Training Solutions for Higher Education.

Higher education’s challenges don’t live in silos so we don’t either. Our programs serve professionals across the academic enterprise, enrollment management, student affairs, advancement and alumni relations, and the business office. We also offer extensive training and resources for developing leaders. Find what you’re looking for below.

Conference Package Fiscal Year End-Promotion

2018 Fiscal Year-End Promotion Conference Packages For a Limited Time. Save Up to 50%! Promotion Ends Saturday, June 30, 2018. Purchase Your Conference Package Gain flexibility and savings with a conference package. Our fiscal year-end promotion is back for a limited time! This year we are offering packages of both 3 and 5 conference […]

December 5 - 7, 2018

Strategies for Increasing Transfer Student Enrollment and Success

December 5 - 7, 2018

New Orleans, LA

Strategies for Increasing Transfer Student Enrollment and Success December 5 – 7, 2018 | New Orleans, LA Learn initial steps for increasing your transfer enrollment and completion. Join us to learn how you can cultivate partnerships between two- and four-year institutions, increase your transfer enrollment, and help transfer students persist to graduation. Throughout this […]

New Orleans, LA

October 17 - 19, 2018

Developing a Comprehensive Retention Plan

October 17 - 19, 2018

Orlando, FL

Developing a Comprehensive Retention Plan October 17 – 19, 2018 Orlando, FL Take a strategic look at your student success efforts and develop a retention plan that connects your data, institutional mission, and available resources. This conference will help you develop a campus-wide retention plan that ties mission, data, and programming together in a […]

October 15 - 17, 2018

Moving to a Decentralized Budget Model

October 15 - 17, 2018

Orlando, FL

Moving to a Decentralized Budget Model October 15-17, 2018 Orlando, FL Learn a process for designing, building, and implementing a decentralized budget model. Walk through the myriad of decisions and considerations that you and your institution need to make when moving to a decentralized budget model. Through expert-led presentations, group discussion, and hands-on working sessions […]

October 15 - 17, 2018

Developing a One-Stop Center for Advising, Retention, and Career Services

October 15 - 17, 2018

Orlando, FL

Developing a One-Stop Center for Advising, Retention, and Career Services October 15 – 17, 2018 Orlando, FL Take a strategic look at how you can integrate student services on your campus. Learn how you can take an integrated one-stop approach to providing unified and coordinated services in advising, retention, and career services to support […]

October 3, 2018

Using Experiential Learning to Link Classroom Content to Real Life Situations

October 3, 2018

Using Experiential Learning to Link Classroom Content to Real Life Situations October 3, 2018 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT Learn how to use experiential learning and build upon what is learned in the classroom. Experiential learning is a hot topic right now in higher ed, but few institutions have managed to integrate it meaningfully […]

September 26 - 28, 2018

Evaluating and Managing Faculty Performance

September 26 - 28, 2018

Baltimore, MD

Evaluating and Managing Faculty Performance September 26 – 28, 2018 | Baltimore, MD Be better prepared to assess and manage faculty performance challenges. Learn how you can support and manage faculty who exhibit performance issues. This practically-focused training will help you determine the challenges your faculty face, implement interventions to mitigate potential issues, […]

September 24 - 26, 2018

Establishing a Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

September 24 - 26, 2018

Lowell, MA

Establishing a Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship September 24 – 26, 2018 | Lowell, MA Learn to create a center for innovation that serves institutional and local economic goals. Driven by the rapidly changing needs of employers, higher education is seeking to make its spaces more reflective of a work environment that places […]

September 18, 2018

Decision-Making Possibilities with Activity-Based Costing

September 18, 2018

Decision-Making Possibilities with Activity-Based Costing Tuesday, September 18, 2018 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT Learn how one institution has used Activity-Based Costing in a number of ways and gain ideas for how you can use it on your own campus. What does it cost to offer a course, a service, or an entire degree […]

September 17 - 19, 2018

Developing a Comprehensive System of Support for First-Generation Students

September 17 - 19, 2018

Orlando, FL

Developing a Comprehensive System of Support for First-Generation Students September 17 – 19, 2018 Orlando, FL Support first-generation students not only toward academic success but toward greater opportunity beyond graduation. Many college campuses are finding that their first-generation (first-gen) student population has grown exponentially in the past five years, with some reporting 24-30% of their […]

September 12, 2018

Creating Support Structures to Help Grads Develop a Professional Identity

September 12, 2018

Creating Support Structures to Help Grads Develop a Professional Identity September 12, 2018 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT Learn how to better support graduate students moving into non-academic careers. Graduate students, unlike their undergrad counterparts, often do not have dedicated student support systems. However, not all graduate students want to pursue a […]

August 6 - 8, 2018

A Holistic Approach to Corporate Engagement

August 6 - 8, 2018

Chicago, IL

A Holistic Approach to Corporate Engagement August 6 – 8, 2018 Chicago, IL Bring disparate efforts together and boost the effectiveness of your corporate partnerships. Learn how you can create multidimensional relationships with corporate partners that incorporate research, tech transfer, workforce development programs, recruiting, and philanthropic support. You will hear about efficiencies and successes that […]

Essentials of Study Abroad Risk Management

Are you effectively training your faculty on the risks associated with study abroad?

