The senior vice chancellor for the Office of Academic Affairs will sponsor the participation of four UNL faculty members for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s Department Executive Officers Seminar.

Participants for the 2015-2016 seminar include: Aaron Crabtree, director of the school of accountancy; Stephen Lahey, chair of classics and religious studies; Donald Reynolds, director of the school of veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences; and Jody Kellas, associate professor in communication studies. In 1997, the CIC initiated an annual program of leadership development opportunities for department heads and chairs. Each year, approximately 75 department heads and chairs from CIC universities come together for this unique leadership development seminar.

Topics at the three-day event range from conflict resolution and time management to faculty development, performance reviews and group problem solving. This year’s program will be Oct. 1-3 at the Big Ten Center in Chicago. For more information on the UNL faculty participating in the seminar, go to http://go.unl.edu/deo_15-16.

Individual department heads and chairs are selected by their campuses.

For information about the CIC’s Department Executive Officers Seminar and this year’s participants, contact UNL’s DEO liaison, Lance C. Pérez, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, at lcperez@unl.edu or 402-472-3751.