Chancellor Michael Harris, IU Kokomo, Value Based Leadership, State of Campus, 2011, פרופסור...

Fall Convocation 2011

INDIANA UNIVERSITY KOKOMO

IUK a Community

Three Themes• Enhancing Academic

Excellence and Student Success

• Transforming the Region

• Building Relationships and Making Friends

Enhancing Academic Excellence and Student

SuccessBeing intentional, current, and relevant• 12 new baccalaureate

degree programs• Online courses• 2 new master’s degree

programs• More on the way


Success• Enrollment:• Over 15% expected increase in

FTIC • 10% expected increase in total

new students (including HS and transfers)

• All-time record in total credit hours

• All-time record in total number of full-time students

• Highest fall-to-fall retention rate: 62%


Success• Three experimental pilot

degree completion initiatives

• Peer advisors in advising centers

• 27% increase in student financial aid

• Recruiting new faculty


Success• Received highest

percentage increase in state appropriations (9.7%)

• New website • Next generation classroom• Introduced club sports

• Volleyball and Basketball


Success• Enhanced partnership with Ivy

Tech• Partnership with Sungshin

University (South Korea)• Campus beautification• Basketball and volleyball

courts


Success• Completion of Simulation Lab• Renovation of 3rd floor East

Building• Replacing seating in Havens

Auditorium• Purchasing new bus

Building Relationships and Making Friends

• Enhanced relationships with the legislature and executive branch

• Engaged business community• Community Outreach

Building Relationships and Making Friends

• Cultivated relations with donors• Raised three times more than

average of the previous four years

• Successful internal campaign• 74% participation rate

Transforming the Region

Regional Events:• ‘Great Connect’ – May• Regional Organizational

Collaborative Study in process – May

• Hosted Indiana Commission for Higher Education – May

• Mayor’s Summit – July

Additional Highlights• Planning for wellness

center, welcome center, coffee cart

• 16 retirements • Begin working on a new

strategic plan• Completing the

development of teams

Financial Report

Budgets are about values• Transparent budget hearing

and process

Financial Strength• Campus more financially sound at FY2011

closing compared to FY2010 closing (12% growth over FY2010 closing)

• University Budget Office (UBO) lauded our fiscal management

• Fiscal philosophy• Values-based• Accountability, efficiency, & fiscal

responsibility• Efficient stewardship of public and private

donor funds

• Accomplishments: R&R, ERIP, Financial Aid (27% increase), S&E

• Reporting: simple, clear, & efficient weekly reporting system

FY2012 General Fund (GF) Operating Budget• Revitalized the budgeting process

• Transparent, open & value-based

• Campus ownership of the process

• Larger GF operating budget (5% growth compared to FY2011)• State appropriations (9.7%

increase) • Projected increases in revenue

Future Expectations

• Accountability

• Targeted deployment of resources

• Continue building foundation for financially sound campus

• Bottom line – support student academic achievement & success, teaching, research & service

2011-2012 Focus• Empowerment/Leadership/

Innovation

• Continued Growth

With immense humility, courage, and deep gratitude

“Optimism is true moral courage.”

- Ernest Shackleton

04/12/2023

Value-Based Leadership

INDIANA UNIVERSITY KOKOMO

Fall Convocation2011

Presented by: Chancellor Michael Harris


Leadership is about:

• A vision and a collective destiny

• Motivating people to work together to accomplish extraordinary things

• Making decisions, not being arbitrary and capricious

• Grounded in and guided by values and integrity

This requires knowing yourself

Leadership: An Art and a Science

ART SCIENCE

LEADERSHIPCreativity, Expression based

Rational, Knowledge acquired by learning



• Is enhancing leadership feasible?

• Each of us is a leader


Leadership (a definition):

Developing a vision and a collective destiny; making decisions, overseeing change and creating transitions through empathy and collaborative work grounded in and guided by values and integrity

The Search for a Definition

Leadership Approach

Core Values Constraints (resources, $, time)


Time and resource constraints

Foundation & Constraints:

Organizational Structure – key to outcomes

Core values

Time & resource constraints

Organizational structure

Leadership Approach

Core Values

Leadership


Lessons from Sir Ernest Shackleton:Anglo-Irish (1874 – 1922)

Has been called, “the greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth, bar none”


Ad in London newspaper - 1913

Over 5000 men responded


• “By Endurance we conquer” Shackleton family motto

• Named vessel, ‘Endurance’

• First ever attempt to complete a crossing of Antarctica from sea to sea (1800 miles by foot)

The Endurance Expedition to Cross Antarctica:1914-1916


• August 1914: Shackleton and 27 men set out on ‘Endurance’

• December 1914: ‘Endurance’ leaves South Georgia Island

• January 1915: ‘Endurance’ gets trapped in ice

The ‘Endurance’ (1914-1916)


• October 1915: Ship crushed, crew live on the ice

• April 1916: Crew makes its way to Elephant Island

• April-May 1916: Shackleton and five crew members sail 800 miles to South Georgia Island

• August 1916: Shackleton returns to rescue men remaining on Elephant Island

The ‘Endurance’ (1914-1916)


Leadership in times of limited resources, changing realities and uncertainty:

• Forward looking – optimism – vision • Trustworthy, integrity• Empower - people support what they help to build

See people for what they can be, not for what they appear to be• Team building and collaboration• Maximize opportunities, not minimizing risk

Lessons from Shackleton and beyond


• Innovative – new solutions to old problems – added value• Effectiveness – achieve goals• Learn from mistakes



• Communication• Passionate and care for people• Lead by example through

values• Flexibility – challenge status quo


2011-2012 Focus• Empowerment/Leadership/

Innovation

• Continued Growth


“The best explorer, however, is the man who can both ‘conceive and dare.’” - H.R. Mill, Shackleton biographer

“Never for me the lowered banner, never the last Endeavour.”

- Ernest Shackleton

Crew of ‘Endurance’

With immense humility, courage, and deep gratitude

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