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 higher than traditional on-campus programs. This two-part webcast discusses critical retention metrics, how to measure the cost of attrition, and what programming can engage online students.
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 with these challenges. Join us online to learn key concepts that every faculty member needs to know in applying copyright law in the classroom (both face-to face and online), research, and scholarly publications. To help you understand these concepts, our expert instructor will provide a practical overview of core copyright principles and then offer you the chance to apply your knowledge to common scenarios on campus.
Campus tragedies involving students with psychological disabilities highlight the need for campuses to be prepared to anticipate and respond to student risk and threats. Identifying and responding to students who may pose a threat of harm to themselves or others forces administrators to walk a fine line between over- and under-response. In order to respond effectively, campus administrators must draw on the best practices from the student development, mental health, campus safety, and risk management fields while complying with legal and regulatory requirements. This webcast series tackles the toughest questions surrounding how you can support the best interest of students while mitigating risk for your institution through legally sound policies. Over the course of three sessions, our expert instructors will help you think through the ways you can develop a comprehensive and integrated risk management approach to policy development that provides a thorough framework to more accurately identify and respond to students of concern. While each session has a specific focus, the series will address: How applicable laws, regulations, and best practices can be reflected in your campus protocols. Policy intersections between behavioral intervention teams and other student conduct campus policies and practices. The intersection between mental health issues and […]
any institutions continue to prioritize capital projects—student life, academic, or administrative—without assessing their full impact. Learn how you can improve the prioritization of capital projects at your institution by better addressing the ROI associated with each project. You will gain the tactics you need to better: Measure and report full long-term impact of project cost projections Tie ROI considerations to your institutional strategic plan Establish a more informed, dynamic capital project prioritization process Throughout this event, you will see examples of project prioritization matrices and leave with a foundation-level model for ensuring that you are embarking on the right capital project for your institution.
Most strategic plans are aspirational and well-intentioned, but typically end up on a shelf collecting dust. Actual execution of the strategic plan is what separates a great institution from a good one. During this webinar, you will learn the six key dimensions of strategic plan implementation and offer practical suggestions for improving each: Alignment Decision making Organizational discipline Collaboration Culture Engagement and inclusion About the Research Academic Impressions and the Sanaghan Group embarked on a one-year effort to research and ultimately validate a Strategic Planning Implementation and Execution assessment that reveals an institution’s strengths and weaknesses related to implementation and execution. In this webinar, we’ll reveal the six key dimensions to execution and practical strategies that you can use today to turn your plans into actions.
Learn ten common mistakes new presidents make and how you can avoid them. Patrick Sanaghan will share what he has learned from interviewing and working with dozens of college and university presidents. Join us to learn these lessons and how you can ensure a smooth and successful leadership transition for your institution. Add a recording of this program to your training library to train future presidents on these important lessons.
Learn how your institution can begin coaching and teaching innovation to your students. During this training, we will discuss how to encourage an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset both inside and outside of the classroom. You will explore the five key components for encouraging this mindset in students and how both faculty and staff can help facilitate this shift in thinking.
Why do the same incidents paralyze some people but act as a springboard for others to change, grow, and learn? Setbacks, mistakes, and failures are inevitable—the key is resilience. Leaders must be able to navigate these situations and not just bounce back, but bounce forward. Join leadership expert, Pat Sanaghan, online to explore resilience and understand what you can do to build this critical skillset. We’ll share practical suggestions that dramatically improve your staying power as a leader.
Take the confusion out of financial aid for admitted students and their families. Agenda Best Practice Examples: Non-Digital Communication Written In-Person Best Practice Examples: Electronic Communication Email Video Website Net price calculator Moving Forward: Keys to Concise Financial Aid Communication Simplifying financial aid language Articulating student loans and scholarships Identifying cross-campus partners for financial aid communication
Addressing issues of civility among faculty can be a thorny issue when you consider the scope of free speech, academic freedom, and how social media blurs the lines between the personal and professional context. Join us online for an in-depth examination of this increasingly important issue, including practical steps academic leaders can take to improve civility on campus and address issues as they arise.
