This page contains links to webinars provided by our Collaborative Partners for the benefit of our campuses as well as other resources. The page will be updated throughout the year as new webinars are held. You can learn more about our NCICU Collaborative Partners and see the entire list of partners here.
“Adult Learners & Higher Ed Marketing in 2025”
October 23, 2025
As the demographic cliff looms, institutions are focused on reaching adult learners. But do we really know what adults want and need in 2025? VisionPoint Marketing recently conducted a nationwide study of more than 1,000 adult learners to better understand what motivates them, what holds them back, and how institutions can better reach and serve them. Join our webinar to hear timely, actionable insights about adult learner mindsets, media habits, and enrollment decision drivers. Learn to reframe messaging, sharpen targeting, and better support adult learners in ways that meet their needs and earn their trust.
“Getting a Bigger Bang for Your MarComm Buck”
October 16, 2025
This webinar is designed specifically for NCICU institutions and will provide practical strategies to help you maximize the impact of your marketing resources. This session focused on how to achieve real results with limited resources. This presentation shows you how to:
- Apply the 5Ps + 1R framework to prioritize what matters most.
- Say “no” to low-value tasks and “yes” to mission-driven initiatives.
- Use human-centered storytelling to deepen engagement and inspire action.
- Repurpose content across multiple platforms to extend reach and strengthen ROI.
- Evaluate and elevate your marcomm strategy with tools and self-assessments.
“Health Insurance Costs are Skyrocketing: How to Reign them In”
September 18, 2025
Healthcare costs continue to outpace budgets, creating a significant challenge for midsize employers.
With medical inflation hovering between 8% and 10%, combined with soaring specialty medication prices and the rising use of GLP-1 treatments, it’s critical for employers to take action. Now more than ever, developing a strategic approach to health benefits is essential for sustainability and success.
Industry experts at McGriff unveil their Top 10 Health Plan Guardrails designed to empower employers to effectively manage long-term costs.
“The Art of the Possible with Generative AI in Higher Education”
March 26, 2025
Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming the landscape of higher education, unlocking new opportunities for personalized learning, research acceleration, and operational efficiency. However, many institutions struggle with where to begin, how to scale, and how to ensure responsible AI adoption.
This webinar provides an in-depth look at the current state of GenAI in higher education, its most impactful use cases, and a roadmap for enabling AI across North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities.
Key Topics:
- The State of GenAI in Higher Education – Understanding the trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping AI adoption.
- Top Use Cases for Higher Education – Real-world applications of GenAI for faculty, students, administrators, IT teams, and alumni relations.
- Enabling AI Across NCICU – Strategies for implementing AI responsibly, aligning AI with institutional goals, and leveraging cloud and data infrastructure to support AI initiatives.
Link to Webinar Presentation Passcode: JqrnNTP7
“Taking the Uncertainty Out of Medicare”
Held February 26, 2025
This webinar addresses the following:
Understanding how original Medicare coverage works:
- Benefits and costs
- The two big problems with Medicare and how to fix them
Understanding the difference between
- Original Medicare (Parts A and B)
- Medicare Supplement/Medigap
- Part D drug plans
- Medicare Advantage plans – Part C
Individual Health Insurance One-Pager
Webinar Slides
McGriff and Marsh McLennan Agency Overview
“2025 Trends in Property & Casualty and Employee Benefits”
Held February 25, 2025
A discussion on important topics and trends of 2025 in both the Property & Casualty and Employee Benefits market.
In the Employee Benefits Market Outlook, experts provide insights on:
- Declining health in the U.S is driving up the cost of employee health plan spending
- How the state of healthcare is deteriorating, despite advances in technology
- Top drug trends
- How the new Legislation may be affecting you and your employees
In the Property & Casualty Market Outlook, experts provide insights on:
- Market Update & Rate Forecasts
- Liability: Coverage continues to be challenging due to the increased cost of claims
- Sexual Abuse and Molestation continues to be a challenge due to the extension of reviver statutes in many states
- Antitrust Coverage is becoming problematic due to multiple class action claims against higher education institutions.
