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Program Outcomes and Objectives

  1. Equip academic leaders of the LUCs and LGU executives with essential transformative leadership and management skills and strategies for providing the youth with access to quality and relevant tertiary education. These skills include, but are not limited to:
    1. Thinking strategically, creatively, and systematically
    2. Leading globally competitive LUCs that are responsive to local and regional needs 
    3. Building collaborative and inclusive working relationships 
    4. Mobilizing and managing financial, human, technology, and other resources wisely 
    5. Nurturing a high-performing learning organization 
  2. Train communities to develop innovative solutions to address the evolving needs of all key stakeholders and partners in the academic and regulatory settings. 
  3. Enhance collective decision-making processes and collaborative governance to propel the growth and development of LUCs as integral parts of the Philippine educational system.
  4. Create and sustain the transformation of the local education system from being problem-oriented to change-oriented with LUCs bridging the gap between communities and local governments through research, policy advocacy, and other services.

 

Program Approach

  1. Participants work on projects that provide a road map for institutional development and the necessary partnerships and infrastructure to enable transformation. 
  2. Participants and core teams will be part of the program.
  3. Learning teams act as “action labs” to facilitate peer-based learning. 
  4. Case studies, simulation exercises, and other methods will be used for sharpening skills like sensing, co-sensing, critical and collaborative thinking skills, and systems and design thinking. 
  5. Faculty will provide clinical coaches or drillmasters for the scholars during the off-class sessions. 
  6. Webinars and retreats will also be open to the scholars, their core team members, and guiding coalitions to support relationship-building.

 

Program Design

The program is conducted over 36 half-days spread over approximately ten (10) weeks, via four (4) online half-day sessions per week (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays).

The scheduling is designed to integrate time for coaching sessions, working with the Learning Teams, and meetings with the Core Team and Guiding Coalition. The Course is divided into four (4) modules:

 

Module number Topics that will be covered Number of sessions

Module 1 Making Sense of the 21st Century: LUC Academic Leadership in the VUCA World  
  1. Why Leadership and What Leadership? Education Challenges in the 21st Century (4th Industrial Revolution, Smart Universities, SDGs) 
  2. LUCs in the Philippine Education System and Infrastructure Delivery System: Present and Desired 
  3. The “Regulatory” Environment: Present and Desired/ Local and Global 
  4. Using Systems and Design Thinking: The Way Forward 
  5. Data Analytics for Decision-making 
  6. Leadership Sessions: Leadership is Personal 
  7. LUCs: Rapid Area Assessment

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Module 2 Institution- Building: Strengthening the LUCs in the Philippine Education System  
  1. The Challenge of Governance in a Multi- Stakeholder World (Navigating the LGU-LUC Relationship) 
  2. In Search of Alignment: Vision-Mission 
  3. In Search of Co-Ownership: A New Kind of Conversation for the 21st Century: Trust-building Dialogue 
  4. Models for Navigating LUC-LGU Relationship 
  5. Project Development and Management 
  6. Leadership Session: Giving Voice to Values 
  7. Strategic Negotiations and Conflict Management 
  8. LUCs: Rapid Area Assessment

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Module 3 Co-creating the LUCs: Academic Leadership and Resource Mobilization  
  1. Learning Innovation Systems: Student Success, Research, Extension Programs, Instruction, and Technology 
  2. LUCs as local economic enterprises 
  3. Talent Recruitment, Selection and Retention 
  4. Facilities Management 
  5. Service Excellence 
  6. Accreditation and Evaluation 

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Module 4 LUCs: Delivering on the Promise  
  1. Developing the Public Narrative 
  2. LUC Presentations 
  3. (Institutional Development Plans and Change Prototypes/Policy and Program Recommendations)

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A half-day session is composed of three (3) sessions. The Course will have 36 half-days, spread over approximately 10 weeks, 4 half-day sessions per week.