{"id":29320,"date":"2014-02-27T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=29320"},"modified":"2014-03-28T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T18:21:35","slug":"university-leadership-program-golden-ticket-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/university-leadership-program-golden-ticket-much\/","title":{"rendered":"University Leadership Program is a ‘golden ticket,’ and so much more"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eck Doerry<\/span>
\n<\/i>Professor of Computer Science,
\ndirector of NAU’s Global Science and Engineering Program<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>and 2013 University Leadership Program alumnus<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

I was asked to reflect a bit on how the University Leadership Program<\/a> had been of value to me to “help interest others in the program.” Say what?! It is hard to believe that any colleague on campus wouldn\u2019t immediately see the incredible benefit that this program offers. I can only surmise that there is some lack of clarity regarding what the program entails; maybe I can help clear that up.<\/p>\n

First of all, this is not<\/em> a program for administrators. Heck, it\u2019s not really a program for those who aspire toward administration at all. Instead, the \u201cleadership\u201d in ULP is meant in the broadest possible sense, focused on those on campus who see themselves as \u201cleaders\u201d in any sense: the thoughtful voice in faculty meetings; the \u201cbig picture person\u201d on committees; the \u201cstrategic thinker\u201d in research groups; or even the antidote to the no-facts blowhard during water cooler conversations.<\/p>\n

If you feel in the dark on how our university leaders make decisions or what factors play into those decisions, then ULP is for you. It’s a truly unique program that directly supports the notion that we are a collegium<\/i> of peers, all with some voice in steering this university, and for that to work well, at least some subset of faculty \u201cleaders\u201d has to actually understand how priorities are set and how decisions are made.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re pretty well familiar with your own area, but are kind of fuzzy on how human resources, marketing, legislative affairs, athletics, policing, community relations and many other things weave together with the core academic mission to make NAU work, then ULP is for you. If you\u2019d like to get the full scoop on university budgets and financial planning, then apply for ULP<\/a>. At every meeting, the president and key leaders from each area will be there to explain their operations in detail, and then you get to ask all the questions that you can think of, no holds barred. Remember how Charlie Bucket gets to go inside the Wonka Chocolate Factory and see how it all works? Yeah, it\u2019s like that feeling\u2014but without the Oompa-Loompas and with a whole lot healthier food.<\/p>\n

The ULP group itself is incredible too, spanning every university area. I was surprised to realize how many pieces there really are to the institutional puzzle, and now I personally know someone from each of those areas that I can nudge if I have a question or a problem.<\/p>\n

In sum, the ULP turned out to be everything and more than I had hoped for when I signed up. The experience has fundamentally changed how I view and participate in all core university processes. I highly recommend ULP to anyone for whom NAU is more than just a place to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Eck Doerry Professor of Computer Science, director of NAU’s Global Science and Engineering Program\u00a0and 2013 University Leadership Program alumnus I was asked to reflect a bit on how the University Leadership Program had been of value to me to “help interest others in the program.” Say what?! It is hard to believe that any…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":29321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views-from-nau"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}