There has never been a more urgent need in our profession to ensure that it is nurturing and developing leaders equipped to overcome the wave of global challenges and local threats to education. To be an advancement professional means committing to sharing best practices and approaches in community, while investing in the success and development of colleagues. CASE Academy is yet another opportunity for us to come together to continue advancing ourselves and our institutions.

CASE Academy will provide concrete information that rising stars can use to do their work and enhance their careers, as well as offering excellent networking opportunities.

I’m honored to be among this great group of volunteers that is designing a brand-new program for CASE—one focused on the people who will lead the profession forward 5-10 years from now. And I am particularly excited about the opportunity to meet with fellow faculty and these next-generation leaders through a program designed to bring greater continuity to the teaching and learning experience.

We’re all lifelong learners and growers and deeply committed to the development of our teams. The CASE Academy is a community of practice centered on your growth. 

The traits that make us great individual performers are not necessarily the same traits that make great team leaders. Through CASE Academy, we will work to broaden horizons and provide tools to help shape future careers. I hope that every participant will come away with a network of friends and colleagues that they will be able to draw upon in the years to come.

I’m thrilled to be involved in this pioneering initiative—a new format for a new world.  I’m looking forward to working with my fellow faculty and to meeting a great cohort of participants.

An intensive leadership program I attended some years past was a turning point for me. We have designed the CASE Academy to provide rising advancement stars with a similar opportunity.