Our All-Access Membership to Academic Impressions (AI) provides all members of the UNLV community with access to online training, tools and resources for professional, leadership, and personal development. Sign up for your AI account today.
In today’s higher education environment, continuous learning is an expectation not only of our students but also of our faculty and staff. We’re excited to offer Academic Impressions as a resource to support our community members’ goals for professional development, career advancement, and personal growth.
Chris L. Heavey, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Provost
Overview
Academic Impressions (AI) All-Access Membership offers a comprehensive library of resources to learn best practices on a wide variety of topics in higher education and receive skills-based training for leadership and personal development. The online library features training, tools, and resources across a spectrum of learning domains to support different styles of learning.
Logging into Academic Impressions
All members of the UNLV community may log into Academic Impressions using their ACE account credentials.
Features
Membership to Academic Impressions provides access to hundreds of on-demand articles, survey reports, whitepapers, and research briefs along with video presentations, templates, and job aids that reflect trends and innovations in higher education. Use them to stay up to date or to dive deep into topics of interest. AI membership also offers a variety of leadership and personal development resources.
Professional Development
Learn best practices, replicable models, and practical solutions for pressing issues in higher education such as enrollment management, student success, diversity and inclusion, fundraising, and more.
Leadership Development
Expand your capacity to lead groups or projects by learning how to build better teams, become more collaborative, manage change, and more.
Personal Development
Become more effective in your role by learning tools and strategies for communication, decision-making, conflict resolution, time management, and more.
Top Picks
Below is a list of content by subject area selected specifically for UNLV faculty, staff, and administrators. Click on a subject area to expand and view the options. Before following a link, please log into Academic Impressions using the single sign-on link above.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Inclusive teaching
- Inclusive Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Mindset and Continual Practice (Virtual Training Recording)
- Anti-racist pedagogy
- Recruiting, hiring, retaining diverse faculty
- Diverse Hiring in Higher Education: Resources for Search Committees (Short Lesson)
- Improving Faculty of Color Retention Efforts in Your Department (Virtual Training Recording)
- Recruiting for Diversity: A Training for Academic Search Committees (Webcast Recording)
- Overcoming the Effects of White Privilege for More Equitable Search Processes (Webcast Recording)
- Overcoming social justice fatigue
- Overcoming Social Justice Fatigue for Diversity and Inclusion Professionals (Webcast Recording)
- Creating equitable and inclusive meetings
- Creating Equitable and Inclusive Meetings (Webcast Recording)
- Facilitating Culturally Inclusive Meetings (Webcast Recording)
- Microaggressions: what are they and how to address them
- Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions (Short Lesson)
- Is It a Microaggression? (Article)
- Creating Safe Spaces for Students by Taking ACTION Against Microaggressions (Webcast Recording)
- Classroom Civility:
- Mentoring underrepresented faculty
- Best Practices in Designing Mentoring Programs for Early Career Faculty (Webcast Recording)
- Disability and working in higher ed
- Supporting Neurodiverse and Accessible Learning Outside of the Classroom (Webcast Recording)
- Supporting Neurodiversity in the Classroom (Short Lesson)
Online teaching
- Building inclusive pedagogy online
- Building Inclusive Pedagogy Online (Webcast Recording)
- Responding to Microaggressions in Online Learning Environments During a Pandemic (Article)
- Moving a face-to-face class to online environment—switching modalities
- Making Your Online Course Accessible to All Learners (Webcast Recording)
- Ensuring Quality in Online Instruction (Webcast Recording)
- Checklist: Preparing Adjunct Faculty to Teach Online (Article)
- Principles for effective online teaching
- Online Teaching Effectiveness (Short Lesson)
- Strategies to Create More Engaging Online Courses (Virtual Training Recording)
- Making Your Online Courses More Experiential (Webcast Recording)
- Peer mentors and online teaching
- Adapt Your In-Person Peer Mentor Program for a Virtual Environment (Live Webcast | Recording Available by October 5, 2020)
Title IX
- New federal regulations and implementation on campus
- Review of the Title IX Coordinator Role (Virtual Workshop Recording)
- Responding to Complaints of Sexual Harassment and Terminology Definitions (Virtual Workshop Recording)
- The Investigative Process (Virtual Workshop Recording)
- Hearings and Sanctions (Virtual Workshop Recording)
- The Appeal Process (Virtual Workshop Recording)
- Ongoing Training Needs for Investigators and Decision Makers (Virtual Workshop Recording)
- Reporting requirements
- The 5 Stages of Preparing Your Title IX Investigative Report (Live Virtual Training: Recording Available by October 23, 2020)
- Overcoming bias in your Title IX investigative process
- Overcoming Bias in Your Title IX Investigative Process (Webcast Recording)
- Title IX compliance
- Get Up to Speed on Title IX Compliance: This suite of trainings includes Title IX Compliance resources for stakeholders across campus.
