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Package of 3 Webinars
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Registration Fee: $750.00
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Take advantage of our multiple webinar package pricing by registering for a package deal now, and choosing your webinar sessions now or choosing them later. If you do not see the webinar topics that you want at the time of purchase, no problem! You will have 12 full months to choose your desired sessions and use your credit. Simply follow the registration instructions below. When you have made your selections, contact us, and we will send you the login information.
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Exceptional Front-Line Customer Service In Higher Ed
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, January 24 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST & Tuesday, February 28 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Flexible Date Webinar
How do you define customer service?We may all define this differently, but there are basic principles and proven tips and techniques that can assist front-line staff in providing exceptional customer service to our students and their families. This session will provide participants an overview of different philosophies of customer service and why exceptional customer service is important in higher education.
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Increasing Access & Success For Underrepresented Populations: The Importance Of Family Engagement
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, January 24 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Many community colleges struggle with the challenge of educating students from low-income backgrounds. More specifically, community college administrators are attempting to enroll more low-income, Latino students while also increase persistence rates. We believe that connecting with families at an early stage and creating a continuum of services will increase the number of students who pursue a postsecondary education in addition to the number of adults who will enroll as non-traditional students.
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Identifying And Managing Aggressive Student Behaviors, Attitudes And Emotions
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, January 25 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST & Friday, March 2 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Flexible Date Webinar
College and Universities are increasingly concerned with identifying risk factors and preventing violence from occurring on their campus. This workshop will help higher education faculty, staff, counselors and psychologists better understand aggressive behavior and how to prevent this aggression from manifesting on campus as violence. The training will offer insights into the difference between cognitive and primal aggression, the early stages of cognitive aggression called the Un-Magnificent Seven©, how individuals move through the stages of the aggression continuum (trigger, escalation and crisis) and what attitudes; behaviors and qualities are likely to be associated with individuals who make the ultimate decision to take the lives of others on their path towards revenge. Those completing the training will be better prepared to prevent violence on their campus as they become more fluent in the Aggression Management© system.
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Identifying And Reaching Unprepared Students: Strategies For Creating Success In The College Classroom
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, January 25 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST & Wednesday, March 7 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Flexible Date Webinar
Many students enter college unaware of the expectations and unprepared for the academic rigors of college. Their initial enthusiasm and excitement is often replaced in a matter of weeks by varying degrees of discouragement. For many students, this first year of college is the “make or break” year. A national research study found that almost half of first-time students who leave their initial institutions by the end of the first year do not return to higher education. Identifying and engaging with these students is crucial to their persistence. Participants in this session will learn teaching strategies and techniques for engaging unprepared students, allowing them a better chance at success in the college classroom.
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Promoting Access And Success Through Summer Bridge Programs
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, January 26 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
After participating in this webinar, participants will leave with a clearer understanding of the challenges that at-risk students face in college, the role that summer bridge programs play in promoting their adjustment and success in college, and ways to assess the effectiveness of summer bridge programs. All participants will receive an electronic copy of a recent publication by the presenter/author on summer bridge programs.
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Re-Centering Teaching: 20+ Techniques For Promoting Active Learning
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Friday, January 27 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Connecting teaching strategies to learning outcomes is a challenge that higher education faculty face on a daily basis. Ever wonder how and when to use particular teaching techniques or feel the need to revitalize your course/session designs? In this session participants explore active learning/teaching techniques, examining their advantages and sharing ideas for how to implement them to enhance student learning. By the end of the session, participants will have co-imagined strategies for redesigning the way they teach at least one challenging concept or topic in their courses and will have expanded their repertoire of strategies to promote students’ active engagement in learning.
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Providing Comprehensive Student Support Services Online
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, January 31 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
With diminishing resources and a new generation of students who have high expectations for 24/7 information availability, colleges need to identify and implement an extensive menu of online student support services. Online services assist faculty and staff with many things such as reducing repetitive inquiries, preparing students ahead of time for counseling and advising appointments, and providing detailed and consistent information.
