The IDEA Center

As Vice President for Academic Affairs, I found the IDEA Administrator Feedback Instrument invaluable to my growth and professional development. It served as an ongoing probe as to how I was meeting the needs of my deans, my staff, and the institution as a whole. I used the results as the basis for discussion at Academic Council about how we could work together to maximize my strengths, strengthen my weaknesses, and use the deans’ skills to round out the group’s overall effectiveness.  We would also look at progress over the years and zero in on trends that either served us well or not, and discussed how to enhance or reverse such trends.  The nature of the instrument encouraged frank discourse in areas critical to effective academic leadership.