Course Category: Free for All-Inclusive Members

Rethinking Career Fairs: Creating Tailored Experiences for Students and Employers Webcast Recording

Gain insight into how you can create smaller and more targeted career fairs that foster more meaningful connections between students and employers. Our expert presenters will walk you through the process of creating tailored career fairs that improve outcomes for both students and employers. You will leave this webcast with: Key insights on how to design a tailored career fair structure Tips on executing small career fairs Strategies to engage employers in more student touch points

Donor Relations: Demonstrating ROI (Webcast Recording)

Learn how to objectively measure the success of your donor relations program and communicate the ROI with leadership and across your shop. Donor Relations Guru®, Lynne Wester, will show you how to: Create clear benchmarks for donor relations success Track unique opportunities—including donor retention rate Determine the right metrics for your shop “The information provided is helping to build the case for a strong donor relations strategy” – Dory Straight, Scholarship Officer, University of Alaska Foundation “Lynne’s webcasts are always beneficial, but I think this one even exceeded expectations! Great, concrete examples of how we can capture the ROI of our efforts. She inspires me every time!” – Kristi Jongeling, College of the Holy Cross

Moving to a Responsibility Center Management Budgeting Model Webcast Recording

Learn how you can customize, make key decisions, and cultivate ownership of a responsibility center management (RCM) budgeting model on your campus. Larry Goldstein will walk you through critical aspects of RCM so you can better: “This explanation and presentation of the RCM budget model was enlightening and very reassuring that our Task Force is on the right track with modifying our current budget program. We also realized throughout the presentation that CSULA has utilized several RCM principles over the past few years.”– Troy Allen, Director of Strategic Planning & Quality Improvement, CSULA

Planning and Managing Project-Based Fundraising

Learn how to maintain campaign momentum and donor interest by narrowing the scope of your campaign to focused fundraising projects with defined goals. Our expert instructor will share specific fundraising examples that will give you what you need to begin your own project-based fundraising initiative.

Measuring and Tracking the Effectiveness of Your Marketing and Branding Efforts

Learn how to better measure and track the effectiveness of your marketing and branding efforts over time. During this program, expert instructors from SimpsonScarborough and the University of Virginia will teach you which metrics you should link to specific marketing tactics across digital advertising, web, and social media channels, as well as how to better assess your institution’s brand strength. Throughout the training we will review specific examples of how this has been done at other institutions so that you can apply what you learn to your daily work.

Corporate Stewardship: Demonstrating ROI Webcast Recording

Further engage your corporate partners with communications that go beyond required reporting. You will learn how to gather the appropriate data, develop succinct annual reports, and distribute this information to the right internal and external partners to support your corporate engagement efforts. Our expert instructors will begin this session by reviewing the pillars of a sound stewardship strategy and then share an in-depth case study and sample impact reports.

9 Formative Assessment Techniques for
Online Courses

Gain nine formative online assessment strategies to improve student learning outcomes. This example-packed training provides a guide for each assessment technique, allowing you to practically apply these techniques in your online courses to improve student feedback and more effectively address student challenges.

Gamification: Practical Strategies for Your Course

Learn how to strategically implement game-based design principles that can help you better engage students in a more interactive approach to education. Using gamification in your courses does not have to be difficult nor does it have to be comprehensive. We will discuss a range of different approaches that you can implement immediately to help make assignments more competitive, grading scales more interactive, and content more compelling.

Managing and Supporting Adjunct Faculty

Learn proven approaches for supporting adjunct faculty. From orientation to retention, you will gain practical ideas for improving your institution’s relationship with its adjunct faculty members. You will learn practical ideas for: Onboarding and professional development Classroom evaluations and performance reviews Retaining your best adjunct faculty “After attending this webcast, I feel like we have many ideas and resources we can use for supporting part-time faculty and helping them to feel a sense of belonging.” – Melinda Miller, Department Chair and Professor, Sam Houston State University “This session provided ideas that can be adopted at a manager level while working toward institutional goals.” – Gail Mireau, Program Manager of Continuing Education, Red River College

Athletics Fundraising: Direct Mail Strategy

Learn how to develop a comprehensive direct mail strategy for your athletic program. If your institution is looking to grow its athletic fundraising efforts, a coordinated direct mail strategy is a cost-effective first step toward building a donor pipeline and growing fundraising capacity. You will gain insights on scheduling sends, creating compelling messaging, and coordinating your efforts across coaches, student athletes, and centralized advancement staff. Examples of Direct Mail Pieces Included in your registration is a comprehensive resource packet with sample mailing schedules and successful direct mail and email campaigns.

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