Dr. Peter Cornish is currently enjoying an 18-month sabbatical in Saskatoon after serving in the Director position at Memorial University of Newfoundland since 2003. Memorial’s Student Wellness and Counselling Centre is an academic and service unit with a focus on interprofessional wellness programming, training, and research. His clinical and research interests include online mental health, […]
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Now What? Navigating the Mid-Career Journey Give yourself the space, support, and community to reevaluate and realign your career goals as mid-career faculty. Choose from 2 cohorts: Starting September 23, 2024 REGISTER NOW Starting January 27, 2025 REGISTER NOW Overview “Now what?” is the question many mid-career faculty ask themselves, whether they are […]
The main element missing from most peer leader programs is training rooted in outcomes-based learning strategies. Without this, your peer leaders may clearly understand what’s expected of them, but be ill equipped to meet those expectations. Join us online to learn how you can reconfigure your peer leader training by utilizing outcome-based, active learning strategies […]
Ensuring alignment between institutional goals, residence life programming, and student learning outcomes is critical. A practical method for doing so is the process of goal mapping. In this webcast, you will learn a quick and practical approach for mapping departmental goals to institutional goals as part of a larger assessment plan. Throughout this training, we […]
To equip students with relevant workforce skills, career services units are increasingly forging strategic partnerships with other departments on campus to ensure career development across the institution. And since study abroad numbers continue to grow, partnerships with study abroad units can be very viable options for skill development and reflection outside the traditional classroom. Join […]
Institutions everywhere are looking for ways to integrate academic advising and career services functions into a coordinated or unified approach. Join us online to learn how Florida Atlantic University was able to cross-train their advising and career services teams to gain an understanding of each other’s knowledge base and ultimately build a more cohesive model. […]
Moving pieces of your orientation online can help you save time and money while maximizing student participation and engagement. Throughout this training you will hear how the University of Washington implemented three phases over three years to move more of their orientation online and to continuously improve elements of the process. As we work through […]
Many stop-out programs settle for offering a limited number of degrees and little flexibility concerning the timelines for degree completion. The leadership at the University of Memphis reached higher, building a comprehensive, decentralized program that offers returning students more degree options that can be attained more quickly. Join us in an online training to learn […]
Why do so many grant proposals get rejected? Funding rates hover at about 20% across all federal agencies: the competition is fierce. For new faculty who are inexperienced, their chances of getting funded are more like 10-15%. This is due in part to PI inexperience with proposal writing and/or interpreting review comments and constructively utilizing […]
This article is an excerpt from Sue Ohrablo’s acclaimed book High-Impact Advising: A Guide for Academic Advisors, which you can find here. Being an effective academic advisor is like being an expert juggler. It is easy to drop a ball now and then. In this article, I examine strategies to keep all the balls in the […]
