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Leadership Development
CETL Faculty Success has continued to build its portfolio of leadership focused programs in line with the Provost Office’s priority of leadership development for emerging and current leaders. This commitment is carried out through a variety of programs. These include the chairs and deans’ retreat, workshops and webinars focused on leadership development, a yearlong cohort-based program for emerging leaders, and mutual mentoring groups for academic administrators. See the Onboarding section, pg. 28-29, for information about our New Chairs and Deans’ Orientation.
PROVOST’S FACULTY LEADERSHIP FELLOWS
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The Office of the Provost, in coordination with CETL Faculty Success, launched the Provost’s Faculty Leadership Fellows, PFLF, program in Fall of 2020. This program is an unpaid, professional, and personal development opportunity for full-time, tenure-track faculty interested in moving into formal or higher-level leadership roles at Kennesaw State University. The goals of the Provost’s Faculty Leadership Fellows program are to:
• Develop leadership capacity at KSU • Demonstrate KSU’s commitment to develop faculty into future leaders, including faculty from underrepresented populations • Provide personalized leadership training, mentoring, and coaching to a ninemonth cohort of KSU faculty with high leadership potential • Facilitate the development of research-based practices, including positive, value-based, inclusive, and reciprocal leadership
Fellows attended several leadership focused workshops, engaged in six one-on-one coaching sessions, reflected on leadership strengths and areas for development, and created a leadership development plan. After 16+ hours together in webinars, other virtual meetings, and 120+ coaching sessions, the program concluded with a moving capstone in which the Fellows shared their leadership journey with the Provost. The pilot version of the program was so successful that the provost not only renewed its funding for next year, but asked us to develop a second year.
Faculty Member Department
In its second year being offered, the Chairs Mutual Mentoring Group was led by CETL Faculty Fellow for Faculty Success, Letizia Guglielmo. The Chairs and Directors Mutual Mentoring Group, MMG, provided an opportunity for chairs and directors to build community with like-minded peers and support each other while achieving goals as defined by the group. Members met monthly to explore ideas, resources, and research on themes determined by the group. They included diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism in the Chair/Director role; strategic communication; supporting faculty during COVID-19; and best practices as chairs/directors.
Members had access to supporting CETL Chairs and Directors Mutual Mentoring Group Teams content, including literature shared within the community as well as some selected by KSU subject-matter experts, along with co-constructed reflection and discussion prompts.
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DEANS’ MUTUAL MENTORING GROUP
The inaugural Assistant and Associate Deans’ Mutual Mentoring Group was facilitated by Este Jordan and led by two mentoring group co-chairs, Associate Deans Harrison Long (College of the Arts) and Susan Dyess (WellStar College of Health and Human Services). This group was launched in response to many requests over several years from assistant and associate deans who made their need for mutual mentoring known (it’s a demanding job to implement all the college things) and we are pleased that we have been able to find an effective format to support them.
This group provided an opportunity for assistant and associate deans to build community with like-minded peers to support one another while achieving goals as defined by the group. Members met monthly to discuss topics related to opportunities and challenges related to their roles, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism in the Associate Dean role; conflict management; academic affairs resources; and student success.
This virtual retreat was for all chairs, directors, assistant/associate chairs, deans, and assistant/associate deans. The morning sessions included a welcome from the Interim President, followed by a discussion with the Interim Provost regarding his vision for the year and a webinar on implementing it in participants’ leadership roles. The afternoon included a session on hot legal topics at KSU with the Vice President and Chief Legal Affairs Officer, as well as a session on topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion at KSU, with the Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion.
In June 2020, CETL Faculty Success launched a Leadership Developers Institute, LDI, in partnership with the Department of Leadership and Institutional Development from University System of Georgia. LDI was designed to educate, connect, and develop individuals across the University System of Georgia who work in various Faculty Success settings. Leadership Developers are often charged with supporting current or emerging leaders on their campus, including administrators and faculty.
The Leadership Developers Institute was modeled after the POD Network Institute for New Educational Developers. Institute sessions ranged from presentations that shared foundational knowledge to “leveling up” workshops which drew upon and expanded the expertise within the USG. The LDI was originally conceptualized as a two-day in-person statewide meeting. Even though we couldn’t realize our original vision for it, we are proud that we were still able to offer it by reimagining the Institute as a virtual program which met every other week for webinars for 8 sessions.
