Celebrating Ten Years of Leadership Fellows:

Maximizing CTN's Potential as an Agency of Change

Leadership Fellows Program

The CTN Leadership Fellows Program is a customized learning experience that immerses participants in the organization's culture, policies, and decision-making processes. The program aims to maximize CTN's potential as an agency of change by maximizing the potential of all the people implementing CTN’s Transformative Education Framework across the state and nation.

Program Goals:

• To provide a developmental track for practitioners across campuses to help them understand the underpinnings associated with leadership values to impact the future of higher education directly.
• To ensure that future leaders are ready to take on real-world challenges in higher education and serve the capacity-building needs of the program and the educational institutions we serve.
• To develop leaders who share the values of respect, community, professional development, and responsible stewardship while seeking to encourage others to lead and achieve success – in other words. This mindful leader embraces collaboration and inclusiveness

How to apply to be a CTN Leadership Fellow

• Please submit the application below and upload the requested materials 
• Contact Debra.Mcbeath@catchthenext.org with any questions
• Deadline:   No later than April 1, 2025
• Notifications, April 7, 2025
• Leadership Fellows Training:  Friday, April 18, 9 am to noon

CTN believes effective leadership can improve organizational learning and help drive the agency in new directions.  “Organizational learning is creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within the organization. The primary purpose is to ensure organizations retain what they learn from experience over time. In the modern knowledge-based economy, organizational learning can create a competitive advantage for almost all organizations.”  The Oxford Review, 2015                                                                                                                                                  

A good Leadership Fellow is an individual who can establish a values-oriented vision and mission that promotes the success of others and CTN.

CTN Leadership Fellows earn stipends for their participation in the following:

• CTN Professional Development ASCENDER Seminars: summer, fall, and spring as presenters or co-presenters.
• CTN Site Visits to campuses across the state where they serve as peer mentors to new faculty and administrators.
• Provide Workshops for our Transformative Teaching Institutes or Learning Circles.
• Other projects as assigned.

CTN Leadership Fellows can participate in the following:

• Leadership Fellows Retreat held each year.
• Monthly Webinars.
•   Research and Evaluation Team.
•  Journal of Ideas and Creativity as writers or editorial staff.
•  Marketing and Communications Team
•  Student Engagement team

Through its Leadership Fellows Program, CTN will, at the very least, ensure that faculty are better informed on the elements of an effectively led collegiate program. They will then be able to advocate for organizational change and understand leadership from a systems perspective.