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A New Partnership

Royal Roads University President and Vice-Chancellor Allan Cahoon and Chair Academy Executive Director
Richard Strand sign the memorandum of understanding for a new partnership and articulation agreement.

With a shared commitment to developing leadership in higher education administration, Royal Roads University
has a new partnership with the Chair Academy, which includes a credit transfer agreement between the two
institutions. Richard Strand, Executive Director of the Chair Academy, and Allan Cahoon, Royal Roads President
and Vice Chancellor, signed the articulation agreement at the 25th Annual International Leadership Conference,
Leading by Design, in March of 2016 in San Antonio, Texas.

“We’re excited to partner with the Chair Academy and recognize “I am very pleased we have reached an agreement with Royal
their highly valued leadership training program by giving their Roads University to facilitate the journey of our program
alumni additional opportunities to develop their leadership skills participants as they pursue their desire to continue to grow both
and thrive in their post-secondary profession,” says Allan Cahoon. personally and professionally,” says Chair Academy Executive
“Royal Roads University is unique in Canada with 65 percent of Director Richard Strand. “Of close to 10,000 participants, many
its domestic students in graduate programs and three-quarters of have leveraged their time and effort in one of our Academy
those students studying and working at the same time through our programs to continue their studies with an accredited university
innovative blended learning format. This allows professionals from somewhere across the United States or in Australia. The newly
universities and colleges to complete their graduate studies in signed agreement with Royal Roads is the Chair Academy’s first
education while they remain actively employed.” with a Canadian-based institution of higher learning.”
Over the past 25 years, the Chair Academy has been delivering Through the new agreement, graduates of the Chair Academy’s
graduate-level leadership programs to post-secondary educators programs will receive credit for Leading Education Change in Higher
and administrators on a global scale. The Chair Academy has Education Environments, a course in the Master of Arts in Higher
a large international membership of Canadian and American Education Administration and Leadership program at Royal Roads.
universities and colleges.
Tis story was reprinted with permission from Royal Roads University.

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