Introductions – 4 minutes each

• What would you like individuals to address in their introductions?
• Name, role in project & role in institution
• Hobby/favorite sport
• Short success story
• What keeps you "in"/engaged/motivated re: LINC
• Energy engine that causes people to be engaged? Nourished? (passion)
• Post survey on scale of 1 to 10 – were, are now, hope to end up
• Each individual was asked to write one question for the conveners about something they heard them talk about. These questions were posted and are listed below each convener's comments.

Vicki

• Success – competitive grant for faculty to do research, outreach, address issue of food system. Award to each institution a block grant that must focus on partnerships. It is focusing on developing partnerships with the Native American Institutions.
• Motivated – not a lot of progress with LINC per say. Need to develop leadership skills to move to the next stage.
• Energy – having problems. Looking at how they are directing $ so everyone has access.
• Survey – 2, 6-7, 9

Questions:

1. Good citizens Prof. Project
2. What are the leadership skills you feel you need in the project?
3. Did you consider doing a grant writing workshop?
4. How is leadership (new) fitting into your block grant?

Kathy

• Success – a lot didn’t know that SC has a Native American institution. Visited Native American institution.
• Motivated – paid! Deep commitment to projects to make sure they are integrated and connected.
• Energy – keeping it fun for the group. Keeping the group engaged.
• Survey – 3-4, 7, 9

Questions:

1. What specific mechanisms did you use in engaging Native Americans?
2. Is this a position she has in addition re: other responsibilities?
3. Did she move from another university position to this one or from outside the system?

Daryl Lund

• Success – workshop that was held to outline the regional institute for proposal to Kellogg. First draft of project proposal will be finalized in November.
• Motivated – need to have leadership come up through/from the faculty ranks.
• Energy – Higher education needs to have a leadership planning activity / leadership development activity. Kellogg is causing us to focus on this.
• Survey – 3, 3-6, 8-9

Kristen Grace

• Success – workshop to outline regional institute.
• Motivated – doing dissertation on leadership and higher education
• Energy – when the group is together is when the energy really happens. National meetings are wonderful.
• Survey – 0, ?, 9-10

Questions:

1. Kristen, what is your dissertation topic?
2. What are some problems that you have had, given the number of institutions involved and the coordination needed to organize your effort?
3. Where can I get more information on how the "Princeton" retreat was organized, agents, etc? kag7@cornell.edu
4. Was project proposal written during that successful retreat? Benefits to conveners? Drawbacks?
5. How do you manage different levels (state) of institutions as you move towards a regional focus?
6. How do you get faculty engaged in the planning process? Attractors?
7. How does the "regional" institute fit into the 10 institutions involved?
8. How does the leadership program bridge across the institutions?
9. What will be the philosophy of your leadership institute?
10. What format did you use to construct your project proposal?
11. How large was the group that got energized? Who as "missing'?

Ross McDonald

• Success –
• Engaged – need to look at the leadership issues – practices vs. what we say
• Energy – from the awareness of the issues within California – Hispanic population, different ag. commodities, shift in nature of how to do natural environmental sciences
• Survey – 1.5, ?, 10

Questions:

1. What are the specific activities you have engaged in that you feel have been most effective in building trust?
2. "They're learning a lot from that.." Biggest surprise as to who learned what?
3. Any benefit to starting later than other projects?
4. How have you drawn minorities into your process?
5. What have been some examples/risks of building bridges across types of institutions?
6. Which institutions are involved in FSPE and are they the same in the LINC project? At UC Davis, are other colleges engaged?
7. How is diversity accounted for in your initiative?

Larry Roper

• Success – still just hanging in there. Jeff Raz’s workshops on integrity. People have hung in there in the midst of a lot of ambiguity.
• Engaged –
• Energy – relationship development by the FSPE project. Really separate from our FSPE project. Trying to build a different success than the FSPE. Diversity of activities – created a lot of different learning opportunities.
• Survey - ?, 1-2, 7

Questions:

1. I would like more information on your integrity workshop. Where can I get it? How successful was it?
2. How do you deal with the individuals who have an interest but have real difficulty with the ambiguity?
3. Diversity of ... Learning opportunities -- your personal favorite.
4. What is the objective(s) of the LINC project? Have those been defined?
5. I'd like to hear more about the diversity of learning opportunities.
6. Like to know more about Jeff Raz workshop.
7. Lot of ambiguity...what is becoming clear?...Implications of that?
8. What strategies are you thinking about to link LINC and FSPE projects?

