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Surviving Presidential Turnover.�President-Proofing Your Consortium.�

June 4, 2019

A webinar brought to you by the

ACL Virtual Professional Development Committee

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Meet Your Speakers

James Yankech PhD

Moderator

Association for Collaborative Leadership

Independent Member

Carole Chabries PhD

Speaker

Alverno College

Dean – School of Adult Learning and New Initiatives

Karina Chavez

Speaker

Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education

Executive Director

Todd Greene

MA, MPA, CEcD

Speaker

Atlanta University Center Consortium

Executive Director

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A Few Preliminaries

  • You may use the Q&A function to submit questions at any time; they will be addressed in the Q&A period later in this session

  • This session will be recorded and made available afterwards on the ACL member website

  • A webinar survey link is provided at the end of this PowerPoint and will also be emailed to attendees

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Introduction

Regardless of maturity and longevity, higher education consortia are vulnerable to member institution presidential turnover. A departing champion president may have provided the cohesive factor for a consortium. Presidential successors may not perceive or acknowledge consortium value.

This webinar will focus on how consortium leaders can help ensure consortium stability following the turnover of member institution leadership. Topics will include creating community, leadership, the role of the boundary spanner, building social capacity, business intelligence, constituent awareness, and governing board relationships.

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Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the impact of presidential turnover on the consortium, consortium member institutions, and consortium leadership

  • Recognize underlying dynamics of presidential turnover

  • Articulate proactive measures intended to ensure consortium stability and effectiveness during and following presidential turnover

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Learning Objective #1

Understand the impact of presidential turnover on the consortium, consortium member institutions, and consortium leadership

Audience Reflection Questions

How often have you experienced presidential turnover at member institutions within your consortium?

What were the greatest challenges you experienced during these transitions?

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Learning Objective #1

Understand the impact of presidential turnover on the consortium, consortium member institutions, and consortium leadership

Panel Discussion Questions

  1. How does presidential turnover impact member institutions within a consortium?

  • Describe the impact presidential turnover can have on the role and responsibility of a consortium director.

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Learning Objective #2

Recognize underlying dynamics of presidential turnover

Audience Reflection Questions

What factors have led to presidential turnover at member institutions within your consortium?

What did you learn from observing those factors?

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Learning Objective #2

Recognize underlying dynamics of presidential turnover

Panel Discussion Questions

  1. How do relationships between the consortium director, institutional president, and other staff members of a member institution affect the impact of presidential turnover?
  2. How does the interplay of risk and reward affect the impact of member institution presidential turnover?
  3. How can a director create consortium value that will survive presidential turnover?

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Learning Objective #3

Articulate proactive measures intended to ensure consortium stability and effectiveness during and following presidential turnover

Audience Reflection Questions

What is the first thing you do when a new president takes office at a member institution?

What is the first thing you do when you learn of a president’s departure?

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Learning Objective #3

Articulate proactive measures intended to ensure consortium stability and effectiveness during and following presidential turnover

Panel Discussion Questions

  1. What can consortia leaders do to mitigate the impact of member institution presidential turnover?

  • How can a director nurture mutual interdependence of consortium member institutions?

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Audience Q&A Submissions

Let’s review and discuss the questions

submitted online by the audience.

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Learning Objectives - Recap

  1. Understand the impact of presidential turnover on the consortium, consortium member institutions, and consortium leadership

  • Recognize underlying dynamics of presidential turnover

  • Articulate proactive measures intended to ensure consortium stability and effectiveness during and following presidential turnover

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Webinar Topic Follow Up

Handout

Distributed Monday June 3 via email

White Paper

Scheduled to be published June 2019; will be distributed to webinar attendees

“Surviving Presidential Turnover. President-Proofing Your Consortium.

Lessons from a Study of Trust and Higher Education Consortia”

Related Dissertation Research

“TRUST WITHIN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIA – A PHENOMENOLOGICAL

STUDY OF THE EXPERIENCES OF DIRECTORS AND LEADERS”

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cehsedaddiss/254/

Today’s Webinar Survey Link

http://bit.ly/ACLJune2019

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Panel Contact Information

Carole Chabries, PhD (Alverno College)

carole.chabries@alverno.edu

Karina Chavez (Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education)

kchavez@pointpark.edu

Todd Greene, MA, MPA, CEcD (Atlanta University Center Consortium)

tgreene@aucenter.edu

Jim Yankech, PhD (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Session Facilitator and

ACL Individual Member

james.yankech@outlook.com

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Thank you for joining us!

The recording of this session will soon be posted on the Association for Collaborative Leadership website.

https://www.national-acl.org/

This has been a production of the

ACL Virtual Professional Development Committee

Jennifer Dugan, Suronda Gonzalez, Kiernan Mathews, Mickey McDonald,

Victoria McGillin, Tim Newcomb, and Jim Yankech