July 30 - 31, 2018

Building and Supporting a University Spinout Ecosystem

July 30 - 31, 2018

San Antonio, TX

Building and Supporting a University Spinout Ecosystem July 30 – 31, 2018 | San Antonio, TX Help faculty navigate the challenges of building spinouts with their research. Learn how you can create a spinout ecosystem within your university that helps faculty translate research into commercial enterprises. Turning research into revenue can be an incredibly exciting […]

San Antonio, TX

Transfer Student Success: Cultivating Partnerships Between 2- and 4-Year Institutions

Transfer Student Success: Cultivating Partnerships Between 2- and 4-Year Institutions July 25, 2018 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT Learn how these institutions are leveraging a strategic partnership to ensure a strong transfer pipeline. Amid declining enrollment from first-year, traditional students, many institutions are leveraging different types of partnerships and pathways between 2-year and 4-year institutions […]

Civil Dialogue as a Classroom Management Strategy

Civil Dialogue as a Classroom Management Strategy Tuesday, July 24, 2018 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT Civil dialogue is critical when discussing controversial topics; learn how to facilitate more productive conversations in the classroom. Learn about practical tools that you can use to engage students in a civil discussion about controversial topics. During this interactive […]

July 24 - 25, 2018

Enrollment Management Essentials for Academic Leaders

July 24 - 25, 2018

Orlando, FL

Enrollment Management Essentials for Academic Leaders July 24 – 25, 2018 Orlando, FL Empower and equip your academic leaders to meaningfully impact your institution’s enrollment goals. Increasingly, institutions are looking to deans, provosts, and program directors to be more engaged in and take more responsibility for enrollment planning and outcomes. As state appropriations continue to […]

Ideas for Academic Leaders to Engage Faculty in Student Recruitment

Ideas for Academic Leaders to Engage Faculty in Student Recruitment Monday, July 16, 2018 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.EST Learn how other institutions have engaged passionate faculty members in the student recruitment process. Faculty members can passionately discuss an academic program better than nearly anyone on campus; as such, they make ideal partners in student recruitment. […]

Five Key Components of a Successful Intrusive Advising Process

Gain strategies to engage and direct at-risk students on a path to success.

An Innovative Approach to Universal Design Learning: Engaging All Learners

An Innovative Approach to Universal Design Learning: Engaging All Learners Thursday, July 12, 2018 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT Learn how you can use Universal Design Learning (UDL) as more than an accessibility strategy. Traditionally, Universal Design Learning (UDL) has been viewed solely as an accessibility approach, but it also represents an innovative opportunity to […]

July 9 - 11, 2018

Measuring Academic Program Cost and Demand for Improved Resource Allocation

July 9 - 11, 2018

Chicago, IL

Measuring Academic Program Cost and Demand for Improved Resource Allocation July 9 – 11, 2018 | Chicago, IL Register Learn how you can better inform your institution’s approaches to academic program cost and demand analysis. Time Left Until the Early Bird Rate Expires! Day Hour Minute Second Gain the tools and skills you need to understand […]

Increasing Faculty Engagement in Advancement

Increasing Faculty Engagement in Advancement June 28, 2018 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT Learn how to get more faculty support and involvement in advancement goals and activities. The right faculty member can have significant impact with alumni and donors by passionately explaining their work, a project, or research. Faculty make excellent partners for advancement staff, […]

Identifying and Developing Future Department Chairs

Build a bench of department chairs who can advance academic programs, power research, and attract funding.

June 13 - 15, 2018

A Systemic Approach to Academic Advising

June 13 - 15, 2018

Minneapolis, MN

A Systemic Approach to Academic Advising June 13 – 15, 2018 | Minneapolis, MN Accomplish real work toward improving your academic advising model. Learn how to improve your institution’s advising model to improve student success and retention. Designed to help leaders in student affairs and academia improve academic advising in a strategic way, this conference will […]

Minneapolis, MN

Webcast Recording

Develop a Plan to Address Sexual Harassment from Alumni, Donors, and Prospects (Webcast Recording)

Webcast Recording

Digital Recording

Articles & Reports

Beating Turnover in Higher Ed

Articles & Reports

Beating Turnover in Higher Ed 3 New Findings From Academic Impressions Based on a survey of 2,577 higher-ed professionals. Download a printer-friendly PDF version of the infographic here. | Read the full report here. Summary: 71% of higher education employees would be more likely to stay at their institution if they had increased access to […]

Articles & Reports

How to Negotiate Your Salary in Higher Ed

Articles & Reports

by Elizabeth Suárez, author of The Art of Getting Everything: How to Negotiate for What You Want and More and Speaker at the Keys for Successful Negotiation workshop | July 30, 2018 What Holds Us Back from Negotiating As a negotiation coach who has worked with clients across a variety of higher education institutions, I have often […]

Articles & Reports

How Marietta College Integrated Entrepreneurial Thinking Throughout the Curriculum

Articles & Reports

To prepare students to think in entrepreneurial ways, we need to become entrepreneurial thinkers ourselves. by Janet Bland, Marietta College Today’s rapid pace of change and growing demand for entrepreneurial thinking can be both inspiring and frustrating to those of us in higher education; after all, we value the measured path to tenure, wear regalia […]

Job Aids & Printables

Fundraising and Sexual Harassment: Documenting Effective Procedures

Job Aids & Printables

This handy guide will help you create or evaluate sexual harassment policies for both managers and team members.

Webcast Recording

Developing and Administering Mentorship Programs for Transfer Students (Webcast Recording)

Webcast Recording

60-Minute Recorded Training