Valerie Baten

• Success – went to College of Engineering and Center for Teaching Excellence for partners. University wanted to include the project’s core values in the university’s core values.
• Energy – comes from the individuals in that they know what they are doing does make a difference. Energy is coming from outside the university.
• Engine – are not sure where they are headed. A lot of ups and downs.
• Survey – 0, 6-7 & now 2-3, ?

Questions:

1. Benefits to you in describing (in 5 min) your SLIC project?
2. Is there a "with Kellogg $" scenario? "Without Kellogg $ scenario? Which do you think is preferred?
3. What factors caused August meeting to be postponed/cancelled? How do you rebuild energy after delaying August meeting? How far into ISU faculty have you gotten?
4. What are the core values identified by the group? How were these identified?
5. How do you keep people involved and motivated during the "down" time?
6. How do you plan to find the focus for your leadership project? Next steps?
7. Tell me more about getting energy from outside the university. Do you mean from the community colleges?
8. How do you let external people know about the project?

Betty Franklin-Harrelson

• Success – three leadership workshops w/about 40 integrators from various partners. These are set up much like the national workshops in 2-3 hour blocks where the participants take over. Using a lot of art.
• Energy – people partner institutions don’t. People find successes and start pulling together.
• Engine – the teams that have struggled the most have been the most successful.
• Survey –

Grant Suhm

• Success – they happen where there isn’t money. Able to leverage each other’s talents and go after other monies.
• Energy – would keep me more motivated if Kellogg was more motivated.
• Engine – Success feeds excitement. The projects that have made people feel more human – ie. Invite whole family to a conference, etc.

Questions:

1. How do you define "integrator" for your project? Mileage for integrator term?
2. What are the goals of the workshops? Who is the audience of the workshops?
3. What are you securing grants to do? Who funds the grants?
4. What are key insights from evaluation thus far?
5. Would like to hear more about "people partner", "institutions don't" philosophy as I disagree.
6. How does selection / renewal work?
7. Discuss your "selection process" for participants.
8. Did you know pre-LINC that "being human" is key to success? Implications?
9. Is there a favorite spin-off initiative?

Garee Earnest

• Success – Dine and Dialogues with the various leadership development initiatives happening on campus. Members share information about their specific leadership initiative and provide a one-age synopsis of the activity.
• Engaged - working with others across campus.
• Engine - using some successful art components at our workshops. Use local professor/artist to discuss leadership involved in creating his various installations throughout the world. Also used a jazz band to dialogue about collective leadership.
• Survey - 0, 3-4, 8

Questions:

1. What drew people to dine and dialogue initially? Is their interest continuing?
2. What is your hopeful outcome from the LINC project?
3. Do you have any involvement from the community outside higher education?
4. Are you connecting leadership training in Extension to the LINC project?
5. How do you disseminate insights to non-attendees of the dine and dialogues?
6. Benefit to you and your project by being the scribe to LINC workshops?
7. How have you successfully incorporated art without having it feel "gamey" and alienate folks? What's been the key?

John Allen

• Success – Paul Axtell. Bring faculty together from land grant and other institution(s). Opened conversations between the two groups. Turf over $, credit, etc.
• Engaged – getting people engaged from arts and sciences and land grant.
• Engine – values and interacts when we come together. Energy increased when common values are identified. Friendships developed.
• Survey – 1, 3, 10

Questions:

1. What kinds of activities off campus stimulate faculty engagement?
2. Do the other colleges believe in land grant mission (Deans) and are the faculty committed?
3. Beyond the classroom....journal articles
4. Lateral learning -- best favorite!
5. Leadership is convening issue in "real world"...biggest surprise to you?

