Working with Students

Accommodating Pregnant and Lactating Students Heather Cowan, M.A. This webinar will discuss the various requirements for academic accommodations for pregnant and lactating students under Title IX with real-life scenarios and how they were resolved.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Cocurricular Maps to Integrate Learning Inside and Outside of the Classroom Dr. Adam Peck Co-curricular mapping provides a structure for uniting learning inside and outside of the classroom. This Webinar will provide resources for participants looking to create learning outcome/learning activity maps.
Addressing Food Insecurity in College Tim Miller Ed.D. & Sharon Kompalla-Porter
Addressing Student ''Resistance'' to Social Justice Learning Dr. Beth Berila & Dr. Jason Laker This webinar will demonstrate how integrating mindfulness with social justice pedagogy, student affairs professionals can help students more intentionally respond to issues of oppression rather than merely react to them.
Addressing Student Concerns through Circle Processes Carrie Landrum This webinar provides a brief overview of how Circle Processes might be used to address a wide range of issues on your campus, including: bias incidents, campus climate concerns, conflicts within residential communities, interpersonal conflicts, student organization and/or athletic team dynamics, conduct code violations, academic cohort dynamics, national incidents that impact students and the greater community, and more.
Best Practices for Managing Departmental Social Media Accounts Erin Hensley This webinar will offer best practices for managing social media accounts while providing participants with tangible skills they can bring back to their institutions and implement immediately.
Boosting Athletic Attendance (without resorting to bribes) Dr. Adam Peck This Webinar will provide ideas for boosting athletic attendance on campus and will also discuss some commonly used but ineffective strategies for creating excitement about athletics on campus.
Building a Culture of Spirit and Tradition on a Campus that Doesn’t have Football Dr. Charles Hueber This webinar will provide an overview of ways a school can focus on building that sense of pride among students through a variety of programs and focused initiatives.
Building a Food Pantry for Your Students Dr. Maureen “Moe” McGuinness Many of us do not realize the number of homeless and food insecure students on our campuses. This webinar will help attendees examine ways on their campus to build a food pantry to assist food insecure students.
Building a Survivor Advocacy Program Dr. Maureen “Moe” McGuinness This webinar will provide information on building a survivor advocacy program from scratch; how to help survivors of sexual violence and intimate partner violence; and how to do outreach in your community to meet VAWA/ Title IX requirements as well as assisting survivors you do not even know about yet. Closed captioning is provided.
Bystander Intervention for Hate/Bias Incidents Heather Cowan, M.A. This webinar will cover research around bystanders' action and inaction and the methods shown to assist bystanders to intervene safely when they see something. We will also cover microaggressions and steps that can be taken to address them.
Collegiate Homeless, the Hidden Population Quint Geis This webinar will review current literature, share some of the challenges of this student population, address the invisible nature of homelessness, and speak to what considerations are important for positive change.
Conduct and Students on the Autism Spectrum Dr. Jane Thierfeld Brown This webinar will address how to best work with students on the spectrum who may present these challenges. Issues for classrooms, residence halls and students organizations will be discussed as well as dealing with parents.
Counseling Basics for Student Affairs Professionals Dr. Aaron Hughey This webinar will to give participants a greater appreciation for the complementary nature of the student affairs and counseling professions.
Creating a Successful and More Efficient Leadership Selection Process Dr. Charles Hueber This webinar will explore these concepts and include ideas that other schools have implemented to really improve a very critical component in nearly every student affairs office.
Creating balance between free speech and safe spaces on campus Dr. Michael Preston This Webinar will look at creating safe spaces for students and those who feel that college is a giant canvas for open and free expression no matter how students may take offense.
Critical Partnerships: How Higher Education Can Partner with Business and Industry to Solve Our Shared Problems Dr. Adam Peck This webinar will discuss a new leadership model called the Cocurricular Career Connections Leadership Mode (C3) which describes how leadership educators can design experiences which help students acquire and refine leadership skills, and which can help groups resourcefully meet their shared goals. It also provides a linkage between leadership development in college and professional develop throughout one’s career.
Developing a Comprehensive Volunteer Contract for Students Dr. Charles Hueber This webinar will examine a comprehensive example of a well-designed volunteer contract and discuss the benefits of developing a contract for students.
Engagement & Employability: Connecting Career Outcomes to Cocurricular Experiences Dr. Adam Peck The Webinar focuses on a national effort to connect career development to participation outside of the classroom. Called, "Project CEO (cocurricular experience outcomes)" this project has engaged more than 50 institutions and more than 20,000 college students.
Evidence-Based Best Practices for Enhancing Student Retention at Community Colleges Dr. Aaron Hughey This will be an interactive webinar where you will learn current, evidence-based best practices associated with enhancing community college student persistence to graduation.
Five Simple Strategies for Increasing Involvement on Campus Dr. Adam Peck This webinar will discuss some innovative, yet well-tested strategies for improving the percentage of students on campus who are participating in cocurricular experiences.
