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Built for Higher Education

Your team is managing more complexity than ever — and the need for capable, confident leadership has never been greater.

Academic Impressions Membership gives you access to practical, higher ed-specific learning that helps your people grow — and strengthens leadership at every level, from frontline staff to department chairs to senior leaders.

A Renewed Vision for Leadership Development

We’re evolving membership to go beyond access. It’s designed to help people become better leaders — through structured learning, self-reflection, and real-world application.

New Signature Courses for 2025–2026

These multi-week courses are designed to support individual growth and scalable leadership development — whether you’re leading a team of 5 or an entire campus.

Conflict Resolution in Higher Education
(Coming Early 2026)

This multi-week course is designed to help participants move through conflict with more skill and ease. You will build self-awareness around your triggers and default conflict responses, learn how to listen and ask questions to better understand the goals and emotions of others involved, and how to voice your own needs, have the conversations that need to be had, and determine a productive path forward for resolution.

Five Paths to Leadership® in Action
NOW LIVE

Apply the Five Paths framework to everyday leadership challenges—from feedback and collaboration to delegation, strategic planning, and leading through uncertainty. Learn how to grow your own leadership and support your team’s development.

Chair Leadership Course
(Fall 2025)

Support your Chairs — or develop your own leadership as a Chair — by building practical skills that foster trust, collaboration, and high performance within your department.

Major Gift Officer Course
(Fall 2025)

Integrate your leadership strengths with skills like active listening and storytelling to foster collaborative donor relationships that are values based, purpose driven, and sustained for years to come.

Managing High-Performing Advancement Teams
(Coming Early 2026)

Support your team through effective coaching, performance management, and strategy alignment. This course is designed for advancement leaders overseeing teams in development, annual giving, alumni engagement, donor relations, marketing and communication, advancement services, CFR, and others who want to strengthen their culture and drive fundraising and constituent relations success.

Supervision 2.0: Going Beyond the Basics
(Coming Early 2026)

Take your supervisory practice to the next level. This course explores advanced strategies for developing others, handling team dynamics, and leading with greater adaptability and intention.

Service Excellence Course
(Coming Soon)

Help your team deliver inclusive, high-quality service with professionalism, empathy, and consistency.

Mid-Career Faculty Career Planning Course

(Coming Fall 2025)

Support your mid-career faculty in developing an intentional career plan that helps them make decisions to advance, be more satisfied with their professional lives, and develop the skillsets and networks to move forward.

More Signature Courses are in development and will be announced throughout the year.

How Signature Courses Work

Signature Courses are structured to build depth over time—while remaining easy to engage with, even on a busy schedule.

Get a weekly email with on-demand videos, and activities that can be completed on your lunch break over the course of the week.

Attend live session(s)  to apply your learning and engage in dialogue with peers from around the country. These sessions will be recorded and available on-demand for those who can't attend live.

Earn an Academic Impressions Digital Badge. To learn more about our digital badges, click here.

These courses are exclusive to members and designed to help individuals learn, apply, and grow at their own pace while building community with peers from across the country.

What Your Membership Includes

Signature Certificate Programs that provide structured, applied learning experiences to help your team lead more effectively and manage with confidence

Live Online Trainings on timely topics and everyday challenges

Mini-Courses for bite-sized, on-demand learning

On-Demand Access to hundreds of trainings, tools, templates, and articles

A Dedicated Account Manager to help align your membership with team goals

New Resources Released Regularly to support long-term capacity-building

All programs are developed and led by experienced higher education professionals who understand the complexities of your work.