Affinity-Based Programming and Giving

Affinity-based programming can increase alumni engagement, attendance at reunions and events, and giving. During this webcast, our expert instructor will show you a model for segmenting your alumni populations based on alumni interests that can work in tandem with your existing programming and solicitations. Join us online to learn how you can identify and form […]

Maria R. Anguiano

Maria oversees campus-wide strategic planning, financial planning and analysis, institutional research, and capital asset strategies. She is responsible for managing a budget of $800 million. Ms. Anguiano has also served as a senior advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Postsecondary Success Team. Prior to this work, Ms. Anguiano worked at Barclays Capital in […]

Alex Whitaker

Alexander Whitaker became president of King University in August 2016, bringing with him strong academic and professional credentials, broad experience in higher education and law, and a long history of successful leadership in his professional, church, and civic endeavors. President Whitaker came to King from Berry College, where he was a senior officer of the […]

Increasing Gift Processing Capacity by Moving to Paperless

Transitioning your gift processing to a centralized paperless process can increase your team’s capacity while also helping you assess the progress of each gift more quickly and evaluate your overall goals more accurately, saving your shop both time and money. However, getting campus stakeholders on-board to make this change requires a strategy that provides evidence of how a paperless approach to gift processing can be beneficial to your institution, as well as to your relationships with your donors. Join us to hear how the University of Utah recently made the move to a paperless process. You’ll […]

Perspectives on Annual Giving Amid COVID-19

Annual giving teams have needed to adapt to unforeseen and uncontrollable circumstances caused by COVID-19. This has forced many shops to make big decisions on short notice, upending the long-term planning that is typically required for a successful annual giving year. This unprecedented situation calls for action now, not later, in order to salvage a […]

Taking a Proactive Approach to Leading Change

In the current environment, change is no longer an infrequent ‘initiative’ that needs managing—it is all around us, it is constant, and it is not going away. But this does not mean that leaders should give up their autonomy: In too many cases, we experience change as happening to us (reactive stance) instead of proactively […]

Colleen Ryan

Colleen Ryan is Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Indiana University, where she collaboratively oversees tenure and promotion procedures, faculty leadership development, and programming for faculty success. She is Director of the Initiative for the Advancement of Women and Liaison to the Institute for Advanced Study’s mid-career mentorship program. Her current interests […]

Garret Westlake

Dr. Garret Westlake is heading the transformation of VCU into one of the nation’s leading universities for cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation, and the inclusion of entrepreneurial thinking as a requisite skill for the innovation economy. As executive director, Dr. Westlake advances university-wide student innovation and entrepreneurship through curriculum as well as through curated experiential education opportunities. […]

Laura Plummer

Laura Plummer directs the Scholarly Writing Program (SWP), under the auspices of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, at Indiana University. The SWP supports faculty as they write for publication, and by extension, for promotion and tenure; its goal is to retain faculty, particularly women and women of color, to promote and share […]