Overview

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The program includes instructional units on Academic Environment, External Environment, Institutional Environment, and Professional Development, supplemented each year by an informal curriculum tailored to the special interests identified by that summer's class.

• Academic Environment
focuses on current issues and challenges facing colleges and universities, including the role of strategic planning in shaping mission and new initiatives; undergraduate learning and teaching; faculty development; student affairs; academic leadership in the change process; and diversity issues (recruiting and responsiveness to minority students, faculty and staff).

• External Environment
focuses on political, social and economic trends; financial conditions impacting public and private colleges, with special emphasis on state revenues, state tax policies, federal financial aid programs, tuition trends, changes in institutional cost structures, and national demographic trends; external demands for accountability at the state and national level; the role of the media; and technology and on-line education.

• Institutional Environment
introduces the participants to essential administrative functions within the institution: financial and accounting processes; budgeting techniques and politics; of maintenance of physical plant; employee and labor relations; endowments, sponsored research, fundraising and capital campaigns; higher education law; and working with Boards of Trustees.

• Professional Development
addresses the needs of the individual woman as she functions within the institutional context, giving special attention to leadership skills, public speaking and self-presentation; strategies for institutional change with emphasis on women's and minority issues; professional networks; and wellness

• Informal Curriculum
emerges each summer according to the needs of the participants; provides an integration of the other units; explores sub-issues of the institutional units such as cultural diversity, student services issues, curriculum reform strategies, and grant writing; and uses of expertise of both faculty and participants.