Innovative Educators "Best Practices in Student Retention" Webinar Series

http://www.innovativeeducators.org/retention_p/818.htm
Retention Webinar Series Prices

3 webinars: $750
6 webinars: $1395

During 2010, Innovative Educators will take an in depth look at best practices in student retention and success. This series is a must for any institution searching for practical and innovative strategies that will dramatically increase student retention and success rates.

Webinars in the series:
Improve Retention by Focusing on Specific Student Populations: March 9th
Student Retention through an Academic Lens: March 24th
Driving Student Success through a Culture of Evidence: April 6th
A Collaborative Model for Student Success: Joining Instructional, Information Technology, and Student Services: April 21
Including Faculty Training as an Integral Part of Your Student Success Plan: April 27
Leveraging Internet Technology to Facilitate Student Success: May 4

Innovative Educators "Best Practices in Student Retention" Webinar Series

Lawson State Community College Celebrating Black History 365 Website

http://www.ls.cc.al.us/blackhistory/blackhistory.html

Lawson State Community College Celebrating Black History 365 Website

CUR Environmental Webinar Opportunity

Dillard University is an institutional member of the Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR). The following opportunity is being made available to Dillard University faculty by CUR.

Environmental Webinar: "Bringing Research Instruments into Ecology Classrooms...It's Easy with the Right Strategy!"


Tue., Feb. 16, 2010 / 8:30 a.m.- 9:30 a.m. CST

By providing your students with research grade instrumentation, you will be encouraging them to ask questions and providing them the means to find answers. This webinar will discuss what to look for in instrumentation, how to find funding for these instruments, and most importantly how to use them successfully in the classroom (including classroom setup and strategies, as well as specific laboratory activities). We will look at how other innovative institutions (large and small) have been successful at incorporating instruments, and how they solved challenges along the way. Focus will be on instrumentation for Biology and Ecology courses.

Please visit: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/504988315 to register, or http://www.licor.com/env/webinars/webinars.jsp  for more information.


Lynn Strong, Director of Undergraduate Research
Dillard University - Rosenwald Hall, Rm. 203-B
2601 Gentilly Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70122
t: 504-816-4446 f: 504-816-4144
lstrong@dillard.edu

CUR Environmental Webinar Opportunity

Academic Leader Online Seminar: "Engaging Faculty in Departmental Strategic Planning"

http://www.magnapubs.com/calendar/406.html?s=tm&p=email

Featured Higher Education Presenter: Dr. Anne Massaro

Date: Tuesday, 3/30/10

Time: 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM CDT


You can log on to the seminar anytime, all day long, on Tuesday, March 30.


Cost: $99 ($124 after 3/23/10)
Phone: 800-433-0499 & 608-227-8182
Email: support@magnapubs.com

Who should attend:

• Department Chairs
• Academic Deans
• Associate and Assistant Deans
• Faculty Members
An audience favorite returns–and with a BONUS! Magna Online Seminars is bringing this popular program back for our audience members who missed it the first time around. To help you take advantage of this fact-filled seminar and learn how to effectively engage faculty in strategic planning, we're offering it with expanded connection options. You can log on to the seminar anytime, all day long, on Tuesday, March 30–whenever it's most convenient for you!



Kids and spinach.
Cats and water.
Faculty and strategic planning.

Here’s a new online seminar designed to improve one of those relationships …

Traditionally, faculty members have to be dragged kicking and screaming into a process like departmental strategic planning. It’s seen as a burden … an additional responsibility added to an already full plate, with benefits that are modest, at best.


But you know that today’s environment requires careful planning. Market forces are putting relentless pressure on the educational mission. The demands are all too familiar: Do more with less … improve access … increase retention … be more accountable … cut costs … boost quality.


To meet the demands, planning is a must … and you simply can’t plan effectively without faculty input.


So how do you change faculty attitudes, and get them to embrace and participate in the planning process?


You’ll get a wealth of effective strategies for doing so in the online seminar, Engaging Faculty in Departmental Strategic Planning, coming March 30. In this fact-filled, 90-minute audio presentation, Dr. Anne Massaro of Ohio State University will explain how you can:


• Involve faculty in decisions that benefit the collective
• Prioritize competing demands.
• Use a “vision-concerns-actions” model for focusing strategic conversations.
• Distinguish between strategic thinking, strategic planning and strategic inquiry.
• Assess the environment and create a meaningful SWOT analysis.
• Produce a departmental strategic plan.
• And do it all with the help of a cooperative, engaged faculty!


Great value … and an excellent group-training opportunity


The seminar fee is just $99, and it applies per site, not per person. That means you can invite others from your campus to attend … just sign on from a lecture room or meeting facility.

Academic Leader Online Seminar: "Engaging Faculty in Departmental Strategic Planning"