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Finding Success with Remote Academic Advising: A Training for Frontline Advisors

This webcast will help academic advisors accustomed to face-to-face settings improve their online advising practice and acclimate to their new virtual roles due to COVID-19. Touching on common challenges related to both self and students, our expert instructor will discuss strategies for the following while working remotely: What strategies can I employ to maintain boundaries and practice better self-care? What do I need to consider about student privacy and confidentiality? How can I structure my touchpoints and communications online to build effective and trust-based relationships with my advisees?   Who Should Attend This webcast has been designed primarily for frontline academic advisors. If you are an academic advisor who was advising students face-to-face and had to shift to remote advising in light of COVID-19, this training is for you. Agenda Setting yourself up for success Setting up your physical space Privacy & confidentiality considerations Using the right technology Practicing self-care Creating a work/life balance when both occur in the same space Knowing when to focus on you Setting students up for success Building relationships virtually Establishing communication processes that overcome the challenges of distance 1:1 vs. group advising Meeting the needs of advisees across time zones Scheduling and timing considerations […]

Developing Rigor in Your Fundraising Team

Most advancement leaders rise into their positions from successful fundraising careers with little or no experience managing teams. You’re a leader because you were a great fundraiser. And you were a great fundraiser because you applied rigor and discipline in your schedule and intuited the information and practices needed for success. But how much have you worked to coach others on the rigor and intuition you developed within yourself? Join us online to learn how to start building in your team the skills that made you such a successful individual contributor: Choosing effectiveness over efficiency Managing your time and calendar Gathering and disseminating crucial information Shadowing and roleplaying   Who Should Attend Advancement leaders who oversee a team of fundraisers and are looking to maximize team effectiveness to reach fundraising goals of the institution will benefit from this program.   Agenda How to lead an effective team – not just an efficient one Cultivating time management and focus What gets in the way of your team’s productivity? What does an effective calendar look like for a fundraiser? Increasing transparency by sharing trends, dashboards, and contact reports Day-to-day strategies to increase team capacity   Instructor Kathy Drucquer Duff, CFRE Coach, Consultant, […]

Campaigns: Staffing, Training, and Supporting Frontline Fundraisers

In order to meet your campaign goals, it is essential to ensure you have the proper staffing levels, particularly for frontline fundraisers. In this program, our expert facilitator will provide practical tips for staffing, training, and supporting your frontline fundraisers as you ramp up for a comprehensive campaign. Throughout this webcast, you will learn to: Strategically align your team’s talent with the vision of your campaign Use benchmarking with peer and aspirant institutions to provide insights for staffing needs and patterns Gain insights around the tactics and strategies necessary to hire and on-board new fundraising staff to ensure campaign success.   Who Should Attend Advancement leadership, campaign directors, advancement HR and training professionals, and any other individuals who are involved in campaign planning, strategy, and management will benefit most from this webcast.   Agenda Balancing staffing the frontline and other advancement teams Benchmarking with peer and neighboring institutions and learn strategies to share your case for new resources Hiring from a place of campaign missions, values, and needs   Instructor Ashlyn W. Sowell Associate Vice President for Campaign Operations and Engagement, Johns Hopkins University With a career of over 20 years in development, Ashlyn accepted in 2018 a newly created […]

Integrating Academic Program Prioritization into Your Current Shared Governance Structure

Empower your shared governance in order to lead the academic program prioritization process.  Overview As a result of the pandemic, academic leaders are being forced to identify which programs are sustainable and those that are not. Program prioritization is not new; but given the pandemic, the changing social perceptions of higher education, the changing student demographics, and the context in which program prioritization is currently happening brings to light new challenges. With faculty today more burned out and disengaged than ever, it is crucial to identify ways to integrate program prioritization into the present shared governance system on your campus, so that faculty members feel empowered to lead the prioritization process, understand the decisions being made, and align their decisions with the mission of the institution. Join us online for an interactive training which combines a panel of instructors from four institutions, and includes a wide variety of case studies and role-plays. Through useful and illuminating group dialogue opportunities, you’ll discuss ways you can make program prioritization an ongoing and sustained part of your shared governance system on campus by addressing how to: Define the integrated role of program prioritization within shared governance. Collect and use qualitative and quantitative data […]

Upgrading Your Self-Care During the COVID Crisis

Are you finding that your self-care is becoming just another thing on your to-do list? Maybe it’s not a priority at all. Between taking care of your career, family, friends and household—all while working in new ways from home—you may feel as if there’s never enough time in the day to take care of yourself. Join us online and learn how to integrate self-care into your life in a meaningful way that does not feel like a chore. You’ll learn six proven pillars of upgraded self-care to practice now during the COVID crisis, when it matters the most, and when your life returns to normal. This approach will have you focus on the things you’re already doing but will teach you how to do them better. You’ll learn how to: Set boundaries with your family members while you work from home Fall asleep faster Move your body in a way that feels exciting and purposeful Release the shame or guilt you might feel for not performing at 100% Who Should Attend This webcast is designed to help attendees, especially women, learn how to reexamine and prioritize their self-care habits, so they can learn to hit the “pause” button guilt-free and […]

