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Technology’s role in higher education has skyrocketed in recent years, increasing the load on IT’s already overburdened shoulders. Rather than buckle beneath the pressure, IT teams must take on increasingly strategic roles so they can get the most value out their technology investments. But in a diverse technology landscape, how can IT decision makers find their institution’s right-fit solutions and manage change across campus?

In this session, Jeff Schneider, CIO of College of the Ozarks, and Travis Wooley, director of IT at AdventHealth University, join Terrill Gilley of Jenzabar to discuss the growing need for the cloud, the value of a single-vendor system, and the importance of partnering with a vendor with a shared vision.

Discover the benefits of IT taking on a more strategic role on campus.

Learn why cloud solutions are so critical in today’s higher education environment.

Uncover the value of a single-vendor software solution and the power of that partnership.

Identify how to rightsize your tech stack through judicious use of integrations.

Discover how IT teams can take on more strategic roles to facilitate transformation.

Playbook for Maximizing IT Teams and Solutions

Watch our on-demand webinar to discover how IT teams can take on more strategic roles to facilitate transformation.

Playbook for Maximizing IT Teams and Solutions - Jenzabar Webinar

As the higher education landscape shifts, colleges and universities are experiencing greater employee turnover, stagnating revenues, and growing doubt over the value of a college degree. How can institutions adapt to address these challenges? 

Watch the webinar to discover specific examples of how community colleges, regional public universities, and private nonprofit colleges are responding to the forces currently shaping the higher education landscape. 

In this webinar, you'll gain answers to the following questions:

How are community colleges responding to enrollment declines?

What are regional public universities doing to increase state funding?

How are private nonprofit colleges bridging the gap between education and employment?

Discover which new strategies and programs institutions are implementing in response to higher education's most pressing challenges.

Adaptation Across the Higher Ed Landscape

Watch the webinar to discover specific examples of how community colleges, regional public universities, and private nonprofit colleges are responding to the forces currently shaping the higher education landscape.

Adaptation Across the Higher Ed Landscape  - Jenzabar Webinar

Getting timely financial aid is critical for many learners, especially as college costs climb. One of the biggest challenges facing campuses is communicating with the students who need financial assistance to ensure they meet critical deadlines. How can staff generate connections to help keep students on track?

This session with Linda Katrinic, Vice President for Student Financial Aid at Baker College, and Ashley Krinjeck, Director of Student Financial Services at Pennsylvania Highlands Community College, highlights how their teams communicate with learners throughout the financial aid process to ensure students get the financial aid they need.

Uncover best practices for communicating with learners throughout the financial aid process to improve student enrollment, retention, and success.

How to Ensure Students Who Need Financial Aid Get It on Time

Learn how your financial aid staff can improve communications with students throughout the financial aid process.

Jenzabar Webinar With NASFAA: How to Ensure Students Who Need Financial Aid Get It on Time

The Great Resignation has disrupted the job market, leaving employers urgently seeking skilled workers to fill 11.3 million open positions. Individuals who wish to pursue many of these jobs need more education so they can learn the skills necessary to succeed. The challenge for institutions is that some learners don’t want to commit to a long application process or traditional 2- to 4-year programs; they want short-term, skills-based, flexible courses that can fit into their already busy schedules. Meanwhile, many colleges and universities are still leveraging outdated technologies that may not support non-traditional student enrollments or agile learning experiences. Institutions need to offer unbundled courses through modern, online experiences.  

This webinar dives into how new IT solutions address emerging challenges by helping institutions create modern online buying experiences that integrate with existing IT infrastructure. Presenters go over their experiences with unbundling courses and provide insight into how innovative solutions better serve today’s learners. 

How to use new IT solutions to grow enrollments and address evolving learner and employer expectations.

How new IT solutions remove barriers for institutions that wish to unbundle their course programs and reach new learners.

How to make the non-credit online course buying experience easier and more efficient for students.

