See how one institution is intentionally developing their grad students to have the soft skills necessary for success in the workforce. Agenda In this case study-based webcast, Chris Connor and Joshua LaFave will outline how the SEAS 360° Certificate of Professional Development was developed at SUNY Buffalo and the impact it has had on graduate students who participate in it. Throughout this webcast, Chris and Joshua will share: Both high-level and tactical ideas to create a soft-skill development program on your campus How to gain buy-in and support from faculty, staff, students, and administrators across campus Challenges to expect along the way and tips to overcome them
As instructors, we owe it to students to make classrooms as engaging as possible. There is a new, and welcome, attention being given to doing more to maintain student interest, to engage students in new and different ways, and to ultimately retain and graduate more students, especially those who are at-risk and may already feel disengaged from the college experience. Join us for this online training and hear from Joni Dunlap, Faculty Fellow for Teaching, who has seen growing success from encouraging faculty to incorporate elements that diverge from traditional lecturing into their classrooms. During this webcast, you will engage in a variety of activities and discussions to give you ideas for providing multiple avenues for learning with students.
Is your to-do list controlling you, or are you in control of your to-do list? Agenda Before the session, we will ask you to pull a representative two-week period from your calendar and complete a short exercise. Armed with these pieces, we will work through these two exercises together during the webcast: Exercise 1: Assess Your Productivity Exercise 2: Build a Purposeful Schedule You will leave the workshop with an accountability partner who will help you stick to the schedule and strategies realized during the session.
Learn how to develop policies and procedures for working with pregnant and parenting students. Agenda After briefly discussing legal guidance for policies surrounding pregnant and parenting students, we will outline the key pieces you need to account for in your campus policies and procedures, including: Reasonable accommodations Childbirth vs. childcare Institutional policies and procedures While we can’t suggest the accommodations your campus should provide, we will offer advice on how to ensure consistency across campus – no matter what policies and procedures you adopt.
Learn how to build a framework for growing your online programs. Agenda This webcast will walk you through the five distinct approaches needed to successfully grow your online programs, including: Strategic Plan and Operations Faculty Professional Development Accreditation and State Authorization (C-RAC guidelines) Scalable and Reliable Technology Marketing and Program Strategies You will leave with a workbook to use with your own programs.
Predictive modeling is one of the most impactful and widespread methods that institutions are using to become more data-driven in their decision-making. Join us for an example-based webcast that will walk you through three different predictive models that one institution uses to predict yield at various stages of the enrollment funnel. Our expert instructor will walk you through an Inquiry to Enroll model, an Applicant to Enroll model, and an Admit to Enroll model. For each, we will discuss the following aspects: Rationale and strategy behind the model Analysis used Implementation Outcomes and results
Learn how your institution can implement an enhanced, evidence-supported faculty mentorship program with network-based mentoring. This training will provide you with a high-level view of network-based mentorship as well as concrete examples, resources, and guides to help you operationalize on your campus. After this training, you will be able to take what you learn and use the resources provided to significantly improve your faculty mentorship program. This program is specifically designed for academic leaders who oversee Centers for Teaching Excellence, deans, department chairs, faculty developers, and other academic leadership.
Learn to use the CFI analysis to support your strategic planning efforts. Agenda Planning | Pricing and Sourcing Your Strategic Plan Forecasting | Making Projections Communicating | Presentation Tools and Techniques
Be more strategic about how you are setting tuition for your graduate programs. Agenda You will review two real graduate programs’ financial proformas and discover why one was accepted and one was rejected. You will also discover how strategic tuition setting played an important part in determining the program’s viability. Topics will include: Primary factors influencing tuition setting: Market pricing tolerance and value proposition Misuse in rebalancing the university and college budget Corporate partner discounting strategies Filling open seats: pros and cons Creating a financially sustainable model with projections
Learn how to develop an assistance animal compliance policy that is appropriate for your institution. With the help of our instructors’ institutional and legal expertise, you will learn the fundamentals of addressing individual requests for assistance animals through structured policies and procedures. This webcast will help you avoid legal liability and subsequent lawsuits under the Fair Housing Act.
