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Are you signed up for the Virtual Senior Executive Summit, taking place February 16-17? Through education sessions, facilitated discussions, and interactive curriculum, you can anticipate takeaways such as:
- Reigniting the visionary within that mitigates higher education challenges with a student-forward focus
- Deepening your understanding of data-driven decision making and a glimpse at the future of Artificial Intelligence
- Furthering your commitment to social justice by moving talk to action
Institution Attendee Rate: $150
Business Partner Attendee Rate: $250
Business Partner Attendee Rate: $250
Current Events
February 18-19 and February 25-26 | 12:00-2:30 PM Eastern
After a volatile 2020, change is upon us, and only institutions ready to embrace it will position themselves and their students for success in Fall 2021, and beyond. Success begins with an integrated plan! Explore the dynamics of the discipline of integrated planning together with leaders from three partner organizations, SCUP, NACAS, and ACUHO-I.
This deeply discounted workshop designed for member teams will provide the tools to help move everyone in the same direction—towards the achievement of your institution’s vision and mission. Participants will gain essential competencies including:
- How to develop a planning process that works with your institution’s unique structure, culture, and people;
- How to design and implement a planning process that will focus on ‘how’ to develop plan goals and tactics;
- To align these plan elements up, down, and through the institution;
- Ways to resource your plan, and;
- Strategies for implementation and modification along the way.
- How to design and implement a planning process that will focus on ‘how’ to develop plan goals and tactics;
- To align these plan elements up, down, and through the institution;
- Ways to resource your plan, and;
- Strategies for implementation and modification along the way.
Making the Connection
For our summer edition of College Services, we would like to collect stories from member insitutions on lessons learned with one year of experience in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
- How were you able to creatively pivot when working with a deficit?
- Were you able to use your CARES funding? If so, how did you use it?
- How have you been able to support your staff in spite of furloughs and layoffs?
- How are you preparing for 2022 (with whatever that year might hold) and beyond?
The deadline to submit an article draft is April 23, 2021. We want to hear from you! If you're willing to speak to us about any of these topics, or if you have another idea for an article, please email our Director of Marketing & Communications, Abby Hazekamp, at abby.hazekamp@nacas.org.
NACAS News
Did you know we've had over 800 registered participants for our content so far this year? We've discussed flexible dining and campus card solutions, learned how to work with branded stores to grow relationships with students, collaborated on new revenue streams, and much more! Join us for future content to participate in future conversations and make new connections to help navigate 2021.
NACAS Foundation
In 2020, much like the rest of the world, the NACAS Foundation had to switch gears early in the year to support institutions and keep students safe in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. We created new virtual fundraisers, and through an effective promotional campaign, were able to receive over 100 applications for our Campus Care Grant. Funds totaling about $25,000 were given to four highly-deserving college and university programs that address basic needs issues on their campuses.
In addition to Basic Needs, the NACAS Foundation continues to support areas such as Student Success, Enrollment, Inclusive Excellence, and Leadership through scholarships, benchmarking and research initiatives, and professional development. Many of the educational programs that you know and love – like our webinars and virtual roundtables, leadership institutes, and the CASP certification – are funded in part by the NACAS Foundation.
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Education
Webinar: Surviving 2020 and Beyond: Success Stories Leveraging Smart Campus Technologies
February 23, 2021 | 3:00 PM ET
February 23, 2021 | 3:00 PM ET
This webinar introduces an expert panel who will share their success stories in instituting “smart campus” technologies that provide value to the student experience, preserve enrollment, and even help generate potential revenue streams.
Webinar: Farm to Campus: Increasing Student Engagement during COVID With Local Produce, Baked Goods, Recipes, and Fun!
March 2, 2021 | 3:30 p.m. EST
March 2, 2021 | 3:30 p.m. EST
Rebecca Rogan, General Manager for Boston College Dining Services, and Natalie Sill, Boston College Dining Sustainability Student Manager, will share how BC found an opportunity to expand efforts to support local farms and bring a lively event to campus despite the pandemic.
Webinar: Washington Update - Impact for Higher Education
March 10, 2021 | 3:00 p.m. ET
March 10, 2021 | 3:00 p.m. ET
Megan Schneider (NACUBO) and Richard Hershman (NACS) are back to give a federal policy update on what to anticipate with administration changes and 2021 agendas as it relates to higher education.
Webinar: How Clemson is Taking Campus Transit Past the Pandemic
March 30, 2020 | 1:00 p.m. ET
March 30, 2020 | 1:00 p.m. ET
In this session, Austin Just Stanion, Senior Solutions Engineer at TransLoc will join Dr. Kat Moreland, Senior Associate Director for Parking and Transportation Services at Clemson University will come together to discuss how universities, particularly those that have made the decision to remain remote, are looking at campus transit as a means to optimize opportunities for students in a post-pandemic environment.
Membership
As part of your NACAS membership, you have access to a variety of tools and resources, including the NACAS Lounge! You can think of the NACAS Lounge as the platform where you can access your community. It is the perfect place to ask questions, receive feedback, share resources, and find ideas.
Here is an example of a topic thread that sparked a lot of engagement on the NACAS Lounge:
"Hello All, our campus has been presented with ideas of new revenue generators and I'd like to see if anyone would like to share their innovative ideas to get us out of this revenue rut. I was reviewing the Lounge and I saw this question was posed in October and I am anxious to see if newer or box busting (get it?...out of the box) ideas have emerged over the last few months. Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing your great ideas."
Want to join the conversation? View the full thread here.
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Certification
While our first CASP application deadline has passed, we encourage all those interested in sitting for our certification exam in 2021 to apply for one or more of the available national and regional scholarships. Each scholarship has specific requirements that need to be met for candidates to be awarded, so please review the listed conditions before applying.
National Hassmiller Scholarship
East Region Educational Grant
Central Region Past Presidents Scholarship
Central Region CASP Scholarship
South Region CASP Candidate Program
West Region CASP Award
East Region Educational Grant
Central Region Past Presidents Scholarship
Central Region CASP Scholarship
South Region CASP Candidate Program
West Region CASP Award
The next 2021 remote testing application deadline will be announced soon. Stay tuned!
For more information visit: www.nacas.org