How eSports can work at your school Dr. Charles Hueber This webinar will discuss the reasoning and provide evidence needed to petition administration for the support of and funding for an eSports program. We will briefly cover some of the details of launching a program but, the hour will be spent answering the questions why you should launch and how it can work. The primary goal of the webinar is to help student affairs professionals put together a proposal to seek funding and support for a competitive eSports program.
Making Campus Feel Like Home for Commuters Caitlin Herby This webinar highlights the differing needs of commuter students, common barriers of engagement, and practical tools participants could use to better support this population on their campus.
Managing Our Anxiety About Student Anxiety Dr. Lee Burdette Williams & Dr. Kathryn Dingman Boger This webinar will cover some basic information about anxiety disorders including their definitions, symptoms, causes, methods of response and treatment as well as help staff delineate clinical and non-clinical roles.
Meeting the Unique Needs of the LGBTQIA Student Population Dr. Aaron Hughey This webinar will highlight evidence-based best practices and demonstrate how student affairs professionals can better meet the needs of the LGBTQIA students on their campuses.
Motivational Interviewing: A model for behavioral change Antonia Montoya, MS, CHES This webinar will explore Motivational Interviewing (MI), an evidence-based method of helping people change their behavior, with an emphasis on autonomy, effective communication, motivation, self-efficacy, and readiness for change.
Responding Effectively (and Calmly!) to Complaints and Criticism Date Amir Baghdadchi In this webinar you will learn how handling unhappiness in our line of work is different from other kinds of service, and how our student affairs background actually holds the key to de-escalating a situation and rebuilding trust.
Sensory Rooms – Developing a Calming Space Dr. Jane Thierfeld Brown this webinar to learn how to create a more tranquil and comforting environment on campus for students with anxiety, sensory disabilities, feeling of overwhelmingness, etc.
Social Media and Mental Health: How Student Affairs Professionals Can Help Dr. Aaron Hughey This webinar will provide evidence-based best practices and related information and insights that can be used immediately to respond more effectively and efficiently to the needs of students who are experiencing emotional and mental health challenges due to their extensive involvement with social media.
Starting a Cocurricular Mapping Program as a Summer Project Dr. Adam Peck This webinar will provide step-by-step instructions for conducting co-curricular mapping. This process can help clarify how students experience our educational offerings and ensure more deep and robust learning over time.
Strengths-Based Interview Skills Anne Brackett & Alicia Wojciuch This webinar will help you to identify your strengths and use as a framework to better understand yourself and how you contribute to a team and organization, increases your self-confidence and your ability to communicate what you are and what you can bring to others, including improving the way you answer interview questions.
Student Affairs and Service Learning: A Perfect Match Dr. Aaron Hughy This webinar will investigate evidence-based best practices for using service learning programs to help students reach their full potential as responsible citizens in a democratic society.
Students on the Autism Spectrum and Residence Life Dr. Jane Thierfeld Brown This webinar will discuss Autism, and also provide strategies to assist students on the spectrum living in residence halls.
Substance Abuse: How to Respond Appropriately to Students Who Are Abusing Drugs and/or Alcohol Dr. Aaron Hughey This webinar will enable participants to recognize the telltale signs that a student may be experiencing substance and/or alcohol abuse and, more importantly, what they should do to help the student as well as maintain a safe and secure educational environment.
Supervising Student Employees and Student Volunteers Effectively Charles Hueber This webinar will discuss strategies to manage today's students in an on campus environment from a work-study and/or volunteer position.
Taking Your Program Board to a New Level Dr. Charles Hueber This webinar will explore ways some programs boards are restructuring and finding success by taking into consideration today's students who process information faster, are better multitaskers, are more entrepreneurial and have higher expectations than millennials.
The End of Assessment in Student Affairs (and what we should be doing instead) Dr. Adam Peck In this webinar, Dr. Adam Peck shares his approach to co-curricular mapping that allows experiential educators to line up learning experiences with the outcomes they are designed to accomplish.
The Flip Side of Engagement: Battling the Loneliness Epidemic on College Campuses Dr. Adam Peck This webinar leave with concrete examples of how to leverage the changing perceptions of a new generation to help students get their bearings and thrive throughout their time in college.
The Role of Student Affairs in Supporting International Students Dr. Aaron Hughey This interactive Webinar will present current, evidence-based best practices associated with enhancing the college experience for international students as well as their persistence to graduation.
Title IX and LGBTQI students Heather Cowan, M.A. This webinar will cover the requirements of Title IX as it relates to our LGBTQI students and how we can help our LGBTQI students feel safer and more included on our campuses.
Title IX Investigations: Interviewing Hints, Tips and Techniques Heather Cowan This webinar will cover interviewing techniques and include tips on determining credibility and how to apply that to the allegations and investigation.
When Free Speech Arrives to Campus. A Practical Approach to Managing a Campus Protest Dr. Michael Preston & David Oglethorpe This webinar will arm student affairs professionals with a guide to training and supporting staff who enforce speech policies on campus and also provides an outline for training every campus can engage in to ensure free speech is supported at all levels.