First-Year Student Experience (FYSE) programs have been identified as a high-impact practice for increasing student persistence and success. Yet, many student populations remain at risk for attrition because they aren’t getting connected to critical resources when and how they need them most. Are your FYSE programs doing everything they can to strategically support at-risk students to ensure they return to campus for their second year? Join us for an online training to learn how to maximize your FYSE program’s effectiveness for at-risk student populations. Our expert faculty will walk you through national trends and how to create a localized plan of action on your campus. In addition, you’ll learn how to measure, evaluate, and report outcomes data to ensure your FYSE program is having the greatest impact on student success.
A vibrant leadership annual giving program not only serves as the core of a successful annual fund, but it can be one of the best tools to build the pipeline to major gifts. Yet, institutions struggle with how to create a separate identity for their leadership giving programs, and how to best communicate the opportunities available and their impact on the institution. In this online training, our expert instructors will show you how they strategically restructured their leadership annual giving program communications with enhanced branding, specific and targeted solicitations, and a more robust stewardship strategy.
An effective social media policy can reduce your legal liabilities and strengthen your institution”™s brand. View this pre-webcast recording on developing your social media policy. This presentation will provide a great starting point for developing your own comprehensive social media policy and prepare you for the implementation phase covered in this webcast. Agenda Review of Essential Elements of a Social Media Policy Training of Your Policy Facilitation options Resources Policy Deployment and Implementation Messaging Planning for ongoing changes Change management processes Ensuring Compliance Best practices to have staff comply Ongoing enforcement
Maintaining online course quality is key to successfully growing online programs. However, supporting and monitoring online instruction is challenging because of the varying quality of teaching in the online environment. By implementing a peer mentor model that capitalizes on the internal expertise of your best online faculty, you can improve course quality across all of your programs. Join our experts to learn practical strategies for: Developing and implementing a mentorship program Supporting and monitoring your online programs in a cost effective manner Coaching your top performing faculty to mentor online instructors
Campus faculty, staff, and administrators who have access to student records must understand how the latest FERPA regulatory changes impact their use of protected information. Compliance becomes tricky given the number of employees accessing protected information, the frequent turnover in the employee pool, and the various exceptions that FERPA permits. Join us online for a review of FERPA regulations and how they apply to scenarios you and your team face daily. You will have the opportunity to test your FERPA knowledge through interactive elements during the training.
Mid-career faculty members (tenured-system faculty members) form a large and important component of the academic workforce who experience unique challenges. Academic life has a short career ladder, and many tenured faculty members reach a plateau where opportunities for advancement decline. Further, there has been relatively little research on tenured faculty and on best practices to support tenured faculty members through this extended career stage. Join our expert instructors online to identify the needs, interests, and challenges of tenured faculty members as well as productive practices and recommendations to address them. Featuring the award-winning work done at Michigan State University, this webcast can serve as a starting point for an important conversation within your faculty leadership team.
Creating a compelling capital campaign brand takes detailed planning and skilled timing. Agenda Branding 101: Understanding what a brand is Linking your institutional and campaign brand Which comes first? Do people give to an institution or to a campaign? How can a campaign brand resonate with and challenge the institutional brand? Examples of complementary institutional and campaign brands 9 creative principles of campaign communications, including: Keep it simple Tell stories Get a personality Getting started: Planning and deploying a brand for your campaign Resourcing a campaign brand Answering three fundamental questions
Advancement shops are increasingly turning to predictive models to assess their donor pools and ensure that their most valuable donors are receiving the appropriate level of attention. Despite this trend, many front-line fundraisers are still unclear about what predictive modeling is, how it can be leveraged in their everyday work, and how to calculate a return on investment from the use of predictive models. Join us online to learn the fundamentals of predictive modeling and how your shop can use this model to guide your fundraising strategy. You will hear case studies from institutions across the country that have successfully integrated predictive modeling into their operations.Included in your registration fee is a comprehensive glossary of terms commonly used when discussing predictive analytics.
Career services are one of the most requested resources from alumni. Capitalize on this interest by expanding your online offerings to include a live and recorded webinar series. Join us online to learn how you can develop a low-cost, online, career programming series that engages your alumni as both participants and presenters. Through a showcase of the program at Georgetown University, our expert instructor will share information and advice around the key components of an alumni career services webinar series, including: Choosing a platform to deliver your webinars Selecting the right topics to interest your alumni Recruiting and managing engaging presenters to deliver your content Marketing your programming appropriately Assessing your programming
As institutions increasingly leverage mobile learning, certain critical questions are emerging as to how to best manage, distribute, and maintain these mobile devices. Join us online to examine different models and determine which ones may work for you. Using several institutional examples, we’ll answer these important questions: What are some institutional business models for procuring mobile devices? How do you ensure quality and set standards for these devices? How might management strategies differ depending on the mobile devices being used?
