Course Category: Virtual Training Recording

Growing and Shaping Your Academic Program Portfolio in a Post-COVID Era

As we begin to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, we find ourselves operating in a higher education environment that is fundamentally changed. Challenges such as declining revenue and enrollments were accelerated by the pandemic, and many institutions have suffered real short-term financial and operational setbacks in the shift to remote learning. In an aim to stay competitive and continue to move their institutions forward against this complex backdrop, academic leaders are now focusing on questions like the following: What are the most important considerations when thinking about academic program growth? How are others innovating and thinking differently about their academic program mix? How has the pandemic changed processes and decision-making around academic programs at other institutions? What are other institutions currently doing that is resonating within the marketplace and what are they planning? Join us online for a 90-minute panel discussion to explore these and other related questions. Through structured dialogue with our panelists and your peers, you’ll leave with new ideas and a better understanding of how other leaders are growing and shaping their academic program portfolios in a post-COVID era.

Balancing Short-Term Realities with Long-Term Opportunities: Higher Ed Leadership in a Post-COVID Era

As colleges and universities across the country prepare to reopen fully in the fall, higher ed leaders find themselves faced with a difficult task. On one hand, they must have a short-term focus on guiding faculty, staff, and students through reopening to ensure everyone feels safe and supported throughout the process. On the other, they must not lose sight of the opportunities for innovation and out-of-the-box thinking that this moment also presents. How can institutional leaders operate effectively in both of these realities at the same time? What strategies are other leaders using to maintain short-term focus without losing sight of bigger picture opportunities? As colleges and universities across the country prepare to reopen fully in the fall, higher ed leaders find themselves faced with a difficult task. On one hand, they must have a short-term focus on guiding faculty, staff, and students through reopening to ensure everyone feels safe and supported throughout the process. On the other, they must not lose sight of the opportunities for innovation and out-of-the-box thinking that this moment also presents. How can institutional leaders operate effectively in both of these realities at the same time? What strategies are other leaders using to maintain short-term […]

Space Matters: Designing STEM Learning Environments that Foster Inclusion and Student Success

Contemporary pedagogies, curricula, and cultures that promote inclusion and student success in STEM require consideration of the physical environments that support them. In this session, you and your peers will examine the elements of 21st century STEM learning environments and the strategies employed to bring key stakeholders and resources together to successfully execute a STEM facilities project. Both new construction and renovation projects will be considered. Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, where physical distancing protocols added new constraints to the utilization of STEM learning spaces, will be shared.

Reopening Campus: Building Student Community Amid COVID Restrictions

As more institutions announce their reopening plans for fall 2021, Student Affairs leaders are faced with a challenge: How might building community among undergraduate students look different when campuses reopen amid shifting COVID-19 safety restrictions? Join us online for a 2-hour, highly interactive discussion and brainstorming session around this topic, focusing in on three key areas of Student Life: Orientation, Housing, and Student Activities. Our facilitators will share how their campuses are approaching their planning while navigating state, local, and institutional COVID-19 guidelines. You will actively participate in large and small group discussions framed around questions such as: How might these critical areas of student life look different as restrictions loosen? What creative new approaches can we take to build community in this new, post-COVID-19 context? How can we address isolation while also encouraging COVID-safe behaviors among students? What steps can we take now to enable quick pivots if a campus outbreak occurs? What positive practices have come out of the pandemic that we will want to continue moving forward? We recognize that institutions are grappling with different elements of student community building depending upon their institutional type, size, state regulations, and a variety of other factors. Our aim for […]

Distributed Leadership: Building Trust and Community

Distributed leadership allows for the suggestions and concerns of all stakeholders to be heard and counted in a way that is not purely representative, but fully inclusive. Instead of decisions coming from the top with minimal transparency, they will be based on what the stakeholders have to bring to the table throughout the process before decisions are made. Many organizations have a vertical approval process, whereby the senior positions maintain the most vital information and decision-making power, which limits trust and engagement due to lack of transparency in the process. In today’s complex and ever-changing world, there’s often a need to share the decision-making responsibilities across the organization so that you can build trust and community while also inspiring the best thinking from the people who will be most impacted by the decisions. Distributed leadership is one such way to build this capacity in your leadership on change. Join us online to learn the skillsets and work through sample scenarios that you will need to start implementing distributed leadership in small and meaningful ways. You will walk away with tips and strategies for how to: Know when and how to effectively practice distributed leadership based on your leadership experience, role, […]

