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Professional Development Programs

Our programs combine insights from The Chronicle‘s journalism with practical skills and tools to help you further your leadership and career. We partner with leading experts and experienced practitioners to meet the needs of higher ed professionals navigating an ever-changing academic landscape.

Our Programs

Join us on January 21-31, 2025, for a professional-development program to help new and experienced department chairs overcome the challenges of the role and create a strategic vision for personal and departmental growth.
UPCOMING: January 2025 | The Chronicle is partnering with Strategic Imagination to provide you with a professional development program which recognizes that navigating today’s complex higher-ed landscape isn’t simply about learning new concepts. We’re creating a new kind of virtual community that will walk alongside you through the fall semester, with brief lessons and exercises designed to be integrated into your busy schedules and applied to your current challenges.
UPCOMING: February 2025: The Chronicle has partnered with Dever Justice LLC to help early-career faculty build a successful academic career with their passions and interests in mind. This fast-paced virtual workshop will provide a space for reflection and strategic planning during this crucial stage of your career, and will offer faculty members the opportunity to build their skills, understand institutional and role-specific contexts, and gain access to the early-career insights.
UPCOMING: March 2025 | The Chronicle is partnering with the experienced faculty members and administrators at Dever Justice LLC on a fast-paced course for academic professionals looking to advance their skills in preparation for administrative roles. This four-hour workshop will provide key insights for new and aspiring academic administrators on the inner workings of taking on an administrative position—from application all the way through the transition.
The Chronicle has partnered with Strategic Imagination to create a groundbreaking virtual leadership series that will provide critical context, creative strategies, and guided exercises for women in leadership roles across academe. Our program tracks are designed to target the areas most important to women at different leadership levels, culminating in a Summit to bridge the gaps between those levels for a more comprehensive view on systemic pressure women face in higher ed.
Higher education is going through seismic change, and leaders are faced with new internal and external challenges every day. This virtual workshop series will provide administrative leaders with the skills to effectively enhance institutional success and navigate shared governance by learning how to make tough decisions, lead with resiliency, and build high-performing teams.
The Chronicle and Ithaka S+R are partnering to provide library leaders a professional development program tailored to their unique challenges and goals. This two-week virtual program is designed to empower participants to develop their leadership skills and drive institutional success through virtual seminars on topics of broad national importance to librarians and their institutions, as well as workshops on the topics most pressing for the campus library that will provide a collaborative space to assess progress on library initiatives and create plans for future success.
The Chronicle has partnered with Professional Pathways to create an innovative virtual workshop for career-driven academics looking to pursue pathways beyond the faculty. This program has been carefully designed to support individuals at every stage of the career exploration journey and provide you with the necessary insights and tools needed to consider diverse career opportunities.

Testimonials

This program equipped me with timely resources to strategically lead my department as we and our entire institution navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education.
Strategic-Leadership Program
This program was extremely helpful in growing in my administrative leadership skills that I can now bring back to my role at my college. It was clear and engaging.
Administrative Leadership Institute
The best leadership workshop I have ever attended. I gained many concrete strategies I can implement immediately to advance my work and enhance my success and that of my colleagues.
Women Leading Change Program
Wonderful session! This workshop offers both space for personal discernment about transitioning into administration and gives you practical tools for stepping through the process.
Academic Leadership Crash Course

Featured Program

Join us on January 21-31, 2025, for a professional-development program to help new and experienced department chairs overcome the challenges of the role and create a strategic vision for personal and departmental growth.

Our Partners

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Dever Justice LLC

Dever Justice LLC is a partnership dedicated to supporting college and university faculty. Together, Carolyn Dever and George Justice offer a combined 50 years of experience as professors and senior leaders at a total of eight universities, large and small, urban and rural, in the north, south, midwest, and west of the US. Dever Justice works to advance excellence in education and research, and create diverse, inclusive pathways for all members of their campus communities.

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Teibel Education Consulting

Teibel Education partners with leaders both virtually and face-to-face to orient their teams around a network of commitments. They conduct team-building, leadership development programs, group coaching and campus-wide innovation projects to unleash the enthusiasm of diverse communities. Their goal is to help you effectively align your mission and strategy, build a culture of continuous exploration, and improve communication.

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Ithaka S+R

Ithaka S+R works with leaders in higher education, academic libraries, museums, foundations, and publishers to research, evaluate, and provide strategic guidance in a range of areas. Ithaka S+R helps academic and cultural communities serve the public good and navigate economic, technological, and demographic change. Their work aims to broaden access to quality postsecondary education, improve student outcomes, and advance research and knowledge.

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Professional Pathways LLC

Professional Pathways is the premier training and development institute dedicated to empowering leaders and scholars to become catalysts for positive change in their workplaces, industries and the world-at-large. Professional Pathways provides the tools and coaching needed to navigate change, inspire innovation, and lead with vision and confidence in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape.

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Strategic Imagination

Strategic Imagination uses the tools of the imaginative arts to help individuals and organizations exit trapped mindsets, build empathy for colleagues and stakeholders, and see bolder future visions than they previously thought possible. Strategic Imagination brings these tools and more to the table to help organizations and leaders bolster DEI initiatives, organizational agility, and to practice future visioning.

About Us

The Chronicle‘s professional-development programs are designed to combine critical information from our journalism with practical skill-building workshops, seminars, and tools that will help you succeed in higher ed. We partner with leading experts and experienced practitioners to provide robust programs tailored to the evolving needs of professionals navigating an ever-changing academic landscape.

Through our groundbreaking programs, we have helped hundreds of academic professionals think strategically about their roles, departments, and institutions. With a range of engaging events, carefully curated readings, and specially-designed exercises, our professional development resources can help you approach challenges and opportunities with a fresh lens and innovative mindset.