Millennium Leadership Initiative
The Millennium Leadership Initiative or MLI is a premier higher education leadership development program. Originally created by the African-American presidents of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities to help prepare traditionally underrepresented groups for university and college presidencies and chancellorships. The program is one of the most successful higher education programs and has expanded and is now open to all under-represented populations and participants need not be from AASCU member institutions.
MLI has partnered with Association of Public and Land Grant Universities and the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities to expand its reach to faculty and administrators that are interested in moving to upper administrative positions.
Administration
The administration of the program is by an Executive Steering Committee of sitting presidents. The faculty in the Summer Institute volunteer their time to support the advancement of underrepresented groups.Mentoring Component
The highly selective program differs from other leadership programs largely because of its intensive mentoring program. Proteges meet for one week in the summer and are then paired with a sitting president or chancellor for the following year. The mentor and protege meet weekly by phone, communicate by email, and the protege shadows the mentor on his or her campus.The initiative has been highly successful with sixty proteges appointed as president or chancellor in the programs fifteen years. Dozens of other proteges have moved up to Vice President and Provost positions.
Career Advancements to Presidents and Chancellors
- Livingston Alexander, President, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, PA
- Rodolfo Arrival, President, Eastern Washington University,
- Tony Atwater, Former President, Norfolk State University, Va.
- Stanley F. Battle, Former Interim President, Southern Connecticut State University
- Juliette Bell, President, University of Maryland Eastern Shore,
- Kweku K. Bentil, Retired Campus President, Miami Dade College
- Linda L. M. Bennett, President, The University of Southern Indiana
- Betsy V. Boze, President, College of the Bahamas
- M. Christopher Brown II, President, Alcorn State University, MS
- "T. J. Bryan", Chancellor Emerita, Fayetteville State University, NC
- Nancy Cooley, Open Campus President, Florida State College at Jacksonville
- Don Cozzetto, Former President, University of Northern British Columbia
- Charles Curry, Former Acting President, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
- Elizabeth Davis-Russell, President, Tubman College in Maryland County, Liberia
- Cheerly Dozier, President, Savannah State University, Georgia
- Beverly Edmond, Former Interim President, Alabama A&M University
- Royce Engstrom, President, The University of Montana
- Angela Franklin, President, Des Moines University
- William J. Fritz, Interim President, City University of New York, College of Staten Island
- Mildred García, President, California State University Fullerton
- Joanne Glasser, President, Bradley University, IL
- Emmanuel Gonsalves, President, The College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad & Tobago,
- Ervin Griffin, President, Halifax Community and Technical College, NC
- Ivelaw L. Griffith, President, Fort Valley State University, GA
- Sandra Harper, President, McMurry University, TX
- Billy Hawkins, President, Talladega College
- Virginia S. Horvath, President, State University of New York at Fredonia,
- "Christopher B. Howard", President, Hampden-Sydney College, VA
- Michelle Howard-Vital, President, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
- Cynthia Jackson-Hammond, President, Central State University,
- Melvin Johnson, Former President, Tennessee State University
- Glendell Jones, President, Henderson State University, AR
- Peter G. Jordan, President, Tarrant County College, South Campus, Fort Worth, TX
- Renu Khator, Chancellor of the University of Houston System and President of the University of Houston
- Walter W. Kimbrough, President, Dillard University
- Raynard Kington, President, Grinnell College, IA
- Nancy Kleniewski, President, State University of New York at Oneonta
- Susan J. Koch, University of Illinois Springfield, Chancellor and Vice President
- Dorothy Leland, Chancellor, University of California, Merced
- Devorah Lieberman, President, University of La Verne at California,
- Henry Lewis, President, Florida Memorial University
- James Limbaugh, President, Montana State University Northern
- Wallace Loh, President, University of Maryland,
- Kofi Lomotey, Former Chancellor, Southern University and A&M College at Baton Rouge, LA
- Andrea Miller, Chancellor, SOWELA Technical Community College, LA
- Keith T. Miller, President, Virginia State University
- Dana Mohler-Faria, President, Bridgewater State College, MA
- Carlos Morales, President, Tarrant County College Connect
- Tomás Morales, President, California State University San Bernardino,
- J. Keith Motley, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts-Boston
- Eduardo M. Ochoa, President at California State University, Monterey Bay
- Michael Ortiz, President Emeritus, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- Emmanuel Osagie, Former Chancellor, Pennsylvania State Fayette, PA deceased
- John Ellis Price, Former President, University of North Texas at Dallas,
- Patricia Pierce Ramsey, Former Interim President, Bowie State University, MD
- Una Mae Reck, Former Chancellor, Indiana University South Bend
- Ronald R. Rosati, Former Officer in charge, SUNY College of Technology at Alfred
- Debra Saunders-White, Chancellor, North Carolina Central University
- Dennis Shields, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
- Rodney Smith, Former President, The College of the Bahamas, Nassau and Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Marlene Strathe, Former Interim President, Oklahoma State University
- Cornell Thomas, President, Jarvis Christian College, TX
- Victor Ukpolo, Chancellor, Southern University at New Orleans, LA
- Nancy Uscher, President, Cornish College of the Arts, WA
- DeLois P. Weekes, Former President, Clarkson College, NE
- Gregory H. Williams, Former President, The University of Cincinnati
- Fred Wood, Chancellor, University of Minnesota Crookston
- Karl Wright, Former President, Florida Memorial University
- Mary Wyatt, Former President, Roanoke-Chowan Community College, Ahoskie, NC