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Design Faculty of Color Affinity Spaces to Improve Retention

Building affinity spaces for your faculty of color is one way you can improve retention efforts. These spaces not only connect underrepresented faculty to each other, they increase faculty productivity and institutional loyalty. However, it’s not enough to simply offer these affinity spaces – you must also organize them with clear structure and intention, so that faculty of color know their voices and concerns will be heard and responded to by upper administration. Join us online and learn how to create a structure for your affinity spaces that engages both faculty of color and administration. Our expert instructor will guide you through an 8-step process for formalizing the design, budgeting, policies, and procedures of your affinity spaces so that collaboration between faculty of color and upper administration is made easy and your faculty of color feel supported.   Who Should Attend Faculty, academic leaders, and representatives from Human Resources who oversee recruitment or retention efforts for faculty of color will benefit most from this webcast. This training is designed for campuses who are looking to develop new affinity spaces or refine existing ones for their faculty of color and other minoritized faculty members.   Agenda After reviewing the benefits of […]

Develop a Race-Based Education Program for Your White Students

Despite being outnumbered at predominantly white institutions (PWIs), students, staff, and faculty of color feel burdened by the responsibility of having to educate their white peers regarding racism and racial justice. When conversations about racial injustice arise at PWIs, cultural centers, ethnic studies departments, and student ethnic identity groups are often tasked with offering solutions and taking care of those harmed by racism. Unfortunately, at PWIs, rarely do race-based programs directly invite the majority racial group to engage in racial justice work and address the exclusionary racial climate. Join us online and learn how Loyola University Chicago flipped the script and created a space to have courageous conversations about white privilege. Through their Ramblers Analyzing Whiteness (R.A.W.) program, self-identified white or multiracial students engaged in dialogue and action regarding their own racial identity, and they have performed the critical self-work required to understand racism and to understand how they can meaningfully engage in racial justice work. In this webcast, you will learn how Loyola: Overcame initial opposition to the program, including negative media coverage Inspired and recruited students to participate Developed and managed the day-to-day logistics of the program, including the workshop curriculum   About the R.A.W. Program For more […]

Designing Creative Solutions for Your Toughest Challenges

In the current landscape of higher education, there are complex challenges that need to be solved – whether it be curriculum revisions, overcoming the enrollment cliff, or finding new ways of fundraising. In order to respond successfully to these challenges, you will need to dream what has not yet been imagined. However, this cannot be done alone. How do you ensure you have the right people and processes in place to elicit the required creativity? Join us online and learn how to effectively build and manage problem-solving groups that will allow you to harness creative ideas at a time when they are most needed. Our expert instructor will introduce you to a 3-step process that provides an effective structure for releasing and actualizing creativity. You will walk away with tips and strategies for how to: Identify the problems and issues that should be addressed through the problem-solving groups Invite the right people to participate at the right time in the process Establish a culture of respect and trust that cultivates creativity Navigate the tensions that emerge from differences in risk tolerance, supporting diverse strengths within the team, and selective implementation of ideas   Who Should Attend This webcast is designed […]

Cultivating Creativity by Building Trust Within Your Team

Innovation and creativity are what higher ed needs right now to push past the challenges of 2020. Creativity requires your team to share ideas, challenge each other’s ideas, admit mistakes, and move past them. It requires risk-taking and an entrepreneurial spirit to try new things. To support a culture of creativity, you, as their leader, must create a secure and psychologically safe environment where your team feels empowered to be vulnerable. Join us online and learn how to create a culture of trust within your team that encourages them to be their most creative selves in order to solve problems. During this webcast, you will learn how to create the necessary conditions to foster a safe environment for your team to be creative. Get tips on how to: Encourage curiosity and vulnerability Normalize failure Assign credit when and where credit is due Back up your team when things go awry   Who Should Attend This webcast is designed for any leader who wants to learn how to create a culture of trust that makes their team feel secure and psychologically safe to take risks and bring forth new and creative ideas. Please note, you don’t have to identify as a […]

Navigating Your Relationship With Your Dean: A Training for Department Chairs

As a Department Chair, one of the most important relationships you have to forge is the one with your Dean. Ideally, this relationship is built on mutual trust, healthy communication, and a shared understanding of what the department—and by extension, the College—is trying to achieve. But such a relationship takes work, and the onus is on you as the Chair to understand how to best manage up and work with your Dean to accomplish these goals. Join us for a webcast where our speaker will teach you how to effectively set up a positive relationship with your Dean. Our expert, who has served as a Department Chair for over a decade under four different Deans, will review the three key building blocks of an effective Dean-Chair working relationship and offer example-based strategies from his own experience to help you get there.   Who Should Attend This webcast will help set new Department Chairs up for success when it comes to forging a strong working relationship with their Dean. It will also benefit existing Chairs who are looking to improve or strengthen a relationship with their current Dean.   Agenda Building Block #1: Understanding the Chair-Dean relationship What should this relationship […]

Implementing Shared Services at Your Institution

As higher education faces tighter budgets and declining enrollments, many institutions are exploring a shared services model to lower costs, make services more efficient, and reduce redundancies across campus. By making operations like finance, HR, IT, and pre- and post-award services leaner, institutions can free up resources and invest in what will distinguish their institution—academic programs and research. Despite these benefits, not everyone welcomes giving up control over their school, unit, or department, so implementation can be tricky to navigate through pushback. Join us to learn what to expect in the process of transitioning to a centralized shared services model. Ronn Kobalsh, Associate Vice President of Shared Services at University of Chicago, will steer you through the five phases of implementation and share tips on the most challenging aspects, such as: Gathering data to build your case to leadership Anticipating pushback and gaining buy-in across campus Making key decisions that will best serve your unique culture and circumstances   Who Should Attend Senior leaders in the areas of human resources, procurement, technology, and finance, as well as other C-suite executives exploring a shared services model will benefit from this webcast.   Agenda After a brief overview of the benefits of […]

Building a Culture of Inclusion in Your Advancement Shop

We know that many advancement shops are looking to better engage underrepresented alumni populations, but it can be difficult to know what initial steps you should take toward incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts into your strategy. Join us to learn the best approaches to collecting qualitative information and measuring quantitative data from your alumni in order to more effectively make cultural inclusion a part of your shop’s identity. Our expert instructor will ensure that you leave the session knowing small, immediate steps you can take to impact diverse alumni engagement in your operation.   Who Should Attend This webcast is designed for those in annual giving, alumni relations, as well as advancement leaders who want to take steps to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies into their engagement and fundraising efforts.   Agenda Our expert instructor will cover the following considerations to help you begin building a more inclusive advancement operation: Information Gathering Learn how to listen to your alumni groups with intentionality so that you can identify barriers to break down and create new space for underrepresented alumni. Using Metrics to Showcase Inclusive Indicators You will learn how to show the journey of increasing representation within your alumni […]