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FERPA Training For Faculty: How To Protect Students' Privacy And Keep Your Campus Safe
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, January 31 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Faculty need to protect student privacy while still playing a part in the prevention of threats to campus safety. However, this is difficult to do and we are reminded of this by the stories that are currently making headline news. What does FERPA really mean for faculty members? What can a faculty member do to prepare?
As a result of attending this FERPA Training for Faculty webinar you will be up to date regarding FERPA law as it applies specifically to your role as a faculty member. Participants will be able to pose real life scenarios to the presenter during the presentation. Join us to learn what you need to know about current FERPA regulations so that you can continue to protect your students’ privacy while providing a safe classroom environment.
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How to Provide A Unique And Effective Orientation For Your Student Veterans
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, February 1 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
The vast majority of incoming college students are between 18 and 20 yrs old. Because of this, most campuses have created an orientation that is geared towards this demographic. Student veterans have been through a much more comprehensive orientation than a campus can ever provide. These students need and deserve an orientation that takes into account their experiences, sacrifices, and unique needs.
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Increasing Retention And Persistence Of First-Year, Minority Male Students
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, February 2 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
The Center for Academic Excellence on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University implemented a pilot male retention program entitled Project M.A.R.C.H. (Male Aggies Resolved to Change History) in Fall 2009, designed to enhance the academic progress of first-year, African-American male students to increase their persistence, retention and matriculation at the University. This program was created in response to a University System of North Carolina report which stated that “UNC should increase the educational attainment of all underrepresented populations, especially African-American males”. Project M.A.R.C.H. incorporates intensive intrusive advising, tutorial support, supplemental instruction, academic monitoring and academic skill building workshops, resulting in 100% Fall to Spring persistence and 80% retention for the first cohort during the 2009-2010 academic year.
This presentation focuses on the multifaceted approach used in this program to address both the academic and social needs of this special population, including intensive intrusive advising, academic monitoring, tutorial sessions, student development workshops, intramural sports participation, and socio-political engagements, as well as the assessment of student learning outcomes, program objectives, and the program’s effectiveness in the retention and persistence of the population.
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Student Motivation: Increasing Engagement, Persistence, & Learning
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Friday, February 3 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Students motivation is an essential precondition or prerequisite for both student learning and student development. Simply stated, students will not learn and develop unless they are motivated to do so. This webinar is built on the premise that student motivation for the college experience cannot be assumed; instead, it must be intentionally ignited by classroom instructors, academic support specialists, and student life professionals through the systematic application of powerful motivational principles.
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Training Front Office Staff: Handling Difficult & Disruptive Behaviors
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, February 7 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Front office staff, like soldiers on the front lines of battle, is often placed in situations where they are nose-to-nose with students, faculty and staff who are not at their best. They are asked to create a warm, caring, customer-service focused place for students, faculty and staff to have their questions answered. This program will offer some practical advice on how to work with emotional and at-risk faculty, staff and students who approach front office staff in person, on the phone or through email in a disrespectful manner. The presenters will also discuss ways to create an office waiting room environment that will help reduce conflict and prevent problems before they start.
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Developing And Providing Integrated Student Services In Higher Education: Creating The "One Stop" Shop For Students
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, February 7 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
This session will provide an overview of how integrated student services, also known as the “One Stop shop”, can provide your college or university with a seamless delivery of student services, as well as a collaborative and challenging work environment for your staff. The presenter will discuss student services integration across several dimensions including virtual, physical, and organizational integration. By deconstructing operational silos, streamlining processes, and cross-training staff, operational efficiencies can been gained and students can be provided with holistic counseling experiences.
The presenter will discuss the “One Stop” approach to service, which has been successful for many institutions, and will highlight the University of Minnesota’s successful One Stop Student Services Office. Participants will leave with a thorough understanding of various approaches to creating a One Stop shop on their campus and will be provided with several handouts including: job descriptions, organizational chart, and training matrix.
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Providing Professional Development 24/7: Restructuring How We Deliver Training
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Complimentary Webinar
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Wednesday, February 8 ~ 3:00-4:00pm EST
With increasingly limited resources and high demands from faculty and staff, institutions are finding it difficult to provide training in a cost-effective manner. This session will explore a series of online tools faculty and staff can use to provide training 24/7.
