Higher Education Professional Development

2017 Magna Teaching with Technology Conference

Discover the many ways that technology in the classroom can breathe new life into your lessons when you register for the Teaching with Technology Conference from Magna Publications.

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Student Entitlement: Truth, Fiction, or Some of Both?

Discover what the research has documented about the extent of academic entitlement. Is it associated with certain personality characteristics? Does it result from approaches taken to parenting? Are the attitudes cultivated in earlier educational experiences? Is there widespread agreement as to what it looks like when college students are acting and sounding entitled?

Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor

Gain strategies to help you expand students’ concept and definition of learning, get students thinking about how they learn, and promote self-directed learning.

2017 Leadership in Higher Education Conference

To excel in your leadership responsibilities at your school, join other like-minded colleagues at the Leadership in Higher Education Conference.

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Upcoming Live Events

Magna Online Seminars are live and interactive events that address critical issues facing higher education today. They feature leading educators delivering content-rich presentations.

Conferences for faculty, administrators, and student leaders are presented throughout the year to create a forum for academic professionals and students to connect, learn, and share ideas.

Monday Morning Mentor

Monday Morning Mentor delivers one of our popular Magna 20-Minute Mentor online programs each week of the school year – 16 in the fall, 16 in the spring, 32 weeks in all.

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20-Minute Mentor Commons

An on-demand digital library of targeted faculty development that offer solutions to common classroom challenges—in just 20 minutes! A subscription gives your entire campus access to all 20-Minute Mentor programs.

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NCSL Fall 2017 Conference

The National Conference on Student Leadership (NCSL) brings together collegiate student leaders and campus professionals to learn effective, heart-centered leadership skills directly from cutting-edge innovators in industry, education, and the nonprofit sector.

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Upcoming Live Events

Monday Morning Mentor

20-Minute Mentor Commons

NCSL Fall 2017 Conference

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Tips for New Online Faculty Deans: A Faculty Perspective

We know that strong leaders empower and genuinely care for those whom they lead. That empowerment and care is not expressed by the words they speak, but by their everyday interactions with the people around them.

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What You Need to Know About FERPA

FERPA is probably the most widely misunderstood law relating to education. Online faculty members and administrators need to get the real story on FERPA so they understand what is and is not allowed.

Effective Referrals to Campus Counseling Services

How to Avoid Common Assessment-Reporting Pitfalls

Calendar of Events

Sept

27

Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor

The strategies in this seminar help teachers expand students’ concept and definition of learning, get students thinking about how they learn, and promote self-directed learning.LEARN MORE
Oct

04

Interpreting Rigor: Tools for Evaluating Faculty and Increasing Program Retention

You’ll explore teacher and student conceptions of rigor, the implications of their differences, and administrative strategies that you can use to improve communication between faculty and their students.LEARN MORE
Oct

05

Seven Ways to Facilitate Effective Online Discussions

Gain a variety of strategies to create discussion board activities that your students find interesting and also strategies to effectively facilitate discussions and manage the workload related to reading and grading posts.LEARN MORE

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Calendar of Events

Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor

Interpreting Rigor: Tools for Evaluating Faculty and Increasing Program Retention

Seven Ways to Facilitate Effective Online Discussions