Additional Input-3

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Topic 3: Preparing the next generation of leaders

• What are key areas of leadership (e.g. undergraduate program coordinators, director of graduate programs, department heads, deans, etc.) are necessary for University sustainability and growth?

• How does/should your department/the campus plan for leadership succession? How can key employees with critical competencies be identified and developed as future leaders?

• What are the important characteristics of the next generation of university leaders? How can your department/the University develop leaders with these characteristics?

• What resources, policies, programs, … are needed to help address the challenges you have identified?

• received by email from Prof Michael K. Stoskopf, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACZM

Topic 3: Preparing the next generation of leaders •What are key areas of leadership (e.g. undergraduate program coordinators, director of graduate programs, department heads, deans, etc.) are necessary for University sustainability and growth?

This is a top down administered silo university. Faculty have little or no hope of exerting any real leadership with in the current power structure. There are insufficient opportunities for younger faculty to lead operations they would be able to lead (assuming they had sufficient staff support). When these are available usually zero staff support is provided or some pathetic attempt at shared support that means a junior faculty member is doomed to failure in leadership and/or their academic career if they take on these leadership roles.

• How does/should your department/the campus plan for leadership succession? How can key employees with critical competencies be identified and developed as future leaders?

The use of associate faculty heads is being used and likely to help in this regard. All of our faculty are really leaders. They merely need to be offered the opportunity to succeed in leader ship and some minor mentoring and they can succeed.

•What are the important characteristics of the next generation of university leaders? How can your department/the University develop leaders with these characteristics?

Our leaders need to be engaged and not “specialists” in leadership. This is why our leaders should be functionally faculty to the extent practicable. Administrators need to be embarrassed if they aren’t publishing and teaching.

• What resources, policies, programs, … are needed to help address the challenges you have identified?

see above.