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Provost Larry Gould
Academic Leadership

Professional development of all employees is necessary for the growth of any organization - FHSU included. Over the past few years FHSU has been able to find and develop new talent as new Deans and Chairs. Training and developing emerging leaders is crucial to their effectiveness, and continuous updating of the knowledge resource of already high contributors produces high performing organizations.

Two years ago a team of Deans and Chairs worked to develop a series of short workshops. The result of those discussions was the Dean and Chair Orientation series. While the Dean and Chair Orientation was primarily designed for new personnel, existing Deans and Chairs found some topics very useful, and they attended many of the sessions. Every effort has been to made to make sure that new Deans and Chairs have the information they need before they need it, so timing is everything. The continuing purpose of the Academy of Academic Leadership is to facilitate knowledge sharing of critical administrative processes and to contribute to effective leadership practice.

It is our intention and practice to make sure that initial and continuous orientation is institutionalized into the culture of FHSU. We intend to make the series of Academic Leadership topics ongoing and have arranged to archive the presentations and make them available to new Chairs and Deans in the future. Part of the benefit of these sessions is to provide stronger leadership in implementing the Year of the Department when departments are asked to study their essential curriculum review processes.  I have high hopes that we can thrust the University forward into exciting opportunities as we continue our implementation of the Year of the Department in 2006-2007.

Sincerely,

Larry Gould
Provost   

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