NCCI offers various types of online education—free for anyone on your campus through your NCCI membership.

NCCI’s Power60 webinars are hour-long discussions led by higher education thought leaders. Power60s are held monthly and open to all. While there are no fees for NCCI member campuses, registration is necessary. Past topics included Cultural Humility and Intercultural Praxis, Creating a Culturally Responsive and Validated Leadership Framework, and Change Management and your Process Improvement Project.


Learning Together to Transform Higher Education

The Exchange is an online networking opportunity for NCCI members to share ideas, tools, and best practices relating to the topic of change, innovation, strategy, and/or leadership development. As a result of participating in these sessions, participants will strengthen relationships with peers, grow their knowledge, and become better equipped to transform higher education institutions as change leaders.

Exchange: Building Awareness & Engagement: How to increase the impact of your institution’s NCCI membership, Wednesday, April 17 at 1:00 pm Eastern

NCCI’s membership is institutional, which means anyone on your campus can participate in conferences, professional development opportunities, and communities of practice. But how can you get the word out about NCCI membership benefits? In this interactive session, participants will learn about the benefits of and share best practices for increasing institutional awareness and engagement with NCCI.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Explain the benefits of NCCI membership to colleagues.
  • Increase awareness of NCCI benefits at their campus
  • Establish a campus wide network of colleagues involved in change and continuous innovation.

About the Speakers:

Mary Brackett is the Senior Director of the University of Virginia’s Organizational Excellence (OE) office. She provides leadership, support, and consulting for pan-institutional projects and the overall OE program.

Mary Byrde is the Director of Process Improvement, Accounts Payable and Supplier Data Management at Indiana University. In this role, she provides leadership, guidance and support for process improvement efforts as well as managing university supplier payments.

Leading Change in Higher Education: Virtual Workshop presented by AASCU and NCCI and sponsored by ModernThink

May 23, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Eastern

This program is sponsored by

The higher education environment continues to evolve in new and often unpredictable ways. The challenges are varied and constantly evolving, from the changing landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion to the declining enrollments and corresponding budget realignments and waning public support for higher education. Leaders must be prepared to lead in this unsettling environment and continue to move their institutions forward. It is more important now than ever that higher education leaders have the tools they need to drive proactive and strategic change on campus. This virtual workshop will highlight the Change Leadership Toolkit (CLT), a step-by-step, research-based guidebook for leaders engaged in projects that touch multiple departments, divisions, or units and require deep and meaningful changes to policies, procedures, norms, and cultures. The CLT was developed by Susan Elrod, Adrianna Kezar, and Angel de Jesus Gonzalez and published by the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. The benefits of participation in this program include:

  • Identify your own leadership role and agency in leading change at your institution.
  • Gain practical tools for immediate use in your daily work.
  • Understand change context, change levers, and change leader moves that effect meaningful and sustained change.
  • Explore case studies from leaders who used the Change Leadership Toolkit.
  • Connect with colleagues leading change at their institutions.