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March
10
2026

Conversation with MSU Leaders – Kevin M. Guskiewicz

Tuesday, March 10th, 2026, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center @ 219 South Harrison Road, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824, United States

Conversation with President Kevin Guskiewicz These sessions provide the President and Provost the opportunity to speak with deans, directors, chairs, executive managers, and staff supervisors level 14-17, to promote ongoing communication and to discuss current issues, challenges, and opportunities. Each session will begin...

March
12
2026

Creating and Sustaining a Respectful Work Environment: What You Need to Know — The Discipline Process for Academic Administrators and Managers

Thursday, March 12, 2026, 9:00 - 11:00 AM EST
MSU Main Library, Green Room (4th Floor, West Wing)

This series of workshops is intended for leaders (executive managers, deans, directors, chairs, and supervisors, level 12-17) from across the University to work together to improve the current climate and culture in their units and across the greater campus community. Stephanie Horton, Director,...

March
12
2026

Critical Friends Peer Mentoring Session

March 12, 2026, from 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST

This opportunity is open to all department chairs, school directors, associate deans in non-departmentally organized colleges and directors of academic programs similar to departments/schools. This program will focus on developing a community of peers, by providing a venue to give and receive...

March
20
2026

Leadership Institute: Inclusive Excellence and Leadership: The Role of Individual Responsibility and Organizational Accountability

Each year, the Leadership Institute series allows academic administrators to interact with their peers around key topics. This series of short sessions are designed to expand upon themes introduced at New Administrator Orientation. These sessions are required for department chairpersons, school...

March
26
2026

NCFDD Rewriting the Retention Equation: Strategies to Reward, Recognize, and Retain Faculty

Thursday, March 26, 2026, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Zoom

Offered by the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) **Please join us on Zoom for this presentation** Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 880 0096 6033 Passcode: 407675 In an era where faculty recruitment dominates the conversation, retention remains the overlooked variable in academic success....

April
3
2026

Community-Engaged Scholarship Write-In

Friday, April 3, 2026, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zoom and Kellogg Center, Room 93

Attention: Faculty, Academic Staff, and Graduate Students Would scheduling regular, specific times to write about your outreach or engagement work be helpful? If so, please join us on the first Friday of each month for three hours of dedicated time to advance...

April
3
2026

Leadership Institute: Engaging with Faculty and Academic Staff on Retirement

Each year, the Leadership Institute series allows academic administrators to interact with their peers around key topics. This series of short sessions are designed to expand upon themes introduced at New Administrator Orientation. These sessions are required for department chairpersons, school...

April
9
2026

Critical Friends Peer Mentoring Session

April 9, 2026, from 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST

This opportunity is open to all department chairs, school directors, associate deans in non-departmentally organized colleges and directors of academic programs similar to departments/schools. This program will focus on developing a community of peers, by providing a venue to give and receive...

April
15
2026

The Community-Engaged Learning Student Experience

This session will help practitioners think through the community-engaged learning experience from the student perspective. What are the benefits and challenges for our students, and what is our responsibility as practitioners to ensure students are prepared? How can we really work...

April
16
2026

Conversation with MSU Leaders – Laura Lee McIntyre

Thursday, April 16th, 2026, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center @ 219 South Harrison Road, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824, United States

Conversation with Provost Laura Lee McIntyre These sessions provide the President and Provost the opportunity to speak with deans, directors, chairs, executive managers, and staff supervisors level 14-17, to promote ongoing communication and to discuss current issues, challenges, and opportunities. Each session will...

April
21
2026

Broader Impacts Writing Retreat, Spring 2026

Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center @ 219 South Harrison Road, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824, United States

Spend a full day with MSU's broader impacts consultants away from your everyday responsibilities working on the broader impacts plan for your next NSF proposal. We will start at 10 a.m. with a quick overview of the fundamentals of broader impacts...