2017 ALT Workshop

Workshop Content:

  • Generic leadership skills (through 360 feedback & discussion)
  • Advice from experienced academic leaders (EALs) in panels and discussions
  • Breakout discussions & networking with other participants and EALs
  • Discussion of why and how to become an EAL

Possible Work Products:

  • Individual Development Plan (IDP)
  • A 2-page draft of a job application or center white paper focusing on management and vision
  • Completed responses to one of the two following list:
    1. 10 mock questions to be asked by a Search Panel
    2. 10 mock questions to be asked by a Grant Review Panel

Agenda:

  • Workshop sessions will begin on Sunday (February 26, 2017) at 3:00 PM
  • Workshop sessions will conclude on Tuesday (February 28, 2017) at 5:00 PM 

EALs & Facilitators:

  • Experienced Academic Leaders (EALS):
  • Dr. Karen S. Bjorkman, Dean, College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, The University of Toledo
  • Dr. Sean Decatur, President, Kenyon College (President/Chemist)
  • Dr. Peter K. Dorhout, Vice President for Research, Kansas State University
  • Dr. Michelle Francl, Chair & Professor of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College
  • Dr. Andrew Feig, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Wayne State University
  • Dr. Paul Goldbart, Dean, College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology (Tentative)
  • Dr. Robert J. Hamers, Director, NSF CCI Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison (and former Department Chair)
  • Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez, Gompf Family Professor, Johns Hopkins University
  • Dr. Brent Iverson, Dean, School of Undergraduate Studies, University of Texas at Austin (and former Department Chair)
  • Dr. Jennifer Ross, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Dr. Barbara A. Sawrey, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Dean of Undergraduate Education, University of California, San Diego
  • Dr. George Shields, VPAA & Provost, Furman University
  • Dr. William B. Tolman, Chair, Department of Chemistry, University ofMinnesota
  • Dr. Beverly Wendland, Dean, Johns Hopkins University
  • Workshop facilitators and partners:
  • Dr. Ashley Donovan, American Chemical Society
  • Dr. Philip W. Hammer, American Institute of Physics
  • Dr. Jodi Wesemann, American Chemical Society


Pre-Workshop Requirements


Materials for Sessions