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Writing Workshop for Advancement

Writing Workshop for Advancement November 1 – November 2, 2022 Strengthen the voice and consistency of your communications to donors and alumni. EVENT INFORMATION ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual Needs

5 Principles of Effective Leadership: A Bootcamp for Leaders at All Levels

5 Principles of Effective Leadership: A Bootcamp for Leaders at All Levels April 5 – May 3, 2023 Individual Dates: April 5, 12, 19, 26, and May 3, 2023 Welcome to the course page for your bootcamp! More information will be added as we get closer to your event, so please check back soon. Important […]

A Masterclass in Discovery Work

Discovery work is an essential part of the fundraising process because it’s your first access point to learning how to optimize a potential donor’s philanthropic interest. Refining your approach and strategy is a great way to continue gaining confidence in your ability to be conversational as a fundraiser. The ability to ask insightful questions that […]

Advancing Your DEI Strategy Across Viewpoints

Leaders of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts are continually charged with spearheading initiatives that require them to navigate critical conversations with stakeholders who may have divergent or even radically different views and opinions than their own. In some cases, these views can run counter to the goals of the initiative at hand. In these possibly […]

Leading and Influencing as a Department Chair Bootcamp

Leading and Influencing as a Department Chair Bootcamp January 25 – March 1, 2023 Individual Dates: January 25, February 1, 8, 15, 22, and March 1, 2023 Welcome to the course page for your bootcamp! More information will be added as we get closer to your event, so please check back soon. Important Links Contact […]

Enhancing Your Personal and Professional Resilience

There remains a common misconception in our society that resilience is the ability to keep going at all costs. We lead busy lives and push ourselves to the brink of exhaustion in service of “resilience.” But in actuality, true resilience is created when we are able to pause, recharge, and generate the optimism and belief […]

Faculty Performance & Conduct: Reframing the Conversation

Faculty conduct has significant implications for the overall morale and climate in a department, division, and institution. Faculty conduct can contribute positively to the success of students, colleagues, and the department. However, faculty conduct issues can impede individual faculty success, as well as the success of others, and disproportionately impact underrepresented groups in academia. Oftentimes, […]

Micro-credentials and Badges in Higher Education

Micro-credentials and Badges in Higher Education October 12 – 13, 2022 Explore useful strategies for developing and advancing micro-credentialing and badging initiatives and programs at your institution.  EVENT INFORMATION ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: […]

Securing Transformational Gifts: A Conversation About Engaging Principal Gift Donors

Securing a principal gift can have an immense impact on the way an institution is able to meet its mission and serve students effectively. However, identifying and cultivating relationships with potential principal gift donors takes patience, intentionality, and compromise. In this useful question-and-answer virtual webcast, our expert instructor, Mitchell Spearman, will call upon his experiences […]

Deconstructing and Growing from Negative Past Work Environments

As you move between jobs or finish projects, it can be all too easy to carry negative past experiences and the habits associated with those experiences along with you to new roles. This can lead you to unknowingly reinforce counterproductive habits or perceptions that don’t contribute to your continued success or to new opportunities. While […]

Leading and Influencing Change from the Middle: Change Management for Mid-level Leaders

Leading change requires involvement and engagement from people across a wide range of roles and functions, and oftentimes, change initiatives are tasked to people who must lead from the middle. Mid-level leaders serve as connectors, mediators, and navigators between the external stakeholders mandating a change or executive leaders initiating a change, and the faculty and/or […]

Advocate For Your Department by Using Data Effectively

Given the current context of higher ed, you are likely defending and justifying your department’s expenses relating to revenue, and you’re having to make important decisions, including budget cuts, that impact people across your department. You know that data can be a powerful tool to help you lead through these decisions and changes because data […]

Women in STEM: Creating a Space Where You Can Thrive

Managing the more immediate demands of teaching and service while also staying on track with research and writing is a challenge for most faculty. But for many women STEM faculty, these challenges are often compounded by academic cultures of individualism and competition that result in sexism, academic bullying, and isolation in academic units that are […]

Deans Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for Deans from Historically Marginalized Groups

Deans Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for Deans from Historically Marginalized Groups September 23 – December 9, 2022 Individual Dates: September 23, October 7, 21, November 4, 18, December 2, and 9, 2022 Login starting on: September 23, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios VIEW EVENT […]

Integrating Academic Program Prioritization into Your Current Shared Governance Structure

As a result of the pandemic, academic leaders are being forced to identify which programs are sustainable and those that are not. Program prioritization is not new; but given the pandemic, the changing social perceptions of higher education, the changing student demographics, and the context in which program prioritization is currently happening brings to light […]

Enhancing Your Skills: A Bootcamp for Experienced Leaders

Enhancing Your Skills: A Bootcamp for Experienced Leaders September 21 – November 9, 2022 | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET Individual Session Dates: September 21, 28, October 3, 12, 26, November 2, 9, 2022 Welcome to the course page for your bootcamp! More information will be added as we get closer to your event, so […]

Managing Change as an Inclusive Leader

Inclusive leadership requires that today’s leaders think about and understand change differently. Change is no longer a once-in-a-while ‘initiative’ that needs managing but is instead a constantly occurring process. And not everyone sits on a level playing field along the way: inclusive leaders must develop a greater awareness of their own blind spots and attend […]