{"id":9327,"date":"2017-10-31T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T18:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=9327"},"modified":"2022-10-24T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:24:18","slug":"shadow-ace-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/shadow-ace-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Macomb Assistant Dean to Shadow K Provost through ACE Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all have a shadow, but Mickey\u2019s has a name: Michele.<\/p>\n

Beginning this fall and throughout the school year, Michele Kelly, associate dean of arts and sciences at Macomb Community College, will periodically shadow Kalamazoo College Provost Mickey McDonald.<\/p>\n

\"Shadow
Throughout the school year, Michele Kelly, associate dean of arts and sciences at Macomb Community College, will periodically shadow Kalamazoo College Provost Mickey McDonald.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

McDonald\u2019s mentorship of Kelly is under the auspices of the Michigan-ACE Network<\/a> for Women Leaders in Higher Education. The \u201cMoving the Needle\u201d Senior-Level Leadership Shadow Program aims to increase the number of women in top college and university leadership by providing them the experience they need to move into positions such as president and provost \u2013 the chief academic officer for a higher education institution.<\/p>\n

Kelly, who was chosen for the program through a competitive process, acknowledged that Macomb \u2013 a 40,000-student community college serving the Detroit suburbs \u2013 is a very different kind of school than K. But she said there is much that observing McDonald can teach her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope to be a provost someday,\u201d said Kelly, whose previous experience includes administrative positions at Queens University<\/a>, a private liberal arts college in Charlotte, N.C. \u201cI think that there are some trends in higher education that transcend institutions. It will be interesting to get the perspective of a completely different institution to fill in the gaps of my own knowledge. Following Mickey around I hope to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

McDonald said Kelly won\u2019t just be working with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more than just following me around,\u201d he said. \u201cShe has access to everybody at K, and specifically digging into the areas she kind of wants to fill in in terms of her own background. Whether it\u2019s around budgeting, strategic planning, global initiatives, diversity and inclusion \u2013 one of the things we\u2019re trying to do is pair her up with the people on our campus so she can learn about different leadership styles, different approaches to various areas in higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said her time at K \u2013 up to 150 hours through June \u2013 will be scheduled around key learning opportunities. For example, a recent visit allowed her to sit in on a meeting about the College\u2019s strategic plan \u2013 an aspect of administration in which she said she had not previously participated. Other visits will allow her to leverage her own experience, such as when administrators discuss the follow-up to K\u2019s assessment by the Higher Learning Commission<\/a>, a process she helped lead at Macomb.<\/p>\n

McDonald said he sees mentoring Kelly as benefiting K, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile it is not necessarily explicitly supporting the mission of preparing our students for their lives after K,\u00a0 I think implicitly by supporting women\u2019s leadership, and higher education leadership, it\u2019s contributing broadly to our mission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a way of giving back to ACE, the American Council on Education. McDonald said a yearlong ACE Fellowship at Ohio\u2019s Baldwin-Wallace<\/a> College (now University) during the 2001-02 school year, when he was an administrator at California\u2019s Occidental College<\/a>, helped further his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt certainly much better prepared me for leadership opportunities and gave me the confidence and specific experiences that would make me a more effective leader,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Beyond experience, the ACE program allowed him several years later to make what turned out to be a vital connection. Kalamazoo College President Jorge G. Gonzalez<\/a>, then at Trinity University<\/a> in Texas, was an ACE Fellow during the 2007-08 school year at Pomona College<\/a>, a near neighbor of Occidental in the Los Angeles suburbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where we met,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The \u201cMoving the Needle\u201d Senior-Level Leadership Shadow Program aims to increase the number of women in top college and university leadership by providing them the experience they need to move into positions such as president and provost \u2013 the chief academic officer for a higher education institution.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly, who was chosen for the program through a competitive process, acknowledged that Macomb \u2013 a 40,000-student community college serving the Detroit suburbs \u2013 is a very different kind of school than K. But she said there is much that observing McDonald can teach her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope to be a provost someday,\u201d said Kelly, whose previous experience includes administrative positions at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queens.edu\/\">Queens University<\/a>, a private liberal arts college in Charlotte, N.C. \u201cI think that there are some trends in higher education that transcend institutions. It will be interesting to get the perspective of a completely different institution to fill in the gaps of my own knowledge. Following Mickey around I hope to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McDonald said Kelly won\u2019t just be working with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more than just following me around,\u201d he said. \u201cShe has access to everybody at K, and specifically digging into the areas she kind of wants to fill in in terms of her own background. Whether it\u2019s around budgeting, strategic planning, global initiatives, diversity and inclusion \u2013 one of the things we\u2019re trying to do is pair her up with the people on our campus so she can learn about different leadership styles, different approaches to various areas in higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said her time at K \u2013 up to 150 hours through June \u2013 will be scheduled around key learning opportunities. For example, a recent visit allowed her to sit in on a meeting about the College\u2019s strategic plan \u2013 an aspect of administration in which she said she had not previously participated. Other visits will allow her to leverage her own experience, such as when administrators discuss the follow-up to K\u2019s assessment by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/shadow-ace-network\/\">Higher Learning Commission<\/a>, a process she helped lead at Macomb.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald said he sees mentoring Kelly as benefiting K, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it is not necessarily explicitly supporting the mission of preparing our students for their lives after K,\u00a0 I think implicitly by supporting women\u2019s leadership, and higher education leadership, it\u2019s contributing broadly to our mission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a way of giving back to ACE, the American Council on Education. 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