Most institutions mandate sexual harassment training for all individual team members. But when was the last time your advancement team met as a group to plan for the difficult issues surrounding sexual harassment in advancement? Join us online to further these critical conversations on your campus. We will help you assess whether you have clear, effective processes for dealing with sexual harassment from alumni, prospects, and donors. You’ll have a chance to create a plan for various scenarios throughout the webcast. Both frontline staff and managers will learn how to prevent and respond to harassment.
Dan joined Purdue’s College of Pharmacy as a major gift officer in May 2016. Similar to many who have entered the advancement world recently, he is a millennial and this was Dan’s first major gifts job. By diligently implementing this 30-60-90 day plan set forth by John Dinkens, Dan was able to help debunk the myth “it takes a year to get your feet on the ground.” In the past three years, Dan has far exceeded his development metrics, which resulted in Dan being promoted from Director to Senior Director in November 2018. Dan has traveled on more than 700 donor visits, resulting in booked gifts totaling more than $23,000,000. Quick to credit how the first 90 days laid the foundation for his success, Dan firmly believes having an efficient and effective plan for new hires will lead to success for the new hire, success for the organization, and retention of the employee.
As institutions deal with depleting capital funding sources, public private partnerships (P3s) remain a particularly viable source of capital funding for the housing sector. However, as competition in the private sector grows, institutions must leverage the RFP process to ensure their needs are met within a financially sustainable project. To do this, colleges and universities must develop clear financial expectations. Join us for an online training that covers critical considerations to ensure the viability of your institution’s residential P3. Through the context of a successfully executed RFP, our expert presenter will walk through: Establishing stakeholders in the P3 planning process Setting a scope for your RFP Creating financial parameters around debt coverage ratio
As you navigate more complex leadership roles, you will also navigate more contentious issues and conflicts. This makes the relationships you form with your colleagues not only “nice to have,” but essential: there is very little that cannot be accomplished when relationships are strong and built on a foundation of trust and mutual respect. During this discussion, you’ll learn how a President and a CFO built a relationship that propelled the success of their teams, the institution, and helped them both to thrive individually. Carmen Twillie Ambar, President of Oberlin College, and Audra Hoffman Kahr, Executive Vice President of Finance & Administration at Lafayette College, will share how they met, how their relationship evolved, and a few lessons they’ve learned along the way as women leaders in higher education.
Department budgeting requires more than just tracking revenue and expenses in a spreadsheet. This video course presents you with the tools, tips, and knowledge you need to plan for, create, manage, and communicate about your department’s budget in a strategic and meaningful way, ensuring the needs of your students, faculty, and staff are fully met. You will learn how to: Approach decision-making in a way that supports your department’s highest priorities Communicate with five essential partners to drive the right levels of engagement, trust, and collaboration Approach budget cuts in a way that mitigates fear and instead creates opportunity within your department The principles of budgeting shared in this course can be implemented by any Department Chair or Program Director responsible for overseeing a budget. This video course will be especially beneficial for chairs who are new to budgeting and/or those who have received little training on the subject.