Learn how new solutions enable you to offer learning opportunities through modern online environments that meet today's students' expectations.

Will Unbundling Your Course Catalog Meet the Needs of the New Student?

Will Unbundling Your Course Catalog Meet the Needs of the New Student? - Jenzabar

Digital transformation is often pursued in higher education as a means to improve student enrollment and retention outcomes, but how effective are those efforts from the viewpoint of IT department leaders? This webinar dives into Inside Higher Ed's 2022 Survey of Chief Technology/Information Officers. According to the survey findings, only 4% of respondents said digital transformation was not a priority but only 40% of technology leaders rate their institutions' investment in student success and completion as very or extremely effective.

Watch this webinar for insights into the following questions and more.

What do senior technology leaders on campuses really think about their institution's efforts to use the growing array of technological tools and capabilities?

What percentage of CTO/CIOs report that their institution has actually set specific goals for digital transformation? 

What do CTOs and CIOs say are the biggest roadblocks to achieving digital goals?

Watch our webinar today to gain insight into how to maximize your current campus technology and how to retain the leaders who oversee these pivotal functions.

Campus resistance, incomplete goals, and insufficient financial investment are only some of the things impeding digital transformation progress - just one of the many issues keeping technology leaders from getting restful sleep.

Digital transformation is often pursued in higher education as a means to improve student enrollment and retention outcomes, but how effective are those efforts?

What Keeps CIOs and CTOs Up at Night - Jenzabar

Many colleges and universities are responding to the increasing demand for skills-based learning by offering alternative credentials and competency-based education (CBE) programs. These programs help learners gain the skills employers seek; help employers re-skill their workforces; and help higher education institutions reach new learners, increase enrollment, and strengthen community partnerships. While some institutions have long-established programs, others are just beginning to consider how they might better support the needs of learners and employers.

Led by Jenzabar and Bay College, this webinar highlights institutional strategies and best practices for implementing successful alternative credentials and CBE programs. These are methods that any higher education institution can repeat. Watch this webinar to:

Hear creative ways institutions are responding to student demand for skills-based education.

Learn how institutions are working with local employers to create impactful alternative credentials and CBE programs.

Discover best practices for creating alternative credentials and CBE programs, as well as steps that any college or university can emulate.

Uncover strategies and best practices for implementing successful alternative learning programs.

Alternative Credentials and CBE Programs: Answering the Call for Skills-Based Learning

Learn institutional strategies and best practices for implementing successful alternative credentials and CBE programs.

Alternative Credentials and CBE Programs: Answering the Call for Skills-Based Learning - Jenzabar

Amid rising skepticism about the value of college education, including its return on investment, how can small- and medium-sized colleges steer their institutions toward success?

In a virtual forum with The Chronicle of Higher Education, "What It Takes to Lead a College," higher education leaders and decision-makers joined together to discuss the way forward in a time of uncertainty. Watch this webinar to learn more about how your peers are addressing critical challenges facing their institutions, including:

What leadership and strategic skills are needed, especially at tuition-driven private institutions, to remain competitive?

How can institutions be more innovative and resilient amid mounting internal and external pressures?

What advice would current and former college leaders share from their own personal and professional experiences?

What can institutional leaders do to ensure long-term success when the value of higher education is in question?

Watch the Virtual Forum With The Chronicle of Higher Education

What It Takes to Lead a College - Jenzabar Webinar

Neal Dyer, CTO of Southeastern University, leveraged the principles of design thinking to digitally transform his institution by incorporating modern technology and elevating IT’s role from support to strategic leader. By proactively collaborating with different departments to redesign business processes and create a connected campus, Dyer has reduced the institution’s technical debt, increased productivity, improved data hygiene, and eliminated departmental and data silos. 

Led by Jeff Elliott, Jenzabar's Director of Product Management, this webinar highlights the positive buzz around Southeastern University's transformation and how it has heightened IT’s role across campus. Watch this webinar to: 

Discover the benefits of elevating IT’s role from support to strategic leader.