Working remotely
- Managing your team
- Leading in a remote environment
- Cultivating Your Unique Leadership Skills in this New Environment (Virtual Workshop Recording)
Leadership/leadership development
- Career progression
- Finding the Right Career Fit as a Woman in Higher Education | Live Webcast | December 10, 2020 | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Eastern | Recording Available by December 23, 2020
- Cultivating a network of mentors and collaborators
- Advance Your Career with a Personal Board of Directors (Webcast Recording)
- Leadership coaching
- Leaders as Coaches: Improving Employee and Team Performance (Webcast Recording)
- Coaching in Supervision (Short Lesson)
- Fundraising
- Fundraising for New Department Chairs (Webcast Recording)
- Five Things Department Chairs Need to Know About Fundraising (Article)
- Leadership practices
- Managing Change as a Department Chair: 5 Traps to Avoid (Webcast Recording)
- Department Chairs: Maximize Your Productivity By Cultivating Your Academic Staff (Webcast Recording)
- Managing Up, Down, and Across (Virtual Training Recording)
- Four Leadership Practices for New or Aspiring Deans (Webcast Recording)
- Navigating Challenges of Academic Leadership (video course)
- 7 Ways Academic Leaders Can Cultivate Creativity (article)
- Managing difficult faculty.
- Managing Difficult Faculty (Webcast Recording)
- Practical Advice for Dealing with Difficult Faculty Colleagues (Article)
- Supporting adjunct faculty
- Supporting Adjunct Faculty: A Training for Department Chairs (Webcast Recording)
- Developing and Evaluating Adjunct Faculty (Article)
- The 5 Forms of Support Your Adjunct Faculty Need (Article)
Communication
- How to engage in healthy conflict
- Learning to Lead Through Conflict (Webcast Recording)
- How to give feedback
- The Art and Practice of Giving and Receiving Feedback (Webcast Recording)
- Difficult conversations
- The Art and Practice of Giving and Receiving Feedback (Webcast Recording)
- Healthy Dialogue Dashboard (Job Aid)
Academic faculty resources
- Time management: aligning your time with your priorities
Chair resources
- What Every Academic Chair Needs to Know
- Your First Year as Department Chair: Building Trust, Communication, and Community
- Supporting Adjunct Faculty: A Training for Department Chairs
- Department Chairs: Maximize Your Productivity By Cultivating Your Academic Staff
- Managing Difficult Faculty
- Managing Change as a Department Chair: 5 Traps to Avoid
- Building a More Strategic Budget for Your Academic Department Webcast Recording
- Evaluating Online Faculty
- Leadership Training for Department Chairs
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- Five Things Department Chairs Need to Know About Fundraising
- Departmental Budget Training for Faculty Webcast Recording
- Supporting Mid-Career Faculty Webcast Recording
Health and wellness
- Work/life balance
- Upgrading Your Self-Care During the COVID Crisis (Webcast Recording)
Other timely and relevant topics
- Core conversations: protecting your boundaries and well-being
- Manage Your Emotional Labor in the Workplace (Virtual Training Recording | Available October 1, 2020)
- Increasing Emotional Intelligence by Identifying Your Triggers (Webcast Recording)
- Strategic planning during uncertainty and change
- How Ready Are You to Implement Your Strategic Plan? (Short Lesson)
- Fail Fast and Fail Forward: How Agile Planning Can Move You Forward During Chaos (Webcast Recording)
- The 4 Stages of Change (Short Lesson)
- Leading Through Change in Higher Education (Webcast Recording)
- Resilience
- Shift Your Mindset to Build Resilience (Webcast Recording)
- Building Resilience with Your Team During Uncertain Times (Webcast Recording)
- Building Resilience During and After the Pandemic (Virtual Trainings Recording)
Contacts
If you have any questions about member resources, please contact our campus administrator:
Tondra De, Chief of Staff, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
Email: tondra.de@unlv.edu
Phone: 702-895-0730
For help signing up for your account or other technical questions, please reach out to our account manager:
Roshaon Tytar, Business Office Manager, Academic Impressions
Email: roshaon@academicimpressions.com
Phone: 720-988-1241