Institute Theme Areas

Administrators as agents of change

  • Are they part of the solution or part of the problem?

  • Is a new administrative paradigm required?

Thinking in new ways

  • How does the level of past investments affect the willingness to embrace change?

  • Why do so many find it hard to acquire new behaviors?

  • When is it right to change and when is change not appropriate?

  • How do you free people up to think and act in new ways?

Characteristics of a good administrator

  • What are key best practices?

  • What are the qualities to be cultivated?

Leadership versus management

  • Is it true that you manage systems and processes, but you lead people?

  • What does it mean to have management without leadership or vice versa?

  • What considerations are there for managing cultures?

  • What skills, attitudes, and processes are most important for a good leader as compared to a good manager?

  • What behaviors are important when managing practices that directly affect individuals?

  • How do we hold others accountable for agreed-upon expectations?

Program assessment

  • Why is it so difficult to be accountable?

  • How do you establish accountability standards?

Tangible Take-Aways
 

Each participant/college group will leave the institute with the following items:

  • an annotated bibliography of valuable resources/ readings with brief descriptions of their value,

  • a collection of best practices presented at the institute by the attending participants,

  • a networking contact list including performance vitas and self assessments of the participants, and

  • two readings (sent in advance to prepare for the event).