The role of Chief of Staff in relation to the President or other leader varies on many factors, such as how new your President is to the role and how involved they want you to be with decision making. Join us for this one-hour webcast to learn how to: Determine the needs of your President Communicate the parameters of your role to stakeholders and the institution Balance the nuances of being accessible to colleagues with the sensitivities of your role
Measuring Academic Program Cost and Demand to Improve Resource Allocation December 8 – 9, 2020 Learn how you can calculate and analyze the financial performance of your academic programs so you can make more informed resourcing decisions. CPE credits are offered for this event. If you require CPE credit, you will need to log in and attend the virtual conference in its entirety. You will be asked to demonstrate your attendance through periodic activities. Additional instructions will be provided at the start of the event when you sign in. DAY 1 DAY 2 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:
As you reflect on this fall and prepare for another partially or fully remote semester, you may have found some successful strategies that have helped students build community online and others that have fallen flat. As students return after an unorthodox fall term, it will be more important than ever to strengthen online community building. Join us to learn how to build digital communities that foster meaningful engagement and connection in co-curricular spaces. In this hands-on training, our expert instructor will walk you through four principles for building community online — inclusivity, impact, intentionality, and interactivity — and teach you how to create, measure, and sustain your community throughout the year. You will leave with an individualized plan for your digital community regardless of the co-curricular initiative you are focused on.
We’ve all said or done something at work that unintentionally upset or offended someone. We may shy away from holding ourselves and others accountable for resolving the situation because we want to prevent further harm that comes from the shame or disappointment associated with admitting a mistake. But inclusive leaders see things differently — they recognize and embrace the responsibility to repair harm and make others feel appreciated when things go wrong. Join us online and learn how to model accountability in a way that repairs harm by fostering inclusion. In this webcast, you’ll get tips and language you can use to encourage reflection during a growth opportunity that arises when you or someone you know has behaved or communicated in an exclusionary way against a cultural or identity group (i.e., race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, experience level, etc). You’ll walk away feeling more confident to:
Microcredentials and Digital Badges in Higher Education December 16 – 17, 2020 Explore how to assess the needs of your students, institution, and industry to determine the most valuable badges to pursue. 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! DAY 1 DAY 2 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:
Clinical practitioners and the educators who train them should be prepared to work with individuals from a variety of racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. However, critical conversations around bias, marginalization, and oppression are all too often relegated to the background of – or completely absent from – coursework in clinical disciplines. In many disciplines, most clinicians come from outside of the underrepresented communities they work within. The failure to include a strong basis of social justice understanding within their training can result in clinicians who are underprepared to effectively provide culturally appropriate treatment, support, and advocacy for each of their clients. Anti-Oppressive Intervention has become a core piece of the clinical curriculum within the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at MGH Institute for Health Professions. Join us for a one-hour webcast where our expert instructor, Indigo Young, MS, CCC-SLP, will share how incorporating an Anti-Oppressive Intervention approach into clinical education can be used to reduce disparities in both education and healthcare. You will learn about the model MGH uses and how it can be applied in various clinical settings to give clinicians concrete tools to be more effective in providing each client with the best possible care.
Historically, classrooms in higher ed have been molded by implicit cultural norms such as competition, lecture, and perfectionism. When we investigate the hidden values and practices we have inherited, we discover how we can unintentionally contradict our students’ cultural identities and hinder their learning. By noticing, interrogating, and interrupting the patterns that have shaped both your own education and your pedagogy, you can take steps toward creating more equitable learning experiences. In this virtual workshop, Dr. Amer F. Ahmed will share strategies to create dynamic learning environments that elevate the strengths, identities, and values of historically oppressed students. He will draw from his own expertise in intercultural teaching and introduce Dr. Laura Rendón’s framework on “new agreements” for higher ed classrooms. He will share strategies for how to: Develop intercultural skills to navigate complexities in the classroom Investigate the unexamined norms that have shaped teaching and learning in higher ed Interrupt privileged practices and explore more equitable alternatives Intentionally create new norms for the classroom
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Frontline Fundraising: Essentials of Gift Solicitation March 3 – April 7, 2021 Important Links Developing Rigor in Your Fundraising Team | Webcast Recording Anticipating and Overcoming Objections in Frontline Fundraising | Webcast Recording Small Events for Donor Cultivation | Webcast Recording Strategizing Multiple Fundraising Attempts in Fundraising | Webcast Recording Developing Your Parent Giving Strategy | Webcast Recording Welcome! 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: March 3, 2021 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Preparing for Fundraising Success Module 2: March 10, 2021 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Outreach Module 3: March 17, 2021 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Qualification Module 4: March 24, 2021 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Visits Module 5: March 31, 2021 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern Understanding Donor Motivations and the Ask Module 6: April 7, 2021 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern Portfolio Management This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual […]
Productive Conversations with Donors: A Book Club Experience January 13, January 27 & February 10, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern Important Links Frontline Fundraising Essentials: Outreach, Qualification, Visits and the Ask | Webcast Series Recording Developing Rigor in Your Fundraising Team | Webcast Recording Anticipating and Overcoming Objections in Frontline Fundraising | Webcast Recording Small Events for Donor Cultivation | Webcast Recording Strategizing Multiple Fundraising Attempts in Fundraising | Webcast Recording Developing Your Parent Giving Strategy | Webcast Recording Welcome! As an owner of the Academic Impressions book, Productive Conversations with Donors: A Handbook for Frontline Fundraisers by Kathy Drucquer Duff, you are invested in moving prospect and donor relationships forward through each interaction. Join us online for an exclusive three-part discussion series on Productive Conversations with Donors: A Handbook for Frontline Fundraisers. This book club-style series was designed to help consolidate and enhance your learning, and make each donor touchpoint even more meaningful. In each session, we will discuss and practice techniques from the book in a salon-style setting. Our facilitator, Brittany Iwaszkiw at Academic Impressions, will help you and your peers explore the key concepts of the book in more detail, such as how to use probing questions to engage different types of donors and inspire various types of gifts. Prepare for the Book Club 1) Read the following sections in advance of the book club meetings: Session 1: Pages […]
We know that high-impact practices support profound learning by promoting student engagement and real-world experience. Among those high-impact practices, service learning courses help students achieve a deeper understanding of course content. They can also shape their personal values and civic responsibility through reflection and participation in an organized service activity that serves community needs (Bringle, Hatcher, McIntosh, 2006). For these compelling reasons, many faculty members, divisions, and entire institutions had plans to offer robust service learning courses only to be disrupted by the global pandemic. However, it is still possible to teach service learning courses that are just as impactful in the online environment. Join us for this webcast, where our expert speaker—who has over a decade of experience teaching service learning courses online—will share example-based best practices to help you keep students engaged, serve community partners, and ultimately create dynamic learning experiences.
