Becoming A Provost Academy
This yearlong program provides comprehensive preparation in the areas of most critical concern to provosts.
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The Becoming a Provost Academy (BAPA) is a leadership program tailored to the distinctive needs of aspiring provosts (chief academic officers). Co-sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI), this yearlong program provides comprehensive preparation in the areas of most critical concern to provosts. BAPA also helps participants gain a better understanding of the broader context within which their own institutions operate and develop perspectives beyond their current position, division, and institution.
Who Should Participate
- Experienced deans, assistant or associate provosts, and other academic affairs senior administrators who aspire to become a provost/chief academic officer
How You’ll Benefit
- Comprehensive preparation in the areas of most critical concern to provosts
- Professional Experience Plan (PEP), which assesses the strengths as well as the opportunities in the preparation of individual participants
- A strong and supportive network of peers and mentors.
What to Expect
BAPA is a leadership development program to prepare experienced academic administrators for provost/vice president for academic affairs positions in public higher education.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion discussions integrated throughout
- Mentoring and Executive Coaching
- Opportunity for real-time application and impact of tools and trainings via a Professional Experience Plan
- Strong relational component—commitment to create and support trust, encourage peer-to-peer learning, confidentiality, and safety among the cohort
- Comprehensive preparation in the areas of most critical concern to provosts
- Participants will prepare a Professional Experience Plan (PEP) working with campus mentor.
The 2023 BAPA will take place from July 2023 to July 2024.
- Nomination deadline: February 6, 2023
- Academic Affairs Summer Meeting (July 19-21, 2023, Baltimore, MD)
- Opening Seminar (July 22-23, 2023, Baltimore, MD)
- Virtual workshops (monthly, August 2023 – June 2024)
- Closing Seminar (July 16-17, 2024, Denver, CO)
Programming will be delivered in a blended format, with in-person and virtual programming.
In-person programming will not be livestreamed or otherwise recorded.
One-hundred percent attendance and participation is expected.
Dates for the 2024-25 BAPA will be posted in fall 2023.
- Applications that are complete, including a nomination/endorsement from a president/chancellor or provost, and submitted by the deadline will be considered.
- AASCU and AALI staff review applications and select a cohort that reflects the diversity of AASCU institutions.
- Admissions preference will be given to applicants currently employed at AASCU member institutions.
- If space allows, consideration will be given to participants from institutions serving in other higher education sectors.
- Nomination or endorsement from the president/chancellor or provost from your home institution
- Nominee’s curriculum vitae
- Clear and concise summary of your personal and professional development goals
- Commitment to 100% participation
Seminars are led by a teaching faculty of AASCU provosts, AASCU presidents and chancellors, and other national subject matter experts.
The program fee for the 2023–2024 academic year is $2,850 per applicant.
The registration fee covers program administration, meals during the in-person intensive, and all materials, and registration to attend the AASCU 2023 Academic Affairs Summer Meeting.
Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation in Baltimore, MD.
Limited scholarships are available to accepted applicants from qualifying institutions. Preference will be given to nominees from under-resourced institutions that otherwise would be unable to support a participant.
Application Details
The application period for BAPA is now closed. Applications for 2024 will open in fall 2023. For reference, a full submission requires the candidate to submit a form along with a curriculum vitae and nomination/endorsement from the president/chancellor or provost from their home institution.
Application Requirements
- Experienced deans, assistant or associate provosts, and other academic affairs senior administrators who aspire to become a provost/chief academic officer
- Endorsement from the president/chancellor or provost from your home institution
Important Dates
- The 2024 program will take place starting July 16-17, 2024.
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