Strategies for Effective and Actionable Academic Program Reviews

With ever increasing pressure to stay relevant, institutions need to be more intentional in how they approach academic program review. It’s essential to be efficient and structured in order to close the gap between process and actionable results. Academic program review can often seem like a laborious and sometimes perfunctory process that doesn’t always yield meaningful outcomes. A lack of consistent data, metrics, and staff engagement can often cloud results and render the process ineffectual. However, by infusing transparency and engaging faculty to build consensus and buy-in for future changes, you can remove fear and anxiety around the process. Small to mid-sized universities and colleges: Join us for this online course to learn how Hamline University developed their eight core criteria for evaluating academic programs and how it impacted their program review process. Our instructors from Hamline University will take you through how they have: Formed their vision and purpose to achieve a meaningful and efficient review process Established eight key metrics to evaluate academic programs Compiled clean and usable data without investment in new software   Who Should Attend Decision makers in academic leadership who are looking to get buy-in and more effectively leverage the impact of their academic […]

Supporting Neurodiverse and Accessible Learning Outside of the Classroom

Much of the curriculum in higher ed is initially designed as if learners are “neurotypical” and then adapted for those who don’t meet that mold. This leads to many students seeking campus support services outside of the classroom in order to achieve academic success. Neurodiversity (or learner variability) applies to all students. Essentially, neurodiversity is the idea that neurological and learning differences among people are the result of naturally occurring variations within the human genome. Rather than looking for a cure to “fix” neurodiverse behaviors, neurodiversity focuses on accommodating and supporting the diverse population. Human brains all learn differently; therefore, neurodiversity should be regarded as the rule, not the exception. In this webcast, Dr. Elizabeth Coghill from East Carolina University will describe: How ECU’s Pirate Academic Success Center promotes the success of diverse learners by infusing the curriculum with universal design for learning principles and academic technologies, How she, her staff, and a network of peer tutors equip students to be independent and empowered learners by role modeling learning techniques and supports, and The unexpected outcomes of UDL and technology application integration, especially the role it plays when campus learning goes exclusively online. Format We’ve designed this 60-minute webcast to […]

Succeeding as a Disruptive Innovator: Stories from a Former College President

As a senior leader in higher education, you understand the importance of disruption and innovation. But how do you help enable it on your campus? Join us online to hear from Bob Kustra, a former president at Boise State University (2003-2018), who introduced disruptors throughout his tenure to transform Boise State from an undergraduate commuter college to a research university of distinction. Bob learned through experience that seeding innovation into the college campus is more about capitalizing on accidental moments than it is about planning for it. You will leave with advice on how to: Cultivate a mindset of identifying leads Purposefully follow up Take advantage of unexpected moments Who Should Attend If you have the authority to bypass typical structures and decision-making processes in order to introduce disrupters / innovators to campus, you will benefit from this session. This includes current and aspiring presidents, as well as provosts and deans. Agenda In this webcast, Bob Kustra will share several stories that highlight his creative approach to fostering innovation at Boise State. Bob will offer the outcomes realized and the lessons learned from stories like these: The creation of an innovative new college – Developing space for nurturing new ideas […]

Building Inclusive Pedagogy Online

COVID-19 Critical Response DISCUSSION SERIES This is a webcast recording from the live event that took place on March 30, 2020. In the wake of COVID-19, the rapid transition of moving courses online has left many students feeling isolated and insecure, and it has put the most vulnerable students at even greater risk. By using components of inclusive pedagogy in online courses, instructors have the unique opportunity to build community in a new way and create spaces for all students to come together and learn on equal footing. This webcast recording will offer practical, immediately applicable techniques that educators from any area of study can use to create a positive online learning environment and effectively engage students. By making small adjustments in your teaching process, you can make your online course more inclusive and allow your students to more effectively learn during these uncertain times.   Who Should Attend This program will benefit both instructors and anyone supporting faculty in their transition to online instruction. Specifically, faculty, graduate students, Center for Teaching & Learning staff, deans, and chairs are encouraged to attend. If you are looking for a space to gain ideas and best practices around the current coronavirus crisis, we […]

Recruiting for Diversity: A Training for Academic Search Committees

Is your academic search committee a “receiving” committee – one that waits for applications and hopes they’ll be diverse? Or does your committee have the mindset of recruiters – closely monitoring applications and taking action to ensure the diversity of the applicant pool? Ultimately, hiring more diverse candidates requires search committees to see themselves as accountable for the outcomes of the process. Join us online to learn key pieces of a more proactive mindset that will help ensure your search processes produce more diverse hires. To help you start thinking more like a recruiting committee, our expert will share tips for: Networking intentionally to attract more diverse candidates Tracking and benchmarking data on the diversity of your candidate pool throughout the process Mitigating implicit bias Who Should Attend This webcast will benefit academic search committees who are looking for new approaches to increase diversity in their candidate pools during the hiring process. Faculty affairs professionals and academic leaders charged with increasing diversity in academic departments may also wish to attend. Agenda Our expert will offer guidance on adopting a ”recruiting” mindset by helping your committee: Network Intentionally:   Whether it’s through everyday conversations, special events, conferences, or reach-outs to HBCUs, learn how to […]