Learn more about design thinking and how to optimize business processes.

Find out how a student-centric IT approach can better serve students and improve retention.

Uncover examples of transformation success, including critical steps like discovering and documenting the process, eliminating roadblocks, and redefining the process using metrics.

Learn how promoting IT from a support role to a leadership position across campus can profoundly impact an institution.

Watch Our Webinar With EDUCAUSE and Southeastern University On Demand

Elevating IT's Role Through Proactive Transformation

Jenzabar Webinar: Elevating IT's Role Through Proactive Transformation

There is little static about the advisor/student relationship in higher education. As student wants and needs shift from year to year, academic advisors must constantly reevaluate their goals, processes, and practices as well as their definition of student success. 

In this fireside chat, the third and final installment of our student success series, Jenzabar’s Jeff Elliott and Chris Myers delve deeper into the roles that academic advisors play in the student success equation.

Watch our fireside chat for answers to these questions and more: 

How does the mission of an academic advisor inform their approach to advising? 

How do an institution’s culture and mission impact an academic advisor’s role?

How important is continual professional training for academic advising?

How can advisors use technology to encourage student engagement? 

Every student has different needs, so what can advisors do to ensure student success across the board? 

The Roles and Responsibilities of Academic Advisors in Promoting Student Success

Every student has different needs, so what can advisors do to ensure student success across the board?

The Roles and Responsibilities of Academic Advisors in Promoting Student Success  - Jenzabar

How can institutions achieve long-term financial sustainability in an increasingly competitive landscape with so many options and priorities competing for the mindshare and attention of prospective and enrolled students?

Watch our case study webinar with Mid-Plains Community College for insight into how the institution: 

Modernized its communications strategy and transformed how staff engaged with students.

Implemented new technology that allowed staff to send personalized communications at scale while reducing administrative burdens so they could focus their efforts on learners. 

Improved its ability to capture the attention of and cultivate relationships with prospects and students—two key areas that can drive student enrollment, persistence, and success.

To ensure long-term financial sustainability, institutions need to recruit, enroll, and retain more students. But how?

Watch Our Webinar With AACRAO and Mid-Plains Community College On Demand

Modernizing Communication Strategy to Transform Student Engagement

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Modernizing Communication Strategy to Transform Student Engagement - Jenzabar Webinar

Academic advisors have the important job of helping students acclimate to campus culture. In many ways, their guidance can play a large role in a student’s ability to navigate college life and maximize their education. But it’s easy to conflate institutional success with student success. As advisors strive to ensure students persist in their educations, they may be overstepping their roles and undermining student outcomes in the process.

In this fireside chat, the second installment of our student success series, Jenzabar’s Jeff Elliott and Chris Myers continue to break down the ins and outs of student success by digging into academic advising’s best practices and worst habits.

Watch our fireside chat for answers to these questions and more.

How does your definition of student success impact your advising practices?

How can understanding your school’s mission help you advise students?

How can academic advisors best prepare students for post-college life?

How can the right technology help you better advise your student body?

Advisors play a key role in helping students succeed, but how much aid is too much? 

The Dos and Don’ts of Academic Advising for Student Success 

Watch our fireside chat with Jenzabar’s Jeff Elliott and Chris Myers in which they continue to break down the ins and outs of student success by digging into academic advising’s best practices and worst habits.

The Dos and Don’ts of Academic Advising for Student Success  - Jenzabar

The Dos and Don’ts of Academic Advising for Student Success

A student’s sense of success greatly impacts their perception of an education’s value. But fostering student success has become increasingly difficult since many things besides education vie for a student’s attention. As the pandemic alters on-campus life, as college enrollments decline, and as more and more students turn to online learning options, the question of what defines student success becomes an increasingly important one to examine. 

