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Strengthening Yield Communications to Prevent Summer Melt Webcast Recording

Learn fresh ideas for how you can communicate with deposited students to prevent summer melt and increase yield at your institution. During the webcast, you will learn how to: Make your yield communications more successful Use print, digital, and social media channels as tools to prevent summer melt Educate and mobilize cross-campus partners to create a more seamless strategy Throughout this training, you will see numerous examples of effective yield communications. These examples, combined with a practically-focused presentation, will help you apply what you learn to your own institutional context. Who Should Attend Enrollment Management, Admissions, Enrollment Marketing, and Orientation and Transition professionals who oversee planning for anti-summer melt communications between the Deposit and Enrollment stages will benefit from this webcast. Learning outcome After participating in this online training, you will be able to apply new ideas and tactics to improve your anti-summer melt communication pieces and flows.   Agenda Anti-Summer Melt Communication Strategy: An Overview Auditing your summer-melt strategy Managing summer melt based on student profile: how institutions differ Identifying common stop-out points and hurdles in the student journey Coordinating with and educating cross-campus partners Learning from research-based best practices Communications, Channels, and Institutional Examples Techniques for targeting highest-risk populations […]

Ideas from the For-Profit Sector on Making Your Program More Competitive Webcast Recording

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 Case-Based Learning Because no two institutions are the same, this online training will rely on several case studies from many institutional contexts to ensure that you gain valuable information to use on your campus. Instructor Joseph Hoey, Ed.D., Vice President of Accreditation Relations and Policy, Bridgepoint Education Joseph’s career includes 24 […]

Engaging Leadership Volunteers for Fundraising Success Webcast Recording

The value of volunteer leaders at your institution is undeniable, but how do you understand their motivations and preferences to ensure that the relationship is mutually beneficial? Here we will provide a strategy to help ensure that you are engaging and involving your boards and councils, campaign committees, and other volunteer leaders, in a way that harnesses their skills, expertise, and energy for maximum impact and greater fundraising success. Who Should Attend Advancement, development, and alumni relations professionals working to engage volunteer boards and councils in fundraising will benefit from this webcast. Strategies shared will be applicable to the following types of boards: trustees, advisory boards, alumni councils/boards, and campaign committees. Senior faculty and administrators who work with volunteer leadership boards, and who wish to better understand how to support volunteers to fundraise, will also benefit from this session. Learning outcome After participating in this online training, you will be able to better design leadership volunteer opportunities to increase engagement and giving. Agenda Understanding Volunteer Motivations and Preferences Latest research and trends Volunteer feedback Improving Leadership Volunteer Engagement Recommendations Specific ideas and examples for: Trustees Alumni councils Advisory boards Campaign committees Framework for Improving Volunteer Impact on Fundraising Action planning […]