Gain confidence in your ability to engage with donors around polarizing topics. Overview Your donors’ views of current events may not always align with your personal or institutional values and mission, which can create tension when cultivating the relationship. How do you navigate through those conversations in a way that sustains or even builds the […]
Protect the reputation of your institution and the donor against legal or political scrutiny. Overview When donors want to establish a scholarship for the two federally protected class groups that receive the most legal scrutiny–women and students of color–your advancement shop must navigate risk in a way that doesn’t scare away donors or distract from […]
Pursue transformational gifts with confidence using institutional collaboration. Overview The maxim big ideas lead to big gifts has defined fundraising, and—by extension—most of academia over the last 20 or more years. The acceptance of this adage is evident not only by where the most generous gifts to academia are being targeted but also by the […]
Join us to become more comfortable recognizing and harnessing your privilege in order to use it to make a positive impact on your students, colleagues, and teams. Overview All of us enjoy privilege on some level, which means that all of us have an opportunity to use our privilege in support of those who experience […]
Equip yourself with the tools to address trauma and mental health in your classroom. Overview The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study in the nineties taught us the prevalence of traumatic experience in society, as well as how trauma influences lifelong learning, health, and behavior. Researchers have found correlations between high ACEs scores (indicating more traumatic […]
Create more equitable and inclusive environments to support the success of LGBTQ faculty and staff leaders. Overview Higher education operates in a heteronormative and cisnormative culture that, left unchecked, inevitably leads to the systemic marginalization and underrepresentation of LGBTQ faculty and staff in leadership positions. While individual support and leadership advancement are important, they do […]
Make connections, build community, and explore strategies to succeed with LGBTQ higher education leaders. LGBTQ faculty and staff continue to lead in higher education—despite the ways in which heteronormative culture continues to perpetuate systemic marginalization and underrepresentation of LGBTQ leaders. In addition to a commitment to dismantling the heteronormative and cisnormative systems that create these […]
Prepare faculty to design online, face-to-face, and hybrid courses that are adaptable to any scenario. Overview To continue to meet student needs and plan for shifts in an uncertain year, many institutions are planning courses that are adaptable to online, hybrid, and face-to-face learning environments. Dr. Elizabeth Barrie from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, […]
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