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Academic Leadership Program-Rutgers Health

About

Since 2018, the Academic Leadership Program at Rutgers Health (ALP-RH) has provided a venue for faculty administrators and invited staff to strengthen their leadership, management, and organizational skills, with a focus on current challenges and opportunities in biomedical and health sciences at the national, state, and institutional levels. Beginning in 2025-2026, the program will expand to include two distinct tracks: Aspiring Leaders, designed for mid-career faculty and staff, and Established Leaders, tailored for faculty administrators and senior staff.

These two tracks will offer a combination of concepts, tools, and practical approaches designed to enhance both individual and collective leadership capacity across Rutgers Health. The program will include select joint sessions bringing both cohorts together, track-specific sessions tailored to each group’s needs, and a shared offsite experience. There will be select joint sessions attended by both cohorts, select track-specific sessions, and an overlapping offsite experience. Over the course of the year-long program, participants will explore common leadership challenges, exchange strategies for overcoming obstacles, and identify opportunities for growth and innovation.

The redesigned program includes a combination of virtual and in-person sessions, along with an interactive two-day offsite program retreat to be held in February 2026, which will give participants the opportunity to meet and interact with Rutgers Health senior leadership and members of the both tracks within the ALP-RH program.  

The program is co-sponsored by the Rutgers Office of Organizational Leadership and Rutgers Health.

Program Goals

  • Increase understanding of current biomedical and health sciences leadership challenges at the national and state level, and within Rutgers and RH, through presentations and discussions with higher education and academic health experts.  
  • Reflect on and articulate one’s philosophy for engaging in academic leadership.   
  • Strengthen the ability to assess and leverage individual personal and professional strengths, and the strengths of those they lead, through the use of various assessment tools and engagement strategies. 

Program Administrator

For more information about the program please contact:

Deja Cannon

Management Assistant for Academic Affairs
Rutgers Health Faculty Affairs
deja.cannon@rutgers.edu