About AALI
The American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI), headquartered in Washington, DC, is a non-profit organization which works to strengthen academic leadership in all sectors of public and private higher education. AALI’s services include (a) identification and development of leadership talent; (b) seminars and workshops for academic leaders in various administrative positions to enable them to be successful in their roles and to advance the institutions they serve; (c) consultation to academic leaders and boards of trustees concerning traditional and emerging issues facing higher education and its governance; (d) assistance during periods of administrative leadership transition; and (e) support for higher education research and publications.
AALI Priorities
The Board of Directors of the American Academic Leadership Institute has established the following priorities and strategic directives for AALI:
- AALI will be a supporter and sustainer of higher education leadership;
- AALI will be intrinsically educational, focusing on the identification and development of academic leadership;
- AALI will support and sustain diversity in academic leadership;
- AALI will be a leadership development organization and not a granting organization;
- AALI-sponsored programming will support presidential effectiveness;
- AALI will address the development of leadership to fill upcoming vacancies in all areas of higher education resulting from retirement in the foreseeable future, recognizing the portability of skills between two-year and four-year institutions and between public and private institutions;
- AALI will support effective and convenient professional development for presidents to have ongoing discussion of new developments in higher education;
- AALI will seek to become the preferred provider of presidential leadership development;
- AALI will offer cross-sector programming;
- AALI will facilitate the outreach of higher education to the rest of the world.
Dr. Ann Die Hasselmo is President of the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI) in Washington, D.C. She was formerly the Managing Director of Academic Search Consultation Service (ASCS). Her earlier career in higher education administration spanned positions from faculty leadership to the presidency. She served in both public and private colleges and universities and held a variety of chairs and presidencies of national higher education boards and associations. Read More...
