Sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost, the faculty administrative fellowship program aims to provide tenured faculty with leadership experience in higher education administration.

Current and past administrative fellows (PDF)

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Programming is designed to support and assist these academic leaders with preparation for the unique opportunities and challenges they might encounter in their roles.

Programs include:

  • Academic Leader workshops: The goal of these workshops is to provide deans and department chairs/school directors with valuable information and useful resources to assist them in their work as managers of their colleges and departments/schools. The workshops seek to build a community of practice for ongoing information sharing, problem solving, and support. Workshops are led by faculty, staff, and administrators across the campus community with demonstrated expertise in the session topic. All deans, department chairs/school directors, and associate/assistant chairs are strongly encouraged to attend.
  • Virtual chairs' chats: These fifty minute sessions on the first Wednesday of each month (September through April), 10:00 a.m. to 10:50 a.m., are used for delivering timely information, soliciting feedback, addressing topics of interest, and simply connecting.
  • New academic leadership bootcamp: Recently appointed deans, department chairs/ school directors, associate chairs, and center directors are invited to participate in meetings that will introduce them to policies, practices, and people instrumental to a successful year in administration. All sessions will be held in 3155 Marston Hall.
    • Session schedule:
      • Wednesday, August 13, 2025 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
      • Friday, September 19, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
      • Friday, October 17, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

Resources

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The Emerging Leadership Academy is led by administrative director Katharine Hensley, faculty success coordinator in the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost and faculty director Brad Dell, department chair of music and theatre.