Leadership Development: One College’s Solution

A recent Inside Higher Ed article discussed the need for leadership training for faculty and academic staff as a way to prepare them for higher education’s ongoing challenges, such as competition for students, equity issues, and financial pressures (Cano & Whitfield, 2019). As faculty members in the Touro College and University System Graduate School of Education, we identified this need and in the fall of 2017 proposed an innovative faculty development project: the Touro College Academy of Leadership and Management (TCALM).