For more than 30 years, the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education (HIHE) has helped transform higher education leaders and their institutions by providing high-quality professional development experiences to college and university administrators.

Our summer institutes are recognized as one of the nation’s premier forums for the development of higher education leaders. In fact, one out of six U.S. college and university presidents has participated in an HIHE-sponsored institute.

Key Themes Include:

• Understanding the distinctive set of managing-from-the-middle challenges faced by mid-level college and university administrators.
  
• Providing tools and insights to lead strategic change in higher education.
  
• Examining critical leadership challenges facing higher education.
  
• Developing and implementing effective leadership transition strategies and institutional entry plans for newly appointed college or university presidents.
  
• Identifying ways for the board chair/chief executive team to strengthen their leadership alliance to improve institutional governance and board productivity

Our institutes take advantage of the rich and diverse experiences of participants - creating intensive, highly interactive, total immersion learning environments. Each HIHE program strives to create a dynamic learning community where outside pressures and claims on participant time are replaced by serious and uninterrupted focus on program goals and learning objectives.

By design, HIHE offerings attract a broad cross-section of individuals and institutions from the higher education community. Typical program enrollment is 85-95 participants for any given institute. It is not unusual for strong professional networks to be forged during a program, providing an important longer-term benefit to participants and their institutions.