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Key Takeaway's from Today's Session
1. Ideas and thoughts related to your leadership abilities and opportunities
2. Resources for future leadership development
3. Understanding of the leadership challenges that face us today
4. Begin to develop a personalized leadership development plan for yourself.
Today's Climate
Decline in State Funding of Higher Education
Interactive Map of States - Higher Funding Changes Overall and per Student
The Great Cost Shift in Higher Education
49 states (all but North Dakota) are spending less per student on higher education than they did before the Great Recession.... Since the recession, 28 states have cut per-student funding by more than 25 percent.
2/3 of Chief Financial Officers Believe Higher Ed is in Crisis
Moody's Investment Services: Negative Rating to US Higher Ed
Standard and Poor's Ratings of US Universities (look for yours)
Universities in many locations are struggling to keep their budgets balanced
Levels of Leadership
Tactical Leadership
Tactical leadership is concerned with the here and now, with short-term decisions and risk management for immediate gains. [Project leaders - for example leading the development of an online degree program]
Operational Leadership
They are the ones who must lead teams in analyzing and understanding the strategic and tactical realities of the organization. They must craft the supporting infrastructure and framework to allow everyone to move tactically toward the achievement of the organization's strategy through the operational framework of processes, systems, structures, and incentives. [Directors of Online Programs - multiple staff members, multiple programs]
Strategic Leadership
Strategic leadership is concerned with the long-term purpose and goals of an organization, movement, or institution. A strategic leader is vying to create a viable organization that will be capable of functioning in all circumstances, that is resilient and, even better, robust in the face of threats and obstacles. [Deans, Associate Provosts, Provosts]
Level five leadership and more from Jim Collins, author of From Good to Great
First Who, then What (Richard P. Cooley takes helm at Wells Fargo in situation very much like higher ed today)
Authentic Leadership
Authentic Leadership Self-Assessment Questionnaire (created by Walumbwa & Associates)
Life stories of authentic leaders in higher education administration
Distributed Leadership
A Case of Do or Die the Fundamental Things That Apply to Online Leadership: Part 2
Transforming distance education curricula through distributive leadership
Case Studies
Resources
Top 10 Qualities that Make a Great Leader
Becoming a Positive Leader in Higher Education
Tips for Academic Leadership Career Progression
Institute for Engaged Leadership in Online Learning (IELOL)
Contact Information
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Dr. Vickie Cook
Director of the Center for for Online Learning, Research and Service
University of Illinois Springfield
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https://sites.google.com/a/uis.edu/colrs_cook/
217-206-7317
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Michele Gribbins
Online Learning & Faculty Development Specialist
Center for Online Learning, Research and Service
University of Illinois Springfield
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https://sites.google.com/site/michelegribbins/
217-206-7317