Women: Leading and Managing Change in Higher Education…The HERS Experience

1. Women: Leading and Managing Changein Higher Education…The HERS Experience Kristel Seth Director, Research and Sponsored Programs Denver Institute, 2013 Marilyn Hart Director, Undergraduate Research Center Bryn Mawr Institute, 2012

2. Live with Intention • Be deliberate • Join the conversation • Address the need Intentionally think about and plan for your future!

3. Women in Academic Leadership • Women earn the majority of postsecondary degrees. • Women are earning more professional degrees. • Women are overall under-represented as faculty, mid-level and senior administration. • Female PHD’s are more likely to obtain positions at two-year versus four-year institutions. • Women have career “set-backs” for personal reasons. • Female professors earn 80% of their male counterparts.

4. Female University Presidents • Women represent 27% of college presidents. • At Community Colleges, 33% of presidents are women. • At Women’s Colleges, female presidents are the norm.

5. Outline • Opportunities (& Challenges) • Career Advancement • HERS Introduction • Institute Overview • Experience and Benefits • Application Process and Selection • Final Thoughts and Questions

6. Opportunities (& Challenges) • List strengths, passions • Identify opportunities • Locate gaps, challenges • Set goals, make a plan • Balance life/work

7. Career Advancement • Chart career aspirations • Keep a journal, update your resume/CV, have an electronic career file, start a gratitude folder • Document success – create a PAR diary • P=problem, challenge, issue, opportunity • A=action taken to (re)solve • R=results, benefit, outcome *Tell a story about your accomplishments • Transferability of skills

8. Career Advancement cont. • Professional building blocks • Networks, continuous learning, leadership experience, institutional experience and service, professional image • Personal building blocks • Balance, health, recreation, stress management, relationship skills, dealing with failure, persistence, reinvention, sense of humor • Reflect on and utilize strengths • Have a mentor, be a mentor

9. HERS: Higher Education Resource Services • An educational non-profit organization; • Provides leadership and management development for women in higher education administration; • Prepared more than 4300 women faculty and administrators for leadership roles; • Alumnae over 1200 campuses: USA, South Africa, Botswana, India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Micronesia, and Caribbean region; and • Over 500 HERS alumnae now serve in senior level positions.

10. HERS Institute Overview Five themes of curriculum (2013): I. Understanding the Higher Education Environment II. Planning and Leading Change in the Academy III. Managing and Investing Strategic Resources IV. Engaging Individual and Institutional Diversity V. Mapping Your Leadership Development *chief university officer interviews, readings, self assessments, leadership project

11. Take Charge: Leadership Project Identify a project, develop a plan: • Connected to mission, tied into strategic plan • Strengths/weaknesses, opportunities/barriers • Establish a team: stakeholders, allies, supporters, mentors • Vision for implementation, empowered to act • Create timeline, communicate deliverables • Track progress, make adjustments, celebrate successes

12. HERS: The Experience, The Benefits • Institutional awareness, university connections • Intentional planning and goal setting • Network with a community of powerful women • Support and advocate • Multitude of resources

13. MSU HERS Alumni Bryn Mawr Summer Institute Linda Duckett, 2000 Jean Haar, 2006 Jennifer Guyer-Wood, 2007 Deborah Jesseman, 2008 Marilyn Hart, 2012 Denver Summer Institute Debra Schulz, 2009 Kimberly Greer, 2010 Rhonda Dass, 2011 Candace Raskin, 2012 Kristel Seth, 2013 Linda Jacoby, 2013 Wellesley Institute Michelle Alvarez, 2012 Nancy Fitzsimons, 2012

14. Institute Locations & Dates

15. Apply for a Scholarship! The President’s Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) is now accepting scholarship applications. A representative from MSU will attend one of the annual HERS Institutes for women during the 2013-2014 academic year. The purpose of the Institute is to advance women leaders in the middle and executive levels of higher education administration.

16. Application Process The MSU scholarship application process requires: • completion of the HERS application form, • self-descriptive letter, • letter of recommendation from a supervisor, and • resume. More information on the application process is available at the Commission’s website: http://www.mnsu.edu/csw/hers.html

17. Review Process Submit completed application packets: • by January 24, 2014 , • to Jeane McGraw in WA 325. Applications will be reviewed by the PCSW and recommendations forwarded to President Davenport.

18. Final Thoughts • Live intentionally • Set goals and plan for your aspirations • Utilize professional development opportunities • Document your successes • Network, be an advocate for women • Find a mentor, be a mentor

19. Questions?