Academic Impressions

Self-Awareness as Your Superpower: A Certificate Program for Department Chairs - Begins April 1st

• Join us for a four-week certificate program designed to help you build your self-awareness superpower. Throughout this course, you’ll explore: What self-awareness is, and why it’s important to spend time evaluating and understanding your leadership style. What your leadership style looks like in both normal and stressful situations, and how you can adapt your style to meet the needs of different people and circumstances.

Supervision Certificate Program - Begins April 1st

• All too often in higher education, individuals move into a supervisory role without the necessary tools and skills to be successful. Particularly in today’s challenging environments, effective supervision is key to building an equally effective culture where each individual can contribute to team success.

Five Paths to Leadership℠ Results Debrief Session – March 22nd

• Having a deeper understanding of your own leadership styles in varying situations increases your self-awareness, enhances your emotional quotient, and allows you to more effectively plan, communicate, strategize, and, ultimately, lead. Join us to learn what your own leadership styles are, how they might change under stress, and how this can apply to your team.

Customer Service Skills Training: Certification for Higher Education Professionals - March 27th - 29th

• Join us for this virtual learning experience developed for higher education frontline customer service professionals and those who supervise them. Through interactive and small-group activities, You will leave this training with increased confidence in your customer service skills and a greater ability to handle a wide variety of service scenarios.

Recognizing and Celebrating Faculty and Staff - April 8th

• Faculty and staff morale is at an all-time low across most institutions in higher education, and this puts your department or unit at risk of increasing levels of burnout, decreased productivity and, ultimately, higher turnover. One way you can start to make a difference is by fostering a work environment where praise, appreciation, and gratitude are front and center.+

A 5-Step Framework for Women Navigating Life Transitions - May 15th

• Maternity leave. Job reorganization or restructuring. A role or career change. Experiencing a loss. Retirement. Each of these transitions, whether personal or professional, comes with its own unique set of challenges—challenges that can upend the way you move through your daily life as a woman leader. Learning how to navigate these kinds of changes in your personal and professional life can create a work environment where empathy is extended to both you and to others.

Recognizing and Celebrating Faculty and Staff

• Faculty and staff morale is at an all-time low across most institutions in higher education, and this puts your department or unit at risk of increasing levels of burnout, decreased productivity and, ultimately, higher turnover. One way you can start to make a difference is by fostering a work environment where praise, appreciation, and gratitude are front and center.+

 A 5-Step Framework for Women Navigating Life Transition

• Maternity leave. Job reorganization or restructuring. A role or career change. Experiencing a loss. Retirement. Each of these transitions, whether personal or professional, comes with its own unique set of challenges—challenges that can upend the way you move through your daily life as a woman leader. Learning how to navigate these kinds of changes in your personal and professional life can create a work environment where empathy is extended to both you and to other.

Taking a Formative Assessment Approach to Annual Faculty Evaluations – March 11th

• Whether your faculty are standout rock stars, or they are struggling to perform as expected, the annual evaluation is a valuable opportunity to foster engagement with them. It’s a chance to reflect on how the year has gone, express gratitude for their contributions to the campus community, and provide specific and actionable feedback to help them progress towards the next career milestones. But how do you structure your time together so that it’s positive, productive, and supportive for all faculty? Join us online to learn how you can plan for and guide the faculty evaluation session, so that it’s impactful for all involved.

The College of the Future: Academic Program Innovation Tomorrow's Student – March 13th

• With the rapid pace of changing student demand, shifting institutional priorities, and ballooning costs today, it’s more challenging than ever to compete for enrollment. In this webinar, we’ll share a rubric for evaluating new program opportunities and discuss how to use a portfolio management approach to innovate your academic offerings while lowering departmental costs.

Feedback as a Faculty (Re)Engagement Strategy – May 9th

• Join us online for a two-hour workshop in which we’ll practice the art of providing feedback to faculty in an effort to both develop their talent and re-engage them. We’ll begin the workshop with a short lesson on the most critical components of effective feedback (i.e., timing and consistency, as well as delivery method, mode, and tone) and how they may be influenced by generational differences.

A 5-Step Framework for Women Navigating Life Transitions - May 15th

• Maternity leave. Job reorganization or restructuring. A role or career change. Experiencing a loss. Retirement. Each of these transitions, whether personal or professional, comes with its own unique set of challenges—challenges that can upend the way you move through your daily life as a woman leader. Learning how to navigate these kinds of changes in your personal and professional life can create a work environment where empathy is extended to both you and to others.

Creating Classroom Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy to Elevate Student Learning: A Panel Discussion - April 3rd (Featuring UTA's Own Ann Cavallo!)

• As institutions begin to write policy for the classroom around the use of generative artificial intelligence, academic misconduct is at the forefront of the conversation. But generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT and Midjourney are here to stay, and it is already impacting what students want from their academic and career experiences. (This will be recorded)

Recognizing and Celebrating Faculty and Staff: A Panel Conversation - April 8th

• Faculty and staff morale is at an all-time low across most institutions in higher education, and this puts your department or unit at risk of increasing levels of burnout, decreased productivity and, ultimately, higher turnover. One way you can start to make a difference is by fostering a work environment where praise, appreciation, and gratitude are front and center.