Kellogg Leadership Institute
From 1995 to 1998, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) received funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to support leadership exchanges and personal development for faculty and administrators from across the 36-institution state system. By 1999, it was clear that the system’s success would lie in its ability to respond to a wide range of needs in an increasingly competitive context of indeterminate and uncertain resources. Combined with numerous faculty and administrative retirements and replacements then taking place, system leaders came to realize that circumstances required a commitment to build the system’s leadership capacity by cultivating and developing leadership emerging from all sectors within the unified system – state universities, community colleges, technical colleges and comprehensive two-year institutions.
In 1999, MnSCU received another grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to develop and implement an 18-month Leadership Institute. Under the leadership of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, Linda Baer, six core areas for transformational change were identified: 1. Serving Students Better; 2. Leading the Effective Institution; 3. Curriculum and Pedagogy; 4. Technology as a Strategic Asset; 5. Assessment and Accountability; and 6. Global Education and International Markets.
In the spring of 1999, 21 Fellows were selected from over 100 applicants to participate in the program (19 Fellows completed the program)..The project's final report is available as a PDF: Kellogg Leadership Institute Final Report, 2001.
