Learn how to utilize a wellness intervention plan to help you overcome social justice fatigue. Agenda During this webcast, our instructor will cover: Primary Causes of Social Justice Fatigue How to Use and Create Your Own Wellness Intervention Plans and Tools Benefits to Your Institution’s Productivity Overall productivity and advocacy for professionals Improved campus climate for staff and students
More and more public universities are successfully creating, expanding, and refining Honors Programs/Colleges, yet these colleges are not getting the level of attention from potential applicants to make them as successful as they can be. Join us for this online training to explore how you can use data to build a better brand and promote your Honors Program/College to get more prospective students. In this 60-minute webcast, you will learn how to: Better understand and leverage your program/college’s strengths Boost brand awareness Summarize how your Honors Program/College delivers value to students Highlight Honors student successes
Learn how to solicit and cultivate your advisory and alumni boards. Agenda Encourage personal commitments from members Educate boards about the financial mission and goals of the institution Engage members in donor relations and stewardship Inspire boards to foster connections for the university
Microaggressions don’t necessarily reflect bad intent but can still be very damaging. Therefore, it is important to proactively identify and address microaggressions within your department and your institution before they become a problem. Learning to properly spot and address these statements can improve your campus climate while reducing absenteeism, turnover, and employee complaints. This toolkit provides a foundational understanding of microaggressions and how to combat them. The first lesson will define microaggressions and bring awareness to how prevalent they are in our daily conversations. The second lesson will build on that understanding and explain why microaggressions happen, consciously and unconsciously. The final lesson will provide guidance and tools to help you address microaggressions when they occur.
Is your market position supported by data or by anecdotes? The reality is that a surprisingly large number of institutions still work from the latter when defining their brand in a competitive landscape. Your institution might boast qualities such as: “academic excellence,” “diversity,” or “career readiness,” but would your students agree? With a data-informed understanding of your market position, you can start to break from this “sameness” and capitalize on what truly makes your institution or program unique. Join us for this webcast and learn what data you need to conduct a comprehensive market analysis that will ultimately inform your market position. You’ll learn where and how to access this data, and how to use it to make better informed decisions related to strategic enrollment planning, new academic program planning, or institutional endeavors.
Build self-awareness strategies to foster cultural inclusion in your departmental meetings. Agenda After a brief overview of the empirical research that demonstrates the propensity for departmental heads to bring bias to the meetings they facilitate, our instructor will dive deeper into how to: 1. Establish tools to become an effective Reflective-Practitioner. 2. Understand and 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. 3. Understand the value of establishing accountability partners.
Learn how to more effectively move your department through change. Agenda Phase 1: Shock and Denial Phase 2: Anger and Fear Phase 3: Acceptance Phase 4: Rebuilding
Learn communication techniques to effectively interact with students experiencing mental health issues. Agenda There are several communication strategies to support the needs of students who might be experiencing mental health challenges. Our instructor Dr. Jackie Leibsohn will walk through and explain the following essential interaction techniques: Paraphrasing Empathy Feedback Questioning Directing Discrepancy
Creating Digital Badges to Incentivize Participation in Faculty Development Badges are more than just participation trophies. Design them to commensurately represent the knowledge and skills gained.
CBE programs are becoming more ubiquitous in higher ed, but there is still a lot of gray area around ensuring accountability that experiential knowledge is commensurate with college-level learning. Many are still trying to answer questions like: what’s the best way to award and represent this learning and knowledge? How can we ensure an equitable experience for all students? Join us to gain a deeper understanding of Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) and how to implement it at your institution. Assessment evens the playing field but must meet quality standards. During this webcast, our expert, Donna Younger, will demonstrate how PLA can address high attrition rates and achievement gaps as well as encourage students to kickstart their success outside the classroom.
