New Academic Leaders: Strategies for Success

A new academic leadership position—whether it’s a deanship or a department chair or a provost appointment—brings with it exciting opportunities to move an institutions mission forward and make a real impact on campus life.

Not surprisingly, it also comes with a certain number of headaches that are simply part and parcel of a leadership role.

New Academic Leaders: Strategies for Success is a Magna Online Course designed to help new leaders capitalize on their opportunities as change agents, and manage the challenges that arise in any position involving oversight of faculty.

Over the course of approximately seven hours of instruction, the course ranges both broad and deep across the administrative landscape, addressing critical issues including:

• Promoting civility and professionalism
• Identifying historical trends and their impact on current and future administration
• Crafting feedback appropriate for faculty at all levels, from adjunct to tenured
• Facilitating change through training, removing obstacles, and aligning systems
• Creating and carrying out effective mentoring relationships
• Designing engaging, cost-contained, and impactful faculty-development opportunities
• Leading, managing, and evaluating online faculty
• Developing strategies to institutionalize Open Educational Resources (OER)

It’s a detailed, in-depth exploration that will help any new leader make better, more informed decisions on everything from day-to-day concerns to broader strategic issues.

Delivered in module form, the course is designed for convenient learning. It can be taken at any pace, and accessed from virtually any device. Learning checks occur regularly throughout, and a wealth of supplemental materials accompany the presentation: handouts, readings, links to online resources, and full transcripts.

New Academic Leaders: Strategies for Success provides a roadmap for impactful leadership based on sound strategic thinking, careful planning, and committed relationship-building. Any new leader will want to have it in their professional-development library. Order today!

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Learning Goals:

At the conclusion of New Academic Leaders: Strategies for Success, participants will have gained the knowledge and insight to:

• Establish and maintain mentoring relationships with faculty
• Create an environment of civility, collaboration, and respect
• Spearhead high-impact faculty-development
• Manage OER and other forward-looking academic initiatives
• Guide their academic unit successfully through change

Who Will Benefit From This Course:

• Department chairs
• Deans
• Academic administrators
• Provosts

Group Enrollment:

Discount pricing is available for multiple seats purchased at the same time.
For 10 or more seats, please contact Magna Sales at sales@magnapubs.com or call 800-433-0499 ext. 183 to receive a customized quote.

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The course enrollment will expire one year from date or purchase.

Product Code: OO19DD

Meet Your Presenters

Thomas Tobin, PhD
Program Area Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Donna Qualters
Associate Professor and Director, Tufts University

Bethanie Hansen, DMA
Faculty Director, American Public University Systems

Erik Christensen
Dean, Applied Sciences & Technologies, South Florida State College

Robert E. Cipriano, EdD
Senior Partner, Academic Training Leadership & Assessment Services

Jeffery Buller
Director, Leadership and Professional Development, Florida Atlantic University

Lynn Gillette
Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Nicholls State University

Ken Alford, PhD
Professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

Kate Forhan
Professor Emeritus

Brian Udermann, PhD
Professor, Department of Exercise and Sports Science, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Jon M. Garon, JD
Professor of Law and Director, Intellectual Property, Cybersecurity, and Technology Law Program, Nova Southeastern University