This online course will help you design targeted peer mentor programs to improve the success of specific student populations. Using best practices, this course will help you design a peer mentor model, train your mentors, and address important challenges of your mentee population. You will leave with a plan to improve your peer mentor program […]
Learn to help raise needed funds, develop precise budgets, and develop and evaluate faculty more effectively. Overview Join us for this three-part online training series to learn the essentials for serving as an effective department chair. Whether you are a faculty member with a desire to advance your career towards academic administration or you […]
Learn how you can improve your institution’s ability to recruit, hire, and retain diverse faculty. This training is split up into three modules and covers: Diversifying your search process and search committee Following Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action guidelines Writing inclusive position announcements Organizing a welcoming campus visit Utilizing pre-employment agreements On-boarding diverse […]
This two-part online training series will help you identify key predictive data, use that data to select retention programming, and assess the overall effectiveness of your interventions. Expert instructor, Russ Little, brings knowledge and experience from across the nation. You will learn: Strategies to inventory and map your current intervention strategy How to utilize predictive […]
Join us for two online sessions that will show you how to plan for and implement a Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) structure on your campus for the first time. Using case studies rooted in the practical leadership experience of our instructor, you will gain an in-depth overview of how to take the necessary steps toward […]
Learn how to improve the accuracy of your gift receipting and acceptance processes. Overview While many gifts to your institution are straightforward, others present challenges and require special processing and acknowledgement. Gain an understanding of various types of complex contributions and your institution’s obligations for each variation. This comprehensive gift-receipting program will cover: Defining […]
Are you designing online course content that is accessible to all students? The online environment has the potential to offer an extremely accessible platform for all students to learn. However, students with disabilities often have difficulty using these online learning tools because websites and course content are not created with them in mind. When […]
Nearly 30% of first-time freshmen are classified as first-generation students. How are you addressing this population’s needs? Overview More than a quarter of first-generation students drop out after their first year college — four times the dropout rate of higher-income second-generation students. First-generation students sometimes require special attention to succeed in college, and research […]
Learn new strategies and techniques to better engage and steward all segments of your planned giving donors. These two forty-five minute sessions will cover both events and impact reporting. Part 1: Stewardship Events and Donor Engagement Events are critical to your planned giving donor relations strategy. During this session, you will walk through new ideas […]
Gain the tips and tools you need to develop and integrate personas into your current marketing strategy. Overview Join us for this two-part online training series to learn how to better understand and target your core audiences by developing and incorporating personas into your marketing strategy. These two 45-minute sessions are focused on (a) […]
Learn how a day of giving can encourage giving to your institution in a more compelling and urgent way. You will learn how to develop a day of giving from concept and launch to follow up. Session one will cover pre-planning, collaborating across campus, and executing a day of giving. Session two will cover gift processing […]
An effective phonathon program can be a great way to re-engage alumni, steward donors, and build affinity. This four-part training series will cover the most common challenges facing calling programs and offer practical solutions. 1. Scripting – Learn how to best use time on the phone with alumni to build rapport, confirm contact information, and secure a […]
Is your institution considering inter-institutional enrollment for specialized programs? Overview Low enrollment programs that are core to institutional mission and values continue to face decreases in funding. Rather than cutting these programs, forward thinking leaders are collaborating with peer institutions in shared academic curricula. These partnerships allow institutions to maintain specialized courses and expand […]
Get more students engaged in the career services you have to offer. Overview This comprehensive two-part training will help you to plan for and implement an integration of career and advising services on your campus. Session one focuses on administrative strategy for integration. Session two focuses on the practical operational strategies needed to integrate […]
Better translate market research into strategy in higher ed marketing. Overview Learn how you can more effectively turn market research into meaningful marketing strategy at your institution. This webcast series is designed specifically for central marketing and communications units in higher education to help them make more data-driven decisions when connecting market research with […]
Are you actively managing and engaging your advancement volunteers? Overview Volunteers are a critical extension of your development efforts—they boost resources, engage a greater number of stakeholders, and provide support for events. However, correctly selecting, thoroughly training, and properly engaging volunteers remains a constant challenge in advancement shops. How do you create a mutually […]
IRS regulations have made private business use (PBU) a concern across both public and 501(c)(3) campuses. In particular, the adoption of Schedule K reporting requirements to IRS Form 990 has emphasized the need for 501(c)(3) institutions to revisit IRS post- issuance tax compliance standards. For this reason, you need to quickly combine campus cooperation, proper documentation, and […]
Maximize net tuition revenue by working with your finance and enrollment management counterparts. Overview Throughout higher education, institutions are feeling the effects of stagnant or declining enrollments. As more and more institutions spend money to try to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive market, few look internally to ask the more sustainable questions: How […]
Learn how to integrate online student services into instruction and assessment and use retention metrics to support long-term program sustainability. Overview More than 22 million students are projected to take some or all of their classes online in the next five years. While online enrollments are growing annually, student attrition in online education is […]
Train your entire faculty on copyright essentials. Overview How copyright and fair use laws apply to teaching, research, and publications is not always clear, and the increasing ease of copying and distributing digital materials raises the stakes even more. Educators often do not have access to the resources and support they need to deal […]
