Monthly Feature
July 15, 2020 | 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. ET
BrandEd is the first NACAS webinar designed specifically to provide our membership with brand education. Geared towards services and products, BrandEd will allow NACAS Business Partners a 10-minute opportunity to share their brand and how they could help your campus be ready to open and operate this fall. In the initial BrandEd, hear from Nelnet Campus Commerce, Touchwork, ColorID, Quadient, WeDriveU, and Kitchens to Go, ensuring that wherever your students may go on campus from housing to dining to the mailroom and beyond, you'll know the latest solutions and technology available.
Many of our fondest offerings have been developed by volunteers, including our best practice resource guides, C3X content, and field-altering research programs. Year-round NACAS volunteer leadership will show you what’s behind-the-curtain of our organization, engage you in the specific issues of the time, and ask you to co-create value for fellow members. Nominate yourself or a colleague for one of the volunteer positions listed below.
The deadline to submit is July 1 for Board Positions and August 14 for Committee Positions. You will be notified of your status by early October.
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Current Events
As we prepare for a new kind of fall semester, the NACAS Foundation has a goal to raise $5,000 by August 3, 2020 in our NACASCARES giving campaign. Throughout the month of July, you will hear directly from donors about the value of giving and how the Foundation positions auxiliary professionals, the higher education market, and students for success.
We encourage you to donate to the NACASCARES giving campaign to help us reach our goal. Any size donation will support new industry initiatives, including the Campus Care Grant, virtual education experiences, and awards & scholarships. Whether it's $5, $10, $15, or $20, any small amount will help. Contributions are tax-deductible.
NACAS is unveiling a new blog series called Perspectives! Our first blog post is by Donna-Jo (DJ) Pepito, NACAS Director of Education and Research Strategy. In her post, she reflects on the success of our Benchmarking program and talks about how we can use data strategically to address campus issues, like inequity, enrollment, and basic needs. Read DJ's Blog.
Our vision for NACAS Perspectives is to create more opportunities to share industry trends, thought-leadership, and ideas for how you can improve operations and enrich experiences on your campus. We view this as a collaborative effort between NACAS staff, institutional members, and business partners. If you have a concept for a short written piece about innovations on your campus, please feel free to email our Marketing Manager, Abby Hazekamp, for the chance to be featured on our new blog! Visit our website to find a few other pieces that we've curated over the past several months, like our statement on anti-racism and a letter from our CEO, Kelsey Harmon Finn, about the impact of the coronavirus on campuses.
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Making the Connection
July 22, 2020 | 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, NACAS has worked to provide you with support, education, and space to share ideas as well as be each other's support group. The time has come for NACAS to think about the future. Join NACAS leaders, including CEO Kelsey Harmon Finn, NACAS President Ryan Green, and others, as we talk about how NACAS is ready to take on the challenges that auxiliary services professionals will face as we head into the next phase together. Similar information will be covered at all of these events, so it is not imperative to attend all three. |
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NACAS Foundation
The Campus Care Grant awards up to $25,000 annually to programs or services that address basic needs issues for students on college and university campuses. This year, in response to the global pandemic, the NACAS Foundation is encouraging more submissions that fall between the $2,000 - $5,000 range, anticipating that many institutions will have new funding needs associated with COVID-19 and student wellness.
The deadline to apply is July 31.
Education
Webinar: Is Your Campus Store Sustainable?
July 14, 2020 | 3:00 p.m. ET
July 14, 2020 | 3:00 p.m. ET
Hear Key Bookstore Partners about the future of Course Materials, and operating models keep your stores relevant on your campus. This is an opportunity to participate at a high level with industry trend makers, gain an understanding of the various strategies to keep your store relevant, and learn about changes in Inclusive Access, Open Education Resources, and other new formats. REGISTER
Webinar: Building and Sustaining a Culture and Environment of Wellbeing: Key Strategies for Success
July 15, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. ET
July 15, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. ET
Creating and sustaining cultures that support healthy behavior change are key to any institution who wants healthy, happy, engaged and productive students, faculty and staff. In this panel discussion, health promotion leaders from four universities will discuss key strategies for leveraging best practices in institutions of higher learning. REGISTER
Webinar: NACAS East Discusses Return to Campus Plans
July 16, 2020 | 3:00 p.m. ET
July 16, 2020 | 3:00 p.m. ET
Across the nation, colleges and universities are planning for a variety of operating scenarios for the Fall Semester of 2020. This webinar will feature returning to campus plans from senior leaders at institutions across our region. Both public and private school plans will be addressed, as well as different enrollment sizes. REGISTER
Webinar: How to Prepare for Service Disruption On Your Campus In the Post COVID-19 World
July 17, 2020 | 3:00 p.m. ET
July 17, 2020 | 3:00 p.m. ET
In this session we will review best practices and protocols that can be implemented to 1) help minimize service disruption for students, 2) protect your campus community, and 3) minimize economic loss in food service, meetings and events, and other auxiliary areas. We will discuss not only contingency planning but also general preparedness planning. REGISTER
Webinar: Are Your Auxiliary Operations Surviving or Thriving? Evaluating Campus Auxiliary Operations to Build Crisis-Proof Business Models
July 21, 2020 | 3:00 p.m. ET
July 21, 2020 | 3:00 p.m. ET
This webinar brings together representatives from a small four year public university and a large urban multi campus university system that have undergone extensive evaluations of their campus operations and facilities, specifically auxiliary units, with the goal of optimizing service quality and operational efficiency, and increasing revenue generation. REGISTER
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