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 […]
