Have you been contemplating where your career path will take you next or how you can impact your institution’s success in your current leadership role? The following articles, reports, seminars, and books will help you explore innovative strategies, best practices, and influential trends that are adaptable to any type of institution or leadership position within higher education.
Whether you’re a dean, department chair, administrator, or aspiring leader, you’ll learn innovative ways to manage and enhance your productivity in your current position. Along the way, you’ll also receive strategies for creating a leadership development program that works for you and your university, and how you can implement effective leadership training sessions. Your future for success as an academic leader starts here!
Browse the following topics for resources, programs, seminars, free reports, and articles to help guide you in your academic leadership:
Academic Leadership Development
Academic Leadership Training
Mentorship
Academic Leadership Development
How can you support the professional growth of your faculty while also addressing the ever-changing needs of your university? Where do you start with academic leadership development in your school? You may start by sending individuals to conferences and workshops, or even by creating in-house professional development programs, but how do you know if it’s working? What development plan and goals do you implement to foster academic leadership that models confidence, heart, and intelligence? Although there’s not a one-size-fits-all leadership plan or template, there are numerous strategies for laying a foundation of success for academic leaders. The following articles, free reports, and products provide guidance on formulating a leadership development plan and how you can put those goals into action.
Faculty Focus articles
- Creating a Center for Professional Development and Leadership
- Making the Shift from Rhetoric to Performance
- Laying a Foundation for Success for New Academic Leaders
- Six Tips for Balancing the Chair’s Role as Teacher, Scholar, and Administrator
- Advice for New College Administrators
- Academic Leadership Development: Finding Correlations Between Teaching and Leading
Free reports
- Academic Leadership Development: How to Make a Smooth Transition from Faculty to Administrator
- Academic Leadership Qualities for Meeting Today’s Higher Education Challenges
Academic Leadership articles (paid subscription required)
- Assessing Leadership Needs
- Leadership Development: One College’s Solution
- Considerations for Meaningful and Credible Strategies Planning
- The FOCUS on Faculty Model of Crisis Leadership: Remote Leadership Support across Institutional Contexts
- Inspiring Change with Your Strategic Plan
- Assessing the Impact of Leadership Development: Part 1, The Kirkpatrick Model
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Academic Leadership Training
When it comes to higher education leadership training for academic leaders, where do you start? Whether you’re a new provost, dean, or chair, a simple orientation or training may not be enough to get you off to a successful start. But this doesn’t mean there aren’t trainings, programs, and advice that can’t guide you on the path to success as an academic leader. These best practices, simulation role-plays, and books will better equip you, as an academic leader, and offer training strategies for academic leadership programs.
With change prevalent in the higher education realm, it’s vital you stay up-to-date on your training to remain an effective and adaptable academic leader.
Faculty Focus articles:
- Handling Complaints: Advice for Academic Leaders
- Onboarding vs. Orientation: Getting New Leaders on a Path to Success
- A 10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader
- A 10-Point Survival Guide to Being, and Staying, an Academic Leader – Part 2
- Academic Leadership Qualities for Meeting Today’s Higher Education Challenges
- Laying a Foundation for Success for New Academic Leaders
- Why Your New Department Chair Needs a Coach
Academic Leader articles (paid subscription required)
- Preparing Academic Leaders Through Simulation and Role-Play
- Best Practices in Preparing Academic Leaders
- Assessing the Impact of Leadership Training, Part 2: The Holton Model
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Mentorship
Does mentorship serve a purpose in higher education? What value does it fulfill, and are there benefits? If you’ve been wondering what qualities you need to become a better mentor, and why it’s important in education, look no further. You’ll start at the beginning stages of a successful mentoring program, where you’ll learn how to provide development and clear expectations for yourself as a mentor, and others.
Even if your school has never given thought to a faculty mentoring program, many faculty members have still sought out and obtained advice or training from informal mentors on their own time. In the following resources, you’ll learn the dos and don’ts of mentorship, the benefits of being a mentor, program guidelines and tips for creating a mentorship program, and the best advice from a mentor himself.
Faculty Focus articles
- Creating an Effective Faculty Mentoring Program
- When Mentoring New Faculty, Don’t Ignore These Issues
- Online Mentorship: A Worthwhile Investment
Academic Leader articles (paid subscription required)
- Creating an Effective Mentoring Program, Part 2: Program Design Considerations
- Creating an Effective Mentoring Program, Part 3
- Creating an Effective Mentoring Program, Part 4: Mentorship Dos and Don’ts
- Creating an Effective Mentoring Program, Part 5: Mentee Dos and Don’ts
- Creating an Effective Mentoring Program, Part 6: Mentoring Program Guidelines and Tips
- Creating an Effective Mentoring Program, Part 7: Developing a Culture of Mentoring Excellence
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