Centre for Academic Leadership supports current and future academic leaders

Concordia’s Centre for Academic Leadership promotes best practices in academic leadership and provides support and training to current and future academic leaders.

“Our mission is to promote ethical academic leadership through the provision of support, training and applied research knowledge in relevant fields of expertise, including responsible management, fiscal responsibility and faculty career development,” explains the centre’s Executive Director Dominic Peltier-Rivest. “These support services are geared to current and potential university leaders, such as program directors, department chairs, associate deans, associate university librarians and supervisory librarians.”

Peltier-Rivest points to the new Concordia Academic Leadership Awards as one of the centre’s initiatives that “recognizes exceptional academic leadership and exceptional administrative accomplishments at Concordia.”

The first recipients of these new awards will be announced on June 5 by Concordia President Frederick Lowy and Provost and Vice-President, Academic Affairs, David Graham at the Concordia University Celebration of Excellence. The event will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Loyola Jesuit Hall Conference Centre.

The centre is also developing a new peer mentoring program for newly appointed department chairs and college principals. He explains that “the literature has shown that peer mentoring programs help new leaders increase their effectiveness and satisfaction in their new administrative positions.”
The centre’s 2012-2013 career development workshop series s include  orientation sessions for newly appointed academic leaders and new tenure-track faculty members.

Schedule of upcoming career development workshops:

• Orientation for newly appointed department chairs, college principals, associate university librarians and supervisory librarians
  When:  June 6, 2012, from 8:15 a.m. to12:30 p.m.
• Orientation for new tenure-track faculty members
  When: August 29, 2012, from 8:15 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• CUFA collective agreement training workshop
  When: September 7, 2012, from 8:15 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Orientation for new contractual faculty members (part-time and lecturers)
  When: September 14, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

This fall, the centre will also re-offer its workshop on leadership skills and responsible management as well as a new workshop on negotiation skills.

In the winter 2013, a new workshop on financial accountability will be offered, while the seminar on conflict resolution skills will be presented again. A second CUFA collective agreement training workshop will also be offered.

If you would like to suggest additional workshop topics, please contact Dominic Peltier-Rivest at D.Peltier-Rivest@concordia.ca, or by phone at 514-848-2424 ext. 2778, or Silvana Novembre, administrative assistant, at Silvana.Novembre@concordia.ca, or by phone at 514-848-2424, ext. 4830.

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