Feelings of defensiveness and discomfort are common when engaging in conversations around race and bias. Even those who have done extensive reading on these emotionally-charged topics can find themselves fumbling if they haven’t yet reflected on how their own identities and biases impact the way they show up in the world—and in these difficult conversations. To get more comfortable engaging in these dialogues, we must first lean into the discomfort of individual reflection and actions that prepare us to enter them in an open and effective way. Join us for a two-hour virtual training followed by a one-hour Q&A where we will explore four key concepts and how they come into play during conversations around race and bias: Sources of Bias Intersectionality Triggers of Bias Unpacking Bias You will be given a workbook of activities, tools, and resources to help you move beyond simply understanding the definitions of these key concepts. Throughout the workshop, you will begin the hard work of making meaning of how race and bias play out in your life and any conversation you enter.
As an Associate Dean, you likely don’t have a traditional job description. Instead, you manage a portfolio of different projects, initiatives and responsibilities. In addition to your administrative responsibilities, you may also teach and conduct research. Your portfolio can therefore look very different in size, scope and impact compared to the portfolio of other Associate Deans—even within the same college. Additionally, it can grow and shrink over time based on the ever-changing needs and priorities of your college/institution. Because of this, the value of your role—and the impact you can have—can be unclear, unknown, or confusing to many—especially senior leaders. Join us online to learn how to bring greater awareness, understanding, and visibility to your role and relevance as a divisional leader. Alongside your peers, you’ll practice ways to identify, differentiate, and communicate the full scope and impact of your work. Most importantly, you’ll gain confidence in your ability to communicate how your work supports and adds value to the college/institution.
Advancement Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for Development Leaders March 24 – April 28, 2023 In-Person and Virtual Sessions To facilitate community and trust-building among the cohort from the get-go, the roundtable will kick off with a half-day in-person strategy session in Denver, Colorado on Friday, January 20, 2023. Five weekly, hour-long virtual sessions will follow, running from late January to late March. Session 1 (In-person): Friday, March 24, 2023 | 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. MT (local time in Denver, CO) 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. MT: Lunch (provided) 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. MT: Advancement Roundtable Session 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. MT: Networking Reception Virtual Sessions | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 2 (Virtual): Friday, March 31 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 3 (Virtual): Friday, April 7 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 4 (Virtual): Friday, April 14 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 5 (Virtual): Friday, April 21 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 6 (Virtual): Friday, April 28 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET Login On Starting: March 31, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare […]
The success of higher education institutions depends on a successful and productive faculty body, the majority of whom are outside of the tenure track. Yet, most professional development for faculty targets traditional tenure-track faculty. Alternative academic (or “alt-ac”) faculty, like their tenured and tenure-track peers, are also seeking broader career development topics relevant to their career paths—and as the administrative body of higher ed institutions expands, so too do the options for career advancement for alternative academic faculty. This video course provides this necessary professional development for alt-ac faculty by helping them to assess and identify their strengths, clarify their values, and develop a plan for their career aspirations. This course is ideal for alt-ac faculty who are new to their role, considering a change, or interested in leadership opportunities. This course will also be useful to department chairs, associate deans, and faculty affairs leaders who create opportunities for alt-ac faculty and want to contribute to their success and well-being.
