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Build Better Gift Agreements

Build Better Gift Agreements April 22 – 23, 2021 Revisit your gift agreement documentation and processes to help protect your institution and donors. 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 Check back soon for links! 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

Removing Barriers to Student Learning: Inclusive Syllabi and Assignments

Despite our best intentions to create an inclusive classroom, many barriers to learning exist in the course materials themselves. Syllabi and assignments can perpetuate broader societal biases and oppressive practices, from the subtext of the syllabus to the methods of measuring student progress. Creating a more purposeful, intentional curriculum that addresses equity and inclusion across disciplines—without compromising content—requires a close examination of your own materials and a set of new teaching strategies. Join us for an interactive virtual workshop in which you will examine your course materials and explore answers to these questions: What are the unwritten implicit rules, norms, messages, and hidden biases about students that I communicate through the subtext of a syllabus? What are the principles to keep in mind when constructing inclusive assignments for assessing student progress? How should students be asked to demonstrate their learning through formative and summative assessment? You will walk away with practical worksheets you can use to review your course materials. Please bring a syllabus and assignment to the workshop so you can apply the concepts and strategies to your own classroom context, make changes in the moment, and receive feedback.

5 Essentials to Title IX Investigations

As a Title IX investigator, you play a critical role in building a solid foundation for each case—including identifying and compiling relevant evidence for the decision maker. We created this video course to highlight the five fundamental skills you must have to fairly and equitably conduct and manage sexual harassment investigations and feel confident in your role. In this video course, you’ll learn how to: This video course is ideal for:

Provost Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for Academic Leaders (September, 2021)

Provost Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for Academic Leader September 3 – December 17, 2021 | 12:00 – 1:00 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:

Provost Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for Academic Leaders (May, 2021)

Provost Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for Academic Leaders May 21 – August 27, 2021 Welcome to  the course page for your provost roundtable. More information will be added to this page as we get closer to the start of the event. 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:

Foundations of Title IX Investigations: Training & Certification

Foundations of Title IX Investigations: Training & Certification June 11 & 14, 2021 Approach your sexual harassment investigations with greater confidence. 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 Check back soon for links! 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

Psychological Safety in the Classroom

We know that when learners feel psychologically safe—when they feel they won’t be judged, punished, or humiliated if they make a mistake or say something wrong in class—they are more likely to take academic risks, experiment, trust, openly share ideas, and engage in collaboration.   Join Amber Dailey-Hebert in this video course to learn strategies to create a psychologically safe learning environment through your lesson planning, intentional community building, and classroom processes and structures. You will learn how to increase class cohesion, decrease fear, and take actionable steps to create an environment in which learners feel safe to express their authentic identity, develop a sense of reciprocal trust and interconnectedness with the class community, and, most importantly, improve learning and performance outcomes.

Develop a Questioning Plan for Your Title IX Investigations

Title IX Investigators play a critical role in gathering as many relevant facts as they can through witness testimony and evidence. However, this process can be hindered when investigators neglect to understand that a knowledge and understanding of their institution’s sexual harassment policy should always drive the investigation and their line of questioning. Further, many investigators may only be asking surface-level questions because they unintentionally created a questioning plan that is not based upon their institution’s policy. Join us online to learn how to create a questioning plan before the interview begins that will ensure you are conducting a well-informed and policy-driven investigation. We will: Discuss how your institution’s sexual harassment policy definitions impact factual requirements and how you should approach gathering information that is relevant to the case. Demonstrate a technique you can use during your investigations to ensure you’re asking the right witness the right questions at the right time. Practice this technique during our session and have the opportunity to receive feedback. After attending this workshop, you’ll walk away with the tools you need during a Title IX investigation to help you stay on task and maintain control of the information you gather from witnesses.

Three Coaching Skills for Leaders and Mentors in Academic Medicine

Overview Many formal mentors and leaders in academic medical settings are asked to take on significant mentoring responsibilities in addition to their clinical work, teaching, research, and scholarship. To be a successful mentor requires you to create an empowering dynamic with your mentees and focus them on developing their careers and solving challenges. But those tasked with mentoring do not often receive any training on how to do so effectively. By incorporating coaching skills into your mentoring role, you can transform the relationship, create a safe environment for your mentees, and empower them to reflect and address their own barriers and obstacles. The best way to learn about coaching is to do it. In this workshop, you will use a guiding worksheet to practice three core coaching skills in pairs and have ample opportunities to ask questions and receive feedback. You will leave with a new mindset on mentoring and a powerful set of tools for: Asking powerful questions and listening actively Exploring a mentee’s barriers and obstacles Developing next steps and creating accountability Coaching has many applications in academic medicine in teaching and leadership. You will learn to recognize situations when coaching skills can be applied with powerful results.

Institute for Experienced Chiefs of Staff: Improving Your Processes, Communications, and Relationships

Institute for Experienced Chiefs of Staff: Improving Your Processes, Communications, and Relationships August 5 – 6, 2021 Improve your processes and relationships to ensure continued success in a chief of staff role. 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

Fundamentals for Chiefs of Staff: Understanding Your Role and Ensuring Success from the Start

Fundamentals for Chiefs of Staff: Understanding Your Role and Ensuring Success from the Start July 29-30, 2021 Join us for a one-of-a-kind chiefs of staff program solely for those working in higher education. 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

Cultural Humility: A Framework to Mitigate Personal Bias

We all have biases that show up in our interactions and perceptions of others.  But these biases can be problematic when they are used unconsciously or consciously to judge, misinterpret, or limit our interactions with others.  How often do you pause and reflect on your social interactions and ask yourself “What did I assume about this person that was not accurate”?   By reflecting and holding ourselves accountable to how biases show up in our interactions, we not only encourage our own personal growth, but we also create opportunity to fully understand another person’s lived experience.    Join us online to understand the root cause of your biases and develop a practice that helps mitigate bias in your interactions with others.  In this training, you will learn how to develop cultural humility as a framework and daily practice that helps you:  Suspend judgement and be curious about other people’s perspectives and backgrounds  Ask questions to aid you in reflection about your own beliefs and behaviors   Interpret your interactions with others  You will also explore barriers that might perpetuate your assumptions about others and prevent you from developing this practice.  Cultural humility will not only encourage your personal development and growth through self-reflection, but it will also foster meaningful growth in your relationships with others as you begin to experience those relationships with a newfound sense of wonderment and openness.     

