Strategies to Improve Underrepresented Alumni Engagement August 20 – 21, 2020 Build a better strategy to represent and engage your diverse alumni. 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 Troubleshooting Tips & FAQs Downloading and Testing Adobe Connect Downloading and Testing Adobe Connect Test your setup in advance: https://ai.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm Please click the Run Diagnostic Test option on this website to see if you need to update or download anything like Flash or the Adobe Connect app. If you have any issues, another option is to switch the internet browser you are using. Once you have completed necessary steps, you can test again. You’ll know it is working if the Adobe window in your browser launches the Adobe Connect app to log you in. Accessing the Meeting Room The meeting link for each day of the conference can be found on the course page above. Follow the meeting link, and then: Click the radio button that reads, “Enter as a Guest” In the box that […]
As we move our instruction online in response to the COVID-19 crisis, we feel immense pressure to create quality learning experiences. We find ourselves grasping for strategies to engage our students in our new online environment. “Engaging” is a buzzword that appears in our faculty meetings, higher ed articles, and social media posts, but many of us are still seeking practical examples. What does it mean to teach an engaging online course? We can break down such an online learning experience into three core components: an engaging instructor, an engaged community of peers, and engaging course materials. Our goal in quality online education is to build and foster a collaborative knowledge-building and knowledge-sharing community of learners. Join us for a workshop in which you will learn and practice strategies in all three components of engagement: Strategies to become a more engaging online instructor How to foster a knowledge-building and knowledge-sharing community How to develop and leverage engaging course materials
In light of an industry-wide decline in both overall giving as well as in changing donor expectations, it is more important than ever that advancement shops of all sizes take a strategic donor stewardship approach. Employing tactics like segmentation and personalized recognition and engagement touchpoints, and demonstrating impact by tying gifts to ongoing institutional priorities can help to ensure that your donors continue to give, and that you retain them over time. Join us for a live session that will help you to tie your donor retention efforts more directly to the fundraising bottom line. Our expert instructor Sarah Sims, Executive Director of Donor Engagement at the University of Houston, will share strategies like the following that lead to improved donor retention rates: Adjusting your approach by donor population Segmentation and messaging best practices How to shift organizational culture to a donor-centered retention mindset
Instructor Deirdre ChildsAccess Services Manager, West ChesterUniversity of Pennsylvania Instructor Kristin MeyerUser Experience Librarian, Grand ValleyState University Instructor Amy WardAssociate Dean of Libraries, West ChesterUniversity of Pennsylvania Course Highlights 3h of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 8/12/2020 As fall approaches, your academic library operations are drastically changing in response to COVID-19 guidelines. You likely feel a rising tension between supporting your staff as they shift in their roles and supporting your users as their experience is entirely transformed. Both groups will need intensive guidance and care as they adjust to restricted ways of working and studying. One core question guiding your future planning is: “How can we operate to meet our users’ most important goals while keeping our staff and users safe?” Join us for a virtual training and dialogue that will offer emerging solutions for ensuring safety measures are met at your libraries. Our panel of expert presenters will share their challenges, successes, and ideas, and you will engage with other leaders across the academic library landscape to brainstorm solutions for your library’s unique context. Who Should Attend This virtual event is designed for deans, directors, and other senior library faculty and staff who are looking for […]
Many institutions are planning courses that are adaptable to online, hybrid, and face-to-face learning options in order to be prepared for an uncertain fall. Join us with our expert speaker, Elizabeth Barrie from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to learn how to design a course proactively so that it is adaptable in any scenario. Elizabeth Barrie has helped faculty pivot courses using Kaufman’s notion of agile learning. Barrie will help prepare you to offer every class in a face-to-face, hybrid, and online format. In this model, students can then choose their own course path by using the combination of formats that works best for their lives, whether they are working full time, parenting, or pursuing double and triple majors. This agile framework gives students more control of their educational pace and experience while also allowing institutions the ability to offer quality instruction and be ready for unforeseen pivots. Join us for a virtual training and dialogue to: Learn the benefits of agile courses Identify courses for agile development by using a simple rubric Distinguish between HyFlex and agile course design Learn strategies and tips to develop and implement agile courses
With social distancing and remote learning, Career Services professionals have had to pivot quickly to serve students. These changes range from proactively connecting with students to managing virtual events to preparing students for a vastly different new world once they graduate. Join us for this three-hour discussion-based online training where you can share and glean ideas that you and your team can use to better serve students in a remote world. You will discuss and get answers to the following questions: How do you help students manage through the uncertainty? How do you help students pivot? What are the best ways to advise students virtually?
