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HERS Institutes provide an intensive 12-day curriculum that prepares women faculty and administrators for institutional leadership roles. The Institutes focus on knowledge, skills and perspectives for achieving institutional priorities and maximizing institutional resources. HERS Institute participants work with HERS Faculty and HERS Alumnae to develop the professional development plans and networks needed for advancing as leaders in higher education administration. HERS Institutes are now offered at three locations and in two residential formats. The two Summer Institutes—held at Bryn Mawr College the last two weeks of June and at the University of Denver the last week of July and the first week of August—take advantage of the concentrated period of time during the summer for immersion in lectures, readings, group work and individual assignments. The HERS Wellesley Institute, at Wellesley College, takes place in four three-day seminars held across the academic year, two in the fall and two in the winter. This 12-day curriculum builds on HERS activities and assignments spaced over several months of working together. Each of the three Institutes—HERS Bryn Mawr, HERS Denver and HERS Wellesley—deliberately seeks a diverse group of approximately 70 women leaders to share and learn from their multiple perspectives under the guidance of women faculty from higher education, national organizations, government and foundations. The participants are sponsored by a range of institutional types from different regions of the country. HERS Institute participants generally hold mid- to senior-level positions and bring expertise from many academic disciplines and organizational specialties. They also represent a range of ethnic and national groups, ages and years of experience in higher education and other related fields. |
