Strategic Academic Leadership: Creating a Shared Vision
- Build capability for creating a shared academic vision through collaborative leadership practices in a global educational context;
- Evaluate research-based models for strategic academic leadership and cultural change;
- Discuss best practices in organizational strategy development and execution in complex educational environments;
- Determine strategies for building synergy among diverse constituencies in the decentralized academic environment;
- Identify opportunities to leverage leadership strengths and developing cross-boundary teaming in relation to current role and future interests
- Examine specific issues and dilemmas facing academic leadership through case studies.
Overview of Leadership Practices and Organizational Culture in Higher Education
- Discuss the application of contemporary leadership theories, models, and practices to the higher education environment;
- Assess the role of culture within decentralized academic settings based on research findings;
- Evaluate strategies for cultural change in higher education in terms of barriers and opportunities;
- Discuss strategies for enhancing departmental climate and surmounting behavioral and organizational barriers;
- Identify evolving best practices in educational leadership in a post-pandemic world.
Building Diversity Capability and Strategic Diversity Competencies: The Leader’s Role
- Discuss the relation of key DEI constructs to organizational capability and performance;
- Identify the impact of strategic global diversity competencies on institutional goals;
- Discuss prominent definitions of cultural/intercultural competence and ways to advance diversity capability;
- Identify strategies to build consensus around diversity objectives and overcome internal resistance;
- Discuss stages in diversity strategic planning and the specific capabilities of an institutional diversity audit;
- Evaluate emerging DEI practices in higher education and strategies for overcoming diversity resistance
- Develop concrete strategies for overcoming barriers to inclusion and strengthening DEI capability in academic settings.
Higher Education in the Post-Pandemic World: Changing Priorities and Practices
- Evaluate the impact of major disruptive forces due to the pandemic on higher education
- Discuss the effects of remote work, the great resignation, and technology innovation on workforce strategies
- Identify strategies for mitigating the impact of reduced funding and budgetary constraints
- Evaluate models for a winning faculty workforce that address contingent faculty practices
- Identify concrete strategies to enhance faculty diversity and build a diverse talent pipeline
Change Leadership in Higher Education
- Identify research-based change leadership models in higher education and the applicability of these models to different institutional settings
- Discuss leading-edge approaches to culture change in higher education
- Discuss alignment between the institution’s change strategy model and its execution
- Identify the constituencies, resources, and partnerships necessary to support change processes.
- Determine timing, scalability, stakeholder analysis, and other key factors in the change process.
The Business of Higher Education: Finance and Budgeting
- Discuss key operating assumptions and dependencies behind financial data;
- Analyze the connection between fiscal implications and human capital strategy;
- Determine complexities related to enrollment projections, tuition revenue, and related factors;
- Assess the return on investment (ROI) of talent strategies and solutions;
- Create compelling narratives incorporating financial information to achieve strategic goals.
Leading-Edge Talent Practices in Recruiting, Hiring, and Orienting Faculty and Staff
- Develop a comprehensive talent strategy from sourcing to hiring to onboarding to ensure job satisfaction and retention
- Assess the key process-based components of the sourcing, hiring, and interview process to ensure procedural equity
- Develop a differentiated workforce talent approach based upon roles/responsibilities
- Evaluate leading-edge strategies for building diverse, qualified applicant pools
- Determine effectiveness of retention processes
Strategic Talent Management and Talent Sustainability in Higher Education
- Discuss the benefits of an integrated approach to talent management in relation to educational goals;
- Evaluate emerging human capital theories, issues, and constructs in relation to talent development and sustainability;
- Discuss key talent practices in higher education that strengthen career progression and enhance well-being including professional development, mentorship, and work/life strategies;
- Identify the changing competencies needed for agility in talent practices;
- Assess key DEI strategies in the talent equation;
- Discuss emerging technology-based/social media talent practices.
Inclusive Pedagogy
- Discuss prominent approaches to inclusive classroom pedagogy;
- Evaluate the impact of diverse learning styles on pedagogical approaches;
- Discuss ways to enhance student identity development;
- Identify strategies for addressing classroom challenges to diversity;
- Enhancing curricular foci and community engagement in relation to diversity and inclusion;
- Creating opportunities for intergroup learning and dialogue.
Strategic Conflict Resolution and Management
- Recognize the organizational, structural and behavioral causes of conflict in academic settings;
- Analyze interests and assess sources/types of power and influence;
- Develop strategies for working with different constituencies including executives, faculty, staff, and students;
- Deploy effective communication strategies that defuse difficult situations;
- Determine strategies for resolution based on civility and collegiality in an academic environment.
Leaders as Entrepreneurial Change Agents
- Identify opportunities for exercising innovation leadership and entrepreneurialism;
- Assess drivers of change that make innovation leadership necessary in the current post-pandemic environment;
- Understand specific challenges presented by academic capitalism in relation to institutional strategy and mission;
- Determine/assess strategies that foster innovative change in academic settings.