Learn to use an intentional branding effort to effectively communicate the creative and effective work of your career services office. During this training you will hear how the University of Miami’s Toppel Career Center successfully branded themselves and will take away five strategies for developing and articulating your own brand. Through effective branding, you can increase your office’s visibility, relevance, and even resources.
When looking to improve campus safety, many institutions immediately turn to high-tech solutions that may not be affordable. However, your campus can meaningfully affect campus safety by more actively addressing a number of smaller, yet critical campus safety issues without necessarily spending a lot of money. Many campuses find this list of smaller updates to be overwhelming and this can result in staff not knowing where to start. Learn how your institution can create the partnerships and processes needed to identify, communicate, and resolve fundamental campus safety issues on your campus. You will leave this training better able to impact four major areas of campus safety, including: Access and points of entry Grounds safety Vandalism and broken items Policy and protocol
Get an in-depth look at how National Louis University built an innovative, scalable, and financially sustainable bachelor’s degree program that is helping close the achievement gap for low-income and first-generation students. Our instructor will give you an insider perspective of the “nuts and bolts” of running this comprehensive program, as well as how the program allows the institution to successfully balance mission and market goals. You will learn: How an in-house innovation space made inception of the program possible The financial model and operational efficiencies that make the program sustainable The ins and outs of the program’s academic curriculum and corresponding support services You will leave with considerations for how the various aspects of this program can be applied and scaled at your own institution.
Gain tangible, flexible, and evidence-based methods to immediately begin collecting and using data to inform your learning commons design. Kristin Meyer, User Experience Librarian, will show you how Grand Valley State University collected user driven data to improve its spaces. You will learn how you can adapt those methods to your unique institutional context and improve your own learning commons. Throughout the online training you will have the opportunity to look at photos of learning commons spaces to better visualize the topics discussed.
Learn how you can better connect with students who come from different backgrounds than your own. Throughout this training we will look at practical guidelines for bridging cultural barriers. After establishing those guidelines we will discuss how you can use them to connect with students who represent diverse: Religions Ethnic Backgrounds Gender Identities
Learn how York University has successfully created a culture of data-informed Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) on their campus through careful planning, meaningful partnerships, and ongoing dialogue with the campus community. Throughout this online training, we will explore how you can build off of the lessons learned at York University to engage your own campus stakeholders and meaningfully advance the conversation around SEM. Specifically, we will focus on how you can: Use storytelling and student personas to begin the conversation Develop a strong partnership between enrollment management and institutional research Build a cross-campus SEM committee and governance structure Continuously analyze and report your process to further refine SEM strategies
Many institutions incentivize retirement as a reaction to unstable fiscal situations rather than proactively managing the process to find a mutually beneficial solution for the institution and employees. In this online training, you will learn how Cedar Crest College approached this thorny faculty issue by implementing a respectful and phased approach to retirement. Similarly, you will hear how the college was able to provide its staff financial freedom to retire. You will leave this training with an understanding of the structure that made this mutually beneficial arrangement possible, including the timing of the roll-out as well as the financial and academic impact of the retirement incentives program.
Learn a more strategic approach to budgeting within your department. Agenda Resources
Ensuring alignment between institutional goals, residence life programming, and student learning outcomes is critical. A practical method for doing so is the process of goal mapping. In this webcast, you will learn a quick and practical approach for mapping departmental goals to institutional goals as part of a larger assessment plan. Throughout this training, we will focus on: Identifying and understanding divisional and departmental goals Mapping key programs, services, and activities Identifying and remediating potential learning gaps Included with every registration is a template rubric to work from as you map your own department.
Join us for an online training program that will provide faculty with critical information about FERPA, the federal statute that governs nearly all student records. Beginning with an overview of the FERPA framework, we will address issues that faculty commonly face—often without realizing the implications and risks—including: Posting grades Emailing with, and about, students Writing recommendation letters Using online tools and collaborative pedagogies Speaking with (helicopter) parents Administrators requesting student information If you are searching for relevant scenarios and practical tips for better understanding how FERPA applies to everyday work of faculty, this online training is right for you.
