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Management and Leadership Skills for Academic Department Chairs and Institute Directors
a one-day professional development course brought to your campusAbout the Instructor
Dr. Suttner was granted a sabbatical leave by the Dean of Faculties to participate in workshops on corporate leadership and management, to obtain from successful chairs their insight on best practices in academic administration, and to develop and teach this seminar for new chairs at Indiana University. He continues to teach this course on the Indiana University campus at the start of each fall semester. |
Dr. Lee J. Suttner, Robert Shrock Emeritus Professor of
Geological Sciences facilitates the workshop. Dr. Suttner draws heavily from his 30 plus years of
academic administrative experience at Indiana University, including 25 years first as Associate
Director and then Director of the I.U. Geological Field Station, seven years as department chair,
and three years as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. He has received the
President's Distinguished Teaching Award, the Neil Minor National Geoscience Educator of the Year
Award presented by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, and the American Association
of Petroleum Geologists Outstanding Educator Award.