Communicating Financial Aid and Affordability to Admitted Students Webcast Recording

Do you need a more concise and streamlined approach for communicating financial aid to admitted students and their parents? This example-based online training walks through considerations for proactive and effective financial aid communication during the narrow window of time between admittance and enrollment. Included will be expert approaches from two diverse case-study institutions and many […]

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Login Instructions Live Webcast: Login on June 23, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. ET. WEBCAST LINK: http://ai.adobeconnect.com/ro7vjtyk4h0n/ Click the radio button that reads, “Enter as a Guest” In the box that says “Name,” enter your institution name Click the button to enter the meeting as a guest AUDIO: Upon entrance into the webcast meeting room, you […]

FERPA Lessons and Quizzes

This member exclusive package of six 20-30 minute practice lessons with educational quizzes will help your entire front-line staff test their FERPA knowledge. Each lesson covers specific nuances of FERPA as they pertain to a department or campus area. FERPA affects every area of campus, so use these resources to train current and future faculty […]

Building a Comprehensive Sophomore-Year-Experience Program

“This was a great program to help me take my ideas to the next step and figure out how to begin to implement them. I felt like the instructors had a personal interest in my progress, and connecting with personnel at other institutions was extremely helpful.” -Adrienne Fraaza, Fall Welcome Coordinator, Western Michigan University   […]

Using Social Media Creatively to Increase Donor and Alumni Engagement

Gain new ideas for creating engaging content on each social media platform.   Overview Learn how to keep social content and ideas fresh and exciting across multiple platforms. Join Lynne Wester as she shares the latest and greatest ideas for incorporating social media as an important part of your donor and alumni communication strategy. You […]

Making the Shift from Classroom to Online Course Design

Learn the essential components of transforming face-to-face courses to an effective online format.   Overview As the demand for high-quality online courses and programs rapidly increases, instructional designers and course developers are faced with a new set of challenges. Special considerations are required to ensure the development of effective courses and a high level of […]

Moving to a Strategic Sourcing Model

With nearly 25% of institutional costs coming from purchasing, institutions across the sector are looking for ways to push beyond transactional approaches to procurement. In response, strategic sourcing is emerging as a valuable method for lowering procurement costs by leveraging spending patterns and optimizing supplier relationships. Join us for these two online trainings that walk […]

Using Data to Inform Your Annual Giving Strategy

Are you properly leveraging your annual giving data?   Overview Properly analyzing your annual giving data is essential to make sound decisions about growing your annual fund. Knowing what data to gather and how to mine it to craft your strategy can be intimidating if you are not sure where to start. This self-paced training […]

Prioritizing Academic and Administrative Programs 101

Learn the basic concepts of academic and administrative program prioritization as you hear advice from two of higher ed’s experts.   Overview The current and foreseeable fiscal challenges in higher education require institutions to move beyond short-term measures like temporary cuts and sharp increases in tuition revenue, and fundamentally revisit their mission to ensure their […]

What Every Academic Chair Needs to Know

Learn to help raise needed funds, develop precise budgets, and develop and evaluate faculty more effectively.   Overview Join us for this three-part online training series to learn the essentials for serving as an effective department chair. Whether you are a faculty member with a desire to advance your career towards academic administration or you […]

Recruiting, Hiring, and Retaining Diverse Faculty

Learn how you can improve your institution’s ability to recruit, hire, and retain diverse faculty. This training is split up into three modules and covers: Diversifying your search process and search committee Following Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action guidelines Writing inclusive position announcements Organizing a welcoming campus visit Utilizing pre-employment agreements On-boarding diverse […]

Predictive Analytics for Improved Student Success Interventions

This two-part online training series will help you identify key predictive data, use that data to select retention programming, and assess the overall effectiveness of your interventions. Expert instructor, Russ Little, brings knowledge and experience from across the nation. You will learn: Strategies to inventory and map your current intervention strategy How to utilize predictive […]

Foundations of Auditing Endowed Funds

Knowing and communicating the financial health of your endowed funds will show your donors that their gift remains in good hands, which increases the potential for further giving. Now is the perfect time to review your endowed funds to ensure they remain: Legal: In compliance with rules and regulations Possible: To be rewarded according to fund criteria […]

Admissions Skill-Building: Core Training for New Counselors

Training of new Admissions counselors is often, out of necessity, much too hurried and perfunctory. The training that new counselors receive has historically been focused on the everyday duties of the job (travel, reading and processing applications, CRM systems, etc.), accompanied by lots of “just in time” training where other key competencies are concerned. But […]

Evaluating Online Faculty

With the growth of online education, institutions face the challenge of effectively measuring the quality of online teaching and the teaching competencies of their online faculty. Rather than using new practices tailored to a specific online learning environment, many institutions use basic evaluation methods that are not responsive to individual course considerations. Applying new practices […]

Meeting the Challenges of Accepting and Receipting Gifts

Learn how to improve the accuracy of your gift receipting and acceptance processes.   Overview While many gifts to your institution are straightforward, others present challenges and require special processing and acknowledgement. Gain an understanding of various types of complex contributions and your institution’s obligations for each variation. This comprehensive gift-receipting program will cover: Defining […]

Strategic Enrollment Management for
Community Colleges

Join us for two online sessions that will show you how to plan for and implement a Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) structure on your campus for the first time. Using case studies rooted in the practical leadership experience of our instructor, you will gain an in-depth overview of how to take the necessary steps toward […]

Institutional Collaboration: Shared Enrollment

Is your institution considering inter-institutional enrollment for specialized programs?   Overview Low enrollment programs that are core to institutional mission and values continue to face decreases in funding. Rather than cutting these programs, forward thinking leaders are collaborating with peer institutions in shared academic curricula. These partnerships allow institutions to maintain specialized courses and expand […]