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Create a More Equitable Academic Search Process Using an Inclusion Advocates Program

Academic search committees have a clear purpose to interview and hire the most qualified candidate for their vacant position. However, they also have the responsibility to ensure the search process is fair, inclusive, and equitable for all. Unfortunately, many search committees have not identified nor properly trained someone to serve as an inclusion advocate in order to help mitigate personal bias and maintain a credible process. Instead, BIPOC faculty are often asked to informally serve in these roles, which places undue responsibility on them to lead all inclusion efforts during the search process. Join us online to learn about a program that helps ensure more accountability in your academic search process. This virtual event is designed to offer you tips and strategies to launch your own Inclusion Advocates program based on the successes instituted at Towson University. During the event, you will explore the following questions: Academic search committees have a clear purpose to interview and hire the most qualified candidate for their vacant position. However, they also have the responsibility to ensure the search process is fair, inclusive, and equitable for all. Unfortunately, many search committees have not identified nor properly trained someone to serve as an inclusion advocate […]

Understanding Tension: Conflict Management Strategies

Understanding Tension: Conflict Management Strategies May 18 – 19, 2021 Learn key strategies for resolving conflict across all levels of your team. 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

Negotiate With Confidence: A Training for Women in Higher Ed

Research shows that women are less likely to negotiate than men, tend to be less persistent when negotiating, and can receive negative feedback when they initiate negotiations. Whether negotiating for a raise, a more flexible working schedule, or other work needs, understanding how negotiation works allows you to confidently initiate and work through these conversations. In this two-hour training session, you will learn an easy-to-use set of principles, have time to practice with peers, and use a toolkit to prepare for your next conversation. The goal will always be to help you find a win-win solution that allows you to do your best work in a way that benefits your team or organization.

Responding to Title IX Disclosures: Training for Faculty and Staff

This video course is for all faculty and staff who are not designated as Officials with Authority by the Title IX Coordinator. It will provide you with useful conversational strategies that allow you to have an informed conversation with anyone who discloses an incident of sexual harassment with you. 

Mapping Your Career Path in Higher Education

Many within higher ed struggle with mapping out possible career paths. This happens if you don’t know what is available to you, how to get to where you want to go, and/or you don’t always feel like you have the appropriate guidance from others. Join us online to learn how to embrace your career ambitions and map out a plan for how to make them happen. In this working session, our expert instructor will introduce you to a rubric that helps you examine your career goals, consider obstacles and tradeoffs along the way, and define realistic ways to achieve your goals. You’ll also work in small groups with your peers to apply the rubric to your own context and discuss the impact it can have on your career development. If any of these questions apply to you, you will find this program beneficial: Do you want to plan for your career future? Have you thought about when you will retire and what you want to do between now and then? If you are faculty, do you wonder if academic administration is the right fit for you? Have you examined your competing professional and personal priorities in a systematic way to […]

The Fundamentals of Leadership: A Bootcamp for New or Aspiring Leaders in Higher Ed

The Fundamentals of Leadership: A Bootcamp for New or Aspiring Leaders in Higher Ed May 24 – July 23, 2021 | Live Sessions May 24, June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 12, 19, 23, 2021 Important Links Welcome!   Hello and welcome to The Fundamentals of Leadership: A Bootcamp for New or Aspiring Leaders in Higher Ed. I will be your host throughout the six-week modules. I’m thrilled to work with you! If you have any questions, you can reach me at elizabeth@academicimpressions.com. If you have questions about your 360 Assessment, you can email Molly at molly@academicimpressions.com. Mark Your Calendars: Kickoff meeting Monday, May 24, 2021 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Eastern Week 1: Understanding Your Core Purpose as a Leader (Leading Self) Monday, June 7, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Week 2: Time Management (Leading Self) Monday, June 14, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Week 3: Supervision and Motivating for Performance (Leading Others) Monday, June 21, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Week 4: Leading Effective Meetings (Leading Teams) Monday, June 28, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Week 5: Engaging Productively in Conflict (Leading Others) Monday, July 12, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Week 6: Resilience […]

Anti-Racism in Higher Education: Ensuring It’s a Movement, Not Just a Moment

Anti-Racism in Higher Education: Ensuring It’s a Movement, Not Just a Moment May 26 – 27, 2021 Develop a sustainable strategy to facilitate your anti-racist initiatives for your campus. 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

Time Management for Scholarly Writing

If you’re a tenure candidate with expectations around published research, you likely face daily temptations to deprioritize your scholarly writing––especially when you’re passionate about teaching and service.  To resist these temptations, you must create a roadmap for your writing projects and embark on a daily writing practice that ensures steady progress. In this video course, Moira Killoran, Director of Coaching at Academic Impressions, will help you reframe scholarly writing as a sacred task in which you must set and achieve clear, measurable goals each week.  You will learn four ways to set boundaries and make time for your writing, including strategies for how to say “no” gracefully.  You will also get strategies and tools to plan your writing on a yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily basis. 

Addressing Conflicts Related to Bias, Privilege, and Identity in the STEM Classroom

Faculty in the STEM disciplines can often feel unprepared to address identity-based conflict in the classroom because the themes are not embedded in the course content. Even those who want to have tough conversations regarding identity, bias, and privilege can feel inadequately equipped to facilitate a conversation when a conflict arises. You may be asking yourself: What if I say something wrong? What if I make things worse? No matter the discipline, these crucial conversations are coming up in every learning space across higher ed and avoiding them is not an option. Every instructor can prepare to notice identity-based conflict and intervene to reduce harm. Join us for a highly interactive virtual workshop that provides a supportive space to learn about the types of conflict that can arise, and how to facilitate microinterventions to confront bias and create more equitable learning environments.

Navigating Politics: A Virtual Training for Women in Higher Ed

Do you find yourself puzzled by how to generate change in a complex organization? Do you encounter structural and social barriers to launching new initiatives and having an impact? Women in higher education must often apply an extra level of nuance and strategy in navigating politics, building buy-in, and leveraging soft power. Join us for this virtual training to better define and diagnose the challenges higher-ed women leaders face, and build new tools and tactics for promoting and advancing positive change.

Advanced Gift Officers: Enhancing Your Donor and Portfolio Strategy

Advanced Gift Officers: Enhancing Your Donor and Portfolio Strategy May 5 – June 9, 2021 | Live sessions May 5, 12, 19, 26, June 2, 9, 2021 Important Links Welcome!   Hello and welcome to your bootcamp course page. This course page connects you to all of the information and materials you need to be successful in the program. Please take a few minutes to review the learning schedule and check out the links shared under the “Important Links” heading. If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to Brittany Iwaszkiw.  Mark Your Calendars: Module 1: Current Fundraising Trends: May 5, 2021, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET Module 2: The Five Meeting Model: May 12, 2021, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET Module 3: Donor Upgrades: May 19, 2021, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET Module 4: Complex Gifts and Gift Planning: May 26, 2021, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET Module 5: The Art of Storytelling for Donor Impact: June 2, 2021, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET Module 6: Putting Your Learning to Action: June 9, 2021, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET Ensure Your Technology is Ready This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and […]

Simplifying the NSF Grant Proposal Process and Setting Yourself up for Success 

Join us for a virtual training that will answer your most pressing questions about the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant process, a funding source that contributes over $8 billion annually to scientific research. By learning how to navigate the application process, you can ensure that, along with the intellectual merit of your work, you’ve done all you can do to set yourself up for success. We will cover key components of NSF grant proposals including: What is the NSF and what types of research do they fund? Is the NSF the right source of funding for your research? What steps do you take to begin the process? What makes a good proposal?

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.

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