Educating the Chancellor: Enabling Student Leadership Richard H' Wells, Chancellor UW Oshkosh

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Educating the Chancellor Enabling Student
LeadershipRichard H. Wells, Chancellor UW
Oshkosh

• Keynote Address
• Midwest Student Leadership Conference Building
  Student Power in the Heartland
• October 14, 2005

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Educating the Chancellor Enabling Student
LeadershipPresentation Outline

• Setting the Context
• Leadership Philosophy
• UWO Governing Ideas
• Enabling Student Leadership
• Educating the Chancellor
• Continuing My Education as a Chancellor

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Setting the Context Leadership Philosophy

• Leadership should be viewed as much more of a
  group than individual phenomenon. Therefore, an
  effective leader encourages and supports
  leadership attitudes and behaviors among as many
  group members as possible.

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Setting the ContextLeadership Philosophy

• In an academic community, an effective leader
  must understand and be committed to a shared
  governance structure that joins the core internal
  and external stakeholder groups. This type of
  shared governance is the heart and soul of a
  collegial organization.

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Setting the ContextLeadership Philosophy

• Successful leaders must first help ensure that
  the input and advice obtained from stakeholders
  is of the highest quality
• and they must then use as much of the advice as
  possible.

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Setting the ContextLeadership Philosophy

• Effective leaders must realize that they will
  never have all the input and information they
  would ideally like to have before making a
  decision. Therefore, they must do their best to
  make the decision in a timely fashion.

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Setting the ContextLeadership Philosophy

• Respected leaders challenge themselves and their
  colleagues to never underestimate what members of
  an academic community are capable of
  accomplishing. Consequently, they encourage,
  support, and engage in calculated risk-taking
  behavior.

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Setting the ContextLeadership Philosophy

• Effective leaders prioritize their work to ensure
  that the many everyday decisions are made in a
  routine, timely fashion so that major decisions
  are given the necessary amount of time, input,
  and thought. The proper prioritization of time
  and the ability to quickly obtain extensive
  advice leads to informed decisions and,
  therefore, a decisive leader.

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Setting the ContextLeadership Philosophy

• Effective leaders understand the crucial
  importance of developing always-stronger
  relationships between themselves and leaders of
  the core stakeholder groups. Given that effective
  leaders must sometime strain these relationships,
  they must then have the ability to "repair"
  strained relationships.

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Setting the ContextLeadership Philosophy

• Respected leaders are characterized by integrity,
  trustworthiness, courage, fairness, creativity,
  vision, and sound judgment.

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Setting the ContextUWO Governing Ideas

• Abridged Mission
• Vision, characterized by
• Enrichment and Leadership
• The Centrality of the Student-Faculty
  Relationship
• Teaching Excellence
• Scholarly Achievement
• Partnerships
• Core Values
• Strategic Directions

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UWO Governing IdeasAbridged Mission

• Providing students with access to a high-quality,
  affordable, comprehensive education that enables
  them to develop their general intellectual
  capacities, specific interests, and abilities
  through academic programs and personalized
  student development services.

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UWO Governing IdeasAbridged Mission

• Fostering the scholarly activities of faculty,
  students, and staff related to teaching,
  research, intellectual activities, creative
  expression, and service.

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UWO Governing IdeasAbridged Mission

• Sharing its intellectual and specialized
  capabilities with individuals, organizations, and
  communities in our Wisconsin region and beyond in
  a way that is responsive to the needs of the
  people we serve.

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UWO Governing IdeasVision

• The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh will be a
  national model as a responsive, progressive, and
  scholarly public service community known for its
  accomplished record of engaging people and ideas
  for common good. It will be admired for

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UWO Governing IdeasVision

• We will be known and Admired for
• Enrichment and Leadership that emphasizes
  intellectual, civic, ethical, and personal
  development for students, faculty, and staff.
• The Centrality of the Student-Faculty
  Relationship that is distinguished by active
  learning, mutual respect, and collaborative
  scholarship.

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UWO Governing IdeasVision

• We will be known and Admired for
• Teaching Excellence that is characterized by
  diversity, discovery, engagement, innovation,
  dialogue, and dissemination.
• Scholarly Achievement that furthers new knowledge
  through diverse methods of inquiry and is
  applicable to multiple audiences.
• Partnerships that mutually serve, stimulate, and
  shape the University and the broader public.

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UWO Governing IdeasCore Values

• Knowledge and Continuous Learning,
• Diversity and Inclusivity,
• Quality and Achievement,
• Freedom and Responsibility,
• Engagement and Support,
• Social Awareness and Responsiveness

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UWO Governing IdeasStrategic Directions

• Develop a Diverse, Engaged community of Lifelong
  Learners and Collaborative Scholars.
• Enhance Teaching Excellence, Active Learning and
  Dynamic Curricular Programs.
• Foster Research, Intellectual Activity, and
  Creative Expression.

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UWO Governing IdeasStrategic Directions

• Expand Regional Outreach and Domestic and
  International Partnerships.
• Promote Representative Leadership, Responsive
  Shared Governance, and Flexible Resource
  Stewardship.

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Enabling Student Leadership

• Setting Context Together
• Enabling people to become engaged in fulfilling
  the mission, vision, values and directions of the
  institution.

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Enabling Student Leadership

• Hold Routine Meetings
• Bi-Weekly with President and VP of OSA
• Full Oshkosh Student Association
• Student Senate Representatives
• Student Assembly Representatives
• Monthly U Plan
• all campus governance organizations leaders
• Campus Media Leaders
• Newspapers, Radio and TV

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Enabling Student Leadership

• Hold Assemblies and other Sessions
• Opening of Semester
• Other Occasions
• Hold Open Forums
• Specifically scheduled for student input on
  Strategic Planning
• Promote and Support Student Membership on
  University, College and Departmental Committees

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Enabling Student Leadership

• Be Visible to Students
• Eat lunch
• At the Student Union
• At the Student Commons
• Attend Student Activities
• Student Athletic Events
• Student Cultural and Art events
• Student Research Presentations
• Student Award Ceremonies
• Sponsor Chancellors Midnight Breakfasts
• Encourage Student Leaders to Attend BOR Meetings

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Educating the Chancellor

• Listen to Students and Probe the Larger
  Underlying Concern
• Disarming Campus Police?
• Providing online Voting for Students?
• Implementing Text Book Rental Program?
• Allowing Beer to be served in Student Union?

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Educating the Chancellor

• Dont Assume You Understand Students Concerns
• Treat All Students as Older and Younger Adults

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Educating the ChancellorSummary

• My objectives were to talk about
• How you can set the context
• Leadership Philosophy
• UWO Governing Ideas
• How Educating the Chancellor Enables Student
  Leadership
• Youll be able to educate your Chancellor to the
  extent you are involved with and understand the
  Governing Ideas and Leadership Philosophy at your
  institution.

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Educating the ChancellorContinuation

• I gave you some ideas on How to Educate your
  Chancellor by Telling You What I do.
• Now I give you the Opportunity to Continue my
  Education
• How Can I Be More Visible?
• How Can I Better Appreciate Student Issues When
  Raised?
• How Can I Enable Student Leadership?