Dean and Chancellor Leadership Development Series
Enhance your leadership impact with the Dean and Chancellor Leadership Development Series, a collaborative program for deans, chancellors, divisional deans, associate deans and associate vice chancellors to explore essential academic and leadership themes.
The Dean and Chancellor Leadership Development Series offers tailored support and professional growth opportunities for deans, chancellors, divisional deans, associate deans and associate vice chancellors, focusing on critical issues faced by department and unit leaders. Guided by the office for Academic Personnel and Faculty, this program fosters collaboration and insight into key academic and leadership challenges.
Dialogue Topics
Upcoming dialogue sessions include a variety of topics tailored to leadership challenges and opportunities at the University of Washington:
> Navigating the research enterprise and fostering innovation
> Promoting campus and community safety
> Budgeting strategies across schools, colleges, and campuses
> Advancing teaching excellence and its evolving status
> Practical leadership insights, ethics, and governance at UW and within Washington state
> Strategies for faculty recruitment, promotion, development, mentorship, retention, and tenure
> Understanding ethics, risk management, and compliance in leadership roles
> Strengthening advancement, development, and endowment efforts
> Examining the scope and impact of undergraduate and graduate education
> Enhancing global engagement, research, and societal impact
> Embedding inclusive excellence in higher education
> Exploring the Faculty Code and shared governance principles
Series Calendar
Some session topics for the Dean and Chancellor Leadership Development Series have been finalized, while others are still to be announced and will be shared as details become available.
November 15, 2024, 2–3:30 pm
The Research Enterprise and the Importance of Building and Sustaining a Research Ecosystem
December 18, 2024, 3-4:30 pm
A Conversation on the Practical Aspects of Leadership and Ethics at UW and in the State of Washington
January 6, 2025, 1-2:30 pm
A Conversation on the Status of Teaching at the University of Washington
February 3, 2025, 1-2:30 pm
UW Tri-Campus Leadership Structure and Higher Education Leadership in the state of Washington
March 19, 2025, 3-4:30 pm
TBA
April 7, 2025, 3-4:30 pm
TBA
May 5, 2025, 10:30-noon
What we do and don’t in undergraduate and graduate student affairs
June 9, 2025, 3-4:30 pm
TBA