Coaching Component of Leadership Development Program Continues

Professional coaching was added to AASCU's Millennium Leadership Initiative (MLI) curriculum in 2016 through a grant from Strada Education Network. While the grant has ended, the results were so powerful that we are continuing the professional coaching for at least another year. Fourteen volunteers, including former AASCU presidents and chancellors and one current president, have offered their time to serve as professional coaches from August 2019 to February 2020.

Professional coaching within MLI’s curriculum provides valuable insights, guidance and support in promoting innovative, inspired, resourceful leaders for America’s colleges and universities. It helps facilitate the rapid development of each MLI attendee, or protégé, as a leader. The coaches tailor the confidential process to meet needs of each protégé, and the coaches motivate, challenge and encourage their protégés to keep progressing toward their career goals. Without our coaches’ volunteer commitment, we would not have been able to continue this valuable component of the MLI curriculum.

The MLI team would like to thank each of these wonderful leaders for paying it forward and supporting the next generation of presidents and chancellors.


Juliette Bell Former President, University of Maryland Eastern Shore	Susan Borrego Former President, University of Michigan-Flint	Cheryl Dozier Former President, Savannah State University (Ga.)	Muriel Howard Former President, AASCU

Virginia Schaefer Horvath Former President, State University of New York at Fredonia	Nancy Kleniewski Former President, State University of New York College at Oneonta	Elmira Mangum Former President, Florida A&M University	Frank Pogue President Emeritus, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

George Pruitt Former President, Thomas Edison State University (N.J.)	George Ross President Emeritus, Central Michigan University	Aaron Thompson President, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education

Maria Thompson Former President, Coppin State University (Md.)	Karen Whitney Former Chancellor, Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education	George Wright President Emeritus, Prairie View A&M University (Texas)