Special Advanced Workshop from ACE
Leading, Managing, Supporting, and Navigating Change
"We are entering a period in which
the capacity to nourish and manage change will be one of the most
important abilities of all."
—James Duderstadt (2000),
A University for the 21st
Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, p. 35.
The American Council on Education advanced leadership workshops first
launched in 2006, are designed for academic administrators and
experienced chairs. Participants have included alumni from the national
programs, other experienced chairs and a range of administrators
including deans and provosts. In 2009 ACE will offer two advanced
workshops: Leading, Managing, Supporting and Navigating Change;
and Managing
Conflict.
These programs focus intensively on an overarching issue that affects
institutions at both the departmental and institutional levels.
Essential to the philosophy of the program is to bring together
participants from disparate structural levels to deal with issues that
affect the functioning of the whole institution in a fundamental
manner.
Like Duderstadt, we believe that the challenge presented by change is
a key issue in higher education. It affects all levels of the
institution and invites coordinated thinking and action between
participants working at different levels and with distinct professional
responsibilities. This workshop is intended to provide participants with
the opportunity to reflect on the change issues they may face and to
experiment with approaches they might apply in their professional
work.
The 2009 workshop will be held, July 15–17, 2009, in Chicago,
Illinois, at the historic Allerton Hotel, on Chicago's magic mile.
The faculty for this workshop will be ACE's veteran presenters: Susan
West Engelkemeyer, Mary Lou Higgerson, and Mark Putnam. The workshop
structure will enable participants to work in teams to learn how to
exert leadership to guide the change process. Participants will examine
to what degree is change a process that needs to be managed and to what
degree does it require support from leaders? How do all the
stakeholders, including the designated leaders manage the process?
Please direct questions about this page to:
brinda_albert@ace.nche.edu
This page last updated 8/28/2008
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