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
Preparing Effective Administrators
Next offering: March 25, 2023, held at the 2023 HLC Annual Conference
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.
Supporting Student Success
Next offering: March 25, 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.
New! Collaborating on Quality Virtual Workshop
April 13-14, 2023
This new team-based virtual workshop aims to support an institution’s preparations for an upcoming comprehensive evaluation. Topics covered during the virtual workshop include leveraging an effective steering committee, preparing the assurance argument, and strategies for engaging the wider campus. Accreditation Liaison Officers, Assurance System Coordinators and other institutional representatives responsible for preparing for the evaluation are invited to participate. HLC member institutions two years to 18 months out from a comprehensive evaluation will be invited via email.
Demonstrating Quality:
An Assurance Argument Virtual Workshop
April 27, 2023
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 will recieve an invitation to send a team.
Advancing Strategy Workshop | Register Now
May 24-25, 2023 | Tempe, AZ
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.
New! Facilitating Learning: Lead Campus-Wide Assessment
Begins May 21-23, 2023 | Tempe, AZ
This year-long program in assessment leadership provides an opportunity for those charged with campus-wide assessment responsibilities to develop skills specific to leading, guiding, and re-energizing assessment activities on their campus. Participants will plan how to facilitate student learning assessment at their institutions while also developing professionally as assessment leaders. The program kicks off with an in-person workshop in May 2023, followed by virtual activities throughout the 2023-24 academic year, culminating in a final meeting at the 2024 HLC Annual Conference.
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.
