Agenda Understanding Successful Events Unique identifiers of advancement event success Attendee mix Location Follow-up Concrete ROI evaluation for events Surveying and Data Collection: Before, During, and After the Event How to Evaluate and Eliminate a Failing Event
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Higher ed is facing an unprecedented demand for student mental health services. In response, many institutions are in the process of building toward scalable, multi-prong solutions to help meet this demand and are in need of information on common challenges and best practices that have worked for others in bolstering services. The purpose of this report is to help you think more broadly and creatively about your own institutional approach to student mental health.
The silo mentality that often exists on our campuses often limits our collective actions, and creates redundancy and replication. Given shrinking resources and the rapid pace of change, the siloed approach to team building and decision making is neither strategic nor feasible. We must work collaboratively to utilize the collective talents of our campus stakeholders. And learning to build high performing teams is one of the most effective ways we can meet the many challenges that confront us. If a senior leader can build a stellar team, the organizational leverage that can be achieved is powerful and can be a game changer for a campus. In this scenario: Stakeholders understand that cross-boundary collaboration is expected and supported by the actions of the senior team, because they model the way. Campuses are able to solve complex challenges because people work together to manage these challenges. People share resources, ideas, attention and effort, recognizing that the team, not just some individuals on it, really matter in serving the mission and vision of their campus. We have had the opportunity to work with scores of senior teams in higher education. Almost always, these teams were comprised of highly intelligent, dedicated, honest, and mission-driven individuals. But […]
Higher education will face daunting and complex challenges over the next decade, and campuses will need high-performing teams, especially a high-performing senior team, in order to face those challenges. Building and nurturing a great team is a daunting and noble task for any leader. It takes courage and care, perspiration and aspiration, and investment of time and attention—all of which are in short supply on campuses. The good news is that the effort is almost always worth it because an exceptional team can do amazing work. It makes the campus feel alive and energized. People talk about all the possibilities that can be realized. The gift that a stellar senior team gives their campus is that they model the way for others, not with platitudes and pontifications, but with a more powerful teaching model—their actions. The senior team’s behavior has a trickle-down effect: if everyone on the senior team learns how to operate as a real team, they can then teach their direct reports how to be a real team. Those direct reports can, in turn, teach their own direct reports. This cascading learning process creates extraordinary leverage throughout campus. We have examined several campuses that have great teams at […]
Outdated faculty handbooks limit institutional flexibility and can create significant liabilities. This online training will outline five common problems with faculty handbooks and offer practical solutions to address each issue. You will leave with clarity around whether your handbook: Complies with Title IX, the ADA, and other civil rights laws Aligns with your board’s bylaws, organizational structure, and mission Defines how academic freedom, shared governance, and tenure work on your campus
Strategies to Confidently Communicate with Students Experiencing Mental Health Challenges Learn best practices for more effective interactions with students experiencing mental health issues, even if you’re not a counselor. Members Get More! Academic Impressions members get additional quizzes and roleplays to practice the concepts shared in the webcast. Practice 6 Communication Strategies Agenda Using common student scenarios, our instructor Dr. Jackie Leibsohn will explain and demonstrate the following essential interaction techniques: Paraphrasing Empathy Feedback Questioning Directing Discrepancy
As online programs continue to grow in popularity, the need to train faculty to adjust traditional classroom teaching styles and become effective online instructors is more critical than ever. If you’re responsible for making sure your faculty feel successful in the online classroom, join this webcast to experience one approach to training faculty used at Samuel Merritt University. Samuel Merritt immerses faculty in an online learning environment for a 2-week course, imparting instructional methods and techniques and creating empathy for the online student experience. You will get to experience lessons from their course, such as how to create presence or offer meaningful feedback online, and you’ll leave with tips for how to implement these techniques on your campus.
As the landscape of higher education becomes more competitive than ever, mergers, partnerships, and other institutional combinations are becoming a reality for a large number of colleges and universities. This report was written to help higher ed leaders proactively learn about what goes into a merger or partnership on the front end and to share critical lessons learned from leaders who have already been through this process. Read this report to better understand and evaluate your own institutional readiness for a merger, acquisition, or strategic partnership.
Enjoy this 3-part series, plus a bonus Q&A session for members, which will provide strategies and new approaches to improve alumni volunteer recruitment, onboarding, and recognition, so you can get the most out of your relationships with your volunteers. Overview Alumni volunteers are critical to the success of any advancement office. They add tremendous value to your events and communications. To ensure you maximize their impact, you need to recruit alumni volunteers that you can rely on. You need to set the right expectations when they are onboarded, so that you can direct their energy in a productive way. Meaningful recognition is also key to keeping your alumni volunteers engaged and satisfied. We’ve designed a collection of webcasts to help you explore the alumni volunteer management cycle and learn strategies for how to enhance the impact of your alumni volunteers. See below which of our webcasts you and your team qualify for based on your membership status. Login information can be found on each individual page in the series, click below.
