The University President and Collegial Leadership

1. The University President and Collegial Leadership CAUBO - ACPAU 2005 Dr. Paul Davenport President, The University of Western Ontario June 20, 2005

2. The University President and Collegial Leadership • Collegial Leadership • Getting Started: the Honeymoon Period • Know your Team • Know your Priorities • Work with your Board and the external community • Know your Brand

3. Collegial Leadership • Others have knowledge you don’t have--they need space to act, succeed, and occasionally fail. • Your job is to listen to others on campus, work with them to set directions which you all agree on, and then monitor progress and cheer on success. • Your moral authority is key: Leadership by example isn’t one way of leadership -- it’s the only way. • Leadership rests on communication and making choices

4. The Honeymoon Period • Positive: potential critics may hold fire to give you a fair chance • Negative: because many faculty and staff members will not know you and your style, particularly if you are an external president, they may misinterpret your early actions or statements. • Stayin’ Alive: the first year should be a time of intense communication with the internal community, in which you establish a style you intend to maintain • Faculty, staff, students, Board members are busy: keep your messages short, simple, and consistent.

5. Getting to Know The University of Western Ontario Special Senate Meeting Dr. Paul Davenport July 7, 1994 [Presentation made to Senate and Board my first week on the job at Western]

6. Getting to Know Western 1. Western’s People: meetings with members of our internal and external communities since last September 2. What I have learned about Western and its people 3. Western in the Context of the 1990’s 4. Some priorities for 1994-95

7. 1. Western’s People • Presidential Selection Committee • Academic Units • Administration • Student and Staff Associations • Board and Senate Members • Community Leaders, Affiliated Institutions

8. 2. What I Have Learned About Western and Its People • Presidential Search Document on Challenges facing Western • Pride in the University and Concern about its future • The need for the community to decide on our strategic directions • Principles to guide our decision making

9. Principles to guide our decision making • Excellence • Autonomy • Openness • Selectivity • Accountability [Strategic Plan of 1995]

10. 4. Some priorities for 1994-95 • Getting to know Western’s people • Two Vice-Presidential Search Committees • Task Force on Strategic Planning • Putting academic priorities first: supporting excellence in teaching and research • Ensuring open administration and effective communication • Strengthening our ties with the external community [President’s Priorities and Annual Report Since 1995]

11. Know Your Team • VPs: Greg, Gitta, Ted, Ted • Vice-Provosts and AVPs: Roma, Alan, Ruban, Susan, Dave, Jane, Grant, David, Grant, Sharon • Ten other Senior Staff • 18 Deans • 24 Associate Deans (The 66 above have salaries approved by the Board) • 57 Department Chairs • Some 20-30 Directors of institutes and interdisciplinary programs

12. Know Your Priorities • From the Presidential Selection Committee: • Entering Undergraduate Grades (1) • Collaborative Research Grants (2) • 1995 Strategic Plan, Leadership in Learning • Raise entering grades (1) • More resources to VP Research (2) • Investment in Engineering (3) • 2001 Strategic Plan • Hire more female faculty (4) • Cap undergraduate admissions, expand grad studies (5)

13. Average Entering Gradesof New Full-Time First-Year Ontario Secondary School Students1985-86 to 2003-04 Western Ontario

14. Average Entering Gradesof New Full-Time First-Year Ontario Secondary School Students1985-86 to 2004-05 Western Ontario

15. Average Entering Gradesof New Full-Time First-Year Ontario Secondary School StudentsWestern minus System Average, 1985-86 to 2004-05

16. Academic Priorities and Budgets Base Budget ($m) Percentage Growth 95/96 96/97 05/06 96 to 97 96 to 06 Research Serv .42 .88 2.36 108% 460% All Support 54.2 47.5 61.4 -10.6% 15% Engineering 7.4 7.6 14.5 4% 98% All Faculties 171.6 163.3 246.3 -5% 44% Key: Research Services, All Support Units, Faculty of Engineering, All Twelve Faculties.

17. Percentage of CFI Grants, 1998-2004Total Grants = $2.21 Billion

18. Percentage of Women in New Tenured and ProbationaryExternal Appointments, 2003-04

19. Know Your Priorities • From the Presidential Selection Committee: • Entering Undergraduate Grades (1) • Collaborative Research Grants (2) • 1995 Strategic Plan, Leadership in Learning • Raise entering grades (1) • More resources to VP Research (2) • Investment in Engineering (3) • 2001 Strategic Plan • Hire more female faculty (4) • Cap undergraduate admissions, expand grad studies (5)

20. Work with the Board and the External Community • Meet individually with Board members • Performance evaluation: one-year and five-year reviews • Anticipate major academic, budgetary, and capital issue in regular reports to the Board • Give the Board members access to the Vice-Presidents • Get to know the key community leaders • Meet community leaders with a Board member whenever possible

21. Know Your Brand Western offers the best student experience among the research-intensive universities of Canada.

22. The University President and Collegial Leadership • Collegial Leadership • Getting Started: the Honeymoon Period • Know your Team • Know your Priorities • Work with your Board and the external community • Know your Brand