ACE Fellows Program Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/ace-fellows-program/ A Blog by ACE Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:03:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png ACE Fellows Program Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/ace-fellows-program/ 32 32 Pathways to Community College Transformation https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/01/24/pathways-community-college-transformation/ Fri, 24 Jan 2020 21:33:40 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16236 By Suzanne Wilson Summers In the upcoming months, Suzanne Wilson Summers will be writing about her year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts on how community colleges can build internal cultures that support student success. The hurdles for community college students who are first-generation, low-income, and members of other underrepresented groups are often formidable. One model that ...

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]]> Takeaways for Career and Succession Planning From the 2018-19 Class of ACE Fellows https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/08/05/takeaways-career-succession-planning-2018-19-class-ace-fellows/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:12:19 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15329 ACE Fellows John Marx and Nancy Wayne are conducting an ongoing longitudinal study of the 2018-19 ACE Fellows class. The data in this post are derived from surveys conducted during and at the end of that fellowship year. For more on succession planning, see Andy Brantley’s post, A Call to Action Regarding Succession Planning and Sustainability. As we write, members of ...

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]]> Urban Higher Education and Civic Engagement https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/05/15/urban-higher-education-civic-engagement/ Wed, 15 May 2019 17:00:10 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15019 By John Marx John Marx is blogging about his year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts centered on the idea of “place” in American higher education leadership. Marx, professor and chair of the English Department at University of California, Davis, is spending his year working with President Elizabeth Hillman at Mills College in Oakland, California. Contrary to the notion that ...

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]]> Higher Education Leadership and the Importance of Place https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/03/04/higher-education-leadership-importance-place/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 19:42:30 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14482 By John Marx John Marx is blogging about his year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts centered on the idea of “place” in American higher education leadership. Marx, professor and chair of the English Department at University of California, Davis, is spending his year working with President Elizabeth Hillman at Mills College in Oakland, California. If being president of a ...

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]]> Women’s Colleges Hold the Key to Our Future https://www.higheredtoday.org/2018/11/29/womens-colleges-hold-key-future/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:08:43 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14083 By Elizabeth Hillman and John Marx John Marx is blogging about his year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts centered on the idea of “place” in American higher education leadership. Marx, professor and chair of the English Department at University of California, Davis, is spending his year working with President Elizabeth Hillman at Mills College in Oakland, California. It’s no ...

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]]> The ACE Fellowship Year: Putting Place in Perspective https://www.higheredtoday.org/2018/09/26/ace-fellowship-year-putting-place-perspective/ Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:01:38 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=13737 In the upcoming months, John Marx will be blogging about his year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts centered on the idea of “place” in American higher education leadership. The Fellows Program gives participants the opportunity to immerse themselves in the study and practice of leadership and to experience the culture, policies, and decision-making processes of another institution. ...

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]]> The Journey Is the Success https://www.higheredtoday.org/2018/08/08/the-journey-is-the-success/ Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:50:20 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=13506 Cindy Kane, a 2016–17 ACE Fellow, used her year in the program to reimagine her position at Bridgewater State University (MA)—and plan an innovative next step in her career. “Success is a journey, not a destination.” I have seen this quote attributed to Arthur Ashe, Ben Sweetland, and Mark Twain, as well as the motivational card that I have framed from ...

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]]> The ACE Fellows Program: Considering the Move From Faculty to Administration https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/03/01/ace-fellows-program-considering-move-faculty-administration/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:57:35 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=8094 Faculty member or administrator? Rob Deemer, member of the ACE Fellows Class of 2016-17, says maybe both: Leadership development programs can add to your career options rather than make you abandon the academic discipline you love. Transformational change is a concept that both institutions and individuals think about constantly, plan for ubiquitously, and, every once in a while, take the opportunity ...

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]]> The Power of the ACE Fellows Program: Preparing Leaders to Serve https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/02/06/power-ace-fellows-program-preparing-leaders-serve/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 20:18:09 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=7772 By Sherri Lind Hughes As the mid-year ACE Fellows Program retreat in San Diego came to a close on Jan. 9, the members of the 2016-17 Fellows class gathered at the front of the room and assembled in a circle. It had been an intense five days of engagement, learning and reflection. Current Fellow Rob Deemer, nominated by the State University ...

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]]> ACE Fellows Program Opening Retreat: Mile High Management and Leadership in Action https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/09/19/ace-fellows-program-opening-retreat-mile-high-management-and-leadership-in-action/ Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:22:50 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=5666 By Lynn M. Gangone The 2016-17 cohort of the ACE Fellows Program—our 53rd class of Fellows—met in Denver, Colorado last month for their opening retreat. I was particularly excited to be back in Denver, where I spent eight years as a dean at the University of Denver. Drawing on the depth of resources in the Denver area, we heard from local ...

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]]> Common Characteristics of Successful Leaders https://www.higheredtoday.org/2015/12/15/common-characteristics-of-successful-leaders/ Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:07:16 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4076 Former ACE Fellow Scott Newman discusses what makes an outstanding college leader in an essay originally posted on Inside Higher Ed. Eager to gain a greater understanding of the higher education chief executive officer role during my tenure as an American Council on Education Fellow, I explicitly sought out more than 40 campus and system presidents and chancellors broadly considered successful ...

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]]> Faculty and CFOs: It’s Not Us Versus Them https://www.higheredtoday.org/2015/09/09/faculty-and-cfos-its-not-us-versus-them/ Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:36:22 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=3615 Instead of viewing each other as opposing sides, both faculty and business officers must come together to participate in budget discussions and help ensure that institutions are operating in ways that are financially sustainable, writes Audrey Bilger.  In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article on budget issues, Allison M. Vaillancourt, vice president of human resources and institutional effectiveness at the ...

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