Leadership Development and Professional Development

The Frye Leadership Institute offers a unique leadership development opportunity and is designed to develop the next generation of higher education leaders emerging from IT and library backgrounds.

From May 31 to June 11, 2009, participants will gather at Emory University for an intensive residential experience that exposes them to higher education leaders and luminaries from around the country. A significant amount of personal and professional growth results from the networking and group exercises that bring a diverse set of international participants together to share, explore, and learn. Presentations are intermixed with case studies, brainstorming, role-playing, problem solving, and reflection. In this dynamic program Frye helps participants develop:

In November of 2006, Brian Hawkins, EDUCAUSE President, announced his plans to retire from the presidency of EDUCAUSE at the end of the 2007•2008 academic year. At the 2007 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, he was asked to share the important lessons he has learned in his nearly 40-year career in higher education regarding management, leadership, and professional life. In this 42-minute podcast of that address, entitled "Learning To Drive (and Other Lessons Learned Along the Way)", he discusses issues including personnel management, professional development, and how to map a course for good leadership and a successful career.

 

Part of my responsibilities at EDUCAUSE include oversight of our programs in IT Management and Leadership development.  Early in March, EDUCAUSE's Professional Development advisory committee will be meeting to review, among other things, the kinds of management and leadership development programming and resources that EDUCAUSE offers, and to discuss the needs of our community. The committee will make recommendations to the association about future EDUCAUSE efforts in this area.

I am anxious to hear from members of our higher ed IT community about what kinds of professional development opportunities you think are important, in particular in the area  of developing new managers and leaders.  You can learn about some what we already offer by viewing this matrix.

Some things to think about:

• What kinds of professional development programs do you find most valuable?
• What doesn't EDUCAUSE do in this space that you think we should be doing?
• Would you like to see more activities that are online/virtual?  F2F?  Why?
  

Perspectives from aspiring managers and leaders as well as from those who are now playing the role of mentor to younger staff are most welcome!  I look forward to any comments and dialogue.  Your thoughts will be shared with our committee at the March meeting.

Cultivating Careers: Professional Development for Campus IT, a new EDUCAUSE e-book, provides an overview of practices for mentoring the next generation of IT leaders in higher education. Hear audio interviews with current leaders in the industry about how they got to where they are today. Cultivating Careers is available online in PDF and HTML. It can be viewed in its entirety or chapter by chapter at no charge.

This 50 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled We Value Leadership Throughout Our Organization.

This 50 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Developing Professional Leaders.

When I saw that John Moore, Shelli Fowler and Anne Moore from Virginia Tech (VT) were making a presentation at the conference I was so happy that I could meet more online friends and colleagues face to face. John, Shelli and Anne presented the third of a series of synchronous online events we called Educating the Net Generation Webinar Series and the third was titled "Faculty Development for the Net Generation". These live webinars were attended by participants from 14 universities across Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. At one point we had 230+ people online simultaneously and the series reached over 500 people. These sort of live online events, where more than one location have numbers of people in attendance, are called Multiple Venue Presentations (MVPs) and I had to develop some new ways to manage the participation and interactivity.