Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration
Last summer I attended what is sometimes fondly referred to as "Summer Camp for Deans." This program, the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, is now in its 25th year and offers a very intensive residential four-week curriculum in educational administration on the Bryn Mawr College campus. The program admits 80-90 faculty and administrators from across the US and around the world. My classmates included women from South Africa, Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Turkey, Australia and the Virgin Islands.The program includes instructional units on the academic environment, external environment, institutional environment, and personal professional development, supplemented by an informal curriculum. The four curricular units focused on: (1) strategic planning, faculty development, student affairs and academic leadership; (2) political, social and economic trends, financial conditions, external demands for accountability; (3) accounting and budgeting techniques, IT policy and planning, physical plant, labor relations, hiring and firing; and (4) leadership skills, public speaking, self-presentation, networking and wellness.
Enriching the formal course offerings is an informal curriculum. First, the program includes an expectation that the faculty (a superb group which included, for example, the Vice President of the Ford Foundation and the President of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation) stay on campus for at least two days, joining the participants in meals and informal conversation. Some of these valuable exchanges lasted late into the evening. The informal curriculum also includes presentations put on by the attendees themselves. I gathered the seven participants from the health sciences disciplines and moderated a panel presentation, exploring methods used in the health sciences over the past 15 years to respond to external demands for accountability.
Finally, the Summer Institute is committed to the development of a professional network of skilled women administrators ready to be mutually supportive and to work cooperatively to enlarge the professional opportunities for women. Our class set up a discussion list which is used almost daily to seek and give collegial advice.
Acceptance is competitive and requires a letter of support from your university president. Tuition is about $6,000 and typically is covered by the participant's institution. You may secure further information from your president's office or from the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education, 101 North Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19101. www.brynmawr.edu/ summerinstitute/.
Ellen Hall
Interim Associate Dean of Libraries
Interim Director - Dana Medical Library
University of Vermont
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We are compiling links to web sites that offer descriptions of and registration materials for instructional programs provided through library-related associations or other non-profit organizations. Individual session titles run the gamut, from the traditional leadership "foundations" courses to "Communicating Effectively through Public Speaking," or "Reflecting Personal Values Through Work."
Here are brief descriptions of a few of the most famous and highly respected programs:Librarian-Related Organizational Based Programs:
- Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Office of Leadership and Management Services: The ARL Training and Leadership Development Program, develops and provides three types of learning experiences: public institutes and workshops offered at designated locations, off-the-shelf workshops that can be sponsored locally, and web-based workshops offered via the Online Lyceum.
- NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program: A program offered in cooperation with the ARL's Office of Leadership and Management Services is focused on preparing emerging leaders for director positions in academic health sciences libraries.
- Leadership and Management Association (LAM) a division of the American Library Association: The LAMA provides workshops, courses, programs, publications and institutes on leadership and management topics for all types of libraries.
- National Library of Medicine (NLM) Associate Fellowship Program: This outstanding NLM Program prepares fellows for future leadership roles in traditional and nontraditional settings in the fields of librarianship and information science.
- Special Libraries Association (SLA) Leadership and Management Division (LMD): Dialog, LMD's business partner, provides four remote learning workshops (developed from Dialog's industry-benchmarked Quantum seminars and workshops) to LMD members.
- EDUCAUSE Institutes: A professional development program for those who manage some aspect of information technology and resources in higher education. Weeklong programs in both Management and Leadership.
- Frye Leadership Institute: A program of the Council on Library and Information Resources, EDUCAUSE, and Emory University. Intensive, 2-week residential program on creative leadership in higher education that combines presentations, seminars, group projects, reading, and a post-residential practicum.
- Center for Creative Leadership: Open-enrollment programs include workshops targeted at various levels -- new managers, experienced managers, senior managers, and executives.
- Harvard Macy Institute Program for Leaders in Medical Education: Fundamental reform in medical education requires major organizational change in medical schools. In this program, educational leaders develop their own action plans for leading and managing change to fulfill their institution's educational mission. (View hyperlink to a LMS member's personal experience in this program.)
- Summer Institute for Women In Higher Education Administration: (See "sidebar")
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- Chapter Programs and Training: MLA Chapters offer programs and Medical Library Association (MLA) approved Continuing Education (CE) Courses at their annual meetings and other times during the year.
- State Programs and Training: State Associations offer programs and MLA approved CE Courses at their annual meetings and other times during the year.