New Leader Program

The College Administrator’s Survival Guide
Introduction
Chapter 1: Embrace Your Fate
Chapter 8: Problems, Rules, and Laws
Chapter 9: Violations

8:30 – Continental Breakfast
9:00 – Welcome (Elizabeth Weeks and Mary Carney)
9:05 – Insights into Leadership at UGA (Provost S. Jack Hu)
9:40 – Embrace Your Fate and Cultivate Leadership (Elizabeth Weeks and Mary Carney)
10:15 – Break
10:30 – Guidance on Legal Issues and Equal Opportunities
11:45 – What Does It Mean to Be Faculty in Administrative Leadership? (Panel)
12:45 – Networking Lunch
1:30 – Conclude

2024

• Embrace Your Fate and Cultivate Leadership (Elizabeth Weeks) (PDF)
• Guidance on Legal Issues and Equal Opportunities (Marshall Chalmers and Qiana Wilson) (PDF)
• On-Campus Resource Guide
• Protection Against Retaliation Whistleblower Protection
• UGA Equal Opportunity Office
• UGA Office of Legal Affairs

The College Administrator’s Survival Guide
Chapter 4: Complaints
Chapter 7: Troubled Units

8:30 – Continental Breakfast
9:00 – Effective Leadership Communication Panel & Communications Case Studies
10:15 – Break
10:30 – Data Resources and Institutional Reporting (Allan Aycock)
11:00 – Curriculum Development at UGA (Fiona Liken & Brooke Daniel)
11:30 – Break
11:45 – Decision-Making and Leadership (Panel)
12:45 – Networking Lunch
1:30 – Conclude

2024

• Curriculum Development at UGA (Fiona Liken and Brooke Daniel)
• Michelle’s Rules for Email (aka, Principles of Email Haiku)
• Fulford Handout Social Capital Worksheet – AACP 2024

The College Administrator’s Survival Guide
Chapter 5: Negotiations
Chapter 10: Centering

8:30 – Continental Breakfast
9:00 – Faculty Searches, Hiring, and Offer Letters (Carly Surratt and Elizabeth Weeks)
9:45 – Negotiating Offer Letters Interactive Breakout Session
10:45 – Break
11:00 – Faculty Annual Evaluations, Promotion and Tenure, Post-Tenure Review (Elizabeth Weeks)
11:30 – Elements (Carly Surratt)
11:45 – Performance Evaluations and Faculty Mentoring Panel
12:15 – Performance Evaluations and Faculty Development Case Study
12:45 – Networking Lunch
1:30 – Conclude

2024

• Search, Hire, Evaluation, Tenure, and Promotion (Elizabeth Weeks & Carly Surratt)
• Faculty Hiring & Position Management
• Faculty Ranks & Appointments
• Elements for New Leaders (Sunshine Jordan)
• UGA Elements website
• Elements Reporting for Administrators
• Performance Evaluations and Faculty Mentoring (Mary Carney)
• Teaching Evaluation Resources (DeLTA/SEER)

The College Administrator’s Survival Guide
Chapter 2: Boundaries and Expectations
Chapter 3: Colleagues
Chapter 6: Bullies

8:30 – Continental Breakfast
9:00 – Student Concerns
10:00 – Break
10:15 – Human Resources and Conflict Management Case Studies
10:45 – Emergency Preparedness
11:00 – Break
11:15 – Budget Management for Leaders
11:45 – Strategic Financial Management (Panel)
12:45 – Networking Lunch
1:30 – Conclude

2023

• Student Concerns (Carrie Smith) (PDF)
• Human Resources and Conflict Management Case Studies (Tracey O’Malley) (PDF)
• Emergency Preparedness (Adam Fouche) (PDF)
• Budget Management for Leaders (James Shore) (PDF)
• UGA Allowable and Unallowable Expenditure by Fund Matrix
• UGA OneSource Faculty and Staff Guide