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Thursday, March 27, 2014 - Roundtable/Concurrent Session 5 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

“MAKING A DIFFERENCE”:
DEVELOPING RECOGNITION PROGRAMS THAT PROMOTE A POSITIVE CAMPUS CLIMATE

Location: Zermatt

Presented by: Patrick Vaughn, Acting President, St. Louis Community College-Wildwood, Wildwood, MO, Patricia
Aumann, Coordinator, Campus Life and College Transition, St. Louis Community College-Wildwood, Wildwood, MO

Creating opportunities to improve institutional climate and positive staff-faculty relationships in times of limited fund-
ing can be challenging. The development of a program of internal recognition empowering faculty, staff and students
to recognize each other can initialize a focus on positive reinforcement of quality customer service and in-depth
interactions. This round table will review an example of a recognition program developed and implemented at St.
Louis Community College-Wildwood and provide opportunity for discussion of other creative ways to increase
employee recognition and promote positive institutional climate and pride in the workplace.

The attendees will beneft by:
• Having a better understanding of the importance of positive institutional climate.
• Obtaining strategies to create employee recognition on a limited budget.
• Discussion of ways to create grassroots efforts that empower employees to get involved in recognition efforts.
• Begin developing a multi-stage approach with creative opportunities for engagement.
• Share ways to tie employee recognition to strategic planning to create lasting change.

FROM GROWTH TO MATURITY: The Chair Academy’s 23rd Annual International Leadership Conference
LEADING AND MANAGING IN AN EVOLVING EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE

Location: St. Moritz

Presented by: Claire Phillips, PhD, Dean of STEM division, Lone Star College, Cypress, TX

As higher education institutions transition from growth to maturity stage, leaders may wonder why priorities and
processes are changing and why long-standing management techniques no longer work. Using organizational
life cycle theory as a general framework and examples from a college in transition*, the moderator will facilitate
an interactive dialogue that may provide participants practical strategies to adjust long standing practices (geared
towards mid to upper level college administrators).

Attendees will beneft by:
• Awareness of how life cycle stages affect organizational culture
• Strategies to adjust management decision-making styles to altered conditions
• Improved understanding of environmental factors infuencing administrative practices
• Recognition of the need to adjust human resources practices
• Sharing problems and best practices to arrive at a set of practical tips by the end of the session *facilitator is
currently dean (& former business faculty) at Lone Star College, a high growth community college

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