Welcome to your Membership! We’ve pulled together the following 4 videos to help you get up and running with your membership. Learn More About Your Membership This video will introduce you to a few key features of your Academic Impressions membership. Creating Your User Account This video will walk you through how to set up your user account, the first step in using your membership. Navigating the My Account Section In this video we’ll introduce you to the My Account section and all the information you can find there. Finding Training Materials In our final video we’ll show you how to navigate our trainings page to help you find the most relevant resources for your needs.
Taking the StrengthsFinder assessment to uncover your top 5 strengths is the first step toward fully leveraging your gifts and talents. Have you reflected on how your strengths align with your individual role and your team’s goals? Join us online to learn how to use the information from the StrengthsFinder assessment more effectively in your career. Session 1 will focus on your individual strengths. Session 2 will focus on your teams’ strengths. You will leave with a deeper understanding of the “why” behind your job satisfaction and your contributions. Take the Strengths Finder Assessment To gain the most from this webcast, complete the StrengthsFinder assessment prior to participating. Educators can purchase this assessment for $9.99 with a qualified educator email address. For more information visit: https://www.strengthsquest.com/192614/purchase.aspx
Evaluate the preparedness of your incoming online students in a more meaningful way. This webcast will teach you how to implement proven assessment strategies and improve upon the assessments that you already have in place. You will leave better prepared to answer questions such as: How can I best evaluate the writing, reading, and critical thinking skills of my incoming online students? Can I administer my assessments without creating barriers in the application process? Should I outsource my assessments or build my tools in-house? How do competency-based assessment and prior learning relate to intake assessment? Throughout the webcast, we will review several examples of assessments in various formats. You will get action-planning resources for you to take and begin to make adjustments to your current assessments or develop new ones that are specific to your campus.
Join us for a unique webcast that will showcase how Beloit College recently revitalized its video strategy by integrating videos that are clever, quirky, humorous, but most importantly, authentic to their institutional brand. You’ll hear about the challenges they faced trying to strike the balance between story and substance, while staying true to the student experience. Learn how Beloit College recreated their video marketing strategy through a mapping process that was connected to their institution’s five brand drivers. Gain ideas, tactics, and inspiration that can be adapted into your own video marketing strategy. Come see what your peers in the higher ed space are doing to leverage the power of video among prospective students.
Agenda Our expert instructors will walk you through their case study with a special focus on the following considerations: Impact on student success Key strategies for: Collecting input from a large number of stakeholders Design and operational considerations Establishing an appropriate governance structure Considerations for your campus
Research shows that approximately 25% of us are chronic procrastinators. We tend to accept procrastination as an inevitability, and yet it can wreck careers, marriages, and health, if not managed. If you fall into this category, you likely identify with this cycle: Cycle of Procrastination You have something to do. You probably don’t want to do it. Maybe you think it will take too much time, or maybe the details confuse you. In any case you’re anxious about it. To avoid the negative feelings and thoughts, you choose something else to do. The “something else” may be productive. Meanwhile, the original task waits for you, and you feel guilty for not completing it. The shadow of the task leads to even more stress and even more avoidance. You experience self-talk like “I will feel like doing it later” or “I will have more time tomorrow.” You eventually start and finish the task, but it takes longer than it should and is usually a painful process. Join us online to take the first step towards escaping this pernicious cycle. We’ll offer 10 powerful strategies to deal with procrastination, and we’ll bust the myth that you do your best work under pressure.
Make the most of your professional development opportunities by reflecting on the experience, what you learned, and potential next steps. We’ve gathered the following tools to get you started.
Are you tasked with the training and developing of academic advisors at your institution? Leverage the tools in this suite to round out your training plan. We’ve included resources that span three categories: Foundational Information Job Aids, Tools, and Activities Resources for Faculty Advisors Check back periodically to see what’s new!
Many shops struggle to be intentional when matching volunteers to the kind of opportunities they are most passionate about. Ensuring that your volunteers feel like they are making an impact is critical to fostering the continued relationship. Your shop can be more intentional and practical in your process of connecting volunteers to programs by: Collaborating with faculty and staff to identify volunteer opportunities on campus Surveying volunteers and faculty Developing clear job descriptions for volunteers Join us for this webcast and learn how to audit your current volunteer opportunities, partner across campus to locate various volunteer roles, and create meaningful matches that suit your volunteers and institution. You will gain practical knowledge and ideas to set in motion on your campus to maximize the impact of your volunteers and their efforts.
In today’s higher education landscape, a growing number of students are struggling with decreasing resilience, which frequently harms their academic performance and collegiate experience. As this trend continues to prevail, there is a growing realization that student resilience must be discussed holistically, with special focus on mental health. Well-being and resilience should be considered as critical components of a student’s academic and vocational success. In response to this issue, a handful of institutions are leading the way in creating and implementing innovative programs that address the relationship between mental health and resilience—by helping students improve skills related to emotional fortitude, grit, and social support. Join us for this webcast to learn how UMass Amherst has developed a new evidence and strengths-based healthcare program to enhance students’ resilience skills and help them flourish even in the face of mental illness. Participants will learn both short and long-term ways to implement a similar program on their respective campuses.
