Creating Wellness Plans to Best Support Your Diversity and Inclusion Professionals

Learn how to utilize a wellness intervention plan to help you overcome social justice fatigue. Agenda During this webcast, our instructor will cover: Primary Causes of Social Justice Fatigue How to Use and Create Your Own Wellness Intervention Plans and Tools Benefits to Your Institution’s Productivity Overall productivity and advocacy for professionals Improved campus climate […]

Tactics to Increase the Visibility of Your Honors Program or College

More and more public universities are successfully creating, expanding, and refining Honors Programs/Colleges, yet these colleges are not getting the level of attention from potential applicants to make them as successful as they can be. Join us for this online training to explore how you can use data to build a better brand and promote […]

Increasing Board Engagement in Fundraising

Learn how to solicit and cultivate your advisory and alumni boards. Agenda Encourage personal commitments from members Educate boards about the financial mission and goals of the institution Engage members in donor relations and stewardship Inspire boards to foster connections for the university

Busting Myths Around Your Market Position: Making Data-Informed Decisions

Is your market position supported by data or by anecdotes? The reality is that a surprisingly large number of institutions still work from the latter when defining their brand in a competitive landscape. Your institution might boast qualities such as: “academic excellence,” “diversity,” or “career readiness,” but would your students agree? With a data-informed understanding […]

Facilitating Culturally Inclusive Departmental Meetings

Build self-awareness strategies to foster cultural inclusion in your departmental meetings. Agenda After a brief overview of the empirical research that demonstrates the propensity for departmental heads to bring bias to the meetings they facilitate, our instructor will dive deeper into how to: 1. Establish tools to become an effective Reflective-Practitioner. 2. Understand and practice […]

Strategies to Confidently Communicate with Students Experiencing Mental Health Challenges

Learn communication techniques to effectively interact with students experiencing mental health issues. Agenda There are several communication strategies to support the needs of students who might be experiencing mental health challenges. Our instructor Dr. Jackie Leibsohn will walk through and explain the following essential interaction techniques: Paraphrasing Empathy Feedback Questioning Directing Discrepancy

Translating Experiential Learning into College Credit with Prior Learning Assessment

CBE programs are becoming more ubiquitous in higher ed, but there is still a lot of gray area around ensuring accountability that experiential knowledge is commensurate with college-level learning. Many are still trying to answer questions like: what’s the best way to award and represent this learning and knowledge? How can we ensure an equitable […]

Higher Ed Marketing: Building the Infrastructure for Content Creation and Curation

Learn how to source and amplify quality content in order to enhance your institution’s communications calendar. Agenda Our presenters will outline how they put a process into place that made it easier to find, promote, amplify and repurpose stories at UCCS. Through the lens of building a framework that has allowed a culture of storytelling […]