Launching a Giving Day: Planning and Executing Bundle

Learn how a day of giving can encourage giving to your institution in a more compelling and urgent way. You will learn how to develop a day of giving from concept and launch to follow up. Session one will cover pre-planning, collaborating across campus, and executing a day of giving. Session two will cover gift processing a large influx of gifts and stewarding new and repeat donors to ensure retention. “This webcast offered practical and useful advice on implementing a day of giving. The presentation was clear, informative, and something that could be scaled to a number of institutions – large or small.” – Dayna Carpenter, Director of Annual Giving, UMBC

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 course content is inaccessible, it creates unnecessary barriers for students with disabilities. Are your online courses accessible for your entire student population? Join us for this online training series as we share ways to support the needs of all students online and comply with accessibility regulations. We will discuss: Consequences of inaccessibility Technology availability How to create course websites that are accessible to all users, regardless of ability  

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 for the more traditional planned giving events as well as non-traditional touchpoints that target younger planned giving donors. Part 2: Strategic Communications and Impact Reporting Impact reports and strategic communications are important methods for stewarding your planned giving donors. During this session, you will learn the specific messaging for legacy societies, scholarship reporting, and realized bequests that your planned giving donors and their families need to see. We will also explore other creative communication methods that your shop can use to steward your donors.

Managing Student Threats and Risk: Effective Policies and Practices

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 […]

Improving Capital Project Prioritization at
Your Institution

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.

10 Mistakes New Presidents Often Make Webcast Recording

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.

The Six Dimensions of Implementing Strategic Plans Webcast Recording

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.

Coaching Students to Build an Entrepreneurial and Innovative Mindset Webcast Recording

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.

Building Leadership Resilience in Higher Education Webcast Recording

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.

Communicating Financial Aid and Affordability to Admitted Students

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