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The Role of Higher Ed in Providing Mental Health Services

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Mergers and Acquisitions: Strategic Questions Every University Leader Should Ask Now – Not When It’s Too Late

Higher education mergers are often seen as a sign of personal and institutional defeat, to be avoided at all costs. Yet the truth is that waiting until the last possible moment, when the institution is in full tail spin, is the true sign of failure. The time to be watching for strategic partnerships or opportunities […]

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The Road to Adaptive Learning: Improving Comprehension, Easing Faculty Burden

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How Do Universities Need to Approach Student Data Differently?

Are we looking at student data in ways that help us improve our efforts? What holds us back from measuring and improving student success? by Linda Baer What holds us back from measuring student success and implementing measures to improve it? How should every institution be looking at its student data differently? These are pressing […]

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What Every Higher-Ed Leader Needs to Know About Supporting Women in Leadership

How can higher-ed leaders support women’s leadership within their institutions? What do leaders need to know? Academic Impressions staff and leaders in the academy offer their advice and perspective. Several times a year at our Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education conference, we bring together 200 women in leadership positions (or aspiring to leadership positions) in higher […]

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What Are Title IX Reasonable Accommodations for Pregnant and Parent Students?

When working with pregnant or parenting students, what are Title IX reasonable accommodations? What constitutes “reasonable,” and what accommodations need to be included in your institution’s policies and procedures? Here are some scenarios. Hear From an Expert: The following is an excerpt from the Academic Impressions recorded webcast “Title IX: Key Considerations for Working with […]

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What Do We Mean By a Trauma-Informed Title IX Investigation?

What does a trauma-informed Title IX investigation look like? How do you investigate cases of alleged sexual misconduct on your campus in ways that are sensitive to the fact that the student issuing the complaint may be experiencing trauma? Hear From an Expert: The following is an excerpt from the Academic Impressions recorded webcast “Conducting Trauma-Informed […]

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5 Steps to Boost Your Alumni Volunteer Engagement

The University at Buffalo’s alumni volunteer teams have seen a big increase in participation and engagement. Here’s what they’re doing differently. by Courtney Yuen, Academic Impressions When Clayton Connor looks at his volunteer management calendar he channels his inner Hollywood mogul. “We always liken it to a movie studio that comes out with a big […]

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Checklist: Preparing Adjunct Faculty to Teach Online

Department chairs and program directors are busy people, and orienting adjunct faculty may not be top of mind. But adjuncts who are teaching online for the first time need support and information to hit the ground running. Here is a quick checklist of items to cover with first-time online instructors. by Teresa Focarile, Boise State University […]

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Challenging Androcentrism in the Academy: Creating Environments that Empower Risk Taking and Confidence in Women Leaders

In a culture of androcentrism, women are likely to be stymied by a reluctance to take risks. Moreover, women who have a well-developed sense of confidence often present it differently from men. How do we shift the culture within our institutions? by Rosalind Spigel, Organizational Development Consultant and Leadership Coach, Spigel Consulting In this fifth article […]

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How Strategic Planning Can Bridge the Divide Between Athletics and Academics

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Every college and university that sponsors intercollegiate athletics, at any level, must come to grips with how that division fits into the overall mission of the institution. And, at the same time, athletics must work to integrate itself into the university’s culture. One way to achieve that is to embark on a highly collaborative strategic […]

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Managing the Donor and Alumni Database: The 3 Biggest Challenges

Managing the donor database and tracking your alumni data is complex. Here is a quick look at the three most common challenges with alumni data–and what is keeping our advancement operations from doing better. by Sasha Wedekind, Academic Impressions Recently I spoke with two dozen advancement services professionals to get a more defined sense of […]

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Share This Advice with Your First Generation College Students

The first generation college student often feels alone in navigating the processes and procedures of higher education. Here is some advice from staff at Academic Impressions who were first generation themselves. Share this with the students on your campus! by the Staff at Academic Impressions “My interest in higher education is a deeply personal one,” […]

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College Student Mental Health Statistics and What They Really Mean

There has been a lot of media attention to college student mental health statistics and to the upsurge in demand for mental health services. But does the data really suggest a mental health “crisis”? What does the upsurge actually mean for postsecondary institutions? Where do we need to shift the conversation, and what do we […]

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Research & Reports

The Future of Higher Education: Fall or Thrive?

Research & Reports

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What is the Blockchain and How Can It Transform Higher Education?

