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?

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

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