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 Manage and Transition Leadership Donors Engaging donors in continuous conversation Developing a unique stewardship program for leadership donors Utilizing tools to gather vital information to strategically build your relationship
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 students who participate in it. Throughout this webcast, Chris and Joshua will share: Both high-level and tactical ideas to create a soft-skill development program on your campus How to gain buy-in and support from faculty, staff, students, and administrators across campus Challenges to expect along the way and tips to overcome them
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 disengaged from the college experience. Join us for this online training and hear from Joni Dunlap, Faculty Fellow for Teaching, who has seen growing success from encouraging faculty to incorporate elements that diverge from traditional lecturing into their classrooms. During this webcast, you will engage in a variety of activities and discussions to give you ideas for providing multiple avenues for learning with students.
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 Your Productivity Exercise 2: Build a Purposeful Schedule You will leave the workshop with an accountability partner who will help you stick to the schedule and strategies realized during the session.
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 we can’t suggest the accommodations your campus should provide, we will offer advice on how to ensure consistency across campus – no matter what policies and procedures you adopt.
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 assessment is organized around 6 key areas of implementation: Alignment, Decision Making, Organizational Discipline, Collaboration, Culture, and Engagement and Inclusion.
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 a workbook to use with your own programs.
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 walk you through an Inquiry to Enroll model, an Applicant to Enroll model, and an Admit to Enroll model. For each, we will discuss the following aspects: Rationale and strategy behind the model Analysis used Implementation Outcomes and results
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 use the resources provided to significantly improve your faculty mentorship program. This program is specifically designed for academic leaders who oversee Centers for Teaching Excellence, deans, department chairs, faculty developers, and other academic leadership.
Learn to use the CFI analysis to support your strategic planning efforts. Agenda Planning | Pricing and Sourcing Your Strategic Plan Forecasting | Making Projections Communicating | Presentation Tools and Techniques
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 influencing tuition setting: Market pricing tolerance and value proposition Misuse in rebalancing the university and college budget Corporate partner discounting strategies Filling open seats: pros and cons Creating a financially sustainable model with projections
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 Fair Housing Act.
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 also trauma-informed. Join us online to learn how to create a safe space for all parties in the high stakes of a trauma case. Creating this environment through carefully chosen words and actions will help you elicit better responses that lead to more productive investigations.
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 philanthropist†donor
Effective academic leadership requires a deeper awareness of ways both introverts and extraverts are motivated. This goes beyond common generalizations based on talkative or quiet natured professionals. Join us for this online training and learn the strengths introverts bring to the table and the adaptive skills so that as an introvert, you can lean into your strengths to lead more effectively, or as an extravert, you can be more sensitive to the dynamics of your team.
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 the ratios Fund accounting principles with a focus on expendable net assets Examples of the impact of incorrect computations How to avoid common overstatement of the CFI Ensuring clean and accurate source data for your CFI Conditions for a strong peer analysis and pitfalls to avoid
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 can deliver data to them in the most relevant, impactful way. This webcast will provide an overview of how to frame conversations and ask better questions on the front-end to produce better results.
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 that personal bias does not directly impact decisions. You’ll also receive resources that will review the concepts of microaggressions and bias more generally to help you and your team get the conversation started, and the webcast itself will dive into specific tools and practice to help you uncover bias in your Title IX processes.
Strengthen the strategy behind your impact reports. Agenda Building Infrastructure and Refining Process Tiering and Scaling Your Effort Metrics to Demonstrate ROI
Routine portfolio maintenance. Learn strategies and tips for portfolio management for greater fundraising success. Agenda Portfolio Maintenance Establishing Your Portfolio Routine Daily Weekly Monthly Leveraging Metrics in Portfolio Management
