Presenter:

Stephen P. Hundley, Ph.D. is Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Planning and Institutional Improvement and Professor of Organizational Leadership at IUPUI. He chairs the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis and serves as Editor of Assessment Update. With Susan Kahn, he is co-editor of the forthcoming book entitled Trends in Assessment: Ideas, Opportunities, and Issues for Higher Education. Stephen has addressed audiences throughout the United States and in over 30 foreign countries. His prior administrative leadership roles include program director, department chair, associate dean for academic affairs, associate vice chancellor for strategic initiatives, and interim dean and associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a doctorate from American University in Washington, D.C.

Description:

This session discusses the contexts, imperatives, and competencies necessary to fully realize leadership for assessment and improvement.  Contexts refer to the places in which learning and improvement occur.  Imperatives are the strategic considerations that leaders—at all levels and in various contexts—need to embrace in order to cultivate leadership for assessment and improvement.  Competencies are the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required to effectively lead assessment and improvement practices and priorities.  Participants will leave this interactive session with an action plan to inform their own contexts, imperatives, and competencies.

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Explain the significance of providing leadership for assessment and improvement;
2. Describe the contexts in which leadership occurs;
3. Identify the imperatives necessary to cultivate leadership for assessment and improvement;
4. Outline the competencies required to lead successfully; and
5. Develop an action plans to enhance leadership for assessment and improvement in a given context.