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.

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 […]

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 Startup Ecosystem

July 30 - 31, 2018

San Antonio, TX

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

San Antonio, TX

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 meaningful 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 […]

Five Key Components of a Successful Intrusive Advising Process

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

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 Learn how you can better inform your institution’s approaches to academic program cost and demand analysis. Gain the tools and skills you need to understand the financial contributions of your academic programs, and thus inform decisions […]

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 […]

Identifying and Developing Future Department Chairs

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

Positive Academic Leadership

New Orleans, LA

Positive Academic Leadership June 14, 2018 New Orleans, LA Take your academic leadership to the next level by learning to focus on opportunities rather than problems. Learn how to lead your academic department effectively in the face of every-day challenges. Facilitated by Jeffrey Buller, author of Positive Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires […]

New Orleans, LA

Two Webcasts to Expand Your Transfer Support Toolbox

Two Webcasts to Expand Your Transfer Support Toolbox Our research on transfer student support has yielded relevant and innovative findings – see what your peers in higher ed are doing in this space. Admissions directors from public and private institutions alike are increasingly focusing on transfer student enrollment and support in order to mitigate […]

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

Four Leadership Practices for New or Aspiring Deans

Gain the skills you need to address and mitigate common challenges that deans face.

June 11 - 13, 2018

Building Co-Curricular Programs that Integrate Experiential Learning

June 11 - 13, 2018

Minneapolis, MN

Building Co-Curricular Programs that Integrate Experiential Learning June 11 – 13, 2018 Minneapolis, MN Redefine the value of your institution beyond getting a degree. Join us for an in-depth training on how you can build co-curricular programs that teach critical work and life skills to students before they enter the workforce. During this three-day […]

Minneapolis, MN

June 11 - 13, 2018

Leading and Influencing as a Department Chair

June 11 - 13, 2018

New Orleans, LA

Leading and Influencing as a Department Chair June 11 – 13, 2018 New Orleans, LA Your research and teaching have given you the credential for academic administration; now learn the skills it takes to be a successful leader. Gain the skills you need to lead the strategic vision of your academic department as well as […]

New Orleans, LA

June 11 - 13, 2018

Graduate Enrollment Management: Recruitment and Marketing

June 11 - 13, 2018

Orlando, FL

Graduate Enrollment Management: Recruitment and Marketing June 11 – 13, 2018 | Orlando, FL Are you putting enough strategy behind your recruitment marketing tactics? Join us for a hands-on, active learning conference that has been specifically designed to help graduate enrollment management professionals take their recruitment marketing strategies to the next level. During this training, […]

Making the Business Case for New and Existing Academic Programs

Learn how to conduct the necessary market and financial analyses for vetting new academic programs.

June 4 - 6, 2018

STEM Facilities Planning and Design Institute

June 4 - 6, 2018

Virginia Beach, VA

Learn collaborative strategies for designing your STEM facility.

Virginia Beach, VA

May 21 - 23, 2018

Improving Online Student Retention and Success

May 21 - 23, 2018

San Antonio, TX

Improving Online Student Retention and Success May 21 – 23, 2018 San Antonio, TX A learning experience that combines both student support and instructional perspectives to improve online student success. Online student retention and success have become critical amidst recent declines in online program enrollment across many institutions. Join your colleagues and our expert instructors—from […]

San Antonio, TX

May 21 - 22, 2018

STEM Institute for Retention

May 21 - 22, 2018

Orlando, FL

STEM Institute for Retention May 21 – 22, 2018 | Orlando, FL Develop a roadmap for retaining STEM students when their dropout risk is the highest. Incoming STEM students continue to enter higher education underprepared to handle the rigor of the academic programs. Learn how you can address specific challenges facing STEM students when the […]

Three Strategies for Successfully Advising Undeclared Students

Three Strategies for Successfully Advising Undeclared Students Thursday, May 17, 2018 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT Learn how you can better meet the support needs of undeclared students on your campus. Gain strategies and tactics to help you be more intentional in your advising support of undeclared students. Haley Richards from Colorado State University […]

May 15 - 17, 2018

Developing and Managing Competency-Based Education

May 15 - 17, 2018

Orange County, CA

Take the first steps in developing and implementing competency-based education.

Orange County, CA

Creating Interdisciplinary Research and Scholarship

Creating Interdisciplinary Research and Scholarship Monday, April 30, 2018 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT Learn about the key components of an interdisciplinary research approach and take the first steps toward pursuing this type of research at your institution. Learn how to create an environment of interdisciplinary research and scholarship on your campus. During this 60-minute […]

Digital Recording

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

Digital Recording

Digital Recording

Express Register

February 7 - May 2, 2018

Working at the University-Industry Interface: Effective Strategies for Active Researchers

February 7 - May 2, 2018

Working at the University-Industry Interface: Effective Strategies for Active Researchers Seven Webcast Sessions Developed Jointly and Offered with: Create more successful research partnerships between institutions and corporations by learning from professionals who have developed effective partnerships at the highest level. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to developing effective university and industry partnerships. Universities and companies […]

Digital Recording

Fundraising and Sexual Harassment: Documenting Effective Procedures

Digital Recording

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

Express Register

Articles & Reports

Implementing a Research Mission at Your Teaching-Intensive University

Articles & Reports

When it comes to implementing a research mission, the devil is in the details. by Mary Coussons-Read, Department Chair, University of Colorado Colorado Springs Scenario As a dean at Middlestates Territory University (MSTU), you are charged with creating, funding, and implementing a vision and action plan for bringing the “research” portion of the institution’s statutory mission […]

Articles & Reports

Title IX and Faculty Misconduct: Steps You Need to Take Today

Articles & Reports

Here are steps Title IX coordinators can take in the next day, week, month, and year to start changing the culture on campus. An interview with Rabia Khan Harvey, Title IX coordinator at Columbia College Chicago Daniel Fusch, Academic Impressions. Rabia, thanks for another conversation. There are so many stories emerging over the last year […]