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 Fair Housing Act.
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 also trauma-informed. Join us online to learn how to create a safe space for all parties in the high stakes of a trauma case. Creating this environment through carefully chosen words and actions will help you elicit better responses that lead to more productive investigations.
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 philanthropist†donor
Effective academic leadership requires a deeper awareness of ways both introverts and extraverts are motivated. This goes beyond common generalizations based on talkative or quiet natured professionals. Join us for this online training and learn the strengths introverts bring to the table and the adaptive skills so that as an introvert, you can lean into your strengths to lead more effectively, or as an extravert, you can be more sensitive to the dynamics of your team.
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 the ratios Fund accounting principles with a focus on expendable net assets Examples of the impact of incorrect computations How to avoid common overstatement of the CFI Ensuring clean and accurate source data for your CFI Conditions for a strong peer analysis and pitfalls to avoid
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 can deliver data to them in the most relevant, impactful way. This webcast will provide an overview of how to frame conversations and ask better questions on the front-end to produce better results.
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 that personal bias does not directly impact decisions. You’ll also receive resources that will review the concepts of microaggressions and bias more generally to help you and your team get the conversation started, and the webcast itself will dive into specific tools and practice to help you uncover bias in your Title IX processes.
Strengthen the strategy behind your impact reports. Agenda Building Infrastructure and Refining Process Tiering and Scaling Your Effort Metrics to Demonstrate ROI
Routine portfolio maintenance. Learn strategies and tips for portfolio management for greater fundraising success. Agenda Portfolio Maintenance Establishing Your Portfolio Routine Daily Weekly Monthly Leveraging Metrics in Portfolio Management
Learn how to comprehensively and objectively assess the success of your events and develop criteria for successful ones. Join Lynne Wester to learn an evaluation model and gain insights on how to collect data before, during, and after events to comprehensively evaluate success. Tools to Evaluate Your Advancement Events These resources are included in your registration to help you gather feedback and evaluate your events: Follow-up communications for attendees and non-attendees Editable 21-criteria evaluation form Event summary document Lifetime value of event attendees workbook
Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a conflict and you wish the other person would do more? Do you want them to be more of a “partner” than an “antagonist?” Conflict in the workplace can become toxic quickly. Rather than letting it fester, create an opportunity to emerge stronger as individuals and as a team. Take a step back, drop those assumptions, and join us for this 60-minute webcast as we work through five common scenarios, such as “The Ghost Conflict” and “The Grudge Holder,” and show you how you can effectively lead yourself, and others, through to the other side.
With growing numbers of commuter and non-traditional students who do not spend their free time on campus, it’s especially challenging to connect students to the services designed to help them succeed. Cal State Fullerton is addressing this issue through its Student Success Team (SST) model, which embeds a group of faculty, academic advisors, student affairs, and career services into every college within the university. In this webcast, Elizabeth Zavala-Acevez will describe how CSUF embarked on this partnership between student affairs and academic affairs that has helped her institution see an 11% increase in graduation rates. She’ll pay special attention to the role of career services in this model, which moves beyond its physical career center to engage students where they are.
We hear regularly that you want ways to freshen up your annual giving solicitations, so we put out a call last fall to our entire annual giving audience for your best print or digital pieces. Download this viewbook to see a collection of our favorites, along with tips to employ some of these solicitation strategies in your own shop.
Over the following 10 videos, Dr. Patrick Sanaghan will offer valuable tips for working under a micromanager and how to improve your management style if you suspect you micromanage.
After assembling a team of intelligent and motivated individuals at your institution, you might be wondering how to evaluate their effectiveness. After all, even the strongest and most productive teams can benefit from understanding where they are excelling and where they could use some additional work. We want to make that task easier for your by helping you informally review the strengths and weaknesses of your team. The following 5 lessons will review some best practices around team building.
Whether you’re justifying use of funds or seeking funding for your active learning space initiative, your project scope will need evidence to support your request. Our experts will guide you through ways to collect and incorporate the most compelling data so you can effectively communicate the need and what it will cost. Join us for this 60 minute webcast and learn essential front-end research strategies that you can use and apply during the vision, design, and budgeting phases.
Resistance to change happens; learn how you can manage it more effectively. Agenda During this training, you will be introduced to three common scenarios in which you will practice identifying the root cause of the resistance and workshop how to address these challenges. You will also hear case studies of how our experts have successfully managed resistance to change in both academic and administrative departments. These case studies will help you better apply what you learn to your individual context. Scenarios: A long-time faculty member is upset when she learns that two of her courses are scheduled to be dropped from the curriculum due to changes in new competencies. A faculty/advisory team has recently been asked to take on recruiting for their program A beloved staff support professional has been asked to move to another department, causing concern among the faculty who consider him one of their own.
Graduate students, unlike their undergrad counterparts, often do not have dedicated student support systems. However, not all graduate students want to pursue a career in academia and many need avenues for seeking career options, gaining professional skills, and preparing for life after higher education. During this training, you will learn how Virginia Commonwealth University was able to provide support in four critical areas to help grads make the transition from student to professional, including: Interviewing skills Understanding professional culture Knowing your options for careers Dealing with anxiety through the transition For each of these topics, we will discuss what sub-topics were included, how the support was staffed and resourced, the format the support was given in, and a suggested timeline for when the support was given. You will leave with plenty of ideas for how to replicate similar support for your graduate students.
This course will demonstrate one way Alicia and I have envisioned presenting the creative teaching strategies Alicia encounters through her research. This course will use CSU Fresno’s online graduate student tutoring programs as an example. The blue text will explain the main features we are considering. [This was completed quickly to be an example, so the writing and other content is simply illustrative and not indicative of what a real entry in this series would look like.] Each course would open with a description of the program/teaching technique being presented: CSU Fresno’s Online Tutoring for Graduate Students Graduate students often have very robust lives outside of the classroom. Many need to balance the demands of their families and work lives with their studies, which can make it hard for graduate students to be on campus during regular businesses hours to receive support. Additionally, graduate students often have complex needs not easily met by traditional tutoring spaces that focus on undergraduate coursework. CSU Fresno offers online support specifically geared for graduate students to overcome these hurdles and increase the success of their graduate students. CSU Fresno’s online support for graduate student got its start in XXX when Charles Radke recognized that the […]
Increase consistency and impact with which your advising and career services staff interacts with students. Agenda This webcast will focus on how you can cross-training advising and career services staff to help both teams better understand how: Coursework supports particular career paths Student interactions can be made more consistent and impactful A central communications database is integral in providing informed, seamless support Shared messages at admissions, orientation, and FYE events help develop relationships with the university We will close by sharing some advice on how this partnership can become part of a larger success network.
