The President’s Emerging Leaders Program is a professional development opportunity for highly motivated faculty and staff of the University of Hawaiʻi that identifies and develops future campus and system leaders. It affirms our intent to invest in our faculty and staff, while also creating an institutional culture that honors diversity and inclusion.
The program will assist participants in establishing a base of knowledge about higher education, and in addition, offer potential leaders a chance to reflect upon their leadership potential and how they might make a difference in our campuses and system. A variety of methods, including discussions, lectures, case studies, simulations, and hands-on exercises, may be used to develop leadership skills and apply those skills in solving real-life issues.
Participants will benefit from the opportunity to assess career and leadership interests, develop knowledge and tools, and examine strategic goals and challenges facing our public higher education system. System and campus leaders and others will take part in facilitating a schedule of topics.
Benefits to Participants
- Strengthen professional skills and institutional knowledge
- Discuss strategic issues with university leaders
- Recognize higher education challenges locally, nationally, globally
- Understand perspectives of university stakeholders
- Join in problem-solving
- Assess leadership interests and career goals
- Explore effective ways of getting involved and making a difference
- Be recognized as a potential leader
- Build a network throughout the state
- Establish a relationship with leadership program peers who can continue to give you feedback and professional support
Major Content Areas
- Strategic considerations in meeting academic, student, & statewide goals
- Campus missions; benefits of a high-performing system
- Higher education trends & the impact of highly competitive, rapidly changing environments, locally, nationally, and globally; distinctiveness of Hawaiʻi’s multicultural environment
- Stakeholders’ interests, their evolving expectations, tensions and positive opportunities, and how UH leaders can make a difference
- Process and culture of shared governance and avenues for participation
- Benchmarks of a model indigenous-serving institution
- Academic and nonacademic career paths
- Strategies and tools for effective leadership
- Collegial networks for professional support, energy, and trust
