Leadership Development Committee

The Leadership Development Committee provides learning experiences on issues related to leadership in the arts within the academy (e.g., strategic planning, working with advisory boards). Our goal is to assist members to develop or enhance their leadership capabilities, identify critical issues facing arts administrators, and provide assistance with the challenges facing university arts faculty and staff. We hope to stimulate those already serving in leadership roles as well as nurture those just starting their leadership journey.

Upcoming Discussions

Whose Budget is it, Anyway? Financial Literacy and Understanding Budgets in Higher Education
Thursday, January 25, 2024

This Leadership Development Committee program will feature a panel presenting the prevalent budgetary philosophies of many schools. Often, the budget models of ABB, RCM, PBB, CBM, and others are a confusing “alphabet soup” rather than clear budget models. We will focus on several types of institutional approaches of Incremental Budgeting, Activity Based Budgeting, and Responsibility Center Management, as well as touch on revenue streams from tuition, endowment, and research. Registration coming soon.

Areas of relevance that the Committee will be focusing on include but are not limited to:

  • Developing pre-Conference seminars for Mentoring Initiatives for New Deans (MIND)
  • Developing pre-Conference seminars for ICFAD Fellows

Any member who is in their first three years as a new dean is invited to register for the MIND program. Sessions will be specifically targeted to address issues faced by new deans. Experts in the field and senior deans form the ICFAD leadership will facilitate this special daylong program.

Goals of the MIND Program:

  • Provide a toolbox for those who have transitioned into administrative leadership roles as a dean of higher education visual and performing art schools and colleges
  • Prepare new deans to take full advantage of the ICFAD conference as a support structure for their administrative leadership
  • Demonstrate a concrete benefit for ICFAD members to support on-going connections with their home institutions
  • Build on the ICFAD tradition of Deans Helping Deans

Fellows are directors and department chairs who have been nominated by your colleagues in ICFAD because the nominees have been recognized for their leadership and potential. The Fellows Program is a professional development program to promote a healthy and continuous pipeline of talented arts administrators who are prepared to move into leadership positions in our institutions. Fellows will be encouraged to remain in contact with their mentors as they consider what next steps might be for them in arts administration in higher education.

Goals of the Fellows Program

  • Inspire enthusiasm for leadership opportunities in the arts in higher education
  • Encourage under-represented groups to pursue options in leadership positions
  • Provide a venue for those who are considering transitioning or have transitioned into administrative roles in arts higher education to learn elements of academic leadership
  • Prepare Fellows to take full advantage of the ICFAD conference, adding tools to their leadership toolbox
   

Andrew Adams
Associate Dean, David Orr Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts
Western Carolina University
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Chairman
Stuart M. Benkert

Interim Head of The Department of Performing Arts

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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Co-Board Liaison
Laura L. Franklin, DMA

Chair, Fine and Performing Arts
Saint Louis University
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Amanda Joy Gingery Hostalka
, Dean
School of Design
Stevenson University School of Design
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Jeffrey W. Jarvis, Dean
College of the Arts
Dixie State University
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Larry Kaptain, Dean
College of Arts & Media
University of Colorado Denver
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Susan Picinich, Dean

College of Fine Arts and Communication
Towson University
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Valerie Morris, Dean
School of the Arts
College of Charleston
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Scott Shattuck
Professor of Theatre and Associate Dean
College of Fine Arts
Stephen F. Austin State University
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Notes from the Career Development Committee meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan in October 2016 are available by clicking here.
Notes from the Career Development Committee meeting at the annual conference in Salt Lake City are available by clicking here.