Writing Workshop for Advancement

Writing Workshop for Advancement THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO: May 5-6, 2021 Strengthen the voice and consistency of your communications to donors and alumni. EVENT INFORMATION Check back soon for links! 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

Impactful Online Donor Events

Impactful Online Donor Events March 30, 2021 Leave a lasting impression on donors by hosting online events that resonate with their needs and preferences. 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

Leading and Structuring an Inclusive Pedagogy Initiative: A Case Study from Illinois State University

As part of larger diversity and inclusion efforts, many institutions have inclusive pedagogy initiatives underway. But the way they are approaching them when it comes to scope, level of resourcing, and degree of partnership and involvement across academic units varies widely. It can be difficult for those charged with leading inclusive pedagogy initiatives to know how and where to get started or how to broaden and deepen their impact.   Join us online to learn about an exemplary inclusive pedagogy initiative from Illinois State University. You will gain insight into how the initiative was conceived, built, and implemented. Through the lens of her own experience, our instructor will share pieces of advice and lessons learned around the following key questions:   How do you conduct a faculty needs assessment?   What strategies can you use to foster cross-divisional partnership and buy-in from academic leaders?   How can you effectively resource the initiative absent of robust CTL or faculty affairs resources?  How can you build visibility around the initiative across the institution? 

Increasing Scholarly Productivity by Leading with Your Voice

Especially in the early stages of your career, you need to grow your identity as an independent scholar. But you might receive feedback from a mentor or a reviewer that they “don’t hear your voice” in your writing. Or more commonly, you might sense that the articles you want to write aren’t even getting written.  How exactly can you lead with your voice to find momentum throughout the publication process and increase your scholarly productivity? Watch this video course to learn practical writing tips that emphasize your unique contributions to the field in these parts of the process: Writing the abstract  Selecting your journal  Reviewing the literature  Editing the words on the page  You will learn to identify, clarify, and communicate your argument.  Through the completion of nine course exercises, you will make actual progress toward publication of a specific manuscript.  Early-career faculty, faculty shifting fields or writing genres, or those struggling from inefficiency or burnout will especially benefit from this course.  

Tailoring Programming for Unengaged Professional and Graduate School Alumni

Instructor Mario PerazaExecutive Director, Alumni RelationsUniversity of California San Francisco Course Highlights 51 mins of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 3/29/2021 Graduate and professional alumni typically aren’t as engaged with their alma mater as their undergraduate counterparts. But graduate alumni are often highly career-focused with strong connections to classmates, faculty, and mentors. How can you leverage these traits to increase engagement with this population? How can you overcome limitations of our current public health crisis and turn those into opportunities?  Join us to hear from Mario Peraza at the University of California San Francisco, a graduate-only institution leading the way in health sciences. He’ll show you how he’s used meaningful programming and communications to make professional and graduate school alumni feel more connected to the campus and each other, and how he has adapted their programming to a low-cost, online environment to increase alumni engagement.   In small groups, you’ll connect with your colleagues at similar graduate institutions to share ideas and brainstorm solutions around communication, engagement, and programming for your unique alumni populations. You’ll walk away inspired to try new tips and strategies for engaging with your graduate and professional alumni in ways that really speak to their unique needs and interests.  We Want to Hear From You! Please take a few minutes to fill out a short survey letting us […]

Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: Engaging in Dialogue About Race and Bias

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 where we will explore four key concepts and how they come into play during conversations around race and 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 and begin the hard work of making meaning of how they play out in your life and in any conversation you enter. With the aid of the workbook, you will leave with a plan to continue to strengthen your ability to effectively engage in conversations around race and bias.

Leading and Influencing as a Department Chair

Leading and Influencing as a Department Chair May 19 – June 9, 2021 Important Links Welcome!   This is your “one-stop shop” for all course materials and instructions you will need to guide you through the bootcamp. A couple 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, assignments and assessments, will be made available at the beginning of the week.  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 you are completing all required work at the right time.  You can find your syllabus under “Access Course Materials.” If you need any further guidance to ensure your success in this program, please contact Lisa Lafflam.   Session Dates and Times:   SESSION 1 Wednesday, May 19, 2021 11 […]

Supervising Intergenerational Teams: A Training for Higher Education Leaders

Your team is growing more diverse every day; this includes across different generations from across generations.  Each generation has its own preferences and values that motivate them, and it’s important to understand those differences in order to build a cohesive and resilient workplace culture that maximizes individual and team performance and minimizes conflict. With almost a quarter of the labor force set to retire in the next decade, it’s crucial to recognize the contributions of all generations of workers.  Join us online to learn:  Research that highlights the benefits of addressing the needs of your different generations.  Strategies for how to motivate and coach your age-diverse team, so that they feel engaged in their work and have the tools to better understand and collaborate creatively and productively with each other.  How to respond to and address interpersonal conflict that may arise within your team with an awareness and respect for the different generations.   You’ll walk away with greater confidence in knowing how to communicate and engage across generational differences.