This looks like a great program!!! If you would qualify: check it out!! If you know someone else who might qualify: please let them know about this institute! CMLE members: we will give you a scholarship of up to $300 to attend this training!
From their website:
The University of Minnesota Libraries will offer its 11th week-long Institute for 26 early career college and university librarians who are from traditionally underrepresented groups and are in the first three years of their professional careers. The program will run from July 16 through July 20, 2018.
Overview
The Institute focuses on the development of library leaders from diverse backgrounds. Participants will develop specific leadership abilities proven to be necessary for organizational success.
The necessary starting point in any leadership development journey is personal awareness. The Institute intensely focuses on enhancing personal awareness — creating unique opportunities for participants to reflect on personal leadership styles and preferences, explore strengths and areas for continued development, and connect unique cultural insights and experiences to one’s professional journey.
Because early career librarians are often asked to give shape, definition, and leadership to whole new areas of work (data curation, publishing, e-learning, and multi-institutional collaborations to name a few), the Institute enhances the personal leadership content with explorations of topical case studies and rich engagement in understanding and building leadership skills.
Learning Objectives
The Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians will:
- Expose career professionals to a variety of topics relevant to current and changing realities of academic librarianship
- Introduce participants to experts representing diverse backgrounds, perspectives and contributions to the library, higher education, technology, and archival communities
- Learn about and explore the leadership challenges related to the increasing interdependencies of institutions and potential for collaboration
- Facilitate participants’ identification of personal leadership behaviors and goals
- Create a platform for participants to reflect on how their diverse identities are and will be leveraged in the service of their leadership goals, their organizations and the profession
- Create a plan for immediate development and long-term professional growth