The presentation will include the use of podcasts, web conferencing and videos, all of which are critical to creating a dynamic and engaging learning environment. The presenters will focus on how to utilize these tools to deliver and enhance face-to-face training, online training and on-demand training, so that you can do more with less.
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Moving A Classroom-Based Course To Online Or Hybrid
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, February 8 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Online learning is a growing trend. Instructors need to be prepared to develop an online course that increases student engagement and learning. Participants in this session will learn teaching strategies and techniques to create an online learning environment that will lead to student success.
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Developing An Effective Peer Mentoring Program Supporting First-Generation College Students
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, February 9 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
In these difficult economic times of budget cuts and limited resources determining best practices for making the most of existing assets while continuing to serve students effectively is critical. First-generation college-goers experience a variety of challenges as they enter and move through higher education. In fact, much of the existing research indicates that students whose parents did not attend college are more likely than their non first-generation counterparts to be less academically prepared for college, to have less knowledge of how to apply for college and for financial assistance, and to have more difficulty in acclimating themselves to college once they enroll (Tym, et al., 2005). As Vargas (2004) explains, low-income, minority, and first-generation students are especially likely to lack specific types of “college knowledge.” Zimmerman (2000) asserts that at-risk students are less likely to seek help when they need it. As such, educational institutions must provide students with specific types of resources and support to insure that they move through college successfully. Peer mentoring programs like the one to be described here can serve to supplement existing programmatic and institutional efforts to support first-generation students, while building capacity and empowering students through the development of critical college knowledge.
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Identifying And Managing Asperger’s In The Classroom
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Friday, February 10 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
At many colleges and universities, the number of students with Asperger’s Disorder continues to increase. While these students have the intellectual abilities to be successful, they struggle with understanding social cues and comprehending unwritten rules and procedures. They may be teased or laughed at by other students. As a result, these students pose unique challenges to faculty members, administrators and other students during their college careers. Working successfully with Asperger’s students requires an understanding of their behavior and knowledge of how to communicate with them. In this program, Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D., will offer recommendations for helping these students to succeed.
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Universal Design Within Student Affairs: Proactive Design For Inclusion And Engagement
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, February 14 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Institutions of Higher Education continue to strive to retain and engage all students. One way that this has been addressed specifically for students with disabilities over the past decade is through the application of Universal Design (UD) regarding reduction of physical barriers, and the application of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) regarding reduction of academic barriers (Belch, 2004; Getzel, 2008). The principles and framework of UD have been well established; notably summarized by Burghstahler and Cory (2008). As the focus on UD has increased, the value of UD beyond people with disabilities has gained positive attention (Harper & Quaye, 2009). Originally created as a framework for architecture, UD has expanded to applications inside and outside of the classroom; its very nature spurning users to think creatively and expansively.
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The Top Ten Most Successful Recruitment Strategies
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, February 15 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Based on his work with more than 300 colleges and universities in five countries, Dr. Jim Black will share the top ten recruitment strategies in the industry today as well as provide a glimpse into emerging and potential strategies. All strategies are grounded in sound student recruitment principles such as decisions influenced by relationships, the importance of using multiple channels of communication, the critical nature of response time, and the necessity of managing institutional “moments of truth” throughout the recruitment process. The webinar will include student recruitment theory, best practices, and opportunities for audience participation.
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Reflective Judgment: Teaching Students To Think Critically In A Time Of Information Overload
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, February 15 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Each day, Google users perform more than 2.9 billion searches. Wikipedia claims over ten million articles in two-hundred and fifty-three languages. Today’s students have greater access to information than ever before. As Keeling (2004) articulated in Learning Reconsidered: A Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience, “…knowledge is no longer a scarce – or stable – commodity. (It) is changing so rapidly that specific information may become obsolete before a student graduates and has the opportunity to apply it” (p. 4)
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Online Student Retention: Assessing Why Students Stay And Why They Leave
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, February 16 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Two of the most widely discussed topics in post-secondary education today are online teaching & learning and student retention & success. In the national dialogue these topics are usually treated separately. However, those institutions that make great use of online delivery have learned – often the hard way – that increasing the rates of retention and success of online students requires mechanisms and resources grounded in the unique characteristics of the students who gravitate toward distance and technology-mediated course delivery.