Increase Your ROI on Alumni Engagement Through Effective Data Analysis December 17 – 18, 2020 Learn how to tell the story of your alumni relations efforts through data. 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! DAY 1 DAY 2 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:
To ensure your faculty, staff, and students are prepared for the future of the workplace and are well positioned to become the leaders of tomorrow, it is vital to invest in their leadership development today. You likely already have many leadership development programs across your campus, but they might operate separately from each other, reach limited audiences, or struggle to self-sustain. A more effective way to offer leadership development is to create a single program that is easily accessible, inclusive to all, and embedded in the fabric of your everyday work. Join us online and learn how Columbus State University has done just that. No longer is their leadership development distributed across multiple departments across campus — instead, they have created a self-sustaining, centralized, and integrated model that embeds leadership training throughout the university. By having faculty, staff, and even students sit side-by-side to share perspectives, they are breaking down barriers and uniting the campus community. In addition, they extend their reach into the larger community by training and collaborating with organizations and business leaders. The benefit of a model like this is that all faculty, staff, and students receive the same message: that their leadership development is important and […]
Strategies for Leading Short-Term Initiatives on Your Campus December 3 – 4, 2020 Expand your toolkit, so that you can fully engage your stakeholders and navigate barriers during your most critical campus-wide initiatives. 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! DAY 1 DAY 2 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:
To ensure confidence in the fair and equitable grievance process, the new 2020 Title IX regulations require bias reduction training for all members of your Title IX team. Implicit bias is inevitable; we all have them. Even with awareness and regular training, bias may sneak into your process. What can you do to prevent it and how should you respond when it does present itself? Join us online to get tips and strategies from our expert faculty on how to recognize and mitigate bias during your grievance process. This training is designed to help you evaluate how bias shows up within your team and at various stages of your grievance process (e.g. during your line of questioning or when preparing reports), so that you can reduce the impact of bias in the final outcome of the case. Through discussions and scenario-based learning, you will identify ways you and your team can work together to encourage peer-to-peer accountability and reduce the impact of implicit bias during your Title IX process.
Online Programs: Building a Vision and Strategy November 30 – December 2, 2020 Build a business plan to strategically develop your online programs. 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! DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 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:
The 2020 Title IX federal regulations require live hearings to include a cross-examination of both parties by the other party’s Advisor. This revised process brings certain challenges. First, cross-examination can feel overwhelming, and even traumatizing to survivors of sexual assault who must recount and relive their trauma in front of others. Second, the process can feel debilitating to both parties, as their credibility and character appear under attack. Third, cross-examination can produce anxiety in the Advisor, who may struggle to navigate such emotionally charged conversations. Mismanaging cross-examination and witness preparation or lacking the tools to assist participants through the revised process can compound an already stressful situation. Join us for this webcast to learn how you, as an Advisor or Hearing Panelist, can have a more positive impact on the cross-examination by preparing both parties to endure the process. During this training, you’ll acquire a toolkit of simple yet profound grounding and communication strategies that you can use to engage your witnesses and make them feel as safe and comfortable as possible throughout the process. No two witnesses are the same and as such, your approach to cross-examination cannot be one-size-fits-all. Our expert will give you the toolkit you need […]
Strong data governance ensures that your institution is using information well when making data-driven decisions and complying with mandates around the collection, use, and sharing of data. During the COVID-19 era, accuracy in presenting timely information transparently to students, employees, parents, and the public make data governance all the more critical. Learn concrete, practical steps for building collaborative data governance that will improve efficiency and quality for your campus data partners. During this webcast, you will: Understand legal, regulatory, and business requirements that necessitate data governance Design a data governance framework Establish critical personnel roles and responsibilities Make information readily available and discoverable to stakeholders
Data analysis has the power to inform and transform your annual-giving decision making in a way that allows you to steer your shop towards growth. However, the key to effective data analysis is knowing how to use the right data and from where to obtain it, so that you can identify donor trends, grow your pipeline, and increase funds raised. Join us online to hear from the University of Washington on how to best use data to make informed decisions in order to retain, reactivate, and acquire donors. You’ll learn how to: Ensure you retrieve the right data from the sources that best support your analysis Examine how to use metrics to accurately segment donors Engage your donors effectively while moving them through your donor pipeline with greater intention
