lifecycle.  

Recruiting, Training, and Engaging Alumni Volunteers in a Digital Environment

Instructors Clarybel Peguero, Ed.D.Assistant Vice President, Multicultural Advancement,Alumni Engagement & Development OfficeDuke University Parks SmithSenior Director, Marketing Strategy,Development and Alumni RelationsVirginia Commonwealth University Course Highlights 1 hr, 8 mins of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 2/1/2022 Alumni volunteers are immensely valuable to institutions in both their service and giving power— they tend to give 10 times more than non-volunteers. However, due to this current reality, the script has flipped over on how we recruit and engage alumni volunteers and being able to do so successfully through digital channels. In-person volunteer opportunities continue to foster alumni engagement, but with more digital opportunities we must continue to learn best practices from one another to remain successful Our expert panelists will guide you, as you share what you are learning when digitally engaging your alumni volunteers. Together we will identify emerging best practices regarding volunteer recruitment, training, and engagement that leads to the retention of your most dedicated alumni. You will leave this training with the best current practices to engage your volunteers during this pandemic and beyond. We Want to Hear From You! Please take a few minutes to fill out a short survey letting us know about your experience […]

Create a More Inclusive Experience for your LGBTQIA+ Alumni

Overview One of the fastest growing demographics on college campuses and in alumni populations is the LGBTQIA+ community who are expressing a greater variety of gender and sexuality than ever before. This breakthrough in social acceptance of how your alumni identify themselves requires institutions to rethink an engagement approach that has been honed over decades for a population that has largely identified as cisgender and heterosexual. Understanding the nuances of gender and sexuality of your alumni is key to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment. Join us online to learn, discuss, and share how institutions are positioning themselves to engage their LGBTQIA+ alumni community. During this training, you will learn about: Data on who the LGBTQIA+ community is on college campuses What gender means now and how that impacts strategic engagement How to create an inclusive and welcoming environment in alumni programming Promising practices for LGBTQIA+ engagement and advocacy by staff and volunteer-led alumni organizations

Ethical Considerations for Screening Donors to Protect Institutional Reputation

How much risk is your institution willing to take upon receiving a gift? This question is one that every advancement shop should answer or, at minimum, have discussed with their team members to devise a plan that mitigates liability. With an institution’s reputation being an intangible asset based upon the public’s trust and support, damage to this carefully managed image can result in legal complications and ultimately, the loss of fundraising revenue. As a result, part of your role as a major gift officer is to protect your institution’s reputation through strategic screening of potential donors and their gifts. Join us online to learn how Yale University recommends how you can position yourself in donor conversations to uncover potential risks to your institution. In this training, you will learn ethical considerations behind big gifts by learning about Yale’s reputational risk methodology and how to thoroughly screen donors for risk throughout the fundraising lifecycle. Participants will explore case studies that help you practice identifying risk in donor conversations and apply the tools provided in the training to these kinds of conversations.

Cultural Intelligence: A Training for Higher Ed Leaders

To operate effectively in today’s higher ed environment, leaders must continuously broaden their own lens of cultural understanding. Leaders are constantly interacting with people who are members of a wide variety of cultures. Their ability to connect authentically across differences—and to make each individual feel like they belong and are respected for the unique perspective they bring–is essential to leadership success. But knowing how to do this is not intuitive nor straightforward. It requires you to engage in ongoing reflection and skill-building around: How culture shows up in your workplace and day-to-day interactions Why it’s so important to pay attention to and continue to learn about culture How to incorporate forward-thinking actions into your leadership practice Join us for a training that will create space for you as a leader to reflect on how and why culture is relevant to your work. You will learn specific actions you can take—both “small picture” in real-time and at a larger strategic level—to build cultural intelligence and center the importance of culture in your organizational and interpersonal leadership. Through this training, you will learn how to demonstrate your commitment to belonging and inclusion through the ongoing practice of cultural intelligence.

Working with Institutional Data for Student Retention

Data can be is a powerful tool for understanding attrition and creating student success programs. Student affairs and enrollment professionals often yearn for access to data, but when they do have access, they may struggle with distilling the information they need, using data effectively, and working with others to ask the right questions. This virtual workshop is strongly recommended to Developing a Comprehensive Retention Plan attendees outside of Institutional Research who would like to learn how to: Recognize data points that can be used to measure factors associated with retention. Examine patterns in retention data. Create research questions that better communicate your data needs and program outcomes with institutional partners, leadership, and other stakeholders.

Crafting Your Mid-Career and Beyond as Faculty

The mid-career years – often characterized by being at the associate professor level – can be both the most rewarding and the most challenging time in a faculty member’s career. Once you reach the mid-career phase, not only does institutional support and guidance around career advancement tend to decrease, but your pathway forward can seem unclear. For faculty of color and women faculty, the research also shows that higher expectations around service and mentoring during the mid-career years can slow career advancement. These factors make the mid-career an important crossroads where you could aim to become a full professor, aspire for a leadership role, or carve out a different path. Getting there requires intentional self-reflection and proactive steps. Otherwise, you may find yourself being pulled in too many directions or following someone else’s priorities for your career. Join this training to learn more about: The opportunities and challenges faced by mid-career faculty and why so many associate professors feel lost or languishing in their careers. The process of career crafting and the different types of crafting techniques (e.g., task crafting, relational crafting, cognitive crafting). Why design thinking is a useful framework for crafting your mid-career. How to make purposeful career […]

Conflict Management: A Practical Workshop for Leaders

In this workshop, you will learn strategies to help you manage and resolve various conflicts within your department and institution. You will be introduced to practical tools that address conflict in its earliest stages before it becomes a formal dispute. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to resolving conflicts. That’s why our expert instructor will present numerous scenarios and discuss the use of framing, facilitation, and other dispute-resolution tools to help you: Improve and sustain a healthy working environment Build rapport among colleagues Increase faculty and staff morale

Planning Your Hybrid Homecoming

Homecoming is every institution’s largest event bringing together current students, alumni, and donors. Last year, many institutions canceled or postponed homecoming due to COVID-19. This year, many institutions are not only planning on having them, but for the first time, they will be hybrid. Join us online to learn, discuss, and share best practices for planning and executing a hybrid homecoming so that your events this year are the most inclusive yet.  During this training, you’ll get tips for how to: Identify the technical and personnel requirements needed for a successful hybrid homecoming Identify resources and best practices you already have in place Prepare your staff and volunteers Pivot your plans in the moment to be responsive to any change in plans