In this fireside chat, Jenzabar’s Jeff Elliott and Chris Myers discuss what does and does not constitute student success and how institutions might leverage technology to help cultivate a culture of student success on campus. 

Watch our fireside chat for answers to these questions and more. 

How does student engagement impact in-person and online learning? 

How does a sense of campus community influence student outcomes?

How can empowering students impact their sense of accomplishment?

How can technology foster critical components of student success? 

What constitutes student success? How can colleges and universities create a culture around it?

The Ins and Outs of Student Success - Jenzabar

As budgets shrink and student expectations grow, it’s becoming difficult for institutions to foster student engagement and success. But with the right tools and technology partner, institutions can better serve the needs of their students and stay true to their missions. This is why many institutions are turning to Jenzabar for help with their digital transformations. 

In this fireside chat, Les Zimmerman, Jenzabar’s VP of Product Development, sits down with Sarah Laird from Mount St. Mary’s University and Stead Hallstead from Bushnell University to talk about their digital transformation journeys and how the Jenzabar team is helping them along the way.

In this fireside chat, you’ll learn about

How Jenzabar solutions help institutions achieve initiatives and overcome challenges. 

How Jenzabar’s best practices-based implementation methodology gets institutions up and running quickly. 

How Jenzabar solutions help ensure successful student outcomes now and in the future.

Learn how partnering with Jenzabar helps Mount St. Mary’s University and Bushnell University transform their campuses. 

A Tale of Two Campuses: The Journey to Digital Transformation

Learn how partnering with Jenzabar helped Mount St. Mary’s University and Bushnell University transform their campuses.

A Tale of Two Campuses: The Journey to Digital Transformations - Jenzabar

Like many schools in the fall of 2020, Crown College needed a solution for managing COVID-19 on its campus. Crown College turned to Jenzabar Retention to help it identify and isolate students and close contacts with COVID-19 symptoms—as well as keep faculty and staff informed. With Jenzabar Retention, Crown College can streamline its COVID-19 reporting and response process and give students the holistic support they need. 

Watch this fireside chat to learn how Jenzabar Retention helped Crown College to: 

Implement a clearly delineated plan of action.

Identify and isolate students with COVID-19 symptoms.

Quickly communicate with impacted faculty, staff, and students.

Effectively care for and support individuals in quarantine. 

Find out how Jenzabar Retention empowered Crown College to keep its campus safe.

How Jenzabar Retention Helps Institutions Manage Their COVID-19 Response

How Jenzabar Retention Helps Institutions Manage Their COVID-19 Response - Jenzabar

Higher education institutions are adopting and will continue to use digital chatbots powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in an ongoing effort to increase enrollment, streamline business processes, and deliver better experiences for today's modern learners. This webinar highlights use cases and examples from colleges and universities that have successfully deployed AI-driven chatbots and how those institutions have uncovered new opportunities to increase efficiency and student satisfaction. 

How an AI-driven chatbot can address student and institutional pain points.  

How artificial intelligence can enable dynamic, responsive conversation flows with students.

How chatbots can be used to measure and monitor student satisfaction across campus.

Specific use cases from institutions that have successfully deployed AI-driven chatbots.

AI-driven, student self-service chatbots can open new avenues of engagement and efficiency.

Putting AI to Use: Empowering Students With a Self-Service Chatbot

Putting AI to Use: Empowering Students With a Self-Service Chatbot - Jenzabar

For colleges and universities, the pandemic was a catalyst for implementing new technologies. The need to shift courses online, balance student satisfaction with safety, and keep the institution running remotely presented several significant challenges—issues with access, budgets, usability, and training. Yet the pandemic also prompted a great deal of innovation: Institutions leveraged existing resources and embraced new IT solutions to manage pandemic-related complications and ensure student success.

This webinar highlights the recent shifts in the higher ed tech landscape and explores digital transformation stories from institutions that overcame both legacy issues and new obstacles. When employed strategically, technology can give students the tools to be the drivers of their own success. It can also help institutions streamline operations and provide campus officials and faculty with the insights they need to make critical planning and policy decisions.

