Course Category: Webcast Recording

See Something, Say Something: Building Your Capacity to Respond to Bias

Witnessing inappropriate and/or biased behavior can be uncomfortable-but the discomfort is likely tenfold for the person actually experiencing it. We all have an active role to play in creating more inclusive and equitable environments on campus, however, responding appropriately can be daunting at first and it takes practice. Join us for this training to raise your own self-awareness and build confidence so that you can intervene appropriately during challenging situations whether they be with students, colleagues, or leadership.

Declined Grant Proposals: Analyze Reviews and Create a Plan for Resubmission

On average, it takes three submissions before a faculty member will get their proposal for funding accepted by a grant agency. To complicate matters, the reviews that accompany the rejection are often complex and contradictory, so it can be difficult to know how to move forward – especially when many faculty get little help interpreting reviews. As such, many faculty members, especially junior faculty, simply give up on the proposal too soon and do not put effort into revising and resubmitting it. When this happens, important research may be left undone, the institution cannot meet its strategic goal of growing research, and faculty find it difficult to publish in top journals and stay on track for promotion and tenure. Join our expert instructor to learn how to review and analyze your declined grant proposals with a fresh perspective – one that will give you confidence in how to best move forward with your declined proposal, as well as all future proposals. Our expert will guide you through the process that will teach you how to: Objectively assess your individual reviews Identify patterns and uncover the most critical feedback Anticipate hidden weaknesses Identify both the root causes and underlying conditions preventing […]

Navigating Work-Life Balance as a Woman Leader in Higher Education

The stresses of the past year have hit women especially hard. From taking on extra work to helping family members and managing the logistics of remote learning for their children, women’s workload – both mental and physical – has dramatically increased during the pandemic. We have heard time and again from women that they are in need of strategies that help set healthy boundaries in their personal and professional lives. In this 60-minute webcast presented by Melody Blake, Provost and Vice President for Academic & Student Affairs at Wesleyan College, you will learn how to manage a never-ending to-do list by prioritizing, communicating, and delegating what needs to be done. Our time will be divided between setting healthy boundaries at work and at home, as well as managing your time.

Defining Your Role as Chief of Staff

The role of Chief of Staff in relation to the President or other leader varies on many factors, such as how new your President is to the role and how involved they want you to be with decision making. Join us for this one-hour webcast to learn how to: Determine the needs of your President Communicate the parameters of your role to stakeholders and the institution Balance the nuances of being accessible to colleagues with the sensitivities of your role

The Inclusive Leader’s Approach to Accountability

We’ve all said or done something at work that unintentionally upset or offended someone. We may shy away from holding ourselves and others accountable for resolving the situation because we want to prevent further harm that comes from the shame or disappointment associated with admitting a mistake. But inclusive leaders see things differently – they recognize and embrace the responsibility to repair harm and make others feel appreciated when things go wrong. Join us online and learn how to model accountability in a way that repairs harm by fostering inclusion. In this webcast, you’ll get tips and language you can use to encourage reflection during a growth opportunity that arises when you or someone you know has behaved or communicated in an exclusionary way against a cultural or identity group (i.e., race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, experience level, etc). You’ll walk away feeling more confident to:

Anti-Oppressive Practices in Clinical Education

Clinical practitioners and the educators who train them should be prepared to work with individuals from a variety of racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. However, critical conversations around bias, marginalization, and oppression are all too often relegated to the background of – or completely absent from – coursework in clinical disciplines. In many disciplines, most clinicians come from outside of the underrepresented communities they work within. The failure to include a strong basis of social justice understanding within their training can result in clinicians who are underprepared to effectively provide culturally appropriate treatment, support, and advocacy for each of their clients. Anti-Oppressive Intervention has become a core piece of the clinical curriculum within the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at MGH Institute for Health Professions. Join us for a one-hour webcast where our expert instructor, Indigo Young, MS, CCC-SLP, will share how incorporating an Anti-Oppressive Intervention approach into clinical education can be used to reduce disparities in both education and healthcare. You will learn about the model MGH uses and how it can be applied in various clinical settings to give clinicians concrete tools to be more effective in providing each client with the best possible care.

Teaching Your Service Learning Course Online

We know that high-impact practices support profound learning by promoting student engagement and real-world experience. Among those high-impact practices, service learning courses help students achieve a deeper understanding of course content. They can also shape their personal values and civic responsibility through reflection and participation in an organized service activity that serves community needs (Bringle, Hatcher, McIntosh, 2006). For these compelling reasons, many faculty members, divisions, and entire institutions had plans to offer robust service learning courses only to be disrupted by the global pandemic. However, it is still possible to teach service learning courses that are just as impactful in the online environment. Join us for this webcast, where our expert speaker-who has over a decade of experience teaching service learning courses online-will share example-based best practices to help you keep students engaged, serve community partners, and ultimately create dynamic learning experiences.

Centralized and Integrated Leadership Development: A Model from Columbus State University

To ensure your faculty, staff, and students are prepared for the future of the workplace and are well positioned to become the leaders of tomorrow, it is vital to invest in their leadership development today. You likely already have many leadership development programs across your campus, but they might operate separately from each other, reach limited audiences, or struggle to self-sustain. A more effective way to offer leadership development is to create a single program that is easily accessible, inclusive to all, and embedded in the fabric of your everyday work. Join us online and learn how Columbus State University has done just that. No longer is their leadership development distributed across multiple departments across campus – instead, they have created a self-sustaining, centralized, and integrated model that embeds leadership training throughout the university. By having faculty, staff, and even students sit side-by-side to share perspectives, they are breaking down barriers and uniting the campus community. In addition, they extend their reach into the larger community by training and collaborating with organizations and business leaders. The benefit of a model like this is that all faculty, staff, and students receive the same message: that their leadership development is important and […]

Supporting Your Primary Witness During a Title IX Cross-Examination

The 2020 Title IX federal regulations require live hearings to include a cross-examination of both parties by the other party’s Advisor. This revised process brings certain challenges. First, cross-examination can feel overwhelming, and even traumatizing to survivors of sexual assault who must recount and relive their trauma in front of others. Second, the process can feel debilitating to both parties, as their credibility and character appear under attack. Third, cross-examination can produce anxiety in the Advisor, who may struggle to navigate such emotionally charged conversations. Mismanaging cross-examination and witness preparation or lacking the tools to assist participants through the revised process can compound an already stressful situation. Join us for this webcast to learn how you, as an Advisor or Hearing Panelist, can have a more positive impact on the cross-examination by preparing both parties to endure the process. During this training, you’ll acquire a toolkit of simple yet profound grounding and communication strategies that you can use to engage your witnesses and make them feel as safe and comfortable as possible throughout the process. No two witnesses are the same and as such, your approach to cross-examination cannot be one-size-fits-all. Our expert will give you the toolkit you need […]

Practical Data Governance in Higher Education

Strong data governance ensures that your institution is using information well when making data-driven decisions and complying with mandates around the collection, use, and sharing of data. During the COVID-19 era, accuracy in presenting timely information transparently to students, employees, parents, and the public make data governance all the more critical. Learn concrete, practical steps for building collaborative data governance that will improve efficiency and quality for your campus data partners. During this webcast, you will: Understand legal, regulatory, and business requirements that necessitate data governance Design a data governance framework Establish critical personnel roles and responsibilities Make information readily available and discoverable to stakeholders

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