In this webinar we will examine the experiences of University of Maryland University College (UMUC), the largest public university provider of online programs and courses in the United States, in measuring and improving the retention and success rates of its online students.
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How To Design Effective Multiple Choice Tests That Assess Student Learning
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday February 22 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Do you use multiple choice tests in your courses? If so, do you know if the tests that you are creating are effective? The multiple choice test is probably the most common form of assessment used in colleges and universities. But are they the best choice for assessing student learning? In this webinar learn when using multiple choice tests is appropriate. Participants will also learn the best guidelines for developing multiple choice items.
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Managing Disruptive Classroom Behavior
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, February 23 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
This practical session is designed for new and experienced faculty members who are looking for new tools to manage difficult student situations in the classrooms. The program will demonstrate techniques to re-direct, manage and calm the disruptive students. The presenter will focus on the techniques of motivational interviewing to offer faculty members an underlying theory and clear examples of how to address today's classroom problems.
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Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: How to Improve the Academic Success of Student Veterans on Your Campus
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, February 23 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
There have been over 2.3 million soldiers deployed to the Wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan since October 2001. Of these, approximately 1.4 million
have left active duty and begun their transition to civilian life,
engaged in getting an education and new jobs. Many of these new veterans
face psychological and readjustment difficulties that are the invisible
wounds of war. The VA estimates that approximately 51% of returning
soldiers sought help for a mental health problem, usually Post Traumatic
Stress. In this lecture, we will explore the scope of mental health,
neuro-cognitive, and readjustment problems that previously deployed
military veteran students face as they return to our college campuses.
We will also explore some unique issues military veterans not been
deployed to a war zone may bring to college campuses. Finally, we will
provide some guidelines on how campus initiatives and education can help
these service men and women thrive in their educational endeavors.
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Virtual Mentors: An Innovative Approach To Increasing Online Student Success & Retention
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, February 28 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Online education is growing in leaps and bounds. The benefits of this flexible course delivery method are clear, but the challenges of delivering content via technology can be overwhelming. This webinar will review the most up-to-date literature related to student and instructor satisfaction in online courses. Presenters will also discuss the obstacles and lessons learned as Washington State University developed its highly successful Virtual Mentor program. Participants will explore the role of the mentor, examine evaluation materials, learn how to train mentors, provide ongoing support, and will begin to develop an implementation plan for their own campuses.
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Supporting Part-Time Faculty Through Policy Development, Integration & Professional Development
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, February 29 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Colleges are facing an overwhelming challenge in developing part-time faculty as an institutional advantage rather than a last minute alternative. Concerns regarding the growing use of part time faculty have been widely studied and analyzed. However, virtually all existing research supports the assertion that part time faculty are as equipped to assist students in reaching their academic outcomes when hired, retained, and supported as a viable workforce demographic (Gappa & Leslie, 1993; Levinson, 2005; Wagoner, Metcalfe, & Olaore, 2005). This presentation will address the need for a more relevant and timely exploration of strategies that support part-time faculty and their role in student success and retention.
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Mentoring Students With Asperger’s: A Look Outside The Classroom
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, February 29 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Asperger’s is a growing disorder in today’s college population at both community colleges and four years institutions. This program will offer a range of practical, research-based and time-tested techniques for working with students struggling with Asperger’s disorder. Dr. Brian Van Brunt will review how to assist students transitioning from high school to college, helping with social and communication challenges and ensuring proper access to services.
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How To Involve Faculty In Recruitment & Retention Efforts
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, March 1 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
With increased competition for the best and brightest students, faculty have become instrumental in student recruitment efforts. Furthermore, research shows that a meaningful relationship with a faculty member can make the difference in a student deciding to stay at an institution or leave an institution. Admissions and enrollment professionals are experts at the top of the funnel when students are expressing interest in an institution, but faculty involvement can be crucial when a student is deciding between one place and another. Students want to know who will be teaching them and the faculty are the experts in the academic fields.
