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5 Key Skills to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Team

The need for interdisciplinary research is growing. As a research development professional (RDP), figuring out how to bring partners across disciplines together to fuel creativity and collaboration is tricky. You’re managing tensions around roles and credit, and you’re helping to translate between researchers who may value very different things. Join us online to learn and discuss five key skills for research development professionals seeking to build bridges across disciplines. New RDPs will leave with an overview of what it means to facilitate interdisciplinary research, and seasoned RDPs who’ve learned through trial and error will leave with more clarity on how to formalize efforts.

Finding and Maintaining Industry Partnerships for Experiential Learning and Innovation Initiatives

Does finding and maintaining industry partnerships for experiential learning and innovation initiatives in your classroom feel like just another task you don’t have time for? Get tips and advice from marketing professor and co-founder of the Innovation Consulting Community, Dr. Peter Kaufman, on how to organically incorporate networking into your day-to-day. Peter’s success in finding and working with industry partners is rooted in his marketing background and his motivation around naturally making connections. And in the vein of networking, Peter builds relationships by establishing a two-way-street – trying to offer value at every touch-point. He’s been able to apply all the learns from working with partners in the ICC to his own classroom.

Integrating Career Development into Study Abroad Experiences

To equip students with relevant workforce skills, career services units are increasingly forging strategic partnerships with other departments on campus to ensure career development across the institution. And since study abroad numbers continue to grow, partnerships with study abroad units can be very viable options for skill development and reflection outside the traditional classroom. Join us online to learn how career services and study abroad staff at UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School have partnered to integrate more career development into study abroad experiences. In this model, career services and study abroad are working together to help students: Set and achieve personal and career goals Increase career readiness by developing skills in adaptability, collaboration, cultural awareness, and self-awareness Apply and integrate career readiness skills in a practical, real-world way Reflect on and communicate skill development to be more competitive in job interviews

5 Key Components of a Successful Intrusive Advising Process

You are likely already using intrusive/proactive advising to help students in danger of failing or dropping out. But are you effectively communicating with both staff and academically at-risk students to maximize your impact? Join us online to learn how full-time advisors of undergraduate students can use intrusive/proactive advising to improve students’ motivation and academic success. We’ll share tips around timing and key messages for outreach, and we’ll highlight ways to use data to improve your practice.

Engage All Employees in Compliance and Ethics by Making It Interactive and Accessible

If you oversee any compliance efforts on campus, you know it can be difficult to get faculty and administrators engaged with your efforts. They may seem fearful of handling a situation incorrectly. Or they may seem bored – with a mindset of “That’s not my job.” How can you overcome these attitudes so that compliance is ingrained in a more positive way into the culture of your institution? Join us online to start rethinking your compliance training efforts to ensure more engagement and better follow-up. We’ll share strategies like gamification that will make your trainings more interactive and accessible. You’ll leave with suggestions on how to keep compliance conversations going after your trainings conclude – including systems that help employees see and report compliance issues on a routine basis.

Fundamentals of Fundraising for Diverse Student Groups on Campus

Given the pressing need to help diverse student populations succeed, now is the time to think creatively about student affairs fundraising. How can student affairs staff members and their advancement / development counterparts work together to secure more funds for cultural, gender, or other identity groups on campuses? Join us online to hear what it takes to run a strong identity-based fundraising initiative in which fundraising is married to needs of underrepresented students. You’ll learn from Tierney Bates, a former director of development who has also served NASPA as vice chair of a student affairs fundraising community. He will offer a “back to basics” checklist to help organize your efforts and collaboration, and we’ll discuss several examples of successful identity philanthropy in action.

Title IX: Key Considerations for Working with Pregnant and Parenting Students

This training is based on 2020 Title IX regulations and has been retired. Please visit our Title IX Trainings Page to view all current Title IX trainings. Join us online to begin the important work of auditing your campus policies and procedures for pregnant and parenting students. We will share an easy-to-use checklist that will help you ensure that you’ve met your obligations in creating an accommodating and inclusive environment for pregnant and parenting students on campus. During the webcast, we’ll pay special attention to the concept of “reasonable accommodations.” Even if your faculty, staff, and administrators know that they need to accommodate pregnant and parenting students, the accommodations offered can vary widely across campus – leading to disparity in the academic integrity of coursework and inconsistencies across the student experience. You’ll leave the program with recommendations for accommodations that can be applied more consistently.

Implement Teaching Strategies that Engage Generation Z

Generation Z is the newest generation. Born after Millennials and now 14-24 years old, they’re likely in your classrooms in high numbers. Whether you associate this generation with positive or negative traits, you likely feel as though this is “one more dynamic” to keep pace with. Join us online to get quick, practical tips to make teaching your Gen Z students easier and more productive. We’ll challenge stereotypes and offer suggestions around: These tips not only help make your classrooms more engaging for Gen Z, they’ll make a difference for those of other generations, too.

Engaging First-Gen Families to Drive Student Success

How are you helping your first-gen families navigate the first-year experience? First-gen students need the support of their families to be successful during college, especially during the first year when the transition is most difficult. But for many first-gen families, the college environment is unfamiliar or even intimidating. They need support and direction from the institution. Join us online to learn how to create an engaging first-year experience to help guide first-gen families through the college transition. During this webcast, we will share how two institutions with high percentages of first-gen students (both a community college and a 4-year university) engage with families. You’ll see how these schools progress beyond a family orientation to provide additional educational workshops and peer-to-peer support networks, and you’ll leave with strategies to evaluate the needs of your own first-gen families. Expand your toolkit for first-gen students by joining us for our conference, Developing a Comprehensive System of Support for First-Generation Students, designed to give you a wide variety of tools to best address the challenges your first-gen population faces and to give them the best chance at success.

Developing and Using Personas in Higher Ed Marketing

Personas are representations of key user types that help organizations better identify, understand, and communicate with their primary audiences. A practical example of this in higher ed could be: “I am developing a landing page for a prospective student-facing ad campaign. I am conducting some research into the demographics, preferences, and attitudes of our target audiences to develop personas. These will help me refine my messaging and design for the landing page.” Join us for this two-part series to better understand and target your core audiences by developing and incorporating personas into your marketing strategy. Session 1 will focus on creating effective personas. Session 2 will teach you how to integrate these personas meaningfully into your marketing efforts to better reach your target audiences. Efficient and Resource-Rich Trainings We have deliberately designed these trainings to be brief but powerful. Each session is jam-packed with practical information from start to finish. Each is also accompanied by a robust collection of worksheets and development templates that are designed to help you further develop and apply your own personas to your work.

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