- How can you combat the drastic property value increases within your insurance program?
Webinar Recording: Password: gMPdp3x*
Link to Presentation
Link to Employee Benefits Market Outlook
Link to Property and Casualty Market Outlook
“Conversational AI to Capture the Student Voice”
Held October 22, 2024
EdSights and High Point University will showcase how AI technology is being used to enhance student success and retention. You’ll learn how NCICU institutions are utilizing EdSights’ conversational AI to amplify the Student Voice and offer personalized support, with significant improvements in retention outcomes.
Panelist:
Andy Bills, Senior Vice President for Career and Professional Development, Student Success, Retention, and Executive Education, High Point University
Link to Webinar Presentation
Link to Slide Deck
“PTaaS with InterVision, Powered by RedSpy3605”
Held August 1, 2024
Objectives:
- Discover expert security strategies against known bad actors, tactics, and techniques
- Learn how to test the security in place – testing each layer of security
- Explore how you can approach security testing
Link to Webinar Presentation Passcode: 4NiWkG3w
“Student Loan Payment & Forgiveness and Life/LTC Benefits”
April 4, 2024
Some highlights of the webinar will included:
- How to improve the financial wellness of your people, with adding little work to your plate, and improve retention by upwards of 10%+?
- How to add Student Loan Payment & Forgiveness Planning for Staff, Faculty, & their Families as well as a Permanent Life and Long Term Care as a benefit.
- NCICU Members have added these benefits and seen over $5 Million in potential forgiveness for their Staff & Faculty.
“High-Impact Student Success Intervention Strategies for NCICU”
Held March 28, 2024
VP for Student Success at Pharos, Rachel Phillips-Buck, and Mars Hill University’s Sr Director of Student Persistence, Lisa Wachtman, discussed High-Impact Student Success Intervention Strategies.
“NCICU and Sqwire Collaborative Partnership Informational Webinar”
February 2024
NCICU is excited to announce a new collaborative partnership agreement with Sqwire, an organization that has created a financial wellness and literacy platform for students as well as for campus employees. As introduced to NCICU by two of our Presidents during a recent webinar with CEO, Danijel Velicki and Jeff Stasko, SVP of Product, we learned about Sqwire’s analysis of data and guidance from higher ed faculty, leaders, and students nationally which led Sqwire to create targeted financial wellness content and a learning environment optimized for today’s students. An Employee Benefit platform is also part of the program and both are being offered at a 25% discount on the first year by virtue of your campus being an NCICU institution.
“NCICU and Daly Seven Collaborative Partnership Informational Webinar”
November 8, 2023
A webinar to kick off the partnership between NCICU and Daly Seven. The primary focus of the partnership is to provide NCICU-affiliated travelers with an array of benefits. Travel support will be at the forefront of this initiative, with NCICU campuses gaining access to dedicated travel services that simplify their journeys. Another significant advantage of this partnership is the preferred hotel rates offered by Daly Seven Hotels to NCICU campuses. These specially negotiated rates will be available at all of Daly Seven Hotels properties across North Carolina and beyond. www.dalyseven.com/ncicu
Link to Webinar Presentation: NCICU – D7 Presentation
“SECURE 2.0 – Opportunities, Questions and What’s Next”
July 20, 2023
SECURE 2.0 passed late in 2022; it’s the most comprehensive retirement plan legislation that’s been passed in yearx. Join this webinar to learn more about the provisions, the effective date of certain requirements, what portions are optional, how to best navigate best practices related to the legislation and what provisions could be most impactful to your 403(b) plan participants.
