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Enhancing Your Skills: A Bootcamp for Experienced Leaders

Enhancing Your Skills: A Bootcamp for Experienced Leaders September 21 – November 9, 2022 | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET Individual Session Dates: September 21, 28, October 3, 12, 26, November 2, 9, 2022 Welcome to the course page for your bootcamp! More information will be added as we get closer to your event, so […]

Managing Change as an Inclusive Leader

Inclusive leadership requires that today’s leaders think about and understand change differently. Change is no longer a once-in-a-while ‘initiative’ that needs managing but is instead a constantly occurring process. And not everyone sits on a level playing field along the way: inclusive leaders must develop a greater awareness of their own blind spots and attend […]

Mindful Leadership for Chairs

When separated from its contemplative framework, mindfulness boils down to three core principles that are essential to effective leadership: gaining perspective, making intentional decisions, and setting clear boundaries with others. Department Chairs need all of these skills to be successful in their roles, yet amid today’s chaotic environment, the space and time to develop them […]

Advancement Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for Development Leaders

Advancement Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for Development Leaders September 16 – October 28, 2022 Individual Dates: September 16, 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2022 Login starting on September 16, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This […]

Faculty Affairs Roundtable for Unit-Level Leaders: A Cohort-Based Series

Faculty Affairs Roundtable for Unit-Level Leaders: A Cohort-Based Series August 25 – September 29, 2022 Individual Dates: August 25, September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 Login On Starting: August 25, 2022 at 12:30 p.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This […]

Discovering Self and Developing Essential Skills: A Bootcamp for New Supervisors

Discovering Self and Developing Essential Skills: A Bootcamp for New Supervisors September 13 – November 1, 2022 Individual Dates: September 13, 27, October 4, 18, 25, November 1, 2022 Please scroll down to view your pre-work videos for sessions 2, 3, 4, and 5! Welcome! Welcome to Discovering Self and Developing Essential Skills: A Bootcamp […]

Developing a Comprehensive System of Support for First-Generation Students

Developing a Comprehensive System of Support for First-Generation Students October 19 – 21, 2022 Strategize ways to engage and support your first-generation undergraduates. 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

Developing an Advancement Intern Program

Providing a pathway for talent development can help ease the staffing constraints that advancement shops are currently facing. With a shortage of talent available due to competitive salaries and aggressive recruiting, one solution you can implement now is developing an undergraduate internship program for your shop. Your institution likely has many students interested in joining […]

Customer Service Skills Training: Certification for Higher Education Professionals

Customer Service Skills Training: Certification for Higher Education Professionals November 16 – 18, 2022 Gain the knowledge and skills you need to provide high-quality customer service in the higher education environment. 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 […]

Beyond Salary: An Uncommon Strategy to Recruit and Retain Advancement Professionals

Good development professionals are hard to find—and even harder to retain. This challenge becomes greater if you’re at a smaller institution with a tighter budget that is competing against larger institutions, as well as the non-profit sector, for top fundraising talent. To improve your results in recruiting and retaining the fundraising talent you want, and, […]

Selecting a Vendor to Augment Your Student Success Efforts

As institutions increasingly use data and technology to drive decision-making, it is important to have ways to efficiently collect, store, and parse that data. But with so much information to store and manage, institutions often need good partners and solutions to aid in managing their data. Many institutions have therefore turned to working with outside […]

Optimize Your Success as an External Dean

As an externally appointed dean, you are expected to hit the ground running, making quick and impactful decisions from Day One. Leading through this change can be tricky, as you will often need to navigate conflicting perspectives from the administration and faculty on which direction to go, as you also define your role in shared […]

Engaging in Anti-Racist Conversations in Advancement

In the wake of multiple ongoing pandemics that occurred simultaneously with several high-profile events exacerbating racial tensions in the U.S., many institutions have attempted to commit to better addressing racial injustices. To be successful in this work, professionals across all areas of an institution must be capable of having difficult conversations about race and racism. […]

Retaining Black Men: Strategies for Before, During, and After College

While enrollment and retention have dropped during COVID-19 overall, Black men in particular have faced barriers to college entry and completion that have only been further exacerbated by the pandemic. Enrollment for Black men dropped 14.3% in the spring of 2021 compared to the spring semester of 2020, and retention rates for Black men remain […]