Maria Norton

Questions:

1. What are you learning about engagement/motivation/commitment?
2. Favorite difference to "qualitative testing" from your stat history?

Gary Sycalik

Questions:

1. Did you hear anything that sounded like "can sustain the creative effort"?
2. How do you create frames for "new thinking"?

Maggi Adamak

• Success – eight months ago the three states decided to divide up the money and go their separate ways. Now looking at regional efforts together.
• Engaged – consensus of the project conveners et al. in Raleigh to decide to take a look at power.
• Engine – keeping it closely aligned with the FSPE initiative. This has really help the energy of the project.
• Survey –

Questions:

1. What about Raleigh shifted peoples' thinking?
2. How will using President Commission report help involve faculty?
3. What is relationship of FSPE to LINC?
4. Is your success because LINC was linked to FSPE project?
5. What has been key "reciprocating learning" between FSPE and LINC?
6. How can the margin influence the center?
7. How do principles in yoga relate to change issues?

Byron Burnham

Questions:

1. How have you transferred you learnings to you home institutions?

Perspectives on the Initiatives with Byron

How is the initiative going?

What has been good about the national workshops for your projects?

• WIRE – 1^st four workshops
• Site visits
• Workshop #5 dynamics
• Workshop #6
• LINC & national support grants

• How to take care of people when they have concerns. Need some agreed upon shared values when there is conflict.
• What is the appropriate way for the project conveners to discuss issues of concern with Kellogg?
• Karl and Maggi were treated poorly -- the feedback to them was given second handed.
• Someone needs to take ownership to fill in the gaps within the workshops. Karl, Maggi and Ann have done this.
• We need to bring the background discussion of "power" to the forefront. This was the intent on Tuesday morning. Criticisms were that the activity was from the expert model approach and was poorly executed.
• The process was positive overall. It showed how leadership responds to conflict and concerns.
• If we are working as a team and with authentic relationships, we should be able to discuss these issues with one another face-to-face.
• There is a culture and a relationship within this group and a language to talk about it. We always get to a certain point that the group reaches and cannot move beyond.
• Is this a difference of cultural framework?
• Power is the issue that stands in the way of institutions being engaged.
• The power exercise by Maggi and Karl needed to have allowed time for reflection processed to take away the learnings and build community.
• It has been hard to build a national community due to various reasons such as different participants at each workshop, not enough reflection time, etc.
• We need to honor and legitimize everyone comments.
• The pivotal point is if the group agrees that engagement is the right thing to do whether there is grant money available for phase II or not.
• The FSPE Directors experienced the same things that the LINC project conveners are experiencing right now. Learn from us. Also, give people space to reflect. The moments of silence are very important is what we are going to do is change the pace of what we do.

WIRE needs a sense of whether site visits should be this Fall or after Workshop #6.

• Workshop #6 is not going to be in January. The date is not known yet.
• Should the workshop be cancelled? Or money used for regional workshops?
• Should workshop #6 be held but designed differently?
• Think about what would be best programmatically rather than fiscally.
• Do we want to create a national community? If so, for what? These are questions that need to be answered before we decide what to do with / about workshop #6.

• She is fairly convinced that there will be some funding to continue the LINC efforts. Maybe under a different name or initiative within Kellogg but…
• Kellogg has thought about having the project directors of the various Kellogg funded initiative meet to discuss similar issues as grantees of Kellogg.
• The Kellogg has to approve another budget package that would allow workshop #6 to occur. This is why the January date has been postponed.
• Steve Bosserman believes that this is a wonderful opportunity to look at ways to move the initiative forward without having Kellogg funding as security.
• The fact that Kellogg is not moving forward does not have anything to do with the value of the LINC and FSPE initiatives. It is a matter of the corporate changes occurring within Kellogg.

Would the project conveners be willing to meet for a meeting and pay for the travel out of their own budgets? Agreement was yes.

Week of October 11 – check with the Project Conveners to see if this is okay. Probably held on Monday.

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