Whether your faculty are standout rock stars, or they are struggling to perform as expected, the annual evaluation is a valuable opportunity to foster engagement with them. It’s a chance to reflect on how the year has gone, express gratitude for their contributions to the campus community, and provide specific and actionable feedback to help them progress towards the next career milestones. But how do you structure your time together so that it’s positive, productive, and supportive for all faculty? Join us online to learn how you can plan for and guide the faculty evaluation session, so that it’s impactful for all involved. You’ll also learn about a 5-step process that focuses on formative assessment and allows you to co-create a vision for success alongside your faculty. Come prepared to engage in dialogue, ask questions, and share your insights with other department chairs from across the country.
Does the end of the academic year feel like a survival race, leaving you burned out and considering different career options? Does the approaching summer fill you with dread as you consider all the catching up you must do now that the semester is over? What if instead of approaching the summer with the mindset of “catching up” or reacting to demands from others, you intentionally planned for a summer that sets clear boundaries, anticipates challenges, and helps you to achieve the goals you want to achieve? Join us for this free webcast, where our faculty coaches will share strategies for getting out of the end-of-semester survival game, so that you can get back on track and ready for the next academic term. During this one-hour webcast, our coaches will help you:
In this free webinar we will demystify what coaches do, how coaching sessions work, and who would benefit most from consulting with an executive coach. Further, we will address a number of common myths surrounding coaching. With the help of Steve Titus, you will have the opportunity to reflect on how a coach could plug into your own work life. Whether you are new to your role, have expanded responsibilities, want to lead differently, or are leading a change effort, coaching is a powerful tool to help you succeed.
Today higher education faces four unforgiving paradoxes: These paradoxes don’t have easy answers, but they must be addressed. Join us in July for a deep discussion of findings from our recent paper The Future of Higher Education. You will hear perspectives contributed by university presidents and board chairs on the four paradoxes we all face–and on four strategies that can make a difference.
Pre-COVID, most colleges and universities had clear processes and long-standing practices in place for employee search and hiring. But the course of the pandemic and the hybrid workforce in which we are now operating is causing higher ed talent management leaders across North America to rethink these processes in big and small ways. Join us for a conversation about how others are reshaping their search and hiring practices around the new realities of the workforce. Through facilitated discussion and idea-sharing around the following questions, you’ll learn how other institutions are shifting their approaches to search and hiring both internally and externally:
Most institutions have already communicated with faculty and staff about their expectations for returning to campus. Certain employees must return to the physical campus for some–if not all–days of the week, but other employees can still carry out their jobs with more flexible work schedules. In fact, this flexibility is essential if institutions want to retain their employees in the face of what many are calling the “mass exodus” or “great migration” of employee turnover. So as the start of the semester approaches, all of higher education is walking the line between enforcing institutional return-to-campus policy while still providing a flexible work environment for those who need it. And there is still a lot of grey area as to what ‘a flexible work environment’ means and what exactly it should consist of. Join our panelist and other higher ed leaders across the country for practical discussion and idea-sharing about what the flexible work environment is shaping up to look like campus by campus. You’ll hear about specific policy and practice others are implementing and how central Human Resource divisions are working with supervisors to provide ongoing training and support along these lines.
As faculty in higher education, you have likely received some campus training on microaggressions. However, the way these incidents show up between and among faculty, administrators, and students is often very different from how they display in other areas of campus. If you are a woman or underrepresented faculty, have you reflected on how microaggressions might be disrupting your work? How do you navigate the conversation when you’re the target of microaggressions? Join us online for this free webcast recording to learn how microaggressions can trigger faculty, especially women and other underrepresented populations. Our expert speaker will offer three practical strategies for managing your response to microaggressions:
In today’s competitive and resource-constrained environment, it is critical for higher ed leaders to understand the impact of their offerings—at both the program and the course levels—from an economic standpoint. In the absence of regular data collection and analysis on revenue, costs, and margins, leaders cannot manage their academic program mix effectively and make strategic decisions around it. Join us for a webcast that will teach you how to use data on instructional economics to evaluate and rebalance your academic program portfolios. During this webcast, you will:
Graduate education leaders are managing a difficult balancing act in light of current circumstances. On one hand, there’s a real need to be proactive with yield strategy and communication with admitted students, both domestic and international. On the other, there is still a lot of uncertainty related to the trajectory of the pandemic and institutional decisions around fall semester. What are the right messages to be sending? What creative strategies are other graduate leaders exploring when it comes to yield and tuition discounting? Watch this webcast recording as we facilitate a discussion with David Cotter, Assistant Provost for Graduate Enrollment & Master’s and Professional Support at Boston University. You’ll hear our expert and your fellow attendees share considerations and best current thinking around the following:
Many professionals in higher ed struggle to find career, personal, and professional development trainings that are not only effective, but also speak directly to their unique needs. In a landscape that is so distinct from others and that is historically change-averse and siloed, it’s all the more important to have access to resources that are designed exclusively for those within the unique operating context of higher ed. Watch this free recorded webcast to get a closer look at a membership that is exclusive to higher ed and addresses the unique leadership and topic-based challenges that your people face every day. Learn what is included, how it works, and how other institution’s leaders are using it. This Q&A style session will allow you to get an inside look at all the benefits that membership includes and to get personalized, on-the-spot answers to your most pressing questions.
