These 5 Soft Skills Are Critical to Managing Capital Projects

by Mark Hartell, Capital Projects Consultant Capital Projects: Consider This Scenario Is a capital project that delivers on time and within budget automatically a success? That depends on who you ask. The facilities manager who has to spend tens of thousands of dollars each year maintaining the cheaper compact shelving might not agree. The staff, […]

Handling Footage in a Campus Crisis: Your Footage

THE NEXT LEVEL IN CRISIS COMMUNICATIONSThis article is part of an ongoing series on taking your crisis communications and response planning to the next level. You’ll also want to read the previous article in the series, “Handling Footage in a Campus Crisis: Others‘ Footage.”We also recommend this online training from Academic Impressions:Managing Student Threats and […]

Assessing the Training Needs of New Advisors

Karen Thurmond coordinates the day-to-day operations of the general education program (core curriculum), degree audit system (DegreeWorks), and an 24/7 system for academic advising appointments (AppointmentPlus) at the University of Memphis. She has written extensively for NACADA, and recently completed work with a team to automate the graduation process at The University of Memphis. Congratulations! […]

5 Secrets to Developing a High-Performing Team in Higher Education

Higher education will face daunting and complex challenges over the next decade, and campuses will need high-performing teams, especially a high-performing senior team, in order to face those challenges. Building and nurturing a great team is a daunting and noble task for any leader. It takes courage and care, perspiration and aspiration, and investment of time and attention—all of […]

The First Critical Outreach Point in Intrusive/Proactive Advising

Gain strategies to engage and direct at-risk students on a path to success. The “intrusive,” or proactive, advising model helps advisors anticipate students’ needs and connect students to appropriate resources and support early in their academic careers. While intrusive advising can prove to be a complex and involved process, there are three major outreach points […]

Worksheet: Rate Your Behavioral Intervention Team’s Effectiveness

When Did You Last Update Your Behavioral Intervention Process? by Louise A. Douce, Ph.D. (The Ohio State University), Gregory T. Eells, Ph.D. (Cornell University), Ruben Robles (University of Redlands), and Lisa LaPoint (Academic Impressions) After the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, most higher-ed institutions established behavioral intervention teams (BIT) to better manage potential issues of […]

Why You May Be Excluding Some of Your Most Loyal Donors From Recognition

PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT This article is the third in a unique series by Heather Greig, senior associate with Bentz Whaley Flessner. The previous articles in this series were: Building a Strong Case for Support for Your Annual Fund 4 Keys to Building a Stronger Advancement Team by Heather Greig (Bentz Whaley Flessner) Over the last decade, […]

New Strategies for Funding Academic Research

A SERIES ON INNOVATIONS IN FUNDING ACADEMIC RESEARCH Ed Mason, president of EMNR & Associates, is writing this series to assist academic leaders in finding creative strategies to merge public/private funding for existing and new research initiatives. Mason has studied an array of collaborative partnerships between the two offices most focused on external funding (the development office […]

6 Reasons Faculty and Departments Need to Be Deeply Involved in Student Learning Assessment

A GUEST ARTICLE FROM J. JOSEPH HOEY J. Joseph Hoey, Ed.D, is the vice president of accreditation relations and policy with Bridgepoint Education; his portfolio of work includes regional and specialized accreditation and policy related to accreditation. He is co-author with Jill Ferguson and David Chase of the forthcoming volume, Assessment at Creative Institutions: Quantifying and […]

You’ve Just Issued an RFP: Here’s What Can Go Wrong Next and How to Avoid It

THE SECOND IN OUR SERIES ON RFPs, CAPITAL PLANNING, AND PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS This is the second in a series of articles by Neil Calfee. Currently the principal of NPC Group, specializing in the creation and negotiation of public/private Partnerships, Neil Calfee previously served as Arizona State University’s director of real estate development. He has over 15 […]