Create an Alumni Volunteer Experience that Fosters Life-Long Engagement with Your Institution Enjoy this recorded 3-part series, plus a bonus Q&A recorded session for members, which will provide strategies and new approaches to improve alumni volunteer recruitment, onboarding, and recognition, so you can get the most out of your relationships with your volunteers. Alumni volunteers are critical to the success of any advancement office. They add tremendous value to your events and communications. To ensure you maximize their impact, you need to recruit alumni volunteers that you can rely on. You need to set the right expectations when they are onboarded, so that you can direct their energy in a productive way. Meaningful recognition is also key to keeping your alumni volunteers engaged and satisfied. We’ve designed a collection of webcasts to help you explore the alumni volunteer management cycle and learn strategies for how to enhance the impact of your alumni volunteers. See below which of our webcasts you and your team qualify for based on your membership status. Rethinking Your Alumni Volunteer Recruitment Philosophy Presented by: Shannon Jaeger Alumni Volunteer Onboarding: The Beginning of Life-Long Engagement Presented by: Tina Gourley Recognizing Your Alumni Volunteers in Meaningful Ways Presented […]
Most institutions are invested in engaging their alumni and recruiting more students, but is there a way to accomplish these two goals at the same time? Utilizing alumni in the admissions process is one way to engage them while also enhancing the experience of prospective students as they work their way through the enrollment funnel. Join us for this webcast to learn how the University of Pennsylvania designed and implemented an Alumni Interview Program to involve and leverage alumni in the admission process. You will hear how the infrastructure of the Penn Alumni Interview Program made applying to the institution more accessible to all by providing a venue for applicants to: Advocate for themselves Learn about student life from alum Contribute to the application process by providing a more holistic representation of variables that may not be captured in a standard application The director of this program, Patrick Bredehoft, will tell the story of how they have scaled the initiative to reach 24,000 active volunteers and 40,000 interviews annually. You will leave this training with new ideas, inspiration, and more confidence to adapt this type initiative to your institution’s unique context.
While never ideal, operating budget pressures may lead to an immediate need for strategic realignment of faculty and resources. These are tough decisions to make, and it’s always a balancing act to move forward quickly enough to offset further issues and carefully enough to foresee and minimize the impact on your faculty and staff. Our experts are two Vice Presidents with financial and academic backgrounds, who came together to turn around a community college campus facing closure. Learn how they quickly assessed the situation and determined their course of action based on continuous feedback from stakeholders, which resulted in important academic program structural changes over a three-year period. Now, they have a new process in place to ensure academic programs are on a continuous cycle of improvement and renewal. From their case study, you will learn key data-driven strategies to deploy resources and realign academic programs. Highlights will include: Curricular innovations to strengthen the culinary arts program New program development in growth areas such as business Repositioning faculty from less relevant programs to high demand areas Your registration to this webcast series will include entry to both sessions, which take place on June 11 and 25 from 2:00 – 3:00 […]
Agenda Our instructor will begin the webcast by helping you discover how your personal identity shapes the meetings you lead. Then we’ll discuss: How to practice critical communication skills (e.g., deep listening, genuine question probing, and suspending assumptions and judgments) to foster inclusion and collaboration in a group setting How to choose accountability partners who will provide honest feedback about your meetings
If you’re still running game-watch parties and networking socials, use these resources to plan and execute more valuable, donor-driven events.
If your institution has faculty learning communities (FLCs), you’re already creating teaching projects that introduce innovations in the classroom, such as experiential learning components or online components. However, have you ever considered moving these projects beyond your institutional boundaries — to peer-reviewed presentations or publications on teaching and learning? Join us online to learn from a leader in the field how Miami University has used their faculty learning communities to grow the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). If you’re an institution with FLCs looking for easier ways to grow research, we’ll offer advice on how to grow your faculty into SoTL presenters in just one year.
Many institutions are looking to accelerate interdisciplinary research. If you’re a faculty member or research development professional, use this interactive form to set expectations for your team before beginning a project. It will guide you through a list of considerations that are key to building and managing a successful team.
Agenda We will help you start brainstorming a strategy for online recruitment events by introducing you to how Penn State World Campus executes the following: Webinars Virtual open houses Other virtual platforms You’ll leave with advice on how to get started on your campus. Resources Download the presentation slides (PDF) Download the additional resources (PDF) Download the leftover questions (PDF)
This online training is designed as an interactive workshop to enhance your advancement writing skills. We will cover a wide variety of advancement communications from solicitations to stewardship, including daily correspondence with alumni and donors, both digital and handwritten. In this two-day webcast series, both sessions will cover the six keys to effective writing and how they tie into the four pillars of donor communications. During the two 1-hr webcasts, you will have time to apply these skills to examples from your own shop.
Most career services offices assign students to advisors based on the students’ majors. But a small handful of institutions, including Rutgers University and DePaul University, have restructured into a small number of career industry clusters — which help students think more broadly about career options and mirror more closely the future world of work. Join us online to learn how both Rutgers and DePaul have implemented this new career clusters model. Rutgers has six years of experience utilizing the model and can share success stories (including a spike in student engagement), while DePaul is new to the model and can speak to transition challenges. You’ll leave with ideas for cluster-specific programming, marketing, technology, and employer relations.
