Do you have limited resources for your planned giving program? Students are a low-cost and effective option for reaching out and connecting with your most loyal donors. Join us online as our expert instructor introduces a student calling program that consistently uncovers current leadership giving members and exceptional prospects. Along with gaining a thorough understanding of how to begin such an initiative at your institution, you will learn tactics for: Selecting, motivating, training, and retaining the right student callers Communicating your effort internally and externally Managing handoffs between student callers and professional staff Getting started in a variety of shop settings
To accommodate increasing demands for flexibility from students, many institutions offer online orientations. However, not all online orientations are effective retention tools, and they may be inferior to in-person orientations. Is your online orientation interactive, assessment based, and conducive to learning? You can increase the effectiveness of your online orientation programs by implementing research-supported online instructional strategies. This webcast will help you develop or improve your online orientation with a learner-centered approach to programming for new students. Showcasing sample online orientation activities, our expert instructor will provide tips based on research and practice, so you can develop a more effective and engaging online orientation at your institution.
Learn how students can serve as effective philanthropic ambassadors for your shop. Agenda How are you currently using students in your shop? Institutional context: K-State’s program creation Role of student foundation Primary functions Recruiting and retaining members Breaking down student roles and responsibilities Needs assessment Nominations and application process Interview and selection process Membership retention Professional development for students Creating and shaping your messaging for your program First five steps for starting your own student foundation
Creating a compelling capital campaign brand takes detailed planning and skilled timing. Agenda Branding 101: Understanding what a brand is Linking your institutional and campaign brand Which comes first? Do people give to an institution or to a campaign? How can a campaign brand resonate with and challenge the institutional brand? Examples of complementary institutional and campaign brands 9 creative principles of campaign communications, including: Keep it simple Tell stories Get a personality Getting started: Planning and deploying a brand for your campaign Resourcing a campaign brand Answering three fundamental questions
Mid-career faculty members (tenured-system faculty members) form a large and important component of the academic workforce who experience unique challenges. Academic life has a short career ladder, and many tenured faculty members reach a plateau where opportunities for advancement decline. Further, there has been relatively little research on tenured faculty and on best practices to support tenured faculty members through this extended career stage. Join our expert instructors online to identify the needs, interests, and challenges of tenured faculty members as well as productive practices and recommendations to address them. Featuring the award-winning work done at Michigan State University, this webcast can serve as a starting point for an important conversation within your faculty leadership team.
The main element missing from most peer leader programs is training rooted in outcomes-based learning strategies. Without this, your peer leaders may clearly understand what’s expected of them, but be ill equipped to meet those expectations. Join us online to learn how you can reconfigure your peer leader training by utilizing outcome-based, active learning strategies that model how peer leaders can develop productive relationships with their mentees. Our expert instructor will share ideas for applying this approach to peer leader trainings before and during the term.
Learn how you can develop online information literacy programming on a shoestring budget. Agenda Exploring the Research Why bother? Enhancing Tutorials When How Best Practices and Institutional Examples Creating manageable learning outcomes Collaborating with faculty Testing usability Utilizing solid instructional design methods Sharing Resources
Strategic planning processes should be about creating a shared vision that all members of a student affairs division get behind. However, most experiences with long-term planning fall flat, in part because planning is often not connected to resource allocation or assessment. Join us online as we identify the most common strategic planning and budgeting pitfalls and offer solutions that can help your student affairs division put your plan into action. While we will not be able to address all of the steps in creating a strategic plan, we will offer specific ideas that will help you use the plan you may already have. Drawing on her experiences at a variety of institutions, our expert instructor will share examples of effective student affairs division strategic plans, budget templates, and assessment rubrics. Additionally, we will provide links to a variety of other resources (texts, webinars, membership organizations, and listservs), so you can continue to build your capacity around this topic after the webcast.
The initial development and ongoing management of a living-learning program for STEM students requires equal support and involvement from both the academic and residential sides of campus, which can be a challenge for many institutions. Join us online to learn how a carefully cultivated academic mission has enabled one institution’s STEM living-learning program to be successful for nearly 20 years. Highlighting their program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, our expert instructors will answer the following questions: How can residence life and academics partner to build a program? What are the key budgetary considerations? What are the main space needs for such a program? How can you market and recruit the right student residents? How can you assess the success of such an effort?
Determining if your fundraising professionals are meeting their dollar goals is relatively easy. However, your prospect research and management positions are fundamentally different, requiring an evaluative approach that balances front-line needs with production timeframe realities. Join us online to learn how to develop prospect research and management staff metrics for your shop. Our expert instructor, Marianne M. Pelletier, Senior Consultant, Cornell University, will share three evaluation models for both prospect researchers and managers, and you will leave knowing which model will work best for your shop. We will also discuss: Setting realistic expectations around performance metrics Specific metrics for both prospect researchers and managers Effectively tracking your solution and graphing results Building buy-in for your solution