Establishing a Center of Excellence for Women in STEM has improved academic success, engagement, and retention of underrepresented, low-income, and first-generation undergraduate women in Bay Path University’s STEM majors. Here’s what Bay Path did, and some lessons learned that may be key if you would like to undertake a similar initiative. by Gina Semprebon, PhD, Professor or Biology, Founding Director of the Center of Excellence for Women in STEM, Bay Path University; Christine Bacon, D.HEd, Associate Professor of Biology, Chair of Science, Bay Path University; and Lamis Jarvinen, PhD, Director of Partners for Scientific Inquiry The Challenges We Faced As seen in many other higher education institutions, our female students have become increasingly attracted to pursuing STEM majors over the past several years. At Bay Path University, a women-serving institution at the undergraduate level, we have responded by expanding our STEM offerings and have sought for effective ways to both attract and retain women in our STEM majors, as well as to serve as a networking and educational center for professional women in STEM fields in our region – many of the latter being our own graduates. However, the typical academic challenges faced in gateway, foundational courses within the first two years of […]
San Jose State University (SJSU) has experienced a spike in international enrollment in the past couple of years—”instead of building slowly, a tsunami wave of hundreds of additional students each semester,” as Karen O’Neill, San Jose State’s recent director of international programs and services, remarks. How the university has responded to this wave has made them a model for other institutions. We reached out to Karen O’Neill to discuss their success and critical tactics other institutions may want to try. Learning from SJSU’s Success O’Neill remembers that SJSU faced two significant challenges when international enrollment climbed rapidly: lack of coordination across departments and lack of a process for managing international student arrival and orientation. To address the issue, SJSU called together a task force and sent them to AI’s conference on international orientation in 2013. Some task force members hadn’t met prior to attending. The task force included key professionals from international programs and services, international recruitment, academic advising, and marketing and communications. At every break and during every evening during the AI event, the team convened to review and plan. Using what they learned at the conference upon returning to campus, the task force moved quickly to set a […]
In his current role, Marcus oversees activities related to building upon the Senior Vice President for Finance & Administration’s (SVPFA) portfolio capacity to develop, collaborate, and sustain large cross-divisional initiatives that lead to organizational excellence and student, employee, and operational success. Lastly, he oversees the Performing Arts Center’s operations to ensure that academic and strategic entrepreneurial needs are met. Prior to his current role, Marcus spent 14 years in Student Financial Services, Enrollment Management, and Financial Aid. He has worked collaboratively to provide input in the College’s new strategic plan to incorporate the critical role that student financial aid plays in institutional goals. He also took the lead in creating a 5-year plan to support academic excellence, diversity, and access by providing students with the requisite knowledge and opportunities to finance their education. Additionally, he contributed insight from an administrative education support unit perspective to the college’s most recent Middle State accreditation process. Marcus is currently a doctoral candidate in the department of Urban Education (policy and leadership track) at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). His scholarly interests are rooted in the experience of Black and Brown students in higher-educational settings. The multi-theoretical lens […]
Cindy has over 25 years of professional experience promoting student development and success through her work as a Student Affairs professional. Her career includes work at large and small as well as public and private institutions. Residence Life was Cindy’s introduction to student affairs, allowing her to achieve progressively expansive roles—most recently, as the Associate Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students at Rider University. Having coached, mentored, and supervised hundreds of professional and student staff, Cindy grounds her efforts in the belief that elevating the strengths and attributes of others is exponentially motivating and inspiring. During her career, Cindy has focused on building partnership bridges throughout and amongst the campus divisions on behalf of students. Once in place, these bridges provide safe and accessible paths for students to traverse both the predictable and unexpected challenges that college life presents. Cindy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Master of Science in Counseling with a Higher Education concentration, both from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her background in counseling established the solid foundation upon which she has built the strong leadership competencies and human development skills that guide her work. Cindy marks her time at […]
June 2, 2011. The University of Winnipeg has been praised in the media lately for a dramatic turnaround in the quality and profitability of their food services operation; Macleans’ 2009 University Rankings had taken the university to task for poor food and poor service, and the institution’s dining operation was seeing attrition in its student customers. In the two years since, not only has the University of Winnipeg recovered, but its food services operation — which now focuses on organic, locally sourced food — is the most requested caterer in the local community, its head chef has won an Iron Chef Award, and the return on investment has been so high that the university is preparing to expand its operation by launching an off-campus restaurant. This week, we spoke with the University of Winnipeg’s president, Lloyd Axworthy, to ask what other institutions in the US and Canada could learn from the success of his institution’s transition to locally sourced foods. He offered several key takeaways worth noting: Conduct thorough research into student demand Consider public-private partnerships that can help manage costs and mitigate risk Recognize that your purchasing program can actually impact the market in ways that will allow you to negotiate lower prices […]