As a new Department Chair, you may realize there are many skills you need to be successful. Practical skills, such as scheduling and budgeting, may come to mind. However, the human development skills – those that foster trust, communication, and community between your faculty – may be the most important, especially if you’re experiencing discord within your department. It is these skills that will carry you through your career trajectory while also supporting the career advancement of your faculty. Join us online and learn how you can begin to build strong relationships with your faculty so that you can transform your department from a group of individuals into a cohesive team. This kind of transformational change doesn’t happen overnight – but if you get it right, it can be your legacy. Through exercises and examples unique to the Chair perspective, you will walk away with tips and strategies for how to: Identify and create investment in shared goals Understand the difference between honesty and transparency and how you can communicate with transparency in mind Evaluate and address problems with your faculty right away, so that you provide the right level of mentoring depending on their experience Invite faculty to participate […]
The vexing combination of higher expenses, lower enrollments, and reduced operating capacity will force institutions to make significant cuts to academic programs this coming year. Whether to balance the budget or to free up resources for reinvestment, the challenge facing leaders is not whether to cut programs but how to do so responsibly and fairly. Drawing upon lessons from the Great Recession, our expert will share best practices for resource reallocation across academic programs. Recognizing that the urgency to make these decisions is much greater than it was 10 years ago, we’ll brainstorm ways to accelerate the process while also preserving its integrity so trust with faculty can be maintained or enhanced.
Instructor Romando NashAVP for Student Life Services, University ofNevada Reno Instructor Smita RuzickaDean of Student Life, Johns HopkinsUniversity Course Highlights 1h 30m of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 7/31/2020 Higher education institutions can be as prepared as possible to reopen their campuses in terms of putting policies and procedures in place, but what they cannot completely account for is how people will respond to and comply with the rules they set out. Planning for and enforcing social distancing guidelines is perhaps one of the trickiest aspects of reopening campus, as there are many variables which will necessitate institutions to hold people accountable. Watch this highly interactive session where our speakers guided the live attendees discussion around these issues and hear what the live attendees felt were the most pressing questions and challenges to collectively unpack. Who Should Attend This training will primarily benefit Student Affairs leaders. Other institutional leaders who are serving on task forces or planning committees related to the fall 2020 reopening of campus may also find this discussion valuable. Agenda Building your enforcement team – How do you train your faculty, staff, and campus community to communicate expectations? How can they de-escalate or confront social distancing-related […]
Rethinking NCAA Division 1 Athletics Operations for a More Sustainable Future Join your peers to rethink and discuss several aspects of Division 1 athletics operations so you can emerge from our current crisis better equipped and in a stronger position. Login Instructions Live Virtual Workshop: Login on July 30, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. ET. EVENT LINK: http://ai.adobeconnect.com/rk5sjfox2rxu/ Click the radio button that reads, “Enter as a Guest” In the box that says “Name,” enter your name * Click the button to enter the meeting as a guest *You’ve reserved one seat for this virtual workshop, which gives you access to a single connection. Each login link can only be accessed once, so it is not possible share login information or simulcast the event. 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: Headset/earbuds and webcam, if possible. Please test your webcam, audio, and ability to connect to Adobe Connect here at this link: http://ai.adobeconnect.com/wctest/ (Headset or earbuds will reduce ambient noise and echoes, and webcams will allow us to make more personal connections.) If you have issues connecting to Adobe Connect, go to this link: […]
Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education Become your most powerful self. Join women from across higher education to gain confidence as a leader, prioritize your goals, chart your career path, and expand your network! 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! November 17 November 18 Ensure Your Technology is Ready Please make certain you have the latest version of Zoom so you can participate in all of the activities. Download the latest version here: https://zoom.us/download. We recommend having a webcam and headset / earbuds for participation if possible.
Instructor Dr. Karen M. Whitney President Emerita, Clarion University Jeanne A.K. Hey, Ph.D. Dean Emeritus University of New England Course Highlights 2hr 4m of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 7/24/2020 Overview Without regular human interaction that can often mitigate friction, frustrations with co-workers can build into unmanageable disagreements. Learn how to identify the source of your conflict with a co-worker and how you can both come to common agreements for working together. Session 1: Identifying the Source of Conflict You will be introduced to practical tools that can be used to address conflict in its earliest stages before it becomes a formal dispute. In this first session, you will learn how to identify the source of your conflict. Is it Structural, Process, Personal, or Organizational? Session 2: Developing Your Conflict Management Strategy and Action Plan In this second session, you will workshop your conflict management strategy by identifying underlying interests, resources, and control that you have. You will leave with an action plan for addressing your conflict for which you will receive feedback from peers and the facilitators. Agenda Session 1: Identifying the Source of Conflict Our speaker will cover the following considerations: Aspects of conflict Identifying the sources of your conflict Identifying markers that […]
Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education Become your most powerful self. Join women from across higher education to gain confidence as a leader, prioritize your goals, chart your career path, and expand your network! 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! September 22, 2020 September 23, 2020
Pre-Conference Session: Conflict Management In this workshop, you will learn strategies to help you manage and resolve a variety of conflicts within your department and institution. 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! September 21, 2020
Overview Time and again we have heard the message that the impacts of working from home, homeschooling, childcare, and managing your new normal have created new areas of stress for women. Whether trying to juggle a full-time job with being a teacher to their children or finding that publishing and other career-advancement endeavors have fallen in priority, women in particular have felt the emotional, personal, and professional costs of the pandemic. Join us for this virtual training focused on how you can advocate for yourself in your personal and professional life.