DEI as a Leadership Construct: Inclusive Leadership Strategies for Higher Education January 24 – 26, 2023 Embrace more inclusive leadership practices and incorporate them into your own campus community leadership. EVENT INFORMATION Your registration includes access to The Five Paths to Leadership Self-Assessment, designed to help you understand your leadership styles under normal circumstances and under stress. Please complete the assessment and be ready to discuss your results on day one of the conference. You can access the assessment by clicking here. ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual Needs
Navigating Your Career Journey: A Bootcamp for Women Leaders in Higher Education January 23 – March 6, 2023 Individual Session Dates: January 23, 30, February 6, 13, 27, March 6, 2023 Important Links Contact Moira Killoran to learn more. Welcome! Welcome to Navigating Your Career Journey: A Bootcamp for Women Leaders in Higher Education. Our hope is that you walk away with concrete steps for making your next career move as well as a support team that will extend long beyond our time together! This is your “one-stop shop” for all course materials and instructions you will need to guide you through the bootcamp. All course materials can be found in the “Access Course Materials” tab to the left. Any course materials you will need to prepare for the live sessions, including copies of slides, assignments and assessments, will be made available there. Additional materials generated during the live sessions will be added after each session. If you have any questions, please contact me: Jess Landis, Senior Learning & Development Manager, Academic Impressions Mark Your Calendar Session 1: 3 Hour Kickoff Meeting and Identifying Your Strengths Monday, January 23, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern | Live Learning Session Session 2: […]
With the apprentice model of mentoring, a mentee is assigned one mentor, usually someone senior in the organization, to provide guidance in all aspects of their career. Although this is a powerful model that typically serves mentees well, this approach to mentoring does require intensive commitments of time and energy from both individuals. And mentors may not always have all of the expertise a mentee needs. As an alternative, however, the consultative approach to mentoring can be used to replace or supplement the more traditional apprentice model of mentoring. The consultative approach encourages mentees to identify those discrete skills and focused areas of support in which they need mentorship, and to then identify multiple mentors to specifically meet those needs. In addition to being flexible enough to support individuals throughout their careers, the consultative approach can help departments promote greater equity and inclusion by empowering everyone to share their expertise with one another. In this course, you’ll be introduced to the consultative approach to mentoring, you’ll be able to build your network of potential mentors, and you’ll gain valuable tools to help manage sticking points in mentorship relationships. This course is appropriate for all higher ed professionals, both at the […]
Mentoring relationships are key to helping you navigate and develop throughout your career. But maintaining those relationships, both as a mentor and as a mentee, can be a lot of work and can also present special challenges. Mentoring relationships suffer when mentors and mentees do not have a clear sense of expectations or goals (for instance, of when the relationship has run its course). This course will help you understand the purpose of a mentoring relationship, as well as how mentoring differs from other key relationships like those with advisors and sponsors. Additionally, you will learn how to impactfully set up and manage a mentoring relationship, from both the mentor and mentee perspectives, and how to handle roadblocks that arise through those relationships. The course is accompanied by a mentoring journal to help you plan your mentoring philosophy, goals and expectations and set boundaries with your mentor or mentee partner. This course is appropriate for mentors and mentees at all levels.
Faculty Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: A Cohort-Based Series for VPs of Faculty Diversity January 30 – April 21, 2023 All sessions will take place on Zoom. All times are in Eastern. Session 1: Monday, January 30, 2023 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 2: Friday, February 10, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 3: Friday, February 24, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 4: Friday, March 10, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 5: Friday, March 24, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 6: Friday, April 7, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 7: Friday, April 21, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Login Starting On: January 30, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:
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All too often in higher education, individuals move into a supervisory role without the necessary tools and skills to be successful. Particularly in today’s challenging environment, effective and proactive supervision is key to building a high-performing culture where each individual contributes to team success. This video course—specifically designed for higher ed supervisors who are new to their roles or looking to deepen their skills—is designed to provide a foundational understanding of the most critical aspects of supervision, including: Creating a vision framework for your team Performance management strategies How to navigate conflict in a productive way Effective coaching techniques to help you develop your direct reports After watching the course, you will leave with greater confidence about what effective supervision entails, along with a host of practical tools you can apply right away to better support individual, team, and organizational goals.
Development and alumni relations teams make different yet equally important contributions to meeting institutional advancement goals. However, it can be difficult for these teams to focus on their relationships with one another when they are also focused on meeting different metrics and responding to the various needs of donors and alumni. Taking time to establish a communication plan or strategy for both alumni relations and development teams can be a real challenge amidst the day-to-day upkeep of meeting obligations and competing priorities. Additionally, knowing how to apply this communication strategy to working with other internal campus partners, like academic units, is just as important given their key roles in stewarding volunteers and donors for both units. Join us for this one-day virtual event designed specifically for alumni relations and development teams who would like to strengthen their internal working relationships to improve their success with fundraising, alumni engagement, and other advancement initiatives.
