"Exceedingly valuable experience, thanks for your commitment to Teacher Education".
2005 NDI Alumnus

New Deans Institute
June 1 - 6, 2008
Hilton Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska
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New Deans Institute Goals
Congratulations! Being named as the dean or chair of a professional education program is a significant accomplishment. The decisions you make and the actions you take in your first 12 to 18 months can be critical to your long-term success. The AACTE New Deans Institute (NDI) is designed to help you manage the challenges you confront in your first two years as head administrator of your school, college, or department of education (SCDE). Just as important, the NDI offers an excellent opportunity to work with experienced deans and to build and strengthen your support network of other deans who are at a similar point in their careers.

Program
To gain your position, you described a vision for the future of teacher preparation that likely involves advancing your program, the institution, and the profession as a whole. Successful implementation of your vision will require operating in a complex environment. At the NDI, within the framework of defining leadership, you will explore topics such as:

The State of the Scene
Understand the political issues and challenges facing teacher education, fit your institution into this external context, and determine priorities.

Money Matters
Develop a strategic plan to set the foundation for development work, budget management, and data collection and use.

Personnel
Manage recruitment, hiring and induction, retention, faculty development, and promotion and tenure processes to your program's best advantage. Develop a strategy for building a diverse faculty.

Diversity/Equity
Raise your awareness of how race and gender oppression operates in organizations and how to minimize its impact in programs. Explore ways to gain broad commitments to developing diversity within individual programs.

Accountability
Explore key accountability issues at university, local, state, and professional/national levels; link accountability measures to indications of program improvement.

Internal Relations
Build collaborative relationships across campus and work successfully with your president/provost as an advocate for the SCDE.

External Relations
Represent your SCDE to policy makers, PK-12 leaders, civic communities, and others as you work to open lines of communication and build mutually beneficial relationships.

Technology
Gain a general knowledge of emerging issues in technology and identify the critical ones that need to be addressed on your campus and in the teacher education program.

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