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Building Bridges For Success: Easing The High School-To-College Transition For First-Generation College-Goers
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, March 1 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
First-generation college-goers experience a variety of challenges as they enter and move through higher education. As such, educational institutions must provide students with specific types of resources and support to insure that they move through college successfully. Join us to learn how to build (or improve) a first-year experience program that can serve to supplement existing programmatic and institutional efforts to support first-generation students. Discover how to build relationships between academic and student affairs divisions while empowering students through the development of critical college knowledge, help-seeking behaviors. How to evaluate outcomes will also be discussed.
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Building And Maintaining A Robust And Productive Student Success Team
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, March 7 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Many campuses have student success teams or retention committees; however, many of them are less than productive. Increasing student retention is much more realistic when there is a large contingency focused on retention initiatives. Having a robust student success team can be instrumental in your retention efforts.
Hear from the chair of a very robust student success team who has led the team for more than 8 years and led the efforts to increase retention by 10 percent at the institution. The team’s composition, agendas, follow-up, and recognition are key to the success in building a team that is effective and produces results year after year. Join us and you will receive valuable information regarding how to build a productive student success team on your campus.
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Increasing Academic Performance Using First-Year Seminars And Learning Communities
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, March 8 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST
Early intervention is critical to campus retention efforts. Early alert systems offer institutions systematic approaches to identifying and intervening with students exhibiting at-risk behaviors before the behaviors reach the acute stage. Many of these systems rely on a common format for student referral to a central receiving point. Systems at larger institutions use web-based technology to allow for a scalable approach to at-risk intervention. This presentation describes the development, implementation, and assessment of a web-based, fully integrated early alert referral system at a large, public university in the Southwest.
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Teach Students How To Learn: Metacognition Is The Key!
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, March 8 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
This webinar is designed to help faculty, learning center professionals, and student affairs personnel develop strategies to help students become independent, self-directed learners. A discussion of the characteristics of today’s students will help participants understand why many students lack effective learning strategies when they enroll in college, and how simple it is to teach them strategies for successful learning.
Reflection and think-pair-share activities will introduce participants to cognitive science research based methods that can be used to improve teaching and learning. The session will provide a variety of strategies that have proven successful in helping students experience meaningful, transferable learning.
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Supporting Transfer Students: Creating A Campus Climate That Promotes Student Success
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Friday, March 9 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EST
Transfer and access to higher education are now more intertwined than ever before. Many institutions are looking to transfer students to fill in the enrollment gaps left by fewer high school graduates. Accepting transfer students into the culture of the campus isn’t as easy as simply admitting them. Changing campus climate and culture to accept and value transfers can be a challenge for many faculty and administrators. Building a campus climate that enhances student success and welcomes this ever growing population takes an intentional effort with university-wide support. Participants will be instructed on how to assess the campus environment as it relates to transfer students and their experiences. Based on their campus audit, faculty and staff will hear some creative ways of building a transfer friendly and transfer-going culture on their campuses.
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Embedding Universal Learning Design In The Classroom: Low And No-Cost Strategies That Work
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, March 15 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
Postsecondary education affirms both access and excellence in education. Both require resources and commitment to achieve. Traditional sources of learning assistance and developmental education are under both strain of limited financial resources and the desire to reduce offerings of developmental-level courses. Instructors of first-year and lower-division college courses are uniquely positioned to increase student achievement and persistence through using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to embed best practices of learning assistance into their classroom activities. The same UDL principles can also be used within student service units. This webinar will equip educators with a practical toolbox of activities and strategies that can easily be implemented.
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Intrusive Academic Advising: An Effective Strategy To Increase Student Success
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, March 15 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
This session will examine the concept of “intrusive academic advising,”which was formulated by Robert Glennan in the mid-1970s. Intrusive (or “proactive&ldqup;) advising has been found to have a positive impact on student success. Intrusive advising means that colleges and universities—through instructional faculty, academic advisors, counselors and others—take the initiative to reach out to students to offer advice, support and assistance, rather than waiting for students to seek help. Intrusive advising does not mean “hand holding” or the return of in loco parentis. Rather, it suggests that faculty, counselors, academic advisors and
others demonstrate an active concern for students’ academic progress and a concomitant willingness to assist students to understand and utilize programs and services that can increase the likelihood for their success.
