Academic Leadership Academy
The College of Medicine and Life Sciences Academic Leadership Academy is a year-long certificate program leading to forty-four credit hours and designed to cultivate leadership among faculty participants.
The curriculum combines learner-centered, didactic, case-based, and interactive pedagogies to foster dialogue and support participants' leadership development. In-person engagement includes four five-hour Saturday sessions and monthly two-hour evening sessions. Participants will be expected to develop a project for presentation to the group.
The goal of this program is to invigorate participants' academic identity, provide opportunities to hone their leadership skills, and prepare graduates to excel and continue contributing to the academic and research missions of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences.
Interested faculty members should submit a one-page letter of interest, a letter of support from their department chairman, and their curriculum vitae to Hyperlink. The program will begin in August 2026.
Empowering Faculty as Educators and Leaders
Academic leadership is one of the quintessential doctrines of effective faculty development. Physicians complete years of rigorous didactic and clinical training to effectively practice their specialties at an advanced level; however, formal preparation in the principles of adult learning theory is not commonly integrated into medical school or residency curriculum. Moreover, most academic medical centers focus their transformational efforts on effective revenue cycle management, investing in information technology, and developing new educational programs within the graduate medical education pillar. Although important, these efforts alone have not produced the transformational change required for academic medical centers to thrive and support the educational continuum. To achieve enduring excellence, faculty must embrace their professional identities as educators and experience the value and support from their academic medical centers through robust faculty development constructs. The effective navigation of opportune change, the support of our culture of professionalism, and the proper leverage of educational skill sets will reinforce faculty teaching identity while also supporting the academic mission of our College of Medicine and Life Sciences.