Tuition Setting Strategies for Graduate Programs

Be more strategic about how you are setting tuition for your graduate programs. Agenda You will review two real graduate programs’ financial proformas and discover why one was accepted and one was rejected. You will also discover how strategic tuition setting played an important part in determining the program’s viability. Topics will include: Primary factors […]

Developing an Assistance Animal Compliance Policy (October 2018)

Learn how to develop an assistance animal compliance policy that is appropriate for your institution. With the help of our instructors’ institutional and legal expertise, you will learn the fundamentals of addressing individual requests for assistance animals through structured policies and procedures. This webcast will help you avoid legal liability and subsequent lawsuits under the […]

Conducting Trauma-Informed Investigations for Sexual Misconduct Cases

A trauma-informed investigation takes into account different conditions such as shock, denial, memory loss, or withdrawal that may interfere with the interviewee’s ability to clearly articulate their experience. Investigators are missing the opportunity to solicit the most objective version of a reporting party’s story if they do not consider developing a fact-finding strategy that is […]

Introducing Blended Gifts to Donor Conversations

Learn how to successfully introduce planned giving options into your donor conversations. Agenda Identifying When a Blended Ask Is the Best Ask Tactics for bringing up a planned gift and making a dual ask Putting It into Action: Sample Donor Situations The loyal annual gift donor with potential The “worried about retirement†donor The “reluctant […]

Accurately Calculate and Interpret the CFI

Through university and college examples, you will learn the fundamental accounting principles behind the CFI (Composite Financial Index). You will also discover how to avoid common misrepresentations of the data so you can be more confident in using this tool to support stakeholder conversations about your institutional financial performance. You will learn: Key concepts behind […]

Key Questions to Produce Effective Data Visualizations

As a steward of data at your institution, you must interface with a variety of end-users, each of whom has unique goals, responsibilities, and needs. These variables impact how they will use and make decisions with the data visualizations you provide. The conversations you have early on with these stakeholders are critical in ensuring you […]

Overcoming Bias in Your Title IX Investigative Process

With the rise of complex sexual misconduct cases, the potential for imposing bias in our investigative process is high.  This webcast will examine the intersection between bias and Title IX investigations to ensure an objective and fundamentally fair investigative process. Join us for this webcast and gain the confidence, knowledge, and skill set to ensure […]

Developing Your Impact Reporting Strategy

Strengthen the strategy behind your impact reports. Agenda Building Infrastructure and Refining Process Tiering and Scaling Your Effort Metrics to Demonstrate ROI

Leveraging Metrics to Improve Advancement Events

Learn how to comprehensively and objectively assess the success of your events and develop criteria for successful ones. Join Lynne Wester to learn an evaluation model and gain insights on how to collect data before, during, and after events to comprehensively evaluate success. Tools to Evaluate Your Advancement Events These resources are included in your […]

Learning to Lead Through Conflict

Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a conflict and you wish the other person would do more? Do you want them to be more of a “partner” than an “antagonist?” Conflict in the workplace can become toxic quickly. Rather than letting it fester, create an opportunity to emerge stronger as individuals and […]

Integrate Academic and Career Resources to Improve Student Success

With growing numbers of commuter and non-traditional students who do not spend their free time on campus, it’s especially challenging to connect students to the services designed to help them succeed.  Cal State Fullerton is addressing this issue through its Student Success Team (SST) model, which embeds a group of faculty, academic advisors, student affairs, […]

Evaluating the Strengths and Weaknesses of Your Team

After assembling a team of intelligent and motivated individuals at your institution, you might be wondering how to evaluate their effectiveness. After all, even the strongest and most productive teams can benefit from understanding where they are excelling and where they could use some additional work. We want to make that task easier for your […]

Making the Business Case for Active Learning Spaces

Whether you’re justifying use of funds or seeking funding for your active learning space initiative, your project scope will need evidence to support your request. Our experts will guide you through ways to collect and incorporate the most compelling data so you can effectively communicate the need and what it will cost. Join us for […]

Overcoming Three Root Causes of Resistance to Change

Resistance to change happens; learn how you can manage it more effectively. Agenda During this training, you will be introduced to three common scenarios in which you will practice identifying the root cause of the resistance and workshop how to address these challenges. You will also hear case studies of how our experts have successfully […]

Creating Support Structures to Help Grads Develop a Professional Identity

Graduate students, unlike their undergrad counterparts, often do not have dedicated student support systems. However, not all graduate students want to pursue a career in academia and many need avenues for seeking career options, gaining professional skills, and preparing for life after higher education. During this training, you will learn how Virginia Commonwealth University was […]

EXP. Creative Teaching Strategies

This course will demonstrate one way Alicia and I have envisioned presenting the creative teaching strategies Alicia encounters through her research. This course will use CSU Fresno’s online graduate student tutoring programs as an example. The blue text will explain the main features we are considering. [This was completed quickly to be an example, so […]