American Association of State
Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
http://www.aascu.org/
The Millennium Leadership Institute
The four-day institute strengthens the preparation and eligibility of
persons traditionally underrepresented in the leadership of higher
education for the position of college or university president or
chancellor. The initiative consists of a professional development
institute followed by a yearlong mentoring component. Approximately 30
participants each year.
Summer Council of Presidents
The program addresses ways presidents can strengthen their influence as
leaders and increase the significance of their institutions for students
and communities. It opens with a focus on the president as leader and
then moves on to discussions of the partnership with the executive team
and the governing board.
New Presidents’ Academy
This five-day program for newly appointed, first-time member presidents
explores leadership issues common to presidents, including public
relations and the president’s role in academic and student
leadership. Experienced presidents are on hand to serve as mentors to
the new presidents. Approximately 50
participants, balanced between new and experienced presidents.
Association of Governing Boards
(AGB)
http://www.agb.org/
Institute for Board Chairs and Presidents of Independent
Institutions
At this institute, board chairs and presidents discover new and better
ways to collaborate. Participants develop a specific plan that addresses
their institution’s unique governance needs.
Council of Graduate Schools
(CGS)
http://www.cgsnet.org/
New Deans’ Institute
This program is tailored to orient new deans, including graduate deans,
associate and assistant deans, and other faculty and staff from
colleges, universities, and associations. The institute also promotes
professional networking among participants. Topics include: Providing
Competitive Graduate Student Support in a Changing Environment; Race,
Ethnicity, and Effective Mentoring; Ethical Decision Making in Graduate
Administration; and Initiating Professional Master’s Programs:
Lessons Learned.
Council of Independent Colleges
(CIC)
http://www.cic.org/
CAO Institute
At the annual meeting of chief academic officers of independent colleges
and universities, CIC runs a workshop for newly appointed officers.
Institute goals include: learning the effective use of resources to
promote educational excellence; understanding strategies to make the
case for the value of liberal arts education to prospective students and
their parents; and promoting educational excellence by applying the
findings of educational research and the experiences of colleagues to
strengthen curricular and cocurricular offerings.
Presidents’ Institute
The Presidents’ Institute is an annual meeting for presidents of
independent colleges and universities. The institute focuses on
presidential leadership in response to the challenges of a changing
world. Dimensions of the changing world explored include the evolving
economic and financial climate, the technological influences on the new
student generation, and the president’s role in communicating
these changes and in setting an institution on course for success.
New Presidents Workshop
Held just before CIC’s annual Presidents’ Institute, this
day-and-a-half, pre-conference workshop targets presidents of
independent colleges who are in their first or second year. The workshop
focuses on the needs of leaders of smaller private colleges and
universities and affords opportunities for new presidents (and their
spouses) to meet and share ideas with one another. Topics include: The
Presidency: Striving for Success; Working with the Board; Financial
Fundamentals for the Small College/University: Opportunities or
Obstacles; and The President and Development: Myths and Realities.
Department and Division Chair Workshop
To assist independent colleges and universities in strengthening
leadership by department and division chairs, the Council of Independent
Colleges offers a series of workshops for both experienced and new
chairs. The workshops focus on the distinctive challenges of department
leadership in small and medium-sized private colleges and universities.
Topics include: student recruitment and retention; personnel and legal
issues; and working with the chief academic officer.
Committee on Institutional
Cooperation (CIC)
http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/
Big Ten Universities and the University of Chicago
The Academic Leadership Program (ALP)
The Academic Leadership Program is designed to develop the leadership
and managerial skills of faculty on CIC campuses who have demonstrated
exceptional ability and administrative promise. There are three seminars
held each year. Sample topics include:Leadership and Human Resources;
Long Range Planning and Budgeting; and The Future University: Motivating
Change.
Department Executive Officer (DEO) Program
CIC initiated an annual program of leadership development opportunities
for department heads and chairs. Components of the program include
characteristics of “top 10” departments, mentoring and
retention of faculty, time and stress management, survival skills for
administrators, departmental fund raising, and problem solving.