Learn how to source and amplify quality content in order to enhance your institution’s communications calendar. Agenda Our presenters will outline how they put a process into place that made it easier to find, promote, amplify and repurpose stories at UCCS. Through the lens of building a framework that has allowed a culture of storytelling to thrive at their institution, they will break down each piece of the infrastructure into tactics you can use to implement a similar process on your own campus including: Tips to find quality content to share with your various stakeholders Methods to store and index stories to ensure they can easily be repackaged and repurposed across multiple mediums Tools to effectively disseminate and amplify your stories
Learn how to understand and support the needs of undocumented/DACA students at your institution. Agenda Undocumented/DACA student testimonials and how staff support made a critical difference in their collegiate careers Strategies for supporting undocumented/DACA student success Busting myths about undocumented/DACA students Unpacking unconscious biases, assumptions Key strategies in providing support when meeting with them individually Curating resources on your campus Tips for developing a program on your campus for undocumented students
Author and critique impactful op-ed pieces in order to increase your institution’s relevancy and visibility. Agenda After a brief overview about op-eds, the impact they can have on individual faculty members and institutions, and the importance of quality training in this area, our skilled instructor Teresa Valerio Parrot will dive deeper into the following: Considerations to take prior to publishing Key principles for writing an effective op-ed Hands-on practice critiquing and editing writing samples
Providing access to online academic support presents a unique set of challenges. This webcast will help online advisors understand how to build relationships with students given the unique needs and challenges that exist in online environments. Join us for this online training and hear how one institution reduced overlapping processes, broadened their outreach to students in different time zones, and improved their relationship-building through online communication.
A top takeaway from the Millennial Impact Report notes that millennials support causes they are passionate about rather than institutions. However, what is often overlooked is that when deciding what to support, 75% of millennials say they would be likely or highly likely to support an organization if asked by a family member. Forty percent of affluent millennials took an active role in their family’s charitable giving before the age of 21. What does this information tell us? It reminds us that we need to start engaging our children of wealth early, and we need to involve their parents. Our speakers will frame the discussion around three case studies specifically chosen to illustrate different approaches to family philanthropy. Join us for a webcast on how to strategically engage the giving power of families.
Join us online to learn how Lehigh University has increased the effectiveness of their young alumni volunteer program, and take away strategies to better engage this critical audience and cultivate generations of future givers. Our speaker, Shannon Jaeger, will cover: Tracking strategies for progress and behavior Motivating and engaging volunteers on their level Aligning volunteer goals with advancement priorities Recognizing volunteers and sharing the impact of their efforts These strategies have improved involvement, retention, and giving habits amongst Lehigh’s young alumni. While the core examples will focus on this audience, many of the strategies and methods can be adapted for other volunteer groups you work with and manage.
Agenda This webcast will walk you through three technologies and how to implement them in your courses: Adaptive Learning Artificial Intelligence Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality
Over the past few years, hundreds of institutions have considered creating and launching a new competency-based education (CBE) program. Launching these programs can be overwhelming – successful programs require new knowledge and rethinking the way we do business. In this online training, your instructor will walk you through the important steps to create and launch a CBE program. The discussion will concentrate on the four stages of development and will provide an outline of each stage, including the tasks associated with each, with particular attention to the initial effort.
Learn how to convert parent enthusiasm into philanthropic engagement. Agenda During the webcast, our expert will walk you through the current challenges and missed opportunities in parent giving programs. She will also share effective strategies to engage and inspire this important constituency. Resource Download the presentation slides (PDF) Download the leftover questions from Q&A. (PDF)
Without key support structures in place, many students are likely to get discouraged in their STEM work after receiving a poor grade. North Hennepin Community College has developed an incentivized STEM mentor program that has resulted in an unprecedented pass rate for students who did not pass their first exam. Join us for this webcast and hear from our expert, Lisa Smith, who will share the structure, budget, and other important components for an effective incentivized STEM mentor program. The success of this program resulted from the combination of a shared vision to never give up on students based on a low grade, a student incentive that complements their natural motivation, and faculty involvement.
