65th Annual Meeting
American Conference of Academic Deans
Leadership for the Future:
Meeting Global Challenges on College Campuses
January 21-24, 2009
Seattle, Washington
Complementing AAC&U's conference theme of Ready or Not: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America’s Promise, the American Conference of Academic Deans' annual meeting program features sessions which academic administrators will find enriching. Echoing the AAC&U emphasis on “resurgence in the vitality and relevance of liberal education,” the 2009 ACAD meeting will focus on institutional structures and leadership that successfully accomplish coherent learning.
ACAD Luncheon: Friday, January 23
Mimi Gardner Gates, Director of the Seattle Art Museum
ACAD Sessions
- Models for International Partnerships in Higher Education
- The Dean’s Role in Building an Undergraduate Research Program
- Learning How to Work “In Between”: Entering the Associate Deanship
- Reorganizing Academic Affairs
- “I am less patient and dress better”: Exploring the Career and Life Transitions of the Academic Administrator
- Intentional Leadership for Interdisciplinary Learning: One College’s Joint Faculty Appointment Initiative
- Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creativity in the Arts and Humanities: Institutional Structures, Cultures, and Funding
- Caution! Professors at Work: When the Institutional Bus Named “Prestige” Drives into Faculty Expectations
- ACAD Open-Mic Discussion
ACAD Reception: Friday, January 23, 5:30 p.m.
Hosted jointly by ACAD and the Phi Beta Kappa Society
For more information about the ACAD meeting, please visit www.acad-edu.org.
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