Creating and maintaining an inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone on a campus is necessary to recruit and retain diverse faculty, students, and staff, as well as to create an environment that promotes Global Citizenship to reflect an increasingly global society. Yet at most institutions, DEI initiatives only focus on domestic diversity and lack a […]
With over 20 years in higher education administration, Amanda Moore McBride, PhD, MSW, has likely encountered a leadership situation similar to the one in which you find yourself. She can relate. Amanda wants to hear your pain points and points of pride; she wants to help you draw connections across your experiences and current situation […]
I. Introduction The Great Resignation, the Great Attrition, the Great Disengagement, and the Big Quit are a few of the names for the phenomenon occurring throughout different industries, including higher education.1 Higher education is not immune from this great exodus and is at a turning point as retention of faculty, administrators, and staff is more […]
Does your advancement office partner with your academic researchers and grant writers to identify sources of private support for academic research? Is this a missed opportunity for your institution? In this member exclusive, review 4 groundbreaking articles on optimizing these partnerships: See Upcoming Advancement Events
Series: Changing How We Understand the Market In this new series by Jon Boeckenstedt, we analyze current enrollment and demographics data, uncovering stories that challenge how institutions often understand their marketplace—or that shed new light on emerging trends. We want to encourage a deeper look at the implications of today’s marketplace data. We hope that […]
Despite how critical the phonathon can be to the annual fund, student callers are often given minimum training — or training that doesn’t set them up well to succeed in soliciting donor support for the institution. To learn some tips from past and present managers of highly effective phonathon programs, we turned this week to […]
“Our unique backgrounds, experiences, and identities will reveal themselves in the divergent goals for which we advocate and in the behaviors we exhibit,” comments Dean Paaige Turner. “By putting in place structures that bring together diverse groups in productive, action-based collaboration, and by retaining a sense of optimism, purpose, and belief in the ability of […]
FREE WEBCAST Live Q&A Session: Enrollment 101 for Academic Leaders Live Webcast: August 26, 2022 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EDT Demystify how enrollment impacts academic leaders’ key challenges and decisions in an evolving higher-ed context. As an academic administrator, you know better than anyone that academic program quality and faculty success both fall squarely […]
FREE WEBCAST RECORDING Revising the Promotion and Tenure Process: A Conversation Space for Faculty Affairs and Academic Leaders Learn how others are approaching revisions to the promotion and tenure process. To ensure a fair and contextual evaluation around faculty promotion and tenure during COVID, many colleges and universities adjusted their P&T processes this past year. […]
Engaging in Racial Inequity Dialogue AN EDUCATIONAL SERIES Check back soon for more dates or sign up for our newsletter to stay in the know. Overview Let’s face it—while it’s imperative to call out racist comments, biases, and behaviors when we witness them, it can nevertheless be a difficult, daunting and emotionally risky task […]
