Leading Your University To Success 2024
Development for Academic and Institutional Leaders
Building on the success of CASE Europe’s first ‘Leading your University to Success’ programme for institutional leaders last year, our 2024 event offers an expanded curriculum aimed at supporting other academic leaders together with directors of advancement.
Senior leaders will benefit from practical workshops and a collegiate environment in which to reflect on their roles and responsibilities for philanthropy and external relations. Delegates will come away equipped with insights and ideas for advancing their vision for their institution, and for building deeper and more meaningful partnerships to lead their university to success.
Track Structure
Our 2024 programme structure incorporates two tracks:
- Track one: for institutional leaders, aimed at Vice Chancellors, Rectors, Principals, Presidents, and Provosts.
- Track two: for senior academic leaders, aimed at Deans, Deputy or Pro Vice positions, welcoming advancement leaders who wish to attend in partnership.
During the programme, delegates will benefit from sessions focused on the opportunities and challenges they face in their specific role, mixed with plenaries, during which all delegates will come together for wider exchanges and shared learning experiences.
Programme Content
The programme content will include:
- The role of university leaders in supporting your institution’s success
- Why reputation matters to universities – and what you can do about it
- Forming effective internal and external partnerships
- Making the ask
- The ethics of fundraising
- What a successful culture of philanthropy looks like and how to build or deepen it within your institution
Programme Objectives
- A strategic view of their crucial role in leading their institution’s advancement vision.
- An understanding of advancement in a multidisciplinary portfolio, encompassing fundraising, alumni relations, marketing, and communications.
- Insights into how to form partnerships and maximise external relations that support their institution’s reputation.
- A network of peers in other leadership positions within institutions across the U.K., Europe and the wider CASE network.
CASE’s commitment to advancing education worldwide is integral to our sector. As a global hub of expertise in educational philanthropy and external engagement, CASE is ideally placed to deliver a high-level programme that will inspire, challenge, and equip leaders to make the biggest impact on our institutions and communities.
This opportunity, exclusively for the most senior institutional leaders (Vice Chancellors, Presidents, Rectors and their deputies), is the outcome of engagement with leaders like you to provide learning and insights to help you address the reputational, funding and strategic challenges facing universities today.
In a world of financial challenges – government, fees, earned and philanthropic income – and an increasingly complex media landscape, leaders of educational institutions need be fully equipped to maximise the value of networks, opinion formers and funders to advance their plans. As a new V-C, you will need to partner with a wide range of constituents, internally and externally, to make things happen. This conference will guide you through the most successful strategies to manage relationships with funders and opinion formers, drawing on some of the best examples worldwide.