Designing a New Faculty Mentor Program: A Bootcamp for Faculty Leaders June 8 – July 6, 2023 | 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET Individual Sessions: June 8, 15, 22, 29, & July 6, 2023 Important Links Contact Moira Killoran to learn more. Welcome! This is your “one-stop shop” for all of the course materials and instructions you will need to guide you through the bootcamp. A couple of important notes to get you started: All course materials can be found in the “Access Course Materials” tab to the left. Any course materials you will need to prepare for the live sessions, including copies of slides, the Faculty Mentor Program Plan Template, and assignments, will be made available at the beginning of the week or sooner. Additional materials generated during the live sessions will be added by the end of the week. Your Course Syllabus will be updated and posted weekly as you progress through the program. The syllabus will contain specific instructions for what needs to be completed before, during, or after each session. Please review the syllabus at the beginning and end of every week to ensure that you are completing all required work at the right time. You […]
Despite engaging in regular self-care rituals like bubble baths, yoga retreats, and having drinks with friends, many of us feel constantly tired, stressed, and on the brink of burnout. It begs the question: are the self-care rituals we’re currently observing helping us or hurting us? Are we engaging in surface-level “socially acceptable” self-care practices, or are we truly thinking about what self-care means to us and how to integrate it intentionally into our everyday lives? Designed for higher ed professionals at all levels, this video course is designed to help you to reflect on and upgrade your current self-care practices. Through an examination of six pillars of self-care—nutrition, exercise, sleep, mindfulness, healthy relationships, and mental health—you will assess your current practice and identify ways to improve and integrate it more seamlessly into your everyday life.
The Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned the longstanding right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade in 1973, and colleges are now faced with determining if and how to respond to the needs expressed by students, faculty, and staff. This program will examine the public responses by several institutions through case studies to better help surface the factors that campuses may need to consider as they determine their approach to this topic.
Evaluating, Managing and Optimizing the Academic Portfolio October 18 – 20, 2022 | 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET Learn to evaluate your academic programs more effectively within the framework of mission, academic standards, markets, and margins. Welcome to your course page for your virtual conference! We’ll be adding links to meeting rooms, schedules, social media, and course materials as they become available. Make sure to check back as it gets closer to your conference! EVENT INFORMATION ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual Needs
The mid-career stage for faculty is often characterized as a time of stagnation, burnout, and lack of clarity. Getting to this point has likely taken significant effort and you may no longer benefit from institutionally sponsored support, all while having new service and leadership responsibilities become part of your workload. Despite these challenges, the mid-career stage does not have to be marked by frustration and lack of productivity. To look at this period from a different vantage point, you’ve made a lot of progress, learned who you are as an academic, and have a wealth of new skills and knowledge to employ. In this two-hour training, you will start to change the narrative around your mid-career juncture from stale routine to fresh opportunity. Our subject-matter expert will provide tips for gaining clarity, lay out different options you can pursue, and provide tools to use in re-envisioning and planning your research and scholarship work going forward.
Chief Strategy Officer Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for VPs of Strategy January 31 – March 14, 2023 In-Person and Virtual Sessions To facilitate community and trust-building among the cohort from the start, the roundtable will kick off with a full-day in-person strategy session in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, January 31. Six weekly, hour-long virtual sessions will follow, running from early February through the middle of March culminating with a personalized 1-on-1 session for each participant with the roundtable instructor to apply all your learning to your unique institutional needs. Session 1 (In-person): Tuesday January 31 9: 00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. MT (local time in Denver, CO) Virtual Sessions | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET February 7, 14, 21, 28, March 7, 14 Weeks of March 14th and March 20th You will have the chance to sign up for an optional 30-minute 1:1 session with the instructor to discuss individualized questions related to roundtable topics or your own career path. Login Starting On: February 7, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, […]
Many institutions have turned to guided pathways to increase retention and generate momentum for a degree path among their students. Other institutions, meanwhile, have offered learning communities (LCs) for years, in the form of residential LCs, linked-course communities, residential colleges or coordinated studies programs, as a way to develop a sense of community and foster collaboration between faculty and students. However, few institutions truly integrate the two to create a degree path that intersects learning community coursework with core and major curriculum while extending learning beyond the classroom. As students increasingly question the value of a college degree, using both strategies in tandem can show students how their entire college journey contributes to their future goals. Join us for an interactive two-hour virtual training on integrating guided pathways and learning communities as a way to boost student engagement and retention. Our accomplished speakers, Dr. Richie Gebauer and Dr. Michelle Filling-Brown from Cabrini University, will guide you through establishing a shared purpose that drives the integration of guided pathways and learning community efforts while also addressing challenges that may arise in the marriage of these initiatives. You will further learn why integrating the two can work in your institution’s favor and […]
As you work to strengthen your leadership annual giving program, it is imperative to build internal partnerships that will support and complement your work. These sessions will therefore focus on building relationships with internal partners and enhancing connections between your leadership annual giving efforts and your entire advancement team. You will learn how to quantify and present your program to upper-level management in a way that best positions your program for additional investments and support. Our expert instructor will help you to prioritize your efforts and design a long-term plan for maximizing your program’s effectiveness.
