HLC Workshops
HLC’s workshops offer intensive, hands-on learning opportunities for individual professionals and institutional teams, helping them develop short-term action plans that jump-start the improvement of processes and practices that influence student success.
Workshop Offerings
Demonstrating Quality:
An Assurance Argument Virtual Workshop
November 10, 2022, Virtual
As part of the HLC Assurance Review, an institution prepares an Assurance Filing that demonstrates it is in compliance with HLC requirements. To help institutions craft the Assurance Argument, institutions with an Assurance Review scheduled from June 2023 – December 2023 as part of a Year 4 or Year 10 evaluation are invited to participate in this interactive half-day workshop. Teams will be invited to submit limited excerpts of their draft Assurance Argument ahead of the workshop. Eligible ALOs have recieved an invitation to send a team.
Designing Initiatives for Student Success | Register Now
New! | November 14-16, 2022, Schaumburg, Illinois
This team workshop supports intensive, focused planning around improving student success on campus. Facilitated by HLC's Student Success Academy Scholars' Susan Hatfield and Jenny Schanker, the workshop begins with activities to help begin to identify data and information gaps around who you serve and the success of your students. Institutional teams will then then design a strategy help your students achieve their educational goals. The workshop will foster design and action planning for a student success project or initiative that fits your institution’s mission and context. The workshop is designed to support teams in all stages of project planning and will include a segment on planning for the evaluation of initiatives.
Assessing General Education | Sold Out
September 22–23 and 29–30, 2022 (Virtual Seminar Series)
A focus on the process of assessment has taken many programs and institutions down a path of data collection only to find that it leads to frustration, distrust and wasted resources. At this workshop, teams of 3–6 institutional representatives collaborate with experienced facilitators to develop assessment plans that both aim to cultivate an institutional culture committed to continuous improvement and address the need to produce useful evidence of student learning.
Advancing Strategy
(Virtual Seminar Series)
A collaborative strategic planning process can create systematic and continuous quality improvement. This team workshop brings together cross-functional groups of administrators to learn process and tools for effective strategic planning in higher education. Teams will leave with a project charter to develop a strategic plan that will improve their institution’s performance.
Optimizing Cocurricular Assessment
(Virtual Seminar Series)
This seminar will provide participants with strategies for aligning and utilizing co-curricular assessment to build inherent value across the institution. The "how-to" focus will promote greater understanding of similarities and differences between curricular and co-curricular assessment The seminar is intended for institutional representatives with fundamental assessment knowledge seeking to establish, integrate, and/or revitalize co-curricular assessment at their institution. The interactive format will provide perspectives, resources, and engagement opportunities to support effective co-curricular assessment and resulting application.
Effective Administrators
Next offering: Spring 2023
This workshop offers strategies for improving efficiency in key higher education administrator competencies including institutional effectiveness, planning, and resource management. Designed for new and rising administrators taking on formal and informal leadership roles to support their unit and institution, the workshop offers a blend of presentation, application, and small group activities.
Fundamentals of Assessment
Next offering: Spring 2023
This program is intended for faculty, staff and leadership who are new to assessment of academic programs and/or assessment of co-curricular programs in higher education and would like to benefit from an understanding of the fundamentals of the assessment process. Delivered in a "hyperflex" modality, this engaging synchronous/asynchronous multi-session seminar/workshop series will center on major elements of a successful assessment process that supports a "culture of learning". The series and respective overarching objectives along with specific learning outcomes revolve around three main themes: Fundamentals of Assessment, Assessing in Context, and Sustaining a Culture of Learning.
Program Assessment
Next offering: Spring 2023 (Virtual Seminar Series)
This interactive workshop is an opportunity for individuals to further their understanding of practical and meaningful assessment of student learning in academic programs. Through lecture, discussion and structured activities, participants gain the practical knowledge and skills to lead the development and implementation of a program assessment plan in their academic discipline. This workshop is designed for individual department chairs, academic program coordinators and faculty in programs without discipline-specific accreditation to inform program assessment practices.
Supporting Student Success
Next offering: Spring 2023, held at the 2023 HLC Annual Conference
In this hands-on workshop, individual administrators, faculty, and staff members examine common factors that affect student success. Facilitators will lead a series of activities to help attendees identify their institution’s current realities and discover areas of opportunity for improving student success within their sphere of influence.
Get Registration Updates
Complete the HLC Programs Interest Form to receive more information about workshops. You’ll be notified by email when early registration opens for the workshops you select, giving you a chance to register before the rest of HLC’s membership.
