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The Ins and Outs of Publishing Your Scholarly Work: A training for Faculty Researchers

Learn how to successfully publish your scholarly work to tee up your research career. Overview The reasons to publish your scholarly work range from practical to noble. Whether it be to advance your career, position yourself to receive extramural funding, advance your field, or achieve status and recognition, publishing makes you an important player in your discipline and is a prerequisite to achieving tenure. This training will provide an overview on publishing including why you should publish, where to publish, how to develop a strategy that is in line with your overall career aspirations, and how to accept that initial manuscript rejection is part of the process and use it to your advantage.     Who Should Attend This training is applicable to all faculty researchers and scholars who wish to be successful in publishing their work.  The Academic Impressions Online Learning Experience Intentionally DesignedOnline Learning Our virtual trainings go far beyond just replicating PowerPoint presentations online: these experiences are intentionally designed to give you the kind of robust and dynamic learning experience you’ve come to expect from Academic Impressions. These trainings provide you with an active learning environment and an online space where you can explore ideas, get inspired by what your peers […]

Improving Campus Collaboration for Effective Parent and Family Giving

Meaningfully engage parents and families through intentional collaboration with campus partners. Overview From the moment a student signs their letter of intent to the day they graduate, parents of undergraduate students typically have a 4-year window to give to your institution. Your development strategy for parent and family giving needs to be strong and should be a collaboration between student affairs, enrollment management and alumni relations. When communication to parents across these divisions is aligned, it can foster an environment of engagement that leads to more giving. Join us online to learn how the parent and family giving model at the University of California San Diego fosters a collaborative environment that leads to effective and impactful parent and family giving. Our expert instructor will also discuss: The variety of programming that parents and families can contribute to, from student organizations to on-campus activities. How to use data to identify parents and families most likely to become development prospects and volunteers. Stewardship strategies that keep parents informed and engaged throughout their giving lifecycle.   Who Should Attend If you’re an advancement professional who wants to improve upon your parent and family giving program or strategy, this training is for you. If […]

Create a More Inclusive Experience for your LGBTQIA+ Alumni

Engage your LGBTQIA+ alumni with more intentionality to promote an inclusive experience. Overview One of the fastest growing demographics on college campuses and in alumni populations is the LGBTQIA+ community who are expressing a greater variety of gender and sexuality than ever before. This breakthrough in social acceptance of how your alumni identify themselves requires institutions to rethink an engagement approach that has been honed over decades for a population that has largely identified as cisgender and heterosexual. Understanding the nuances of gender and sexuality of your alumni is key to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment. Join us online to learn, discuss, and share how institutions are positioning themselves to engage their LGBTQIA+ alumni community. During this training, you will learn about: Data on who the LGBTQIA+ community is on college campuses What gender means now and how that impacts strategic engagement How to create an inclusive and welcoming environment in alumni programming Promising practices for LGBTQIA+ engagement and advocacy by staff and volunteer-led alumni organizations   Who Should Attend This program is for alumni relations professionals who work in student philanthropy, young alumni, LGBTQIA+ social groups, and general engagement. If you work within advancement services, this program will also be beneficial. The Academic Impressions Online Learning Experience Intentionally […]

Ethical Considerations for Screening Donors to Protect Institutional Reputation

Protect your institution’s reputation through deliberate screening of potential donors throughout the fundraising cycle.  Overview How much risk is your institution willing to take upon receiving a gift? This question is one that every advancement shop should answer or, at minimum, have discussed with their team members to devise a plan that mitigates liability. With an institution’s reputation being an intangible asset based upon the public’s trust and support, damage to this carefully managed image can result in legal complications and ultimately, the loss of fundraising revenue. As a result, part of your role as a major gift officer is to protect your institution’s reputation through strategic screening of potential donors and their gifts. Join us online to learn how Yale University recommends how you can position yourself in donor conversations to uncover potential risks to your institution. In this training, you will learn ethical considerations behind big gifts by learning about Yale’s reputational risk methodology and how to thoroughly screen donors for risk throughout the fundraising lifecycle. Participants will explore case studies that help you practice identifying risk in donor conversations and apply the tools provided in the training to these kinds of conversations.   Who Should Attend This program will benefit major gift officers and those who work within advancement services screening donors. For the major gift officer, screening donors for risk begins with the discovery call and continues in each conversation thereafter. For the advancement services professional, this training will help you develop or improve upon a reputational risk methodology that can be applied to every gift you consider. AGENDA […]

