One of the largest growing populations on college campuses today are international students. Student affairs practitioners, not just the mental health providers, need to acquire and practice cultural competency in their interactions and services with international students. This webcast will give you five practical skills to enhance your cultural competency, as well as your department’s, as you work with the mental health needs of international students on your campus.
Learn fresh ideas for how you can communicate with deposited students to prevent summer melt and increase yield at your institution. During the webcast, you will learn how to: Make your yield communications more successful Use print, digital, and social media channels as tools to prevent summer melt Educate and mobilize cross-campus partners to create a more seamless strategy Throughout this training, you will see numerous examples of effective yield communications. These examples, combined with a practically-focused presentation, will help you apply what you learn to your own institutional context.
Gain the skills you need to address and mitigate common challenges that deans face. Agenda The Academic Leader’s Role Four leadership best practices Common Challenges for Academic Leaders: Scenarios Understanding the issue What would you do as a dean? Speaker’s experience and result Assessing the leadership practices Resources
Effectively collect and actually use your alumni survey data. Agenda Overview of Alumni Survey Design Goals Current usage Survey platforms Event Surveys How to best distribute Analyzing data Follow-Up with respondents Using data in event performance evaluation Making decisions based on information learned Alumni Attitudinal Surveys Gathering and analyzing data Triggers for major gift prospects Using data to inform future strategies Programming and staffing decisions based on information learned On the Horizon Incorporating survey responses into big data engagement metrics Volunteer surveying Learning from the unengaged
Better use social media, Â text messaging, and email to effectively connect with students. Agenda Appreciative Advising Creating a strategic digital advising and communications plan Launching communication campaigns Identifying target engagement Crafting the message Leveraging partnerships to repurpose content Media Selection Social media Text messaging Email Automating your everyday communication Assessing your communications campaign Overcoming communication challenges Student privacy considerations Conclusion & Q&A
After participating in this online training, you will ensure Title IX compliance for study abroad students and staff. Agenda Overview of Title IX & Compliance Understanding how Title IX Extends to Study Abroad Trips Institution-Lead or Sponsored Trips On-Site Director Role Sticky Situations Real-life Title IX Study Abroad Case Scenarios Action Steps to Prepare Your Study Abroad Trips for Title IX Faculty, Staff, and Study Abroad Coordinator Training Student Training Reporting to Home Institution
The value of volunteer leaders at your institution is undeniable, but how do you understand their motivations and preferences to ensure that the relationship is mutually beneficial? Here we will provide a strategy to help ensure that you are engaging and involving your boards and councils, campaign committees, and other volunteer leaders, in a way that harnesses their skills, expertise, and energy for maximum impact and greater fundraising success.
Learn how organizations and institutions have successfully increased the retention rates of their veteran and military-connected students. Tanya Ang of the American Council on Education and Bruce Kelley with University of South Dakota will discuss: Common issues impacting military-connected students’ success Critical areas of support that you may be missing Student support and community services that can help Methods for creating veteran-friendly classrooms
For many private institutions, community college transfer students represent a viable and untapped opportunity for increased enrollment and tuition revenue. This webcast has been designed to help private, four-year institutions capitalize on this growing student population. Our expert instructor will help you understand how to make a compelling case for building community college transfer pathways at your institution, as well as outline how you can create pathways that are both intentional and sustainable. You will leave this online training prepared to answer questions such as: How can I make the case for investing in transfer student recruitment and pathways? What are best practices for establishing partnerships with community colleges? What adjustments need to be made on campus to accommodate more transfer students? What institutions have done this successfully, and what do their pathway models look like?
Academic leaders are being called upon to improve the productivity of their operations, but many lack appropriate data and strategic analysis to increase output and reduce costs. Join us to learn how one institution used data-driven evidence to: Determine differential cost per credit hour across a range of departments Examine average revenue, costs, and contribution margin per program Identify specific courses that present opportunities to improve net tuition revenue Workbooks Included with Registration During the webinar, you will see examples of spreadsheets to perform breakeven, contribution margin, and trend analysis to better understand the cost structure of your programs and departments. This analysis will help you calculate costs within your department to identify where inefficiencies exist and understand where to start remedying the situation. You will also receive spreadsheet examples of how to perform financial analysis of faculty retirement programs, and how to create a business model for new programs.
