What’s Keeping Deans Up at Night: A Free Webcast for Academic Leaders

FREE WEBCAST What’s Keeping Deans Up at Night: A Free Webcast for Academic Leaders Recorded on: June 8, 2022 Learn the pressing issues that are on the minds of Deans—as well as their most common hopes and plans for moving forward. Out of all of the academic leaders in higher education, Deans are arguably the […]

Build the Capacity of Your Institution’s Leaders

FREE RECORDED WEBCAST Build the Capacity of Your Institution’s Leaders As higher education faces a time of crisis, we need leaders at every level of the institution who can grow and think differently about the future. We need answers to questions like these: How do you identify potential leaders? What kind of support and resources […]

Create an Alumni Volunteer Experience that Fosters Life-Long Engagement with Your Institution

ALUMNI VOLUNTEERS Training Package Enjoy this recorded 3-part series, plus a bonus Q&A recording available only to members, which will provide strategies and new approaches to improve alumni volunteer recruitment, onboarding, and recognition, so you can get the most out of your relationships with your volunteers. Alumni volunteers are critical to the success of any […]

Membership Enterprise Packages

Over 90 New Trainings and Resources Now Available to Members ENTERPRISE PACKAGES Get 10% Off Membership for Your Institution or Large Team Members receive access to content across all of these collections and more. Leadership Women in Leadership Academic Leadership Faculty Success Institutional & Academic Planning Student Success Enrollment Management & Marketing Advancement Diversity, Equity, […]

Survey Report: Where Your Institution May be Missing Opportunities to Improve Academic Advising

In November 2011, Academic Impressions surveyed colleges and universities on their practices in assessing academic advisors. 73 institutions responded, and of those who responded, 57 percent employ both faculty and professional advisors, 24 percent use only faculty advisors, and 19 percent use only professional advisors. The aggregated results from the survey reveal some significant issues. […]

Do not waste your faculty’s time: How deans can help transform end-of-semester feedback into lasting, meaningful action

“Will my students read these suggestions?” “Will they learn from and apply my feedback?” When I was a faculty member, the above questions nagged me and other colleagues as we spent hours grading final papers and projects. I carefully crafted feedback to identify strengths and offer suggestions, even linking to course readings and resources. I […]

The 5 Biggest Mistakes Team Leaders Make

Over the years, I have had the opportunity to work with over 100 senior teams and cabinets in higher education. Overall, the experience has been quite positive due to the intelligence, dedication, aspirations, and integrity of those veteran leaders. Unfortunately, about 10% of teams I have worked with just never performed well, despite great effort and […]

What’s Next for Data-Informed SEM?

More institutions are using small and big data sources across the prospective and current student lifecycle to inform key decisions related to enrollment and retention. To take a look at how Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) is changing and to get ideas for how institutions can better leverage their data, we reached out to a panel of […]

This is How We Need to Rethink the Work of Student Affairs

by Daniel Fusch and Caleb Tegtmeier (Academic Impressions) The challenges facing our students and our institutions are more complex than in the past, and no single, siloed office can address these challenges adequately. That’s why some institutions have been forming student affairs innovation hubs to bring together a more diverse crew of creative minds from […]

Forging the Future: Five Considerations for Developing Leaders at Your Institution 

Many have written, studied, and offered advice on the skills higher education leaders need to be successful, and in the wake of COVID-19, some of the needs have shifted and some have reached a fever pitch. Burnout, enrollment declines, artificial intelligence, and political and cultural polarization are just some of the external factors a leader […]