Class of 2017
TICUA Executive Leadership Institute
September 13 & 14, 2016
Rhodes College
Orientation
Josh Hayden, Ed.D., is the director of executive programs for Spark: Lipscomb University’s Idea Center in Williamson County and downtown. As director, he develops customized leadership development programs for corporate partners as well as other professional development opportunities at the university’s new Spark facility in downtown Nashville. Hayden also facilitates the vital connection between the educational needs of the downtown community and graduate degree programs at Lipscomb.
Hayden has been an active member of the International Leadership Association, a worldwide community of practitioners and scholars advancing leadership scholarship and education.
Prior to his appointment at Lipscomb, Hayden was on faculty at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, where he was executive director of general education and assistant professor of leadership studies. While at Cumberland, Hayden taught graduate and undergraduate leadership courses, such as organizational behavior and socially responsible leadership, the latter of which involved a trip to serve in Haiti. Administratively, he led the general education core, created the “Connect” program, and shaped the quality enhancement plan effort focused on the academic transitions of first-year students.
Hayden began his career as assistant director of the President’s Leadership Program at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. He also worked abroad with the International Foundation in Washington, D.C., leading a service team that developed mentoring and leadership programs for underserved youth in India, Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Brazil. He also is a leadership consultant and professional coach and worked briefly in the health care industry coordinating a leadership development initiative at Spheris Inc.
Hayden’s teaching and consulting interests include cultural change management, adaptive leadership, and fostering collaboration and trust, among other topics. His research interests in the field of leadership include leading social change, strengthening organizational culture, authentic spiritual leadership, and fostering student growth and development.
A native of Huntsville, Alabama, Hayden spent much of his childhood in Arlington, Virginia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in leadership studies from the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies. Hayden also has a Master of Education degree in organizational leadership and a Doctorate of Education degree in higher education leadership and policy from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development. He has published in numerous leadership and education journals.Hayden currently serves on the boards of The Joseph School in Haiti and the Salvation Army in Davidson County. For more information about Spark: Lipscomb’s Idea Center, visit spark.lipscomb.edu.
Credo is a comprehensive higher education consulting firm that specializes in working with independent colleges and universities to move them forward on the continuum from surviving to thriving. Credo counts among their partner schools more than 300 institutions. Credo believes that with smart, data-driven strategies designed to lift up mission and embrace distinctions in the marketplace, independent higher education can grow and thrive through any challenge.
Tim Fuller is a Senior Vice President and owner with Credo. Tim has been in higher education and consulting since 1980. Prior to joining Credo in 2007 he served as Vice President for Enrollment Management at Houghton College, supervising admission, student financial services and church relations in addition to coordinating student persistence efforts. A past president of the North American Coalition for Christian Admission Professionals (NACCAP) and Senior Research Fellow with the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, Tim earned a B.A. from Houghton College and an M.B.A. at State University of New York at Buffalo. Tim leads the Enrollment and Marketing Solutions teams as Senior Vice President at Credo and consults in the areas of enrollment management, strategic planning, executive search, and research.
Governance and Board Relations
Richard L. Morrill, Ph.D., brings more than 40 years of higher education experience, having served as faculty, provost, president, board member, and advocate. Morrill assumed his current role as chancellor of the University of Richmond in 1998 as a largely honorary position that allows him to serve as an ambassador of good will for the University following his 10-year presidency. He also serves as Distinguished University Professor of Ethics and Democratic Values – a