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
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 registration to help you gather feedback and evaluate your events: Follow-up communications for attendees and non-attendees Editable 21-criteria evaluation form Event summary document Lifetime value of event attendees workbook
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 as a team. Take a step back, drop those assumptions, and join us for this 60-minute webcast as we work through five common scenarios, such as “The Ghost Conflict” and “The Grudge Holder,” and show you how you can effectively lead yourself, and others, through to the other side.
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, and career services into every college within the university. In this webcast, Elizabeth Zavala-Acevez will describe how CSUF embarked on this partnership between student affairs and academic affairs that has helped her institution see an 11% increase in graduation rates. She’ll pay special attention to the role of career services in this model, which moves beyond its physical career center to engage students where they are.
We hear regularly that you want ways to freshen up your annual giving solicitations, so we put out a call last fall to our entire annual giving audience for your best print or digital pieces. Download this viewbook to see a collection of our favorites, along with tips to employ some of these solicitation strategies in your own shop.
Over the following 10 videos, Dr. Patrick Sanaghan will offer valuable tips for working under a micromanager and how to improve your management style if you suspect you micromanage.
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 by helping you informally review the strengths and weaknesses of your team. The following 5 lessons will review some best practices around team building.