Title IX Evidence Collection: Strategies to Ensure a Complete Investigation

Identifying and collecting relevant evidence is a critical step within the Title IX grievance process. It enables Title IX Investigators to develop a case timeline and provide the decision-maker with an understanding, to the best of their ability, about what may have occurred during the alleged incident(s). But how do we go about doing this step effectively to ensure vital information isn’t overlooked? Join us for an in-depth virtual training that will give you tools to complete the evidence gathering phase an investigation and give you the opportunity to practice using them with your peers. We will embark on an investigation through the lens of mock scenarios designed to teach you: Strategies to collect both testimonial and non-testimonial evidence. How to identify what evidence might be missing. Steps you can take to help fill in the gaps.

Assessing Credibility in Title IX Cases

It’s not uncommon for someone to have imperfect or inconsistent recall and just because something doesn’t make sense to you doesn’t necessarily mean it is untrue. How can Title IX decision makers effectively and fairly assess credibility throughout the course of a case? Join us for a deep-dive virtual training that will help make the practice of assessing credibility—often a nebulous concept—more concrete and tangible. You will learn which factors you need to consider, how to assess the credibility of statements, documents, and other information gathered in a case, and how to communicate this in your decision rationale, all in a fair and impartial manner.

Reopening Campus: Re-Entry Testing and Vaccinations

Instructors Traci Callandrillo, Ph.D.Assistant Vice PresidentCampus LifeAmerican University Ruperto M. Perez, Ph.D.Associate Vice PresidentStudent Health and WellbeingThe University of Alabama Course Highlights 1 hr, 24 mins of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 5/27/2021 Many campuses expect to reopen fully in-person in the Fall for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began. In anticipation, institutions are in the early stages of planning for what this might entail from a health and wellness perspective for faculty, staff, and students. To buoy this planning, many are seeking a space where they can come together with other leaders from institutions across the country, share ideas, and learn from others’ best current thinking.  Join us for an in-depth, two-hour brainstorming and discussion session with your peers to share strategies and provide space to benchmark and ask questions about re-entry testing and vaccinations. You will participate actively in large and small group discussions framed around questions such as these:   What progress and plans have others made in planning for re-entry testing and vaccinations?  What have been the lessons learned from previous stages of reopening?  What are the community considerations you want to take into account? What existing policies do we need to re-examine/revise in anticipation of reopening?   What will the impact be on staffing?  We understand that this type of planning is murky and generates […]

Create a More Equitable Academic Search Process Using an Inclusion Advocates Program

Academic search committees have a clear purpose to interview and hire the most qualified candidate for their vacant position. However, they also have the responsibility to ensure the search process is fair, inclusive, and equitable for all. Unfortunately, many search committees have not identified nor properly trained someone to serve as an inclusion advocate in order to help mitigate personal bias and maintain a credible process. Instead, BIPOC faculty are often asked to informally serve in these roles, which places undue responsibility on them to lead all inclusion efforts during the search process. Join us online to learn about a program that helps ensure more accountability in your academic search process. This virtual event is designed to offer you tips and strategies to launch your own Inclusion Advocates program based on the successes instituted at Towson University. During the event, you will explore the following questions: Academic search committees have a clear purpose to interview and hire the most qualified candidate for their vacant position. However, they also have the responsibility to ensure the search process is fair, inclusive, and equitable for all. Unfortunately, many search committees have not identified nor properly trained someone to serve as an inclusion advocate […]

Negotiate With Confidence: A Training for Women in Higher Ed

Research shows that women are less likely to negotiate than men, tend to be less persistent when negotiating, and can receive negative feedback when they initiate negotiations. Whether negotiating for a raise, a more flexible working schedule, or other work needs, understanding how negotiation works allows you to confidently initiate and work through these conversations. In this two-hour training session, you will learn an easy-to-use set of principles, have time to practice with peers, and use a toolkit to prepare for your next conversation. The goal will always be to help you find a win-win solution that allows you to do your best work in a way that benefits your team or organization.