Volunteer Management in Advancement

Are you actively managing and engaging your advancement volunteers?   Overview Volunteers are a critical extension of your development efforts—they boost resources, engage a greater number of stakeholders, and provide support for events. However, correctly selecting, thoroughly training, and properly engaging volunteers remains a constant challenge in advancement shops. How do you create a mutually […]

Private Business Use Compliance in
Higher Education

IRS regulations have made private business use (PBU) a concern across both public and 501(c)(3) campuses. In particular, the adoption of Schedule K reporting requirements to IRS Form 990 has emphasized the need for 501(c)(3) institutions to revisit IRS post- issuance tax compliance standards. For this reason, you need to quickly combine campus cooperation, proper documentation, and […]

Institutional Collaboration: Shared Enrollment

Is your institution considering inter-institutional enrollment for specialized programs?   Overview Low enrollment programs that are core to institutional mission and values continue to face decreases in funding. Rather than cutting these programs, forward thinking leaders are collaborating with peer institutions in shared academic curricula. These partnerships allow institutions to maintain specialized courses and expand […]

Integrating Career and Advising Services

Get more students engaged in the career services you have to offer.   Overview This comprehensive two-part training will help you to plan for and implement an integration of career and advising services on your campus. Session one focuses on administrative strategy for integration. Session two focuses on the practical operational strategies needed to integrate […]

Connecting Market Research to Strategy in Higher Ed

Better translate market research into strategy in higher ed marketing.   Overview Learn how you can more effectively turn market research into meaningful marketing strategy at your institution. This webcast series is designed specifically for central marketing and communications units in higher education to help them make more data-driven decisions when connecting market research with […]

Online Course Accessibility Training for Faculty

Are you designing online course content that is accessible to all students?   The online environment has the potential to offer an extremely accessible platform for all students to learn. However, students with disabilities often have difficulty using these online learning tools because websites and course content are not created with them in mind. When […]

Donor Relations for Planned Giving: Improving Events and Impact Reporting

Learn new strategies and techniques to better engage and steward all segments of your planned giving donors. These two forty-five minute sessions will cover both events and impact reporting. Part 1: Stewardship Events and Donor Engagement Events are critical to your planned giving donor relations strategy. During this session, you will walk through new ideas […]

Finance and Enrollment Partnerships: Achieving Your Net Tuition Revenue Goals

Maximize net tuition revenue by working with your finance and enrollment management counterparts.   Overview Throughout higher education, institutions are feeling the effects of stagnant or declining enrollments. As more and more institutions spend money to try to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive market, few look internally to ask the more sustainable questions: How […]

Engaging and Retaining Online Students

Learn how to integrate online student services into instruction and assessment and use retention metrics to support long-term program sustainability.   Overview More than 22 million students are projected to take some or all of their classes online in the next five years. While online enrollments are growing annually, student attrition in online education is […]

Copyright and Fair Use Essentials for Faculty

Train your entire faculty on copyright essentials.   Overview How copyright and fair use laws apply to teaching, research, and publications is not always clear, and the increasing ease of copying and distributing digital materials raises the stakes even more. Educators often do not have access to the resources and support they need to deal […]