Cultural Intelligence: A Training for Higher Ed Leaders

Increase your cultural intelligence to ensure those you lead feel valued, respected, and included. Overview To operate effectively in today’s higher ed environment, leaders must continuously broaden their own lens of cultural understanding. Leaders are constantly interacting with people who are members of a wide variety of cultures. Their ability to connect authentically across differences—and to make each individual feel like they belong and are respected for the unique perspective they bring–is essential to leadership success. But knowing how to do this is not intuitive nor straightforward. It requires you to engage in ongoing reflection and skill-building around: How culture shows up in your workplace and day-to-day interactions Why it’s so important to pay attention to and continue to learn about culture How to incorporate forward-thinking actions into your leadership practice Join us for a training that will create space for you as a leader to reflect on how and why culture is relevant to your work. You will learn specific actions you can take—both “small picture” in real-time and at a larger strategic level—to build cultural intelligence and center the importance of culture in your organizational and interpersonal leadership. Through this training, you will learn how to demonstrate your […]

The Gift Officer-Faculty Partnership in Academic Medical Fundraising

Forge partnerships with your faculty to improve success in your academic medical fundraising. Overview Grateful patients are often motivated to give because they are thankful for the care they received and want to advance research that may result in finding cures. An effective partnership with medical faculty and staff is one of the critical first steps in providing patients an opportunity to give back. Medical faculty primarily focus on providing the best possible care to patients; thus, they may not always have an opportunity to communicate why philanthropy matters in medicine effectively.    Reluctance on the part of faculty sometimes stems from legal and ethical implications and a blurring of the lines related to the roles gift officers and faculty members should play. These issues often influence our ability to close gifts from grateful patients successfully. As a result, it is crucial to forge meaningful relationships built on trust that lead to a partnership between gift officers and faculty members to achieve success in grateful patient fundraising.  Join us in this online training to deepen your capability as a gift officer in academic medicine and learn how to effectively partner with medical faculty for philanthropic success.     Who Should Attend This webcast is for gift officers who work in academic medical fundraising and rely upon successful partnerships with medical faculty and staff to solicit and close philanthropic […]

Working with Institutional Data for Student Retention

Learn how to recognize and communicate data points and patterns to advance your student retention strategies. Overview Data can be is a powerful tool for understanding attrition and creating student success programs. Student affairs and enrollment professionals often yearn for access to data, but when they do have access, they may struggle with distilling the information they need, using data effectively, and working with others to ask the right questions. This virtual workshop is strongly recommended to Developing a Comprehensive Retention Plan attendees outside of Institutional Research who would like to learn how to: Recognize data points that can be used to measure factors associated with retention. Examine patterns in retention data. Create research questions that better communicate your data needs and program outcomes with institutional partners, leadership, and other stakeholders.   Who Should Attend This workshop is designed for professionals outside of Institutional Research who want to learn how to recognize data points and patterns and communicate effectively to institutional stakeholders in order to advance their student retention strategies. Attendance is especially encouraged for those attending our virtual conference, Developing a Comprehensive Retention Plan.   Limited Attendance In order to ensure a high-quality learning experience, we have intentionally designed […]

Crafting Your Mid-Career and Beyond as Faculty

Get “unstuck” or be intentional when it comes to thinking about advancement and fulfillment in the middle of your career. Overview The mid-career years – often characterized by being at the associate professor level – can be both the most rewarding and the most challenging time in a faculty member’s career. Once you reach the mid-career phase, not only does institutional support and guidance around career advancement tend to decrease, but your pathway forward can seem unclear. For faculty of color and women faculty, the research also shows that higher expectations around service and mentoring during the mid-career years can slow career advancement.    These factors make the mid-career an important crossroads where you could aim to become a full professor, aspire for a leadership role, or carve out a different path. Getting there requires intentional self-reflection and proactive steps. Otherwise, you may find yourself being pulled in too many directions or following someone else’s priorities for your career.   Join this training to learn more about:  The opportunities and challenges faced by mid-career faculty and why so many associate professors feel lost or languishing in their careers.  The process of career crafting and the different types of crafting techniques (e.g., task crafting, relational crafting, cognitive […]