Gain new ideas for creating engaging content on each social media platform. Overview Learn how to keep social content and ideas fresh and exciting across multiple platforms. Join Lynne Wester as she shares the latest and greatest ideas for incorporating social media as an important part of your donor and alumni communication strategy. You will examine: Examples of successful engagement opportunities through various social media channels Practical considerations for calendering, managing, and monitoring social media activity New ways to engage and thank donors, as well as integrating social media at events
With nearly 25% of institutional costs coming from purchasing, institutions across the sector are looking for ways to push beyond transactional approaches to procurement. In response, strategic sourcing is emerging as a valuable method for lowering procurement costs by leveraging spending patterns and optimizing supplier relationships. Join us for these two online trainings that walk through necessary infrastructural elements to any strategic sourcing effort and identify key areas of focus for successful implementation on your campus. Our expert facilitator brings firsthand experience of this approach, and a keen understanding of how to achieve success with this model. This online training will have a particular focus on: Garnering stakeholder support for strategic sourcing shifts Addressing staffing and technology considerations for your model Conducting a comprehensive spend analysis Establishing a commodity strategy Discussing tactics for sound relationship management
Training of new Admissions counselors is often, out of necessity, much too hurried and perfunctory. The training that new counselors receive has historically been focused on the everyday duties of the job (travel, reading and processing applications, CRM systems, etc.), accompanied by lots of “just in time” training where other key competencies are concerned. But in today’s intensely competitive environment, it is no longer sufficient to let your Admissions counselors go out and begin recruiting for you without having adequate training on key, all-important soft skills. Join us for a trio of online training programs that will help get your new and entry-level Admissions counselors up to speed. These three 45-minute webcast sessions are focused on strengthening universal core competencies that all Admissions counselors must possess in order to be successful in their roles: How to discuss and think about value in higher education Effective counseling skills with prospective students and families Strategies for building connections and relationships with other key external stakeholders
“This was a great program to help me take my ideas to the next step and figure out how to begin to implement them. I felt like the instructors had a personal interest in my progress, and connecting with personnel at other institutions was extremely helpful.” -Adrienne Fraaza, Fall Welcome Coordinator, Western Michigan University Overview Join us for an online course in which you will build a project proposal to create or expand the sophomore year experience (SYE) programs at your institution. In your proposal, we’ll help you apply student development theory to foster second-year engagement, increase interactions with faculty and staff, and help develop a sense of purposefulness in students’ degree paths. You will receive feedback on your proposal from our expert instructors as well as your course colleagues, and you will leave with a finished proposal to use on campus. By the end of this course you will be able to: Set SYE goals that support your institutional mission Apply student development theory to sophomores Draw on current campus resources for SYE programming Develop curricular and co-curricular programming Propose an appropriate evaluation plan for measuring your SYE success Watch this pre-webcast recording that features the webcast’s […]
This online course will help you design targeted peer mentor programs to improve the success of specific student populations. Using best practices, this course will help you design a peer mentor model, train your mentors, and address important challenges of your mentee population. You will leave with a plan to improve your peer mentor program for one or more of these populations:
This two-part online training series will help you identify key predictive data, use that data to select retention programming, and assess the overall effectiveness of your interventions. Expert instructor, Russ Little, brings knowledge and experience from across the nation. You will learn: Strategies to inventory and map your current intervention strategy How to utilize predictive data in selecting student success interventions Measures and processes to evaluate your retention impact Approaches to demonstrating student support programming ROI You will leave this webcast better able to use predictive data to create tailored retention plans for your students.
Are you properly leveraging your annual giving data? Overview Properly analyzing your annual giving data is essential to make sound decisions about growing your annual fund. Knowing what data to gather and how to mine it to craft your strategy can be intimidating if you are not sure where to start. This self-paced training will assist you in regaining your shop’s competitive advantage by considering a fresh perspective for preparing and analyzing donor data. No matter what software you use or how sophisticated your current level of data analysis, our experienced instructor will share ideas that you will easily be able to implement.
Learn how to improve the accuracy of your gift receipting and acceptance processes. Overview While many gifts to your institution are straightforward, others present challenges and require special processing and acknowledgement. Gain an understanding of various types of complex contributions and your institution’s obligations for each variation. This comprehensive gift-receipting program will cover: Defining charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes Identifying the legal donor of a gift Gift receipt requirements and considerations Non-cash gift issues Recent US tax code changes and updates Considerations to weigh before accepting a gift Note: The technical and legal aspects of this webcast series will be focused on US examples.
Join us for two online sessions that will show you how to plan for and implement a Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) structure on your campus for the first time. Using case studies rooted in the practical leadership experience of our instructor, you will gain an in-depth overview of how to take the necessary steps toward implementing a SEM structure at your institution. In session one, Planning for SEM at Community Colleges, we will focus on making the case for a SEM model at community colleges and discuss how you can approach the initial planning process on your campus. You will learn a number of smart practices and strategies about how two-year institutions should approach the planning process and will explore critical questions surrounding the adoption of SEM. If you are just beginning to consider SEM at your institution or are in the early stages of planning your model, this session is for you. In session two, Implementing SEM at Community Colleges, we will focus on moving from the planning to the implementation stage of your new SEM model. You will learn how to operationalize new marketing and recruitment tactics, education and training, and technology improvements. If you have already made progress with […]
Train your entire faculty on copyright essentials. Overview How copyright and fair use laws apply to teaching, research, and publications is not always clear, and the increasing ease of copying and distributing digital materials raises the stakes even more. Educators often do not have access to the resources and support they need to deal with these challenges. Join us online to learn key concepts that every faculty member needs to know in applying copyright law in the classroom (both face-to face and online), research, and scholarly publications. To help you understand these concepts, our expert instructor will provide a practical overview of core copyright principles and then offer you the chance to apply your knowledge to common scenarios on campus.
