The Best and Worst Annual Fund Strategies

YOUR ANNUAL FUND THIS YEARFollow Jim Langley’s advice on what makes for the best and worst annual fund strategies to ensure this is a successful year for your annual giving operation. The 2 Worst Annual Fund Strategies Using the annual fund to balance the annual operating budget.Donors give much, much more in the name of philanthropy than […]

Chris Connor

With over twenty years of experience in higher education, Chris’s experience includes leadership roles in undergraduate and graduate education both from an institutional and academic unit perspective. He currently serves as the Assistant Dean and Chief Enrollment Officer in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of […]

Preparing for Difficult Conversations as Faculty 

Whether through conflicts in research groups, having to negotiate boundaries around service, or dealing with academic dishonesty in students, faculty can often be confronted with the need for difficult conversations. But even knowing there is a need, it is all too easy to avoid the hard conversations due to overwhelming emotions, discomfort with conflict, or […]

Assistance Animals and Compliance: What You Need to Know About Recent Developments

In at least three recent lawsuits, post-secondary institutions have come under fire for failing to comply with provisions of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) that make it unlawful to deny housing based on a person’s handicap and that require institutions to accommodate “assistance animals.” What most institutions don’t realize yet is that the federal definition […]

Forging On and Off Campus Partnerships to Support Students’ Emergency Needs

Students of color, first-generation students, and low-income students are typically the most at risk of falling through the cracks in college. In addition to academic barriers, these students often lack financial resources to make it through emergencies or breaks in the academic year. As institutions look to increase retention and completion rates for students from […]

Civil Dialogue as a Classroom Management Strategy

Learn about practical tools that you can use to engage students in a civil discussion about controversial topics. During this interactive webcast we will discuss your role in facilitating meaningful conversations and have the opportunity to practice two communication frameworks, including: Open The Front Door (OTFD) to communication The A.C.T.I.O.N framework

Managing Student Threats and Risk: Effective Policies and Practices

Campus tragedies involving students with psychological disabilities highlight the need for campuses to be prepared to anticipate and respond to student risk and threats. Identifying and responding to students who may pose a threat of harm to themselves or others forces administrators to walk a fine line between over- and under-response. In order to respond […]

New Learning Spaces: Support Faculty for Improved Learning

New learning spaces require a significant amount of institutional resources and present a great opportunity—but only if you appropriately support and engage your faculty. Having a sustainable faculty development program maximizes the impact that new learning spaces have on the quality of student learning and advances in instructor pedagogy. Join us to learn how to […]

Connecting with Advisees from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds Webcast Recording

Learn how you can better connect with students who come from different backgrounds than your own. Throughout this training we will look at practical guidelines for bridging cultural barriers. After establishing those guidelines we will discuss how you can use them to connect with students who represent diverse: Religions Ethnic Backgrounds Gender Identities

Workshop: Foundations in Title IX Investigations Workshop & Certification

ON-CAMPUS WORKSHOP Foundations in Title IX Investigations Workshop & Certification Designed for first-time or early Investigators, Coordinators/Deputy Coordinators, and community policing units at your institution. This workshop is a great fit if you want a program that will: Help you design an overall methodology for the entire investigation Provide you with resources and tools to […]