Financial, academic, and social challenges make student retention a complex issue on any campus. Amidst this complexity, many institutions continue to widely allocate limited financial aid funds without a clear understanding of which students are most incentivized by financial support. Those who are able to accurately target students most in need of financial incentives for degree completion, however, ensure the strongest investment for their students and their institution. Join us for an online training that will help your institution to develop strategic plans for retention-driven financial aid allocation. Primarily, we will address: Which students will be most impacted by financial aid incentives How to design a cost/benefit analysis for optimal financial aid allocation When to communicate and distribute financial aid awards to improve retention
How are you prioritizing investments in your annual giving operation? Agenda Evaluating your core annual giving operations Donor retention Donor reactivation New donor acquisition Donor upgrades Building the pipeline Assessing the effectiveness of your annual giving vehicles Direct mail Phonathon E-solicitations Crowdfunding/Day of giving Personal solicitations Making smart investments in your annual giving operations Determining the capacity of your team Scaling considerations Case Study: Using your audit to guide planning and goal setting
Learn the 4 tenets to building your institution’s corporate training program. Agenda Developing Program Model and Goals Common program structures Scaffolding development stages Setting measures for program success Establishing, Building, and Sustaining Relationships on Your Campus Connecting across departments Financial considerations and agreements Exploring Respective Community Markets and Their Common Challenges Needs analysis Establishing a price point Parameters for target audience Establishing, Building, and Sustaining Relationships in the Business Community Networking for success Selling the training Providing exceptional customer service Branding and image
The latest regulations are out! Are you prepared to update your Annual Security Report? Agenda What’s Changed? Impact of the VAWA and Campus SaVE Act Federal Register guidelines Steps for Clery Compliance Reviewing your stats: Auditing last year’s Annual Security Report Updating your report with current definitions and policies Recommendations for collaboration and continual education What Next? Ensuring your ASR is ready for October 2015 Enhancing your institution’s policies, procedures, and programs Final Q&A
Turnover is an inevitable part of contemporary admissions work, but not all of it is out of your hands. Proactive and ongoing training, management, and evaluation of your admissions staff can go a long way toward promoting employee retention, thereby cutting cost and increasing the overall productivity of your office. Join us for an online training program that will teach you how to proactively manage turnover within your admissions office. You will come away from the program with concrete strategies that you can use to increase job satisfaction and promote retention among your admissions employees, including: Designing a deliberate and ongoing training plan Connecting employee performance goals to metrics Facilitating opportunities for advancement
Student success initiatives are often widespread, and they impact multiple areas of a single institution. However, campus administrators often don’t have enough program information to strategically allocate resources to the initiatives that create the most impact. This can lead to wasted resources and misaligned attention on programs that do not contribute to student success. Join us for an online training session that will help you understand how your retention team is measuring the success of the retention programs you have in place. You will leave with a worksheet that organizes the institutional programs, goals, and students related to these initiatives.
International alumni are often overlooked in campaign efforts. However, a campaign is a great opportunity to engage your institution’s increasingly diverse constituents. While many institutions may be intimidated by the prospect of a global campaign, your shop can successfully accomplish a global campaign by: Identifying your international alumni base Gathering and reviewing important alumni data Planning international events and donor visits Join us online to assess your institution’s readiness for taking your campaign global and intentionally plan for international alumni involvement in every stage of your campaign.
Don’t hear it from a software company, hear it from someone like you! Agenda Selecting the Decision Team and Responsibilities Determining the Scope of the Project Developing Questions for the Vendors Evaluating the Different Systems Comparing Software Side-by-Side Funding Considerations and Ideas
While the advancement profession has grown increasingly diverse, senior management and chief advancement officer roles remain largely male and white. Women have made strides into senior management roles across the field in recent years, but many are not compensated at the same level as their male counterparts. As institutions attract increasingly diverse student populations, it is important that the diversity of the campus community is reflected across the administration as well. Now is the time to create your career plan and focus on moving into a senior management role. Join us online to gain the tools to guide your career path towards senior management while effectively negotiating compensation and overcoming perceived performance gaps. Our expert instructor will address the following key questions: How do you become an executive director, vice president, or associate vice president of advancement? How do you map your career path to get to the top position? How do you negotiate a competitive salary? How do you assess your professional environment for growth?