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Developing Strong K-16 Partnerships That Increase Latino/a Student Access And Success
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, March 20 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
Institutions across the country have struggled to create initiatives that lead to increased completion rates for all students and more specifically for Hispanic students. This webinar will focus on the myriad of strategies and initiatives being utilized by South Texas College in collaboration with nineteen school districts to create a college-going culture and increase college readiness and completion. The purposeful partnerships with K-12 have led to a nine percent increase in college-going rates, twenty-seven percent increase in English Language Arts college readiness, and a twenty-six percent increase in mathematics college readiness over a five year period in a predominately Hispanic population.
Participants will receive information on key collaborative strategies for elementary, middle, and high schools. A major focus will be on the comprehensive dual enrollment program including dual enrollment academies, early college high schools, and dropout recovery programs.
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Driving Student Success Through A Culture Of Evidence
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, March 21 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
Established via Legislative mandate, South Texas College opened its doors in 1993 and has grown from 1,038 to over 27,500 students in sixteen years. Serving a 95% Hispanic Student body, the College has taken bold steps to balance student access with student success. This session will focus on how an institution can positively impact student success by implementing a ‘culture of evidence’ to drive strategy development, assessment, and resource allocation/re-allocation. The session will demonstrate how one community college has utilized a culture of evidence to transform how the institution addresses student success issues.
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How To Use ePortfolios To Improve Teaching, Learning, And Assessment
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, March 21 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
Electronic portfolios, ePortfolios, have long been used to share one’s work. However many institutions are beginning to use ePortfolios for assessment purposes. Used effectively, ePortfolios can also engage students more deeply in learning by encouraging reflection. In this webinar, participants will learn about the varied uses of ePortfolios and suggested practices surrounding their use. Resources to support use of ePortfolios to improve teaching, learning, and assessment will be made available.
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The Dangers of Zero Tolerance Policies: Effectively Managing Risk Online & On-Campus
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, March 28 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
Zero tolerance policies attempt to keep the college or university safe from a conduct, judicial affairs and legal perspective. The student violated the code of conduct by making a threat. Allowing the student to stay enrolled creates a potential for a lawsuit for the university if the student were to follow through with his threat.
Join us to learn ways to better identify at-risk students on your campus. We will discuss how to view violence and risk within a contextual threat assessment framework rather than through profiling or list-based perspective. Focus will be on connection and assessment of these students in order to better gather data and manage risk. Learn the basic steps involved in threat assessment to better determine the nature and immediacy of the risk presented by the communicated threat. We will also explore common mistakes in terms of risk and threat assessment on campus and learn evidence-based methods to improve safety on your campus.
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Addressing Mental Health Concerns On College Campuses: Data, Trends, And Practical Applications
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, March 29 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
There is a broad increase in students coming to our campuses with mental health difficulties. Therefore, it is essential for student affairs staff as well as counselors to have an understanding of key concepts and how they impact college and university mental health. This webinar is designed to give student affairs administrators and college counseling staff a review of the most pressing issues impacting college and universities from a mental health perspective.
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Staying Smart: Strategies For Moving Forward With Assessment
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Friday, March 30 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
This workshop will ask you and your colleagues to consider your assessment challenges and will help you identify tools to enhance assessment planning and the use of assessment to improve teaching and learning. The presentation will include a discussion of ways to keep assessment front and center so that programs continue to improve in meaningful ways.
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Critical Thinking: Designing Instructional Strategies To Promote Critical Thought
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Registration Fee: $750.00
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Tuesdays - April 3, April 10, & April 17 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
3 Part Workshop
Critical thinking is a concept that is widely used and has high visibility in the accreditation and mission statements of educational institutions across the world. However, many educators and institutions have difficulty clarifying the concept and knowing how to infuse it within curriculum and instruction. This three part workshop focuses on explicating those concepts and principles that inform a foundational, cross-disciplinary conception of critical thinking as well as how these fundamentals translate into concrete teaching and learning strategies that, when done well, help our students improve the quality of their thinking.
