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The New Student ‘Swirl’
ON DEMAND: The student journey is no longer linear. Transfer students, stop-outs, adult learners, dual-enrollment participants, and certificate seekers are reshaping enrollment patterns and challenging long-held assumptions about how students move through higher education. Learn more about what’s working, what’s changing, and how colleges and universities can better serve today’s increasingly mobile learners. With support from InsideTrack. Watch on demand.
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The Chronicle’s Women Leading Change Program
September 2026. The Chronicle has collaborated with Strategic Imagination to create a groundbreaking virtual leadership series that will provide critical context, creative strategies, and guided exercises for women in leadership roles across academe. Our program tracks are designed to target the areas most important to women in today’s tumultuous higher-ed landscape, with flexibility to sign up for just one day or an All-Access series.
The Chronicle’s Higher-Education Leadership Institute
October 2026. Higher education is going through seismic change, and leaders are faced with new internal and external challenges every day. This virtual workshop series will provide administrative leaders with the skills to effectively enhance institutional success and navigate shared governance by learning how to make tough decisions, lead with resiliency, and build high-performing teams.
The Chronicle’s Higher-Education Mental-Health Forum
October 2026. Join us for a transformative half-day of professional development featuring interactive sessions designed to address the growing challenges that students, faculty, and staff are facing on college campuses. Through engaging discussions and practical strategies, campus leaders will gain valuable insights to better support student well-being and foster productive mindsets.