Assistant/Associate Dean Leadership Development

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Assistant and associate deans act as a compass for their units, helping guide their schools and colleges in the collective vision while managing up, down, and across stakeholders. This programming supports them in these crucial yet often invisible roles. 

OFD’s Assistant/Associate Dean Leadership Development program is designed to help assistant and associate deans operate effectively as a part of their executive team; become adept leaders who support their schools, colleges, and the university with emotionally intelligent, inclusive, and adaptive leadership skills; and work in ways that are sustainable for them, their teams, and the institution.  

The program includes the ADEPT (Assistant & Associate Deans Empowerment & Professional Training) Leadership Institute, mutual mentoring groups by portfolio area, a mutual mentoring group for women assistant and associate deans, and the LEAD+ biweekly workshop series. 

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ADEPT

The ADEPT (Assistant/Associate Dean Empowerment and Professional Training) Leadership Institute provides mentoring, coaching, and leadership training focused on the unique needs of assistant and associate deans. 

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LEAD+

LEAD+ is a professional development and support program for heads and chairs and assistant/associate deans covering topics of common concern.

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Assistant/Associate Deans Mutual Mentoring

Assistant and associate deans gather once a semester by portfolio area (e.g., undergraduate education, graduate education, research, equity and inclusion, student success, administration and finance) or other special initiative for mutual mentoring conversations facilitated by Associate Provost Angela de Oliveira.

For more information, please email @email. 

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Women AD Affinity Group

Women assistant and associate deans meet monthly to connect and network.

For more information, please contact @email.

Assistant/Associate Dean Training Opportunities

Check out some of OFD's additional program offerings for leaders and external leadership trainings.

HERS HERS OFD's VALUES Program OFD's VALUES Program Building Academic Leaders (BAL) Building Academic Leaders (BAL) American Council on Education Fellows Program American Council on Education Fellows Program Academic Impressions Academic Impressions Harvard Higher Education Leadership Programs Harvard Higher Education Leadership Programs New Leadership Academy New Leadership Academy
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Program Contact
Angela de Oliveira

Associate Provost for Faculty Development, Professor of Resource Economics

Dr. Angela C.M. de Oliveira provides vision and leadership for the Office of Faculty Development, focusing especially on leadership development, mentoring, mid-career, awards and recognition, as well as community, inclusion, and wellness programs to support healthy, equitable, thriving faculty and departments.
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