October 2006

Event Planning with Good Humor:
Planning an event that involves multiple departments, a variety of related academic courses and extracurricular celebrations, and a range of faculty and staff is no laughing matter – or is it?

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Editor’s Letter
One of the most effective leaders I have ever met was the vice president of university relations who headed the division of which I was a part as a lowly graduate school intern in our university’s office of alumni affairs. While many people viewed this gentleman’s primary function as hitting the road and raising the funds on which the university depended, he saw his job as removing barriers.

How to Plan Wildly Successful Campaign Events
If you missed Magna Publications’ September 6 Web conference on “How to Plan Wildly Successful Campaign Events,” you missed a lot. In this 90-minute conference, Helena Weiss-Duman, an occasional contributor to these pages from the University of California, Berkeley, walked through the planning cycles and various events that make up a multiyear, multimillion- (or even multibillion-)dollar campaign such as the one just completed at her own university. We recap some of the highlights in this article.

Promoting a Master Plan: How to Plan Serial Dedications around a Central Initiative
Planning a building dedication can be an unparalleled opportunity to celebrate the growth of a university. But when that single building is part of an overall master plan for campus improvement, how do you plan unique events for each building or stage of the program while remaining true to the overarching initiative?

Developing Your Leadership Abilities
What does it mean to be a leader? For some, leadership is embodied in title, and so leadership is expected from managers, directors, deans, and other persons with authority. But while these individuals may indeed exhibit leadership, it does not necessarily follow that all bosses are leaders, or that all leaders are bosses.