Gannon Center for Women
and Leadership
http://www.luc.edu/orgs/gannon/
Annual March Conference
This single-day conference focuses on a set of topics specifically of
interest to women leaders that encourages the process of raising
consciousness, education, and working for social change.
Harvard
Graduate School of Education
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/highered/
MLE Leading Transformation and Change
MLE is a two-week program designed for skilled, experienced
administrators—deans and directors, provosts and vice
presidents—who will help their institutions adapt to a changing
future. Topics include case studies of a private institution that
delivers programs in multiple out-of-state locations, a public
university that tries to learn from its “market,” and a
private university that must decide whether to create a for-profit
subsidiary.
Management Development Program (MDP)
MDP is designed for deans, directors, and other administrators to gain
useful ideas about critical management issues including budgeting, human
resource management, planning, and effective leadership.
Institute for Educational Management (IEM)
IEM is designed for the most senior-level administrators. It examines
critical leadership issues at colleges and universities; effective
approaches to balancing internal and external leadership roles; leading
in a changing context; articulating a powerful vision for your
institution; and enlisting others in that vision.
The Harvard Seminar for New Presidents
The seminar provides new, first-time presidents with a practical
conceptual orientation to the presidency. It familiarizes new presidents
with the opportunities and hazards they will likely face, and prepares
them to respond to the multiple responsibilities and constituencies of
their new office.
Higher Education Resource Service (HERS) Mid-America
The Summer Institute
for Women in Higher Education Administration
http://www.brynmawr.edu/summerinstitute
Each year approximately 75-80 women administrators and faculty from the
United States, Canada, and overseas attend this four-week residential
program on the Bryn Mawr College campus. Areas of focus include academic
environment, external environment, institutional environment,
professional development, and informal curriculum.
HERS
New England Management Institute for Women in Higher Education
http://www.wellesley.edu/WCW/Hers/Frm_MIFWIHE.htm
This institute offers professional management training for women
administrators and faculty through an integrated series of five weekend
seminars conducted October through April at Wellesley College. Areas of
focus include:planning and fiscal management, managing in organizations,
and professional development.
NACWAA/HERS Institute for Administrative Advancement
This week-long residential program, held in June on the Bryn Mawr
College campus, offers women coaches and athletic administrators
intensive training in athletic administration. Cosponsored with the
National Association for Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators.
League for Innovation in the
Community College
http://www.league.org/
Executive Leadership Institute (ELI)
The Institute provides the opportunity for potential community college
presidents, or those in transition, to review their abilities and
interests, refine their skills, and participate in discussions on
leadership with outstanding community college leaders from North
America. ELI is sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community
College in cooperation with The University of Texas at Austin, Cornell
University, and the American Association of Community Colleges.
National Association of
College and University Business Officers (NACUBO)
http:// www.nacubo.org/
New Business Officer Program
The New Business Officer Program is specifically designed for
individuals who have recently assumed the role of chief
financial/business officer. The program covers the full range of issues
that a CFO faces while helping lead an institution through the
complexities of running a campus.
National Association of Student
Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)
http://www.nasfaa.org/
NASFAA Leadership Conference
The NASFAA Leadership Conference is an annual program designed primarily
for individuals in leadership positions or about to assume such
positions in student financial aid.
National Hispana Leadership
Institute (NHLI)
http://www.nhli.org/
NHLI Leadership Institute
This leadership institute for Hispanic women complements and builds upon
other training programs by integrating personal growth with formal
courses of study. The dynamic curriculum allows participants to put
their talents into action through emphasis on personal strengths and
management of personal weaknesses. Participants are taught to reflect on
themselves so that they may look ahead with renewed and expanded
perspectives. By examining how, as Hispanics and women, they have
historically looked at community issues, they prepare to reach out and
build bridges with other groups of society. The program is not
specifically geared toward women in higher education.
