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Designing an Incentivized STEM Mentoring Program for Equitable Success

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 […]

Transitioning Leadership Annual Donors to Major Donors

Learn how to steward your leadership donors to the next level. Agenda Evaluating and Managing Your Leadership Donor Portfolio Moving donors into, and upgrading within, your leadership giving levels Effectively assessing and managing your leadership donor portfolio Developing goals and strategies for leadership donors Beyond qualification: Identifying who manages the relationship Stewardship Techniques to Effectively […]

Preparing Graduate Students for the Workforce: A Case Study

See how one institution is intentionally developing their grad students to have the soft skills necessary for success in the workforce. Agenda In this case study-based webcast, Chris Connor and Joshua LaFave will outline how the SEAS 360° Certificate of Professional Development was developed at SUNY Buffalo and the impact it has had on graduate […]

Engaging Students Through Creativity in Instruction

As instructors, we owe it to students to make classrooms as engaging as possible. There is a new, and welcome, attention being given to doing more to maintain student interest, to engage students in new and different ways, and to ultimately retain and graduate more students, especially those who are at-risk and may already feel […]

Time Management: A Disciplined Approach to Priority-Setting

Is your to-do list controlling you, or are you in control of your to-do list? Agenda Before the session, we will ask you to pull a representative two-week period from your calendar and complete a short exercise. Armed with these pieces, we will work through these two exercises together during the webcast: Exercise 1: Assess […]

Title IX: Key Considerations for Working with Pregnant and Parenting Students

Learn how to develop policies and procedures for working with pregnant and parenting students. Agenda After briefly discussing legal guidance for policies surrounding pregnant and parenting students, we will outline the key pieces you need to account for in your campus policies and procedures, including: Reasonable accommodations Childbirth vs. childcare Institutional policies and procedures While […]

How Ready Are You to Implement Your Strategic Plan?

It can be argued that developing strategic plans is an easier feat than pulling off a successful implementation. But, that doesn’t have to be the case. We’ve created this informal assessment to help you gain a better understanding of your institution’s readiness for strategic implementation by helping you identify strengths and potential pitfalls. This informal […]

5 Steps for Growing and Sustaining Online Programs

Learn how to build a framework for growing your online programs. Agenda This webcast will walk you through the five distinct approaches needed to successfully grow your online programs, including: Strategic Plan and Operations Faculty Professional Development Accreditation and State Authorization (C-RAC guidelines) Scalable and Reliable Technology Marketing and Program Strategies You will leave with […]

Predictive Models for Enrollment: A Showcase of Three Examples

Predictive modeling is one of the most impactful and widespread methods that institutions are using to become more data-driven in their decision-making. Join us for an example-based webcast that will walk you through three different predictive models that one institution uses to predict yield at various stages of the enrollment funnel. Our expert instructor will […]

Improving Faculty Mentorship

Learn how your institution can implement an enhanced, evidence-supported faculty mentorship program with network-based mentoring. This training will provide you with a high-level view of network-based mentorship as well as concrete examples, resources, and guides to help you operationalize on your campus. After this training, you will be able to take what you learn and […]

Tuition Setting Strategies for Graduate Programs

Be more strategic about how you are setting tuition for your graduate programs. Agenda You will review two real graduate programs’ financial proformas and discover why one was accepted and one was rejected. You will also discover how strategic tuition setting played an important part in determining the program’s viability. Topics will include: Primary factors […]

Developing an Assistance Animal Compliance Policy (October 2018)

Learn how to develop an assistance animal compliance policy that is appropriate for your institution. With the help of our instructors’ institutional and legal expertise, you will learn the fundamentals of addressing individual requests for assistance animals through structured policies and procedures. This webcast will help you avoid legal liability and subsequent lawsuits under the […]

Conducting Trauma-Informed Investigations for Sexual Misconduct Cases

A trauma-informed investigation takes into account different conditions such as shock, denial, memory loss, or withdrawal that may interfere with the interviewee’s ability to clearly articulate their experience. Investigators are missing the opportunity to solicit the most objective version of a reporting party’s story if they do not consider developing a fact-finding strategy that is […]

Introducing Blended Gifts to Donor Conversations

Learn how to successfully introduce planned giving options into your donor conversations. Agenda Identifying When a Blended Ask Is the Best Ask Tactics for bringing up a planned gift and making a dual ask Putting It into Action: Sample Donor Situations The loyal annual gift donor with potential The “worried about retirement†donor The “reluctant […]

Accurately Calculate and Interpret the CFI

Through university and college examples, you will learn the fundamental accounting principles behind the CFI (Composite Financial Index). You will also discover how to avoid common misrepresentations of the data so you can be more confident in using this tool to support stakeholder conversations about your institutional financial performance. You will learn: Key concepts behind […]

Key Questions to Produce Effective Data Visualizations

As a steward of data at your institution, you must interface with a variety of end-users, each of whom has unique goals, responsibilities, and needs. These variables impact how they will use and make decisions with the data visualizations you provide. The conversations you have early on with these stakeholders are critical in ensuring you […]

Overcoming Bias in Your Title IX Investigative Process

With the rise of complex sexual misconduct cases, the potential for imposing bias in our investigative process is high.  This webcast will examine the intersection between bias and Title IX investigations to ensure an objective and fundamentally fair investigative process. Join us for this webcast and gain the confidence, knowledge, and skill set to ensure […]

Developing Your Impact Reporting Strategy

Strengthen the strategy behind your impact reports. Agenda Building Infrastructure and Refining Process Tiering and Scaling Your Effort Metrics to Demonstrate ROI