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Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - Roundtable/Concurrent Session 2 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm

TRAINING PROFESSORS TO BE BUSINESS TRAINERS - AND VICE-VERSA

Location: Geneva

Presented by: Robert H. Vaughn, Professor Emeritus, Lakeland Community College, Mentor, OH

Colleges often need adjunct faculty to supplement their full-time professors, and business practitioners and trainers
are an excellent source of the expertise needed. Conversely, college and university faculty can often provide the
knowledge and skills needed in organizational training. However, they will need to adapt their design and
presentation styles to ft into the business, rather than academic models. This session will compare and contrast
the academic and organizational training environments with a number of specifc suggestions on how college faculty
and organizational trainers can effectively function in each others’ worlds. The session leader has actively
participated in both academia as a college administrator and faculty member, and in the organizational training
environment over three decades.

The session will help participants to:
• Understand the differences between the academic and organizational training environments
• Analyze the opportunities for trainers to effectively move into teaching at a college.
• Analyze the opportunities for colleges to enter the organizational training marketplace.
• Improve curriculum design skills to better meet the needs of the respective audiences.

THE TRANSFORMATION OF KASKASKIA COLLEGE The Chair Academy’s 23rd Annual International Leadership Conference
UTILIZING THE PRINCIPLES OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP

Location: Zurich

Presented by: Dr. James Underwood, President, Kaskaskia College, Centralia, IL

This presentation will describe transformational change at Kaskaskia College since 2001, the major role of servant
leadership principles in promoting and effecting such change, the resulting institutional accomplishments, and
continuing efforts to further the practice of servant leadership at the College. The adoption of a servant leadership
model as the basis of operations has provided the impetus for changes to the institutional environment, streamlining
the organization and introducing an inverted pyramid structure, instituting participatory processes, developing the
“one-college” concept, establishing a consensus democracy, and furthering systems thinking and process
leadership. The results have established Kaskaskia College as a premier institution.

Those attending this session will beneft by
• Learning how to bring about transformational change in the face of signifcant challenges
• Better understanding how the principles of servant leadership may be successfully applied in a college setting
for the beneft of Board members, faculty, staff, and administration
• Determining how the adoption of the servant leadership model may serve as a catalyst for changing a
college’s culture
• Understanding the positive impact that transformational change can have on enrollments, institutional costs,
organizational effciency and effectiveness, and the expansion of programs and facilities
• Realizing the benefts of a leadership approach focused on valuing, serving, and empowering all faculty and
staff

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