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Teachable Moments: Managing Aggressive And Overly Involved Parents
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, April 3 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
Parents worry. Some are concerned about their children’s relationships, academic stand, or living arrangements. And some parents bring their concerns to bear when speaking with faculty members – sometimes at the top of their lungs. So what should you do? Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D., suggests that you see this type of situation as a “teachable moment” for the parent.
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Faculty Academic Advising: Affirming The Role Of Faculty Advisors
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Registration Fee: $545.00
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Wednesday, April 4 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EST & Thursday, April 19 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
2 Part Webinar
National surveys find academic advising is second only to the quality of instruction among student priorities, while faculty surveyed at two- and four-year colleges overwhelmingly agree there is a relationship between advising and retention. Some individuals continue to view advising as a perfunctory and mundane process of helping students plan their class schedules. This session is intended to provide faculty members, decision makers and resource allocators with a better understanding of the role faculty advisors play in student success and institutional effectiveness. Part 1 of this 2-part workshop will focus on the critical nature of academic advising and affirm the importance of the role faculty play in its delivery. Part 2 will focus on best practices in support of faculty advisors.
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Increasing Student Involvement And Retention: An Innovative (And Low Cost) Peer Program That Works
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, April 4 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
It’s a familiar sight on many college campuses, especially at the beginning of a new term…the classic Involvement Fair. It may be called by different names on different campuses, but it is essentially the same wherever you see it. A collection of tables and displays are arrayed in a large open space where interested parties can walk up and learn the details of a myriad of different opportunities. For those of us who are driven by a passion for helping students connect and engage with our institutions, there are few experiences that give us such a close and personal view of student involvement. Before our very eyes, we watch new relationships form and new interests develop. Maybe the reason we all do some version of an involvement fair is because it always seems to work. Perhaps it is that it works so well that we so often fail to ask a very important question, “Does it work for everyone?”.
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Peer Mentoring For Transfer Students: Creating A Bridge That Helps Students Succeed
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, April 5 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
As public funding for colleges and universities diminishes in a poor economy, coupled with an increasing emphasis on accountability for retention and graduation rates, academic and student affairs specialists face multiple challenges. To meet these expectations at a large metropolitan university that enrolls more than 10,000 new transfers each academic year, an innovative Peer Mentor program was developed. The successful program assists students as they prepare for transfer, helps them through their transition and guides them as they progress to graduation. Through collaboration with multiple partners, this peer program trains students to be first-level academic advisors, provides them a structure and support to develop transition programming that meets the needs of new transfer students, and creates a bridge for new students into the academic and social life of the campus community.
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Developing & Implementing A Web-Based Early Alert System
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Thursday, April 5 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
Early intervention is critical to campus retention efforts. Early alert systems offer institutions systematic approaches to identifying and intervening with students exhibiting at-risk behaviors before the behaviors reach the acute stage. Many of these systems rely on a common format for student referral to a central receiving point. Systems at larger institutions use web-based technology to allow for a scalable approach to at-risk intervention. This presentation describes the development, implementation, and assessment of a web-based, fully integrated early alert referral system at a large, public university in the Southwest.
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Empowering Non-Traditional Students To Succeed In Today’s College Classroom
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Wednesday, April 11 ~ 3:00-4:30pm EDT
This 90-minute webinar is designed specifically for classroom teachers who can expect to encounter non-traditional students regularly in their courses. A significant secondary audience would be the academic administrators who supervise those faculty members and who are responsible for training them. The purpose of this webinar is to help faculty members and administrators understand who non-traditional students are, what sorts of special needs they may have and how instructors can help to meet those needs, and how non-traditional students can often make unique contributions to the learning environment. The webinar will be led by a 26-year veteran of the community college classroom who has taught literally thousands of non-traditional students over the years and who has also served as a department chair and an academic dean.
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Creating An Evaluation Process For Online Faculty
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Registration Fee: $345.00
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Tuesday, April 17 ~ 1:00-2:30pm EDT
An increasing number of institutions of higher education offer courses and programs in their entirety online. While a variety of evaluation tools exist for professors in the traditional classroom, the same methods of assessment are not necessarily effective in the online environment.
This webinar will address factors that should be considered when designing an evaluation process for online instruction, examples of existing criteria for faculty evaluation, and guidance in creating a process for evaluation including an evaluation tool.
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