Alumni boards can assist an institution to achieve strategic priorities, strengthen affinity, and motivate giving. Supporting your board in serving the institution and offering a meaningful volunteer experience starts with having a clear direction regarding your board’s structure, culture, and purpose. Join us for this two-day conference, where you will learn how you can increase the effectiveness of your alumni board and its members’ involvement. Our expert instructors will share practical tips and advice on how you can create a more effective board, including: You are encouraged to come to the conference with copies of your board’s bylaws or other policies and should come prepared to discuss specific challenges with, or current areas of focus for, your board.
With significant talent shortages in fundraising, it’s crucial that you manage your resources strategically and effectively to get the most out of your advancement buck—and to ensure that focus is maintained throughout presidential fundraising. Spending time with the right donors and understanding what to ask for—and when—can be the key to being a successful fundraiser. As president, by centering your focus on a multi-year strategic intent behind your fundraising efforts, you can make strides toward institutional development goals with the support of advancement leadership, the chair of your board, and the key relationships you cultivate with board members and top donors. Additionally, by knowing where you can be most effective in the solicitation cycle and how you can prioritize outreach efforts while also being an active steward of donor opportunities, you will leave this event with the depth of knowledge it takes to be a successful fundraiser as president. Building on key lessons from his book, Fundraising for Presidents: A Guide, Jim Langley will prepare presidents to be strategically incorporated into fundraising activities in today’s post-COVID landscape by ensuring that focus is maintained, and that you get the most out of your advancement resources by continuing to innovate even when fundraising […]
Strategic plans drive the institutional vision and should set the agenda and goals for student success. But institutions often find that a new strategic plan gets left on the shelf after its completion, instead. Academic and student success leaders at the institution do not always know how to move those goals forward and are hindered by a fear of failure and a lack of creativity. And all too often, faculty and staff working directly with students do not understand how their roles contribute to the overarching student success goals of their institutions. Join us for this workshop to help you refine your student success goals. Our expert facilitators will help you to brainstorm what you do well, what you need to improve, and what’s not going well with respect to student success. You will then have the opportunity to work with colleagues from across the country on developing innovative solutions to the challenges you face. You will leave the workshop with some concrete steps to help you move forward big ideas on your campus. You will also learn a new process for workshopping problems and solutions to take back to your teams.
Shifts in higher education are happening faster and in increasingly unpredictable ways. Each day as leaders, we are challenged by increasingly politicized environments, the need to manage across silos, and the requirement to be as efficient as possible with scarce resources. These complex conditions cannot be managed away; they require instead that we lead through them. But this can be difficult to do as we juggle competing priorities, students and staff seeking increased flexibility, and a rapidly changing workforce. Join us for this two-day conference to learn how to increase your effectiveness as a leader and improve your personal satisfaction by focusing on three key themes: During the conference, you will gain tangible tools to increase your self-awareness and develop a common language of leadership to use within multi-functional teams. We will also introduce a four-step framework that will help you to recognize when and how various leadership tensions show up in your everyday practice, how they work together, and how to adjust your mindset to lead through them effectively. Gain Insight into Your Unique Leadership Style As a participant in this conference, you will have the chance to take Academic Impressions’ The Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment, which provides […]
Holistic corporate engagement is a key component of institutional strategy and long-term competitiveness for your institution. To ensure successful engagement with potential and current corporate partners, you need a holistic strategy that facilitates internal campus stakeholders to speak externally with one clear voice, ensuring a clear value proposition of how and why a company should invest in your institution. Join us at this highly interactive in-person conference to help align your campus stakeholders around your institution’s corporate strategy. We will cover: Individual Consulting Time You and your team will have the opportunity to receive a 20-minute consultation with one of our experts as part of your registration at the end of either day of this conference. You and your team can also address challenges and questions specific to your institutional context. Can’t attend the conference? Buy the binder.
While women make up nearly half of the higher education workforce, they continue to be underrepresented—and underpaid—in organizational leadership roles. The goal of this conference is to bring current and aspiring executive leaders in higher education together to co-create knowledge and deepen your leadership skillset. This program is intentionally built upon Academic Impressions’ leadership model, which takes a holistic approach to leadership across four key dimensions: self-awareness and personal development, interpersonal leadership skills, team development, and leading at the organizational level. If you identify as a woman, are leading at a strategic level in higher education, are looking to deepen your leadership skillset in community with other women leaders, or you have already participated in our foundational Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education Conference, this experience is for you. Highlights of the conference include:
Leading in higher education is a difficult task under the best of circumstances. Shared governance, structural barriers to change, and limited discretionary funding are just a few of the many reasons why making a meaningful impact can be hard to do. But it can be done, and current and future challenges demand that we have leaders who can make substantive—not incremental—change. Join us for a one-of-a-kind program that will help you to lead for the impact you desire. We’ll examine your leadership at a personal level, share strategies for building high-performing teams, and equip you with tools that you can use to align large groups around a new direction or vision. Optional Executive Coaching: For those who choose to add on our Executive Coaching package, you will receive 6 sessions of executive coaching and will be paired with a coach who has extensive experience in higher education.
Join us for this longstanding, must-attend conference to develop a campus-wide retention plan that ties your mission, data, and programming together in a unified approach. Our expert speakers will share their latest insights as we continue to navigate the effects of the pandemic and changing student demographics. Whether you have a retention plan already in place or are just getting started, during this conference you will outline and build an improved retention plan under the guidance of our experts. You will leave the conference with the ability to approach retention holistically by:
Enrollment Management & Marketing Upcoming Events On-Demand Trainings The enrollment picture has become much more complicated in recent years given the compounding factors of heightened competition, public skepticism about the value of higher education, economic uncertainty, and declining high school graduation rates in certain parts of the country. These changing market conditions require Enrollment Management & Marketing leaders to forge new paths and think differently about the way they approach their work. Our Enrollment Management & Marketing resources are curated to help leaders think strategically about ways to align marketing, admissions, and financial aid strategy. Explore dozens of best practices, case studies, and new approaches to successfully recruiting and retaining students in today’s dynamic climate. Enrollment Management & Recruitment Make the right tuition pricing, financial aid, and scholarship allocation decisions Build enrollment pipelines through transfer, international, and other strategic partnerships Create brand awareness in new recruitment markets Engage prospective and admitted students through compelling recruitment and yield communications Admissions & Enrollment Services Train new admissions counselors on how to convey value and build connection Track the right metrics and manage your admissions team’s performance Improve customer service across admissions, financial aid, the registrar, and other key enrollment and student service […]
Training Made for Leaders in Higher Education Inclusive Leadership Responding to the Great Resignation Combating Burnout Conflict Resolution The challenges facing the higher education industry have placed increasing demands on leaders at all levels. To successfully guide their teams and organizations through the storm—and to ensure they themselves possess the inner fortitude and clarity of vision required to sustain over time—it’s critical that leaders continue to invest in their own personal growth and leadership development. Academic Impressions’ leadership development resources are designed to help you lead effectively in this present moment and context. Our content is thoroughly researched and presented by vetted experts, all of whom have firsthand experience leading in the higher education space. Because leadership is learned through practice, we design our trainings intentionally to be applied and participatory so you leave with stronger skills and new tools you can implement right away. It is important to us to push conversations about leadership in higher education outside their traditional bounds. We are committed to including voices from leaders from historically and currently marginalized backgrounds, helping leaders develop more inclusive leadership practices, and exploring non-hierarchical models of leadership. Leading at All Levels Training on foundational leadership principles and practices […]
