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Title: Leadership in education during times of uncertainty

 

Description: Leaders can not rely on vision alone and this becomes obvious during a crisis. This presentation discusses how a group of Alberta Deans and Directors and other stakeholders re-invigorated a long-standing committee to great benefit in the pandemic. We will situate the work of the group in the theory of ‘holding’. If a leader can hold -   mutual support abounds, work continues, and a new vision eventually emerges. When leaders cannot hold, and coworkers can’t hold each other, anxiety, anger, and fragmentation ensue. Although we as educators, health care administrators, professional body and regulators had been meeting for a number of years, this was the first time we came together united with the same problem. The outcomes and lessons learned from the weekly meetings and our ongoing process are illustrative of the power of working together and ‘holding’ one another to develop workable solutions and a new level of trust and understanding.

 

Presenters and biographies:

Margie Edwards, Dean, Faculty of Health Disciplines, Athabasca University

Dr. Edwards has obtained several SSHRC grants and published in the area of exemplary online education. She has shared her leadership with Athabasca University as a Program Director, Associate Dean, and for the last decade as Dean. During her time, at Athabasca University, Dr. Edwards has led the development of several online masters’ degrees and the continuing exploration, by the faculty, of best practices in online learning.

 

Greta Cummings, Dean and Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta

Dr. Cummings is the current Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta and the past president for the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care (ISNCC).  She leads the CLEAR Outcomes (Connecting Leadership Education & Research) research program, which focuses on leadership practices of healthcare decision-makers to achieve better health outcomes. Dr. Cummings has published over 215 papers and is a 2014 Highly Cited Researcher in Social Sciences (Thomson Reuters), receiving the Canadian Nurses Association Order of Merit for Research, and inauguration into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2015).

 

Olive Yonge, Full Professor, Distinguished University Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta

Dr. Yonge has obtained a number of SSHRCs and published numerous articles and books in the area of preceptorship. This past decade she has focused her attention on academic leadership, serving as a Vice Provost, Deputy Provost, Interim Provost and Vice Dean. As an academic leader she has chaired a number of task forces focusing on outcomes such as improving graduate and undergraduate student experiences and has also evaluated the undergraduate nursing curriculum. Currently, she is researching courage through interviews of academic and non-academic female administrators across Canada. In January she will be teaching an InterD course for undergraduate students called Loneliness Matters.

Moderator:

Marilyn MacDonald, Professor & Associate Director, Graduate Studies, School of Nursing, Dalhousie University; Director Joanna Briggs Institute, Centre of Excellence in Systematic Reviews

Dates: Thurs Nov 12, 2020, 12 – 1 pm MST
Ticket Price: FREE

Lunch & Learn Theme: Nursing Education during COVID-19 - Leadership in education in times of uncertainty

  • Thursday Nov 12 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Online
    Canada