Instructor Catherine Neiner Director of University Career Services Georgia State University Course Highlights 1hr 15m of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 8/4/2020 Learning Outcome After participating in this two-hour workshop, you will be able to develop strategies in 4 key areas that will help you reduce the need to be liked by others and focus on building positive relationships with yourself and others. Overview Have you ever been labeled as “bossy, bitchy, or brazen” simply because you’re a woman with ideas and a voice that needs to be heard? Do you ever feel yourself holding back because you’re worried about what others will think about you? Cultural pressures often cause women to focus on being likeable. Although there’s nothing wrong with wanting to be liked, this need can limit a woman’s personal and professional growth. Learn how to take back control of the need to be liked. You will discuss and reflect on the social, economic, and political impact that likeability has on your career. You will brainstorm and develop strategies that will help you turn other people’s labels such as “bossy, bitchy, and brazen” into career-boosting descriptors such as “confident, credible, and competent.” You’ll walk away with a greater understanding of how to nurture your relationships so that your voice is respected and you can be in better possession of yourself as a leader. Who Should Attend This webcast is designed for women of all leadership levels who want to explore the connection between a woman’s likeability and her leadership. If you find yourself giving in to others in order to be liked or you feel that others perceive you in […]
Women who rise to top leadership positions in higher ed possess a unique skillset that helps them overcome adversity, build resilience, and lead authentically. Kas Metzler studied and interviewed 26 women presidents in California and found some interesting commonalities in how they rose into their roles. Not surprisingly, the link is how they used and honed their emotional intelligence as leaders. Join us online in this two-hour session and learn more about what emotional intelligence skillsets these California presidents have found most helpful in their career advancement. You’ll begin by taking a personal assessment that will help you identify your strengths and potential blind spots as a leader. You’ll then have the opportunity to brainstorm and discuss with other participants how these research findings can be applied to your own leadership journey, so that you walk away with at least two things you can start doing differently to nurture your emotional intelligence.
Instructor Naomi Sigg Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs Case Western Reserve University Edwin Mayes Director, First-Year Experience & Family Programs Case Western Reserve University Course Highlights 1h 22m of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 7/23/2020 Overview The recent Black Lives Matter movement and the fallout from COVID-19 have higher ed leaders searching for constructive ways to engage students, faculty, and staff in dialogue about difficult issues. Listening to underrepresented voices and creating space for healthy exchange is critical for building an engaged community and maintaining a positive campus climate. There are no easy answers, but campus dialogue is a tool to help start the conversation. Join us online for this two-hour workshop to learn what it means to have a culture of campus dialogue. Our experts from Case Western Reserve University will share insights and lessons learned from their experience building such a culture at their institution. You will learn how they went about increasing leadership buy-in, enhancing cross-campus collaboration, educating others about the benefits of open dialogue, and creating a formal program. We will close with an exercise to help you craft a message and align it with various stakeholder priorities so you can begin building a culture of dialogue on your own campus. Who Should Attend This virtual workshop is recommended for anyone in higher education looking to create open dialogue on campus. If you want to start or accelerate an open dialogue initiative on your campus and/or if […]
Instructor Denise HayesCounseling and Psychological Services Director &Licensed Health Service Provider in Psychology,Indiana University Bloomington Instructor Will MeekDirector of Counseling and Psychological Services & Licensed Psychologist, Brown University Instructor David RamirezDirector of Counseling and Psychological Services & ClinicalPsychologist, Swarthmore College Course Highlights 75m of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 7/15/2020 As a student mental health professional at your institution, you are currently planning how to meet the needs of returning students in the fall and how to prepare for our rapidly changing reality. Assuming there is an increased demand for mental health services in the fall, you will need to strategize and adapt to meet these needs. Before moving to the action phase, have you stopped to discuss your plans with peers at other institutions to ensure that the very best options are on the table? You will hear from experienced college and university counseling directors about their current plans for the fall, hear from your peers who attended the live event to discover what they are doing, and compile the best ideas and practices to serve your students. Who Should Attend This program will benefit Student Affairs leaders, Directors of Counseling Centers, and other student mental […]
