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.
The media landscape is changing — tighter deadlines, the 24-hour news cycle, shrinking budgets. All of these things are changing the way public relations departments interact with journalists. Consider reviewing this job aid and video before your next interaction with a reporter. Hear from former on-air reporter and current director of Media & Public Relations at The Ohio State University, Ben Johnson. He answers questions like: How has the changing media landscape changed the way you connect with reporters? How do you pitch positive stories about the institution that aren’t self-serving or too puffy? How do you respond to after-hours, breaking news? What’s the best way to contact reporters for a story pitch?
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Agenda In order to build your confidence and skills to have courageous conversations, you will learn the following: How to recognize obstacles to courageous conversations, such as social identities and implicit biases How to recognize the difference between intent and impact in your conversations Solution-oriented communication techniques that make it easier to start these conversations and increase your impact
With many employers claiming that college and university graduates lack skills necessary for real-world success, it’s especially important to help students build these skills starting in their first year. DePaul University is doing this through EDGE (Education and Development Grant for Employability) – an on-campus internship program for first-year students that links them to a department team for 5-10 hours per week. Students gain skills and experience that will help them in their future careers, and they also get workshops in career development and financial fitness. Join us online to start thinking about how to create a similar career development ecosystem on your campus. After describing DePaul’s EDGE program, we will share advice on how to define your own on-campus career development program – including how to identify and interact with campus partners.
A Showcase of Innovative Storytelling Mechanisms Across Higher Ed One of the most effective ways to get prospective students interested in your institution is to have current students speak directly to them through their own voice and storytelling. Use this resource to inspire your next student vlog, blog or social media “take-over” campaign. w a n t m o r e Storytelling Examples? See them Here
Microaggressions are small, subtle moments when communication can be offensive, even when it’s not intended to be. Over time, they build up, create tension, and can have a long-lasting negative impact on the student. It can be difficult to confront these situations, for fear of making the situation worse. However, it is necessary to intervene to build community and trust and to ensure a safe space for your students. Come to this webcast to learn how to intervene the moment a microaggression impacts your student. You will be introduced to a framework that will guide you through how to: Ask the right questions to defuse the tension Respond to the microaggression in a way that creates a safe space for your students Take action to make the situation right
With mental health concerns growing on college campuses, the need for prevention and promotion work on your campus is more critical than ever. The ability to engage your students in peer education is a much-needed solution as it allows you to effectively manage your counseling case load and resources, expand your reach, engage diverse students and reduce stigma in a non-threatening way. Join us online to hear how the University of Alabama at Birmingham has integrated peer educators throughout campus to create a culture of mental health awareness and tolerance. You will get advice on how to replicate the successes of UAB’s award-winning training program, as well as their events and outreach initiatives.
Agenda Our speaker, Dr. David Peck, will walk you through the process used at Azusa Pacific University to better align their YouTube Strategy with their institutional goals and target audience needs. During the webcast, he will share: The importance of understanding the needs of your various audiences and the science behind what interests them Key steps of the YouTube auditing process Azusa Pacific undertook How to intentionally align your videos and YouTube structure to your institutional mission and differentiators The impact that YouTube strategy has had at Azusa Pacific Along the way, he will provide best practices and ideas to help you strengthen the YouTube strategy at your own institution.
According to recent studies, up to half of college students battle with food insecurity, which researchers have linked to lower graduation rates. It is increasingly common for colleges and universities to establish a food pantry to help address food insecurity among students, but many pantries are not well-integrated with campus and community partners. To positively impact the lives of more students, schools can centralize and expand upon what they are already doing. Join us for a webcast where we will explore an exceptionally well-integrated food pantry model from UMass Lowell. You will learn how staff forged strong relationships with on- and off-campus partners to: Generate incremental funds Raise visibility for the initiative Position it as a central focal point of the university’s holistic efforts to address food insecurity on campus You will leave this training with strategies to work more closely with your own campus and community partners to either create a new food pantry or increase the impact and sustainability of your existing one.
Selecting the next president may be the most important decision you will make when it comes to the future success of your institution. Yet, the search process has become more challenging in this age of disruption. Searches are increasingly competitive, and institutions need to seek a new leadership skillset. Join us online to learn about the most crucial parts of your presidential search process. We will share the most fundamental goals of today’s search process, and you’ll learn how to operationalize these goals at your institution. You’ll leave knowing how to increase the chances of getting your preferred presidential candidate to say “Yes!” Selecting the next president may be the most important decision you will make when it comes to the future success of your institution. Yet, the search process has become more challenging in this age of disruption. Searches are increasingly competitive, and institutions need to seek a new leadership skillset. Join us online to learn about the most crucial parts of your presidential search process. We will share the most fundamental goals of today’s search process, and you’ll learn how to operationalize these goals at your institution. You’ll leave knowing how to increase the chances of getting your preferred presidential […]
