Defining Your Role as Chief of Staff

Better define the chief of staff role at your institution to ensure a smooth and more successful partnership with your president. Agenda Understanding the different variations of the roles of chiefs of staff Where are you on the continuum? Ensuring success in your first month

Managing Difficult Faculty

Agenda Using case studies, you will practice four steps for dealing with difficult faculty who exhibit unprofessional, unproductive, or even destructive behavior. Throughout this program, we will examine: Essential elements of success Step 1: Engage Step 2: Manage Step 3: Enforce Step 4: Marginalize

Innovations in Campus Visits: Furman University

Get innovative ideas to apply to your own campus visit. Overview A New Approach to Accepted Student Days—Furman University This webcast will highlight “Furman Forward,†a one-of-a-kind accepted student day event that engages students and families in a day-long simulation of pivotal moments in a Furman University student’s experience.

Engaging Your Campus Community in the Budgeting Process

Learn how you can achieve a better budgetary outcome by keeping your key stakeholders engaged and accountable throughout the year. We will highlight how Oklahoma Christian University has taken an intentional approach to reporting, communication, and technology to better engage their campus community. This webinar will provide you with a better understanding of how you […]

Innovations in Campus Visits: Two Institutional Case Studies

Join us for two case study-based webcasts that will give you new ideas and help you start thinking outside the box when it comes to your campus visit experience. Each program will showcase the ways in which one institution is innovating when it comes to one aspect of their campus visit experience: Session #1 will […]

Stewardship and Engagement Plans for Major and Principal Donors

Create a strategic stewardship plan for your highest-level donors. Agenda Strategic Stewardship in Practice The look and feel of customized donor relations Perfecting the “surprise and delight†factor Eight Areas of Engagement Understanding the different areas of focus for your plan Examples in each area Walkthrough: Sample Strategic Stewardship Plan Using a template to begin […]

Creating a Sense of Community with Graduate Students

Learn how to build a greater sense of community and engagement with your institution among graduate students. Agenda Admissions and orientation Coordinating communication during admissions Graduate-specific orientation Success and well-being of graduate students Creating social opportunities for graduate and adult students Using marketing and branding to connect grads to existing services Graduation Appreciation Week Keeping […]

Strategies for Gaining Buy-In Around Redesigning Faculty Office Space

Learn how to gain buy-in from faculty around rethinking and redesigning office space. Agenda Using a case study from the University of Bothell, our speakers will illustrate how they gained faculty buy-in around rethinking faculty workspace through the following project stages: Planning Implementation Post occupancy

Using Data to Inform Advising

Learn how to better use data in your advising practice.   Login Instructions Live Webcast: Login on January 25, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. ET. Use the link below to enter the webcast up to 15 minutes before the start. WEBCAST LINK: http://ai.adobeconnect.com/rpqb6isfwsvp/ Click the radio button that reads, “Enter as a Guest” In the box […]

Leading with Social First: A Innovative Approach to Content Creation

Agenda The presentation will consist of three main sections: The Impact of WVU’s Social-First Approach to Content Planning and Creation Anatomy of a Social-First Approach: Three Essential Steps Taking stock of who and where your audiences are “Flipping the script†from repurposing for social, to repurposing from social Making social media a focal point for […]