Higher Education and the Economy: New Imperatives for Collaboration
October 1-3, 2009
Hyatt Regency on the Riverwalk Hotel in Chicago, Illinois
Program Agenda
Last Update 8.11.09
SESSION
DESCRIPTION
THURSDAY, OCT-1
8:45 a.m.- 12:00 noon
Pre-Conference Workshop
(pre-registration fee)
Consortium Leadership 103: Everything You Wanted to Know About Consortia but Were Afraid to Ask
Facilitators: Dr. Julie Goldman, Director, Southeastern Conference Academic Consortium and Ms. Jenny Spiker, Executive Director, Cooperating Raleigh Colleges
Description: Back by popular demand, a pre-conference workshop for new – and not – so-new – consortia directors to gain valuable insights into collaborative leadership, the inner workings of consortia, and the skills necessary to design and build the structures they need for effective collaboration. In this third session, you will interact with consortium leaders, explore collaborative leadership skills you will need to succeed, and get ideas to help solve the challenges you are facing.
1:00 – 1:10 p.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Wayne Anderson, President of the Association for Consortium Leadership (ACL)
1:10 – 2:45 p.m.
Opening Session
Navigating Blue Oceans: Defining the Future of Educational Consortia
Panelists: Mr. Carl Grant, President, Ex Libris North America, Ms. Sarah Long, Executive Director, North Suburban Library System and Mr. John Price Wilkin, Executive Director, HathiTrust
Description: This talk will focus on the future of educational consortiums and the forces that are at play in shaping the future of these organizations. Starting with the assertion that “Openness” is the harbinger of how educational consortia will be redefined; Mr. Grant will look at what openness has wrought, including communities, collaboration and group-think and offer examples of each. The talk will then turn to the possibilities to harness and employ these trends in creating new and meaningful services for consortia members. Challenging traditional thinking at every turn, Mr. Grant will then ask the panelists to react to the ideas offered as well as to offer their own thoughts.
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.
BREAK
3:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Workshop
*Free Copy of Dr. Raelin’s Book “Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone” to first 30 registrations
Collaborative Network Behavior: Leading “Leaderfully” in the University Consortia and Centers
Presenter: Dr. Joe Raelin, Author of Creating Leaderful Organizations and Worked-Based Learning
Moderator: Mr. Phil DiChiara, Managing Director, The Boston Consortium for Higher Education
Description: In this workshop, Dr. Raelin will first explain his model of work-based learning and its relationship to a form of collaborative leadership, which he refers to as “leaderful practice.” Then, he will demonstrate how these approaches are exemplified through a network leadership program, called the Susan Vogt Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Boston Consortium for Higher Education. Leaderful change, to occur systemically, should be conducted at multiple levels of experience, such as at the individual and team levels. In this workshop, he will focus on leaderful development at the network level, however, to explicitly illustrate how one can take advantage of weaver responsibilities and tools to build social capital within a consortia or center.
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Reception
Sponsorship Provided by: SpectraRep
Representatives: Mr. Rodger Melchiori and Mr. Mark O’Brien
DATE/TIME
SESSION
DESCRIPTION
FRIDAY, OCT-2
8:00 – 9:00 a.m
Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
General Session
Reports from the Field
Moderator: Dr. Wayne Anderson, President of the Association for Consortium Leadership (ACL)
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
BREAK
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
General Session
The Evolving Consortial Model: How Claremont University Consortium is Redefining itself to Meet the Changing Environment
Presenter: Mr. Bob Walton, Chief Executive Officer, Claremont University Center
Description: After nearly a century of collaboration experiences, the Claremont University Consortium is confronting the issues pushing back at all collaboration efforts… What specifically are the added values we represent? What are the new service offerings on the horizon? Are we an academic institution or a service company? Should we seek to remain ‘not for profit’ or convert to a private, for-profit company? How do all of these things impact the employee culture and how are we evolving to a modern management style?
This presentation will provide a baseline of history, and then quickly refocus on the evolving fiscal organizational, and service challenges necessary to remain viable and meet the increasing needs and fiscal constraints of highly selective colleges.
11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Luncheon
The Wellness Corporation
Presenter: Mr. Hank Christensen, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
General Session
Improving Performance: Conveying the Impact to Your Constituents
Presenters: Mr. Jason Saul, Chief Executive Officer, Mission Measurement, LLC and Ms. Barbara McFadden Allen, Director, Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Description: During these times of budget constraints it is more important than ever to be able to express and state your value and impact in easy-to-understand and compelling ways. This session will highlight benchmarking to help staff stop working on low-impact easy stuff and get them focuses on high-value tasks.
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.
BREAK
2:45 – 4:15 p.m.
General Session
Cost Effective Access to Higher Education through University Centers
Panelists: Dr. Catherine Watt, Director, Alliance for Research on Higher Education and Ms. Marti Clyde, Director, Quad-Cities Graduate Study Center and Mr. Gary Grace, Executive Director, University Center of Lake County
Moderator: Mr. Fred Baus, President, University Center of Greenville
Description: This session will examine collaborative approaches to expanding access to higher education. A panel of center directors will discuss best practices in center operations. This session is an outgrowth of the work of the ACL Task Force on Centers in American Higher Education.
5:45 p.m. *must be onboard for the cruise by 6:00 p.m./ID is required for entry
Entertainment
Mystic Blue Cruise on Lake Michigan – enjoy dining while you experience the incredible skyline views of the city of Chicago. The Mystic Blue Cruise departs from the south side of the Navy Pier.
DATE/TIME
SESSION
DESCRIPTION
SATURDAY, OCT-3
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
ACL Annual Business Meeting
The 2008 Minutes and an Agenda were included in your registration materials.
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Open Forum
Why Waste a Good Crisis
Discussion Leader: Mr. Bob Walton, Chief Executive Officer, Claremont University Center
Description: As colleges, universities and centers react to the uncertain fiscal environment, consortia are seeking to find both opportunities as well as facing challenges. This discussion will be a practical and candid exchange of some of the serious impacts to and reaction of consortia leaders participating at the conference, including specific techniques organizations are using to reduce costs, and whether there are creative and/or new opportunistic programs that are being born in the fiscal confusion.
Moderator: Dr. Larry Dotolo, Executive Director of the Association for Consortium Leadership, (ACL)
Description: Consortia, whether geographic or affinity based, can derive real benefits from pooling faculty and staff recruiting activities. This lively session will outline a "co-opetition" model for structuring aggregated job databases for effective recruiting (and as a powerful draw to your consortium Web site); addressing the dual career couple issue; leveraging group purchasing power for recruiting-related spending; and creating a terrific candidate experience for job applicants at all member institutions.
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Wrap-up
Looking Ahead to Next Year
Raffle
Moderator: Dr. Larry Dotolo, Executive Director, Association for Consortium Leadership (ACL)