What is blockchain? As academic leaders, you want to stay on top of what’s coming next. And the blockchain could transform how colleges and universities operate in 5 critical ways. by Alicia Miranda, Research Analyst, Academic Impressions 5 Things the Blockchain Can Do for Higher Ed A transcript of this graphic can be found at […]

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Industry Views: Advancement Shops of Tomorrow

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Research Grants: Which Colleges are Getting Them?

Research grants are increasingly competitive, and our analysis shows that just the top 50 colleges and universities account for nearly two thirds of research expenditures in the U.S. by Sasha Egorova, Research Analyst, Academic Impressions A Disparity in Research Grants More higher ed institutions, including predominantly teaching universities, are facing a push to increase […]

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Retaining Your Major Gift Officers—From Day One

Retaining major gift officers begins on day one—with how you onboard them and connect them with key networks across the institution. A formal process for major gift officer training is one of the key factors in their success that is also within your control. by Dr. Joshua Jacobs, Vice President for Advancement, Central Methodist University In […]

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Are We Measuring the Impact of Advising the Right Way?

Here are three commonly used academic advising metrics that fail to measure the impact of advising, and three qualitative measures that DO matter. by Sue Ohrablo, Ed.D., author of High-Impact Advising: A Guide for Academic Advisors Advising administrators are challenged with recruiting, training, and retaining effective advisors. They are tasked with positively impacting student success […]

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Success Coaching: How to Turn Training into Action

How do you make sure that what you bring back from a conference gets followed up on and leads to action? How do you get more return on that investment and really build your capacity? Often the missing step is to pair training with success coaching. Here’s what that can look like. by Steven Riccio, […]

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Creative Destruction: The New Economic Reality in Higher Education

How is higher education changing, and can institutions rise to the challenge of their at-risk status? The answer hinges on how college and university leaders choose to respond. by Marcel J. Dumestre U.S. higher education is now a business enterprise. No longer is it universally considered a unique social institution dedicated to the common good. […]

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Hiring Non-Traditional Candidates for Your MGO Team: Navigating the Opportunity and the Risk

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To find your talented next major gift officer, look beyond your borders and deepen your candidate pool by searching for non-traditional candidates who have the right combination of skills and personality traits to succeed. But also recognize that candidates who are new to university advancement or to higher education will need onboarding and support. by Dr. […]

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Title IX Update: What You Need to Know

The New York Times recently reported that Betsy DeVos is preparing “new rules” on Title IX policy that would bolster the rights of students accused of assault, reduce liability for institutions, and encourage schools to provide more support for survivors. Two Title IX experts discuss: At this point, what do we know, what don’t we […]

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Athletic Department Strategic Planning: The Power of Defining Objectives, Not Just Tactics

At Winthrop, we had never undertaken true, multi-year athletic department strategic planning. Here’s what we learned when we transitioned from annual work plans to defining annual objectives. by Ken Halpin and L. Jeffrey Perez, Winthrop University Those of us in higher education are sick and tired of hearing we face an unprecedented set of challenges: […]

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From Information Overload to Collaborative Learning: Why Higher Ed Needs Higher Tech

Our campus communities — students, faculty, staff, alumni — deal with information overload across many platforms and apps. Isn’t it time we brought campus communication and learning into one high-tech ecosystem? Editorial by Kathy Edersheim (President, Impactrics LLC) and Yasim Rahman (CEO, Unio) Today, while we all deal with massive information overload, this is an […]

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How Gender Bias in Higher Education Leadership Gets in the Way of the Collaboration We Need

Gender bias in higher education can lead us to prize men’s voices over women’s and to value authoritarian and transactional leadership over transformational, collaborative leadership. Yet collaboration is key to meeting the complex challenges our departments and institutions of higher education now face. So let’s explore: How best can men and women work together to […]

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Gender Bias in Higher Education: Why We Need to Develop Self-Aware Leaders

Implicit gender bias is systemic even in the egalitarian environment of higher education, and developing self-awareness in our leaders is the key to challenging it. Yet the “don’t rock the boat” culture of higher ed often gets in our way. Let’s look at how to counter that. This is the third in a series of […]

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Presidential Transition: 3 Things Chief Advancement Officers Can Do to Help the New President Start Right

A presidential transition can be a challenging time, and those critical first conversations will set the tone for the partnership ahead. by Sasha Egorova, Academic Impressions Interviewing Jake Heuser, Bradley University Welcoming a new president can be an unnerving event for the whole campus. It can particularly be a challenging time for the vice president of […]

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Adjunct Faculty: A Department Chair’s Guide to Orienting New Instructors