Academic Leadership Institute: Residential Program

The Academic Leadership Institute (ALI), founded by Dr. Earl Lewis and Dr. Dwight A. McBride, aims to increase the representation of rising leaders committed to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), including faculty of color, on track to becoming future presidents and provosts.
While most programs for higher education leadership focus on the skills required of a leader, the Academic Leadership Institute goes beyond that to talk about the experience of being a leader within the academy from an individual perspective. Each day’s curriculum is explicitly organized around identity as it relates to the various streams of university business: the sense of self as a leader, in relation to institutional frameworks, in relation to the team, and in relation to the community and the public. The institute is the first major professional development event of its kind to have an explicit focus on DEI, and the first to aim to equip leaders to change their institutions. In addition, the nature and size of the program allows its scope to be tailored to the expectations of its participants, providing a personalized five-day course guided by experienced university and college leaders.
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