Thursday, January 28, 2027
2:00 – 3:15 pm ET

Reduce Risk & Build Healthier Organizational Culture

Student organization misconduct is rarely just about one incident. When underlying organizational norms, leadership practices, and traditions go unexamined, the same problems can resurface year after year. Institutions need an approach to accountability that goes beyond individual consequences to address the organizational culture driving behavior, turning misconduct into an opportunity for lasting change.

Join us on January 28, 2027, as our seasoned presenter shares a practical framework for determining organizational responsibility, coordinating campus partners, and guiding student organizations toward meaningful improvement. Learn how to move beyond reactive conduct responses to strengthen leadership, reduce repeat misconduct, and build healthier organizational cultures. By connecting student conduct, organizational advising, and leadership development, this session will help you address not only what happened, but why it happened and what must change.

Explore strategies for setting clearer expectations, promoting consistent processes, and achieving outcomes that reinforce institutional standards while preserving student autonomy, belonging and engagement. Discover how to transform organizational accountability from a disciplinary obligation into a powerful opportunity to develop student leaders; strengthen organizational culture; and foster a safer, healthier campus community.

Topics Covered

Leave the webinar prepared with strategies to confidently:

• Distinguish individual misconduct from organizational responsibility.
• Communicate clear, consistent institutional expectations for student organizations.
• Coordinate a fair and transparent organizational conduct process through investigations that consider both the incident and the organizational conditions that contributed to it.
• Identify organizational practices and cultural norms that contribute to misconduct.
• Develop outcomes that address harm, strengthen leadership practices, reduce future misconduct and require organizational improvement.
• Assess whether organizational behavior changes through officer transitions, advising practices, and recognition requirements following the conduct process.
  

Presenter

Dr. James McGhee serves as Vice President for Student Affairs at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dr. McGhee’s experience with student organization accountability includes both campus leadership and national volunteer service and his approach connects clear expectations with education, organizational improvement, and meaningful follow-through.
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Invite your entire team for one low price!

• Live 75-minute online session with carefully selected expert(s)
  
• Unlimited access for your entire team to view webinar recording for two years (available after live event)
• Materials for your team (handouts, discussion questions, etc.)
• Certificate of completion for each participant
  

Instructions for live webinar access for your group are provided to you immediately upon checkout. Instructions for accessing the on-demand recording will be emailed to you approximately 24 hours following the live webinar. Feel free to contact us at info@paper-clip.com or 1-866-295-0505 with any questions. For information about licensing this webinar for unlimited distribution on your institution’s internal network/server, email info@paper-clip.com.

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