Take your next step as a higher education leader with The Academy, a world-class leadership development program for colleges and universities. We support new and experienced leaders across all levels of higher education and throughout the world.

Our professional development programs are multi-day immersive experiences with opportunities to interact, engage, and reflect with topics specific to higher education and leadership. Each session takes a learner-centered approach to ongoing growth and development that is relevant, meaningful, practical, and resourcefuland led by an experienced facilitator who understands the challenges you face.

The Academy has been developing transformational leaders for more than 30 years. Key to our success is our growing leadership community, a network for collaboration, insight, and discovery. We're also proud to offer a library of resources, articles and insights on leadership in higher education.

As a department and service of Mesa Community College, The Academy embodies MCC's leadership values to "behave boldly in the face of challenges as we set high expectations, explore new approaches, and hold ourselves accountable." Mesa has served as our home base from the beginning, with in-person programs held across the United States, Canada, and other locations.

We started in 1991 with an urgent challenge: How to prepare an influx of new academic department chairs for their responsibilities. With support from the Maricopa County Community College District and MCC, we created what is now the Foundation Leadership Development Academy. Over time, our mission has grown to include leaders in all functions and at all levels of higher education, from chairs to presidents. Committed to supporting leaders throughout their careers, we later added an Advanced Academy for mid-to-senior level leaders.

Learn more about The Academy and how to register at chairacademy.com.

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