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COMMENTS ABOUT THE INSTITUTE OVER THE YEARS“If I had had this experience 15 years ago, I’d be a VP now.” “The experience I had at ELMI last summer [2008] was the single most rewarding and beneficial professional development event of my career! Having worked 25 years in the four-year higher ed environment and over 3 years in the community college system, I found the ELMI sessions and overall experience highly relevant and applicable to my role as a VP for Administrative Services. “ “This experience is very rich. In my six years as a dean, this is by far the best professional development experience I have had.” “The Institute is a great opportunity to become more aware of the complexities of a campus and how to deal effectively with them as a leader.” “The Institute was a great experience. Its emphasis on introspection and serious conversations helped me to make some long over due decisions about my career. The ELMI was truly a turning point in my life.” “I found the Institute very carefully planned, well managed, and educationally excellent. The participants included women and men in higher education from across the country. I was the only one attending from a theological seminary and I was the only President who was a participant. …Clearly, it is not aimed toward theological education and, in fact, more of the participants come from large universities than from small institutions of higher education. However, those of us from smaller institutions were in no way neglected and I was encouraged to be an active participant in the issues facing me as well as becoming a part of the agenda of the Institute." “A premier institute for college and university administrators. I especially appreciated the emphasis on effective communication skills, ranging from one-on-one conversations to major presentations. I was particularly impressed that we acquired these skills through constant practice with one another, ensuring that we not only learned about communication skills, but we also learned how to put them into practice after the institute.” "My entire career has been in IT and most recently in higher education. I have enjoyed being in higher education and have worked hard in the positions I've held. Never, though, have I learned as much about the culture and complexities of colleges, and how I can express my ideas more effectively, than I did at the ELMI. I feel the Institute offers a program that is not specific to any one discipline but rather to the leadership and operation of an institution of higher education. The professionalism extended to me by my peers was world class." “UC Irvine has sent one or more participants to this program in recent years, and I make a point of listening to their evaluations of the program…The reviews of [the ELMI] are recurringly excellent. Participants have told me that it opens up for them entirely new ways of looking at leadership, providing new models, ideas, and data in a challenging presentation format. The organization and presenters are praised, and UC Irvine participants have judged the content first rate. This program is now an important part of our management development program." "Although I attended the ELMI several years ago, its effect has been long lasting. It helped enormously with my career, I still use the ideas and tools presented there, and I keep in touch with several participants from my session. Great benefit." "In my experience with similar programs, [the ELMI] is the best that I have seen-hands down. The overall curriculum, sequence of the sessions, and the quality of instruction are superb. Just as important, the atmosphere created…and attention to detail put the 'meringue on the pie,' as I heard someone say here recently. From observing the participants and hearing their comments, I know that this opinion is universally shared by them."
Participants in the ELM Class of 2002 |
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