Higher Education Under Siege: A Workshop for Faculty and University Administrators
April 28, 2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
University City Campus
As administrators, educators, and educational leaders, it seems that we are always trying to meet expectations, do more with less, put out “daily work fires,” and finish the urgent project. The speed and pace of such work can be intense - getting it done faster, better, cheaper, and smarter. Such a work style with all its ambition and energy has its benefits no doubt, but it also has a profound blind spot: in engaging our profession’s relentless pressures and demands, we too often can feel under siege, where we end up defending our jobs rather than actually doing them. When we follow a career that is excessively focused on getting more done, we can end up neglecting the very world that needs our help and managing our lives like projects rather than actually living them.
Bringing his unique experience as a corporate executive and mindfulness meditation teacher to the discussion, Michael Carroll helped us understand how to better appreciate and develop our most valued leadership asset: our minds. We learned basic meditation techniques and explored mindfulness principles for developing clarity, wisdom and inspiration while facing life’s daily joys, demands, and surprises.
Michael Carroll is the author of The Mindful Leader (2007) and Awake at Work (2004). He has held executive positions with companies such as Shearson Lehman/American Express, Simon & Schuster, and The Walt Disney Company.
This event was sponsored by: The Office of Faculty Development and Equity, The College of Arts and Sciences, The Center for Interdisciplinary Programs, A Healthier U, LeBow College of Business, The Office of Equality and Diversity, DU Student Life, The Office of Counseling & Health—Main Campus, The Student Counseling Center—Center City Campus
Faculty members wishing to learn more about such issues are invited to further explore the FDE website, contact our office via e-mail (fde@drexel.edu), or give us a call at 215-895-2141.
