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Designed for higher education leaders — from directors, department heads, and deans, to vice presidents, provosts, and presidents — our programs group you with peers who share similar experiences, perspectives, and specific problems of practice, creating a vibrant learning community. All of our programs are grounded in evidence-based research and the expertise of faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
When you pursue professional development at HGSE, you’ll find participants who bring multiple perspectives from a broad range of institutions, including large research universities, comprehensive regional institutions, small liberal arts colleges, and community colleges — creating a rich, multi-layered, and dynamic learning environment in which your thinking and approaches will be challenged, and you will gain insight from the research and teaching of our outstanding faculty and your peers.
The Harvard Institutes for Higher Education (HIHE) offers comprehensive leadership development programs for higher education leaders. With an almost 50-year history of advancing the practice of higher education administrators, and a vibrant network of thousands of alumni who maintain long-term relationships and return to HIHE as their careers advance, our programs will have a transformative impact on your practice — and will allow you to make that same transformative impact in your professional community.