Refocus Your Annual Giving Strategy: Find Opportunities in a Crisis Now is the time to adjust your annual giving strategy in light of COVID-19. Agenda Revisiting Your Strategy Where should your focus be now and going forward Retention Reactivation Acquisition Recurring donors Refocusing for the Rest of the Year Mapping out your solicitation schedule Communications/Messaging goals for Annual Giving
Virtual Writing Café An Online Space to Foster Accountability, Support, and Community Writing is easier when you plan for small achievable tasks in a discrete amount of time! Get started by setting meaningful weekly goals that can be broken down into small daily tasks. Important Links How Does it Work? Resources Using Adobe Connect The VW Café is moving to Adobe Connect! If you haven’t used this platform before, please review the following: To enter the room: Click on the room link. Then click the radio button that reads, “Enter as a Guest.” Type your name in the box that says “Name.” It will not be displayed publicly. Click the “Enter Room” button. Upon entrance you will be prompted to listen by computer. Select the “Listen Only ” option in the audio pop-up. To download the program or test your setup, please visit this link: https://ai.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm
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%
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 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 […]
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.
In toxic environments – where employees feel worse after they start – you may experience uncertainty, fear, or helplessness on when and how to speak up to advocate for yourself and others. You believe you must tolerate the toxicity, even though doing so can be devastating to your career. It doesn’t have to be that way! Join our expert online and learn how to engage in conversations that will empower you to create change. You’ll learn how to recognize, communicate about, and minimize the impact of toxic leadership. You’ll walk away with recommended language, tools, and most importantly, increased confidence to confront toxicity in a non-threatening way.
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
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.
Strengthening Frontline Fundraising Efforts During Uncertainty With uncertainty comes the great opportunity to strengthen relationships. Agenda This session will help you build confidence in the following ways: Ensure you make the most of remote time Understand this critical time of engagement Use phone calls or other digital platforms for stronger outcomes Develop messaging that invokes partnership Build opportunity from canceling events or meetings
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