Link to Webinar Presentation: SageView SECURE 2.0 Presentation
“EPA Brownfield Grant Opportunities for Higher Education – Incorporation Into Your Master Plan”
July 12, 2023
A Brownfield is a property where the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. From a campus perspective, a brownfield may be the defunct dry cleaner across the street, the closed gas station on the corner, the adjacent manufacturing facility, or the property gifted to the university.
Grant Types Available to Colleges:
- Assessment (< $500,000)
- Cleanup (<$650,000)
- Revolving Loan Fund (<$1M)
- Multipurpose (<$800,000)
- Job Training (< $500,000)
The Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2018 (BUILD ACT) expands program eligibility to non-profit organizations for Assessment grants, increased funding for cleanup grants and remediation activities. A variety of federal, state and local tax incentives and credits allows a brownfield developer to use resources normally spent on taxes for other purposes. Tax increment financing, enterprise zone tax credits, economic development credits, job creation tax credits, and historical preservation credits are all examples of tax incentives that can facilitate brownfields redevelopment.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides a historic $1.2 B investment into USA EPA Brownfield project grants. Of the grant funding awarded by EPA each year, on average only 1 % typically goes to the higher education sector—not because of bias, but because of lack of interaction and use of the program by the higher education sector.
Link to Webinar: https://hrpassociates-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/p/david_pramanik/ERu0uLJx-hFMnxlQma54_EYBmg7zqUpNJmeu76QIcljF-Q?e=GPB6mk
“A Proactive Approach to Residence Hall Wi-Fi”
January 26, 2023
Gen Z well knows the benefit, convenience, and flexibility that Wi-Fi brings, and their fingers are crossed that campus administrators know it, too. It’s important for campus residence hall and technology decision-makers to partner and look at both the evolving technical usage requirements of residence hall Wi-Fi (multi-device support, personal area networking, IoT) and consider the specific ways incoming students rely on connectivity to live their lives. Only then can your institution design, deploy, and manage a network that delights your on-campus residents while reducing or eliminating student or family-member complaints.
Link to Webinar: https://www.apogee.us/resources/on-demand-webinar-a-proactive-approach-to-residence-hall-wi-fi/
Click Here to explore a case study at Lenoir-Rhyne that showcases how Apogee’s partnership has enhanced the student experience on their campus
“The Journey of Implementing Holistic Student Support”
Held February 23, 2023, 10-11 a.m.
A holistic approach to student support is the cornerstone to increasing your student success and impacting your retention outcomes. Join our panel of practitioners from several NCICU colleges and Universities as we discuss the challenges and successes and best practices of a student-focused model of support. View the presentation. Passcode: 9gClee*i
“Lease Standard Adoption Tips & Reminders for NCICU Members”
Held February 2, 2023
The new lease accounting standard (ASC 842) is effective for all private companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021. This means that, for most higher education institutions, the long-awaited lease standard will have to be adopted for fiscal 2023 (if you haven’t already). We understand there has been guidance and training on this topic over the last several years. However, with the task of adoption now imminent, FORVIS has developed a helpful presentation that touches on some tips and reminders related to this standard. View the presentation.
“The Property & Casualty Insurance Market and How Inflation will Impact Your Campus”
Held Tuesday, August 9, 2022
In this webinar, The IMA Higher Education team provided updates and context on the following:
- The rapidly evolving insurance marketplace, including a market update
- How Inflation has and will impact your risk management on campus
- IMA’s Complimentary Insurance Program Assessment and best practices
View the IMA webinar here
“Landscape of Student Health Insurance Plans”
June 16, 2022
Coursedog Resource Documents:
Technology-Enabled Development and Implementation of Guided Pathways Program Maps
Course Demand Analytics Lifecycle
Description: Paycor builds HR software to help empower leaders to build winning teams. Our HCM platform modernizes all aspects of people management from recruiting, onboarding, payroll, and career development. As we focus on leaders, our technology supports your goals of achieving a better streamlined HR process. This webinar will show you how PayCor can help your campus.
Date of Webinar: December 8, 2022 View the Webinar here
