• Overview of MAC-LINC Project
• Introduction to MAC and its 10 Institutions

The Mid-Atlantic Consortium (MAC) involves ten land-grant, state, and private institutions, including community colleges, in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, who are working together to promote and support leadership development for institutional change in higher education. The interest in institutional change stems from the desire to have universities and colleges be responsive to the changing demands placed upon them by society. The goal of the leadership initiative is to promote change that will improve the usefulness, quality, and cost-effectiveness of higher education, research, and public service to the communities these institutions serve. In particular, the LINC initiative proposes to:

• Develop leadership skills among faculty and administrators, providing them with a skill set fort heir existing work and for future needs
• Build an understanding of organizational leadership and effective leadership styles and approaches
• Develop a sense of community that links leadership with citizenship, both within the Institutional community and beyond
• Change professional expectations to include and reward transformational leadership
• Develop an infrastructure that involves faculty in leading and shaping the college/university

 

• What is the Mid-Atlantic Consortium?

  The Mid-Atlantic Consortium (MAC) involves 10 land-grant, state, and private institutions, including community colleges, in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

  The MAC institutions first worked together on a Food Systems Professions Education project sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to develop regional collaborative educational programs focusing on all aspects of the food system. Now these same institutions are planning to work together to support each other in leadership development strategies to foster institutional change.

• The MAC-LINC Institutions are:
  
  Delaware
  • University of Delaware
  • Delaware State University
  Maryland
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • University of Maryland, Eastern Shore
    
  New Jersey

  • Cumberland County Community College
  • Mercer County Community College
  • Rutgers University
  • Sussex County Community College
  New York
  • Cornell University
    
  Pennsylvania
  • Delaware Valley College

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