Map out the new terrain of IT concerns in a post-pandemic age.

Explore how certain colleges and universities used new technology to mitigate modern concerns.

Examine how new solutions in artificial intelligence, communications, and analytics can empower students.

Identify how innovative solutions can help institutions weather issues of post-pandemic institutional stability.

Recent technology shifts in higher ed can enable digital transformations that overcome legacy issues and new obstacles.

Exploring New Tech Impacts on Higher Education Landscapes

Watch the webinar to learn how recent technology shifts in higher ed can enable digital transformations that overcome legacy issues and new obstacles.

Exploring New Tech Impacts on Higher Education Landscapes - Jenzabar

The leadership at Mid-Plains Community College wanted to enhance the student experience. After investigating areas for improvement, they noticed inconsistencies when communicating to students and other constituents across their campuses. To improve engagement, strengthen messaging, and streamline workflows, they developed an institution-wide communications management strategy using Jenzabar Communications.

Mid-Plains Community College's three-pronged strategy for managing constituent communications.

Tips for using technology to identify and overcome communication issues across a multi-location campus.

The importance of conversation continuity and its relationship to student success. 

Mid-Plains Community College's use of Jenzabar Communications to deliver unique, seamless, campus-wide communications through a single platform.

Learn how to identify communication issues and use technology to break down silos.

Breaking Down Silos and Improving Relationships With Mid-Plains Community College

Learn how to identify communication issues and use technology to break down silos in this webinar between Jenzabar and Mid-Plains Community College.

Breaking Down Silos and Improving Relationships With Mid-Plains Community College - Jenzabar

The rise of the new student and increased competition for a shrinking pool of traditional-age prospects will continue to pressure institutions to reimagine their recruitment efforts. New ideas and technology, like Jenzabar Recruitment, can help you reach your goals. This session presents the concept of the “buyer’s journey” as an innovative dimension to consider in addition to the tried-and-true enrollment funnel. Watch this webinar to learn more about creative best practices, including leading with brand awareness, personalizing outreach, streamlining processes, and leveraging current students and alumni as advocates.

New challenges that institutions must face amid increased competition for fewer students. 

Innovative recruitment technologies that help institutions attract and enroll the best-fit students.

Creative tips and tricks that can help institutions revitalize their recruitment strategies.

Learn how to complement traditional recruitment strategies with modern tools and approaches.

How to Drive Enrollment Using a "Buyer's Journey" Model

How to Drive Enrollment Using a "Buyer's Journey" Model - Jenzabar

Competency-based education (CBE) programs center around personalized learning and skills assessments so students can demonstrate their mastery over a subject. By design, CBE programs empower students to achieve their long-term goals on their own time, allowing for better outcomes and more satisfying experiences overall.

In this webinar, Justin Izzard of Bay College highlights:

How Bay College embarked on its journey to deliver CBE programs.

The steps Bay College is taking to prepare its campus for CBE initiatives.

Tips and tricks to adopt and implement a successful CBE strategy.

Uncover how competency-based education programs can enable tailored learning experiences and more satisfying student outcomes.

Bay College's Path to Competency-Based Education

Bay College's Path to Competency-Based Education - Jenzabar

Jenzabar Advancement powers every aspect of your fundraising program, from prospect identification and cultivation to stewardship and donor retention. In this webinar, Tammy Shadley-Hutton from Wilmington College and Elicia Winner from Grove City College share their journey of adopting Jenzabar Advancement and how the solution empowers their advancement team.

The benefits of leveraging Jenzabar Advancement.

How Jenzabar Advancement has evolved to improve user experiences.

The most used and most liked features within Jenzabar Advancement.

Jenzabar Advancement powers every aspect of your fundraising program, from prospect identification and cultivation to stewardship and donor retention.