UPCEA's 100th Annual Conference - Emerging Leader Track

Emerging Leader Track

Monday, March 30, 2015
3:00-4:00 PM
The Opening Door: Professional, Continuing, and Online Education Leadership's Emerging Pathway to Higher Education’s C-Suite
John LaBrie, Northeastern University
Sean Gallagher, Northeastern University
Continuing and professional education (CPE) has been thrust to the forefront of educational innovation, thus creating an opening for top CPE leaders. This presentation will explore the trends and map the growing relevance of CPE leadership roles, experiences, and skills as a pathway to chief executive roles in broader universities.
Learning outcomes:

Gain an understanding of contemporary trends in university leadership succession.
Draw upon a concise summary of sources regarding leadership trends in higher education.
Consider various attributes as they contemplate their own career paths.
Gain access to comprehensive stories of various leaders’ career paths and the corresponding attributes that contributed to their rise in university leadership.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015
3:45-4:45 PM
From Pyramids to Puzzles: Building an Empowered Administrative Team
Amy Levine, Georgetown University
Kyle Burns, Georgetown University
During this session, participants will share strategies for assessing one’s own organizational culture and implementing new strategies and tactics to align a teams’ capability with their organizational aspirations. Participants will engage in conversations covering structures, approaches and strategic management tactics.
Learning outcomes:

Understand an empowering management strategy can be in place irrespective of an organizational chart.
Use an office culture gap analysis to assess opportunities and modalities for facilitating organizational change.
Put into place staff recognition strategies while under budget constraints.
Formulate a whole-team approach to new strategic initiatives that maximize capability and interest of dedicated staff

Wednesday, April 1, 2015
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Future of Higher Education: A Paradigm in Flux
Rovy Branon, University of Washington
David Schejbal, University of Wisconsin
We will explore forces impacting higher education, from the regulation to technology to politics and the economy. Institutions that can sustainably and continuously reinvent themselves will win the future. This session will begin an important conversation about the imperative to innovate and how we must be a catalyst for change.
Learning outcomes:

Identify key factors in the higher education environment driving change.
Describe how these change agents are shifting the higher education landscape.
Discuss the barriers to facing these changes at our institutions.
Share key knowledge on overcoming these barriers with colleagues.
Develop new plans for addressing these barriers by synthesizing shared experiences.

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