Mentoring programs are a great way to reconnect and re-engage alumni, while providing students important career development advice and helping them to understand life after school. Join us online as we uncover the tools and techniques needed to create a program that effectively engages alumni as volunteer mentors and provides meaningful experiences for students. You […]
Higher education is working to prepare students to deal with complex problems and unending disruption. But courses with lengthy syllabi and reading lists may do the opposite. How do you develop courses that truly teach students to be innovative? Enter X-Labs at James Madison University, a model of education that offers transdisciplinary, project-based academic courses […]
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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. […]
Help students build their academic grit by identifying resiliency challenges and offering them practical solutions. Whether you are pointing students toward campus resources or coaching students directly, you will leave this training better able to promote success and persistence. You will learn interventions that you can start using immediately both in person and online to […]
Claim Your Space How Do We Advance Women Leaders in Higher Ed? Even after gaining equal opportunities in the workplace 50 years ago and gaining the right to vote a century ago, women still only represent 30% of college presidents. And only 5% are women of color. As women in higher education, how do we […]
June 9, 2011. During a series of interviews with leaders in alumni relations earlier this year, Academic Impressions found that many alumni relations offices are struggling with their alumni boards or alumni association boards. While a working board can offer institutional leaders partners to aid in achieving institutional goals for engagement and giving, most boards are […]
Application of Virtual Reality in Higher Education Most colleges and universities are either not using virtual reality (VR) or are using it in more token ways. Yet, according to the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2018 report, these technologies are rapidly reaching a much more mature stage – holding more promise for higher education and student […]
FREE WEBCAST Rethinking Engagement for Gen Z Students Live Webcast: September 22, 2022 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET Join a national discussion to learn how to best engage Gen Z students. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty and staff struggled to engage Gen Z students and help them to create a robust sense of […]
Is Your Academic Program Portfolio Still Relevant? On this page, find articles, trainings, and other resources to help you approach your academic program portfolio comprehensively, taking both the “art” and the “science” into account as you make strategic decisions about when to add, grow, or sunset programs. We hope you will find these resources useful! […]
