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 for department chairs/school directors and new academic leaders is designed to support and assist these academic administrators with the unique opportunities and challenges they might encounter in their roles.

Programs include:

  • Department chair/school director workshops: The goal of these workshops is to provide department chairs/school directors with valuable information and useful resources to assist them in their work as managers and academic leaders of their 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 with demonstrated expertise in the session topic. All department chairs, school directors, associate chairs, and assistant chairs are strongly encouraged to attend.
  • Virtual chairs' chats: These fifty minute sessions on the first Wednesday of each month (September through May), 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 department chairs, school directors, associate chairs, and associate deans are invited to participate in meetings that will introduce them to policies, practices, and people instrumental to a successful year in administration.
    • Session schedule (all will be located in 3155 Marston):
      • 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 and faculty success coordinator Katharine Hensley, faculty co-lead and assistant provost for faculty success, Tera Jordan, and faculty co-lead and department chair of music and theatre, Brad Dell.