Meetings Success Kit Overview We’ve all suffered through bad meetings. Given how much time we spend with our colleagues, this pain has real consequences for our teams and institutions. The stock advice around “making an agenda” and “drafting action items” will only do so much to make meetings more effective. Our Meeting Success Kit will […]
In a July 2012 survey of facilities managers in higher education, Academic Impressions found that 73% of facilities managers cite optimizing space utilization as either “high priority” or “highest priority” among initiatives for the next year. When asked about challenges faced in achieving this, facilities managers expressed concern over buy-in, both from senior leadership (for […]
No one supervises in a vacuum. Supervision involves people, so it’s inherently messy and relational at its core. We all report to people above us, work alongside peers at our level, and support people below us. In some ways, our direction and success are dependent on how well we navigate information flow, strategy, and implementation […]
Engaging with young alumni remains one of the most important, yet often one of the most elusive, strategies for maintaining your donor pipeline. Many institutions struggle with creating and staffing programming that resonates with this ever-changing audience. Join us online to hear how one institution successfully partnered alumni relations and development together on young alumni […]
Our current realities and stresses can often exacerbate existing friction between workers, co-workers, and their supervisors. In this workshop, we will examine how to get on the same page with your supervisor and peers to achieve common goals. You will learn how to manage up, down, and across so that you, your team, and your […]
While many supervisors ‘got by’ in managing a hybrid workforce when the pandemic necessitated it, it is now a strategic recruitment and retention tool for many institutions, and frankly, it is here to stay. Despite this, training on how to manage hybrid teams successfully is woefully lacking. If we fail to learn how to best […]
Meeting campaign goals in this economy remains a challenge, and recent news emphasizes how few institutions are exceeding campaign goals this year (a very different story than in 2007-08). Many institutions are just barely meeting their goals: Pace University recently celebrated the close of a seven-year capital campaign with a $100 million goal; the amount raised: […]
Our Member Exclusive report Tackling the Retention Challenge: Defining and Delivering a Unique Student Experience emphasizes the importance of achieving a broad alignment of academic and student support services, rather than trusting to isolated, one-off retention initiatives. Yet there are often organizational and cultural barriers that keep efforts within student affairs and academic affairs separated and […]
2024 Title IX Regulation Success Program for Coordinators and Investigators Space is Limited. Sign up by July 10, 2024 Buy Now Ensure you, your Deputy Coordinator(s), and your Investigator(s) are up to speed on the new 2024 Title IX Regulations. Academic Impressions has a proven record of providing comprehensive Title IX training that isn’t just […]
Here’s how to do prior learning assessment (PLA) rigorously and well. The suggestions given are by the author of a landmark study of prior learning assessment portfolios. 2010. Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation for Education, has released a statement offering ideas for a national strategy to rapidly train workers for new […]