Effectively engaging corporate partners can be challenging for academics. Differences in philosophy and work design lead to gaps in partner expectations. Understanding the mindset and goals of your corporate partners is key in creating more effective industry relationships for your institution. Join us for an online training that demonstrates the 7 “industry approved” strategies to more effectively work with corporate research partners. Our expert instructor will provide practical tips for: Unifying working processes Adapting to corporate expectations Developing partnership growth Aligning future research paths
Learn how to develop, measure, and improve your international alumni engagement efforts. Agenda Building on the Case for International Alumni Programming Developing Your Program International data management Cultural considerations: Social, professional, and philanthropic Volunteer management Involving alumni in international student recruitment Presidential and faculty visits/tours Collaboration to build your program Global events to build brand and impact Measuring the Success of Your Program Measurement tools Effective solicitations Timeline for ROI Improving Your Program: Looking to the Future
Learn how to take the most effective classroom teaching principles to the online environment. Overview & Agenda Effective online teaching is grounded in the same best practice principles as all other educational mediums. The challenge for faculty is operationalizing these principles for the online environment. Walk through ten key principles to quality online teaching. Our expert instructor will share multiple implementation strategies to actualize each of these in your online course. These strategies will help improve student engagement and course quality. Do you have multiple approaches to include each of these essential components in your online courses? Know your audience Get organized Get comfortable with the technology Communicate expectations Let your personality show Be engaged Build community Plan for the unexpected Provide meaningful and timely feedback Practice continuous quality improvement
Is working with commission-based international recruitment agents right for your institution? Agenda Introduction and Welcome Starting the Conversation Debunking agent myths Motivations behind using agents Reservations about using agents Policy on Ethics and Transparency What kinds of options are there for ensuring the agents you choose are ethical? What will you require of your agents in terms of transparency? How will you commit to transparency on your end? Assessing Fit and Capacity Types of recruitment agents Choices are determined by your own pre-existing international recruitment strategy Institutional/Logistical considerations Next Steps and Questions
Can you describe your institution as nimble? Do you offer programs that meet the needs of adult learners? Does your institution effectively use online education to reach non-traditional learners? Do you offer practitioner-oriented programs? Proprietary institutions have successes we can learn from. Use the insights from an instructor that has experienced both sides of the fence. Take lessons learned from the for-profit sector to enhance your program’s competitiveness, student success, and persistence. J. Joseph Hoey will share best practices and case studies to illustrate innovations often used by the proprietary marketplace that are directly applicable to traditional institutions. Join us to learn models that you can incorporate into the way education is delivered at your institution. We will examine: Building education around the student Learning outcomes that connect learners and the workplace Flexible course and program offerings Steps to support students towards matriculation The role of prior learning assessment
Students who are provisionally admitted to college or otherwise considered “at-risk” often face unique academic, social, or emotional challenges during their transition. Summer bridge programs aim to address these transitional issues through support and remediation. The challenge is knowing which elements to prioritize and what works at your institution. Are you doing enough to create a sense of student connection on your campus for success into their second year and beyond? Join us online to learn how your institution can take a strategic approach to summer bridge programs and at-risk student success. We focus on three key components of summer bridge programs and identify effective strategies for measuring student engagement and campus connection. Our expert faculty showcases the SOAR program at University of Central Florida, a summer bridge program that boasts student retention rates of 90%.
Academic coaching is a powerful retention tool for at-risk, probationary, international, and other critical student populations. Coaching allows students to have one-on-one conversations with professionals who help them set academic goals and fill any gaps that exist between academic advising, tutoring, career services, and counseling. An in-house academic coaching model is a cost-effective approach to serving high-risk student groups. Join us online to explore two success-driven approaches to academic coaching. Highlighting the coaching program at the Florida State University, our expert instructor will share the steps for building, evaluating, and improving an academic coaching model on your campus.
A strong and diversified alumni giving pipeline can increase your annual giving numbers and help your shop insulate itself from future fundraising downturns. One way to diversify your annual giving portfolio is to create an affinity-based giving circles program, which helps to alleviate donors’ doubts about unrestricted giving. Join us online to consider a new model for growing and retaining your alumni donors. You will be introduced to Illinois Wesleyan University’s “giving circles” model, which upon its launch saw a 300% increase in participation and converted 15% of participants from young alumni non-donors. Along with a comprehensive program overview, you will learn tactics for: Selecting and training program “influencers” Integrating the program into your current efforts Building buy-in for the program Monitoring progress Scaling the program for your institution
Academic advising is an effective process to improve student success and completion. However, making the connection between advising and retention eludes many administrators who do not have the comprehensive data they need to demonstrate this connection. To comprehensively evaluate the success of academic advising, you must examine: Programmatic outcomes Student learning outcomes Return on investment Join us online to explore three different methods of evaluating academic advising, as well as the changes that can result based on your assessment. Using a case-study approach, this event will walk you through several different assessment examples to demonstrate how your campus can make a case for improvements in academic advising.
Capital campaigns can be a source of excitement for the campus community, but can also be a source of questions, particularly from student organizations and leaders. How do campaign priorities get selected? Are tuition dollars being used to fund the campaign? Where is the campaign money coming from? Join us online to learn how the University of Michigan has strategically integrated student involvement in their capital campaign with the use of an official student campaign committee. From identifying, recruiting, and selecting students for the committee, to training them and empowering them to assist with campaign work, our expert instructors share a comprehensive case study that will leave you equipped to better involve and educate students on your campus.
Learn techniques for designing your online courses to promote adult student engagement. Agenda Defining trends in adult learning Setting engagement goals through learning objectives Building relevant activities and assignments Leveraging work experience Experiential learning Scaffolding depth of content Designing peer engagement and communication Building interactive discussions Choosing web 2.0 tools Engaging through faculty interaction Appropriately addressing adult learners Managing efficient student support
