Completing Your Application

• Leadership Statement

  Your Leadership Statement should address the following topics. Do not exceed 3 pages.

  Your Understanding of the Landscape of STEM Reform
  What do you see as the most significant challenges facing academic leaders engaged in the reform of undergraduate STEM education? Please provide a concise summary of the most persistent or vexing problem(s) currently standing in the way of meaningful, sustainable undergraduate STEM reform at your institution or within the broader higher education ecosystem.

  Your Awareness for Values-Driven Leadership
  What are your core leadership values? Describe how your personal values have shaped—or are shaping—the kind of leader you aspire to be, and how those values position you to contribute meaningfully to undergraduate STEM education reform and to the PKAL STEM Leadership Institute learning community.

  Your Clarity About Your Own Pressing Leadership Challenge
  What is the most immediate area of undergraduate STEM reform in which you seek to further develop your leadership capacity? Describe a current initiative, challenge, or area of concern that you want your leadership development to address. In your response, explain:

  • why this issue is particularly urgent for you at this moment, and

  • what you hope to gain from participating in the PKAL STEM Leadership Institute that will help you move this work forward.

   

• Your most recent CV

  Include your most recent CV (no more than 4 pages).

• Letter of Reference

  Include a Letter of Reference from a senior colleague that addresses your potential to benefit from the Institute and to, ultimately, lead undergraduate STEM reform efforts either on your campus or nationally.

• Institutional Commitment

  Include an Institutional Letter of Commitment from a campus administrator in support of your efforts to participate in the PKAL STEM Leadership Institute.