Principled Academic Leadership Programs

NCPRE has developed a modular program for HHMI, with each module based around one or more common dilemmas faced in the specific environments of HHMI researchers (HHMI investigators, lab leads, and the members of their laboratories). It is developed in collaboration with key members of the HHMI community and piloted with Illinois partners at the Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB). The innovative structure of the IGB, which leverages interdisciplinary team science strategies in life science research to tackle grand societal challenges, makes it an ideal participant. 

Program Goals

• Engage researchers, investigators, and lab members in discussions about issues that are faced in their environments

• Encourage conversations that increase transparency and communication around difficult issues through a decision-making framework for addressing professional and ethical dilemmas

• Help to prevent harassment, detrimental research practices, and cultural biases
  

• Create a culture in the laboratories that minimizes unethical outcomes through improved interpersonal communication and values-based problem-solving to create intellectually productive, professionally exemplary, and personally rewarding research environments

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The NCPRE Transforming Challenged Units (TCU) consortium offers support for institutions in dealing with units that are troubled or challenged in their ability to function effectively.  Consortium resources help identify the features that characterize flourishing academic units and the ways in which academic units can develop these difficulties. The TCU consortium offers, among other resources, early-warning indicators for identifying challenges before they become incapacitating, as well as specific, implementable approaches and solutions for addressing those challenges. 

Building on our experience in academic administration and leadership, NCPRE supports the Consortium in developing concepts, labels, tools, and approaches for dealing with challenges in a principled, pragmatic, and effective manner.

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The Academic Leadership and Management Institute (ALMI) program presented by NCPRE is a program designed to support individual growth as an early career faculty member. Our starting point is that there are many kinds of academic leadership and that part of one's career trajectory is learning to exercise appropriate leadership in a variety of professional contexts.

NCPRE creates and shares resources to support better ethical and leadership practices in academic and other professional contexts. Leadership—and particularly ethical leadership—is central to creating a culture that establishes healthy and productive professional interactions. We equip participants with evidence-based tools to support intentional leadership development and institutional integrity.

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In 2014, Nanyang Technological University and the University of Illinois established the NTU Leadership Academy (NLA) collaborative agreement for the purpose of developing and implementing a premiere program in Asia for the leaders of global research universities of the future. 

The NTU Leadership Academy is designed for faculty of schools/colleges/institutions within NTU as preparation for further academic leadership positions. Participants develop skills for successful leadership, learning about the context and challenges of leading academic/research units.

The Academy is a year-long program for the entire cohort, with an initial two-day meeting in the Fall, three additional half-day meetings and one additional two-day meeting in the Spring. A collaboration of the National Center for Principled Leadership and Research Ethics and NTU, the NTU Leadership Academy will expose participants to thought leaders, real-world dilemmas and challenges and skills for succeeding in leading the complex organizations that are international research universities.