Higher Ed Marketing: Building the Infrastructure for Content Creation and Curation

Learn how to source and amplify quality content in order to enhance your institution’s communications calendar. Agenda Our presenters will outline how they put a process into place that made it easier to find, promote, amplify and repurpose stories at UCCS. Through the lens of building a framework that has allowed a culture of storytelling […]

Strategies for Providing Better Support to Undocumented/DACA Students

Learn how to understand and support the needs of undocumented/DACA students at your institution. Agenda Undocumented/DACA student testimonials and how staff support made a critical difference in their collegiate careers Strategies for supporting undocumented/DACA student success Busting myths about undocumented/DACA students Unpacking unconscious biases, assumptions Key strategies in providing support when meeting with them individually […]

How to Write an Effective Op-Ed in Higher Education

Author and critique impactful op-ed pieces in order to increase your institution’s relevancy and visibility. Agenda After a brief overview about op-eds, the impact they can have on individual faculty members and institutions, and the importance of quality training in this area, our skilled instructor Teresa Valerio Parrot will dive deeper into the following: Considerations […]

Overcoming Three Common Challenges in Online Advising

Providing access to online academic support presents a unique set of challenges. This webcast will help online advisors understand how to build relationships with students given the unique needs and challenges that exist in online environments. Join us for this online training and hear how one institution reduced overlapping processes, broadened their outreach to students […]

Family Giving: Cultivating the Next Generation of Wealth

A top takeaway from the Millennial Impact Report notes that millennials support causes they are passionate about rather than institutions. However, what is often overlooked is that when deciding what to support, 75% of millennials say they would be likely or highly likely to support an organization if asked by a family member. Forty percent […]

Strategies to Improve the Effectiveness of Your Young Alumni Volunteer Program

Join us online to learn how Lehigh University has increased the effectiveness of their young alumni volunteer program, and take away strategies to better engage this critical audience and cultivate generations of future givers. Our speaker, Shannon Jaeger, will cover: Tracking strategies for progress and behavior Motivating and engaging volunteers on their level Aligning volunteer […]

Launching a Successful Competency-Based Education Program (Digital Recording Only)

Over the past few years, hundreds of institutions have considered creating and launching a new competency-based education (CBE) program.  Launching these programs can be overwhelming – successful programs require new knowledge and rethinking the way we do business. In this online training, your instructor will walk you through the important steps to create and launch […]

Powerful Partnerships for Parent/Family Fundraising

Learn how to convert parent enthusiasm into philanthropic engagement.     Agenda During the webcast, our expert will walk you through the current challenges and missed opportunities in parent giving programs. She will also share effective strategies to engage and inspire this important constituency.   Resource Download the presentation slides (PDF) Download the leftover questions […]

Designing an Incentivized STEM Mentoring Program for Equitable Success

Without key support structures in place, many students are likely to get discouraged in their STEM work after receiving a poor grade. North Hennepin Community College has developed an incentivized STEM mentor program that has resulted in an unprecedented pass rate for students who did not pass their first exam. Join us for this webcast […]

Transitioning Leadership Annual Donors to Major Donors

Learn how to steward your leadership donors to the next level. Agenda Evaluating and Managing Your Leadership Donor Portfolio Moving donors into, and upgrading within, your leadership giving levels Effectively assessing and managing your leadership donor portfolio Developing goals and strategies for leadership donors Beyond qualification: Identifying who manages the relationship Stewardship Techniques to Effectively […]

Preparing Graduate Students for the Workforce: A Case Study

See how one institution is intentionally developing their grad students to have the soft skills necessary for success in the workforce. Agenda In this case study-based webcast, Chris Connor and Joshua LaFave will outline how the SEAS 360° Certificate of Professional Development was developed at SUNY Buffalo and the impact it has had on graduate […]

Engaging Students Through Creativity in Instruction

As instructors, we owe it to students to make classrooms as engaging as possible. There is a new, and welcome, attention being given to doing more to maintain student interest, to engage students in new and different ways, and to ultimately retain and graduate more students, especially those who are at-risk and may already feel […]

Time Management: A Disciplined Approach to Priority-Setting

Is your to-do list controlling you, or are you in control of your to-do list? Agenda Before the session, we will ask you to pull a representative two-week period from your calendar and complete a short exercise. Armed with these pieces, we will work through these two exercises together during the webcast: Exercise 1: Assess […]

Title IX: Key Considerations for Working with Pregnant and Parenting Students

Learn how to develop policies and procedures for working with pregnant and parenting students. Agenda After briefly discussing legal guidance for policies surrounding pregnant and parenting students, we will outline the key pieces you need to account for in your campus policies and procedures, including: Reasonable accommodations Childbirth vs. childcare Institutional policies and procedures While […]

How Ready Are You to Implement Your Strategic Plan?

It can be argued that developing strategic plans is an easier feat than pulling off a successful implementation. But, that doesn’t have to be the case. We’ve created this informal assessment to help you gain a better understanding of your institution’s readiness for strategic implementation by helping you identify strengths and potential pitfalls. This informal […]

5 Steps for Growing and Sustaining Online Programs

Learn how to build a framework for growing your online programs. Agenda This webcast will walk you through the five distinct approaches needed to successfully grow your online programs, including: Strategic Plan and Operations Faculty Professional Development Accreditation and State Authorization (C-RAC guidelines) Scalable and Reliable Technology Marketing and Program Strategies You will leave with […]

Predictive Models for Enrollment: A Showcase of Three Examples

Predictive modeling is one of the most impactful and widespread methods that institutions are using to become more data-driven in their decision-making. Join us for an example-based webcast that will walk you through three different predictive models that one institution uses to predict yield at various stages of the enrollment funnel. Our expert instructor will […]

Improving Faculty Mentorship

Learn how your institution can implement an enhanced, evidence-supported faculty mentorship program with network-based mentoring. This training will provide you with a high-level view of network-based mentorship as well as concrete examples, resources, and guides to help you operationalize on your campus. After this training, you will be able to take what you learn and […]