Communicate with recent graduates in ways that inspire engagement and giving. Agenda Communicating with Millennials Effective language Giving preferences Communication methods Creative and Successful Communications and Programs Targeted solicitations Challenges and crowdfunding Stewarding Young Alumni Donors Demonstrating impact Eliciting future giving
Prevent your institution from being added to the 275+ Title IX cases that remain open due to mismanagement. Agenda What is Title IX? History Definitions Common and Uncommon Understanding Compliance 101 Non-discrimination policies Title IX coordinators Grievance Process Lessons learned from other institutions Steps college executives need to take Understanding violations Regularly reviewing dear colleague letters Know your internal committees Conducting regular trainings with faculty and staff
Learn how two institutions improved their non-traditional student retention and completion rates using data. You will gain new insights for how you can: Create a program for students earning below a 2.0 their first semester Improve your use of analytics and outreach to boost completion rates Draft a unique intervention plan for non-traditional students This webinar features case studies from Middle Tennessee State University as well as Bay Path University’s American Women’s College.
Learn how you can customize, make key decisions, and cultivate ownership of a responsibility center management (RCM) budgeting model on your campus. Larry Goldstein will walk you through critical aspects of RCM so you can better: “This explanation and presentation of the RCM budget model was enlightening and very reassuring that our Task Force is on the right track with modifying our current budget program. We also realized throughout the presentation that CSULA has utilized several RCM principles over the past few years.”– Troy Allen, Director of Strategic Planning & Quality Improvement, CSULA
Are you putting data to work within your career services program? Agenda Defining analytics in higher education Background and examples of institutional uses Establishing a program for data collection Assessing existing sources of data Evaluating data reliability Establishing buy-in and a program for data collection Moving from assumptions to data-driven decision making Learning to answer and automate questions Strategies for telling your story with data Examples from two large-centralized career centers
Engage parents in a way that encourages leadership giving. Agenda Parent Program Structure Funding structure Differences in working with parents vs. other donors Parent programs and relationships across campus Communications Parent Board and Committees Giving expectations for members Unique opportunities for involvement Results Leadership Giving Setting recognition levels Moves management Parents of Alumni Development Lasting cultivation Results
Get feedback on your reporting challenges from our advancement services expert, Alan Hejnal. Agenda Overview of webcast recording The Voluntary Support of Education Survey (VSE) The Basics More Detail: What’s Included More Detail: What’s Required Line By Line Reporting Challenges VSE Publication and Data Miner
Ensure a steady revenue stream for your corporate engagement program and your institution by charging corporate partners for their involvement with faculty, students, and research across campus in a more consistent manner. Throughout the training, you will learn how to: Assess the value of your campus resources Develop a model for charging corporations Transition existing partnerships to a paid model
Do you need solutions for supporting students with high-quality mental health counseling? Agenda Key factors that increase the effectiveness of psychological interventions Effective mental health practices Increasing engagement and improving therapeutic outcomes Establish, share, and measure therapeutic outcomes on an ongoing basis Technological tools that can be used in a campus counseling context Match level of intervention to need Levels of digital services and tools for intervention Apps Online self-help resources Use of tools in confidential and therapeutic way Recommended tools to use to increase client compliance with treatment Low-intensity online therapy TAO Case Study University of Florida integration of online therapeutic tools in TAO Therapist assisted online vs. treatment as usual Next Steps/Final Q&A
Are your financial aid and enrollment offices sufficiently prepared for Prior-Prior Year? Agenda Shifting deadlines and dates How are other institutions adjusting their dates and deadlines for: Tuition setting? FAFSA deadlines? Financial aid awarding? Admissions applications? Admissions decisions? Communication plan How are other institutions planning to communicate with the following entities about these changes: Prospective parents and families? Prospective students? Cross-campus partners who will also be impacted by PPY? High school guidance counselors? Financial aid staffing and workflows In response to the changes that PPY will bring, are other institutions planning to: Change their award notification letters? If so, how? Ramp up communications/awareness campaigns about the IRS data retrieval tool? The net price calculator? If so, how? Increase or change communications regarding the financial aid appeals process? Hire additional financial aid staff for increased capacity? Recruitment and Yield What tactics are other institutions considering to: Strengthen yield communication during the extended yield time frame that PPY will bring? Adjust the timing/nature of campus visit events to maximize impact? Extend the recruitment pipeline even further to high school juniors?