Agenda Establishing a Data Governance Framework at Your Institution Identifying drivers for data governance Identifying stakeholders Strategic direction vs. tactical & practical needs Avoiding common pitfalls Launching and Managing Data Governance Obtaining a data governance information system Establishing a culture of collaboration Crafting data definitions and other vital deliverables Collaborating effectively with vendors Resources Download the presentation slides (PDF) Download the additional resources (PDF) Download the leftover questions (PDF)
Corporate engagement staff generally do not have time and resources to develop a comprehensive and intentional strategy. Learn how to build a more effective approach that will help you rank and prioritize your partners to ultimately identify your best leads with the strongest viability. Join us for this webcast to learn how to develop a unique and innovative corporate partner scorecard and identify what characteristics and data you should be looking at. You will leave this training able to better support and bolster more holistic engagement strategies by: Strategies for determining the right size of your portfolio Quantifying and prioritizing prospects Engaging leadership and faculty in your planning efforts
Modified from a process used by the US military, the before-action and after-action review cycle described here provides a structure for project reviews focused on process-improvement. Download this job aid to get started with more purposeful project reviews today!
Student activism has always been an important vehicle for marginalized students to not only practice civic engagement but to also raise awareness of perceived social injustices related to their collegiate experience. Despite all the opportunities student activism presents, most institutions still carry a negative attitude or feel ill-prepared to engage with such initiatives. Instead of proactively guiding and mentoring students through the process, they often fall into the trap of waiting until students create a rumble. From the students’ perspective, there is often a lack of clarity on campus policies and resources that can provide guidance on how to raise concerns without completely disrupting the day-to-day campus routine. There lies an opportunity for campus leaders to teach students about intent vs. impact and about how civic engagement can help develop their leadership skills and potential. Join us and our seasoned speaker online to reframe activism from a threat or problem to an opportunity for student growth and leadership development.
Faculty are on the frontline when it comes to student mental health, but many are not comfortable acting in or navigating this space. Instead of generically training your team with off-the-shelf materials, provide a more intentional and impactful way to integrate these key players in your mental health initiatives. This webcast, developed with David Reetz, Director of Rochester Institute of Technology’s Counseling Center, provides a faculty engagement training model that is faculty-centric and action-oriented. You’ll gain insights into the different components of this successful training model that you can immediately adapt and apply to your own unique institutional context. Prepare your faculty to minimize triggers and take action towards establishing a positive tone and an accepting climate for students with mental health concerns.
Institutions often struggle to support first-gen students as many of them hide their status or are unaware that they may qualify as first-gen. By helping students to self-identify, your student support teams are better able to connect them with first-gen faculty, alumni, and other students. Hearing from others who have had similar experiences and learning how they coped and dealt with various difficult challenges can be the catalyst the first-gen student needs to feel valued and understood and to complete their degree successfully. Join us for this online training to learn how to support your first-gen students on your campus so they take pride in being the “first to go” in their family. This webcast is designed to give you a framework for supporting these students that will help you organize your efforts across numerous departments as a cohesive unit. During this webcast, you will learn how El Camino College and University of California, Los Angeles involved faculty and various departments on campus to improve the success of their first-gen students by creating online and in-person support programs and maintain the momentum of the programs.
Institutions everywhere are looking for ways to integrate academic advising and career services functions into a coordinated or unified approach. Join us online to learn how Florida Atlantic University was able to cross-train their advising and career services teams to gain an understanding of each other’s knowledge base and ultimately build a more cohesive model. You will learn how to accomplish this difficult work on your own campus. Note: This training focuses on how your teams can build the right structures to enable effective interactions with students; it will not focus as much on specific interactions with students.
Most of us struggle to collect accurate and relevant data from our alumni, but many of us have not evaluated our databases to create a holistic picture of our strengths and weaknesses. Even fewer shops have formalized processes in place to regularly assess the efficiency and quality of different data channels. Join us for this interactive webinar to learn a comprehensive approach to assessing your data integrity. Our faculty will dive deep into the criteria of data quality and provide you with strategies and practices to keep your data clean.
An increasing number of universities are under pressure to boost their research activity to gain more prestige, foster greater learning opportunities, and better contribute to economic development and innovation. However, breaking into such a competitive space requires interest from faculty, which can be a challenging due to their heavy teaching loads or lack of understanding of how research can benefit their institutions. A key vehicle in engaging faculty with research growth is communication. In order to gain trust, it’s crucial to use techniques that promote transparency and effectively justify the value of growing research. Join us online to hear our experienced speaker, Dr. Sangita Pawar, discuss how to cultivate faculty’s engagement in advancing research through transparent communication strategies. Sangita will share her experiences and best practices in getting faculty on board with research initiatives that she attained from her past roles as faculty and administrator. This webcast will benefit teaching universities as well as institutions with lower research activity who would like to increase their presence in the research space.
Today, there is increasing pressure on institutions to engage in research, garner more funding, and contribute to innovation and economic development. For those trying to take their research activity off the ground, establishing an external university partnership can be just the right strategic step to boost growth and enhance the visibility of their institution’s research initiatives. In addition to improving the student experience, research partnerships can also allow universities to be leaders as well as collaborators in their own areas of expertise. Join us and our experienced speaker, Dr. Geoff Payne, for this online training where we will discuss the various types of external partnerships and how you can build them successfully from the ground up. Dr. Payne will also present some case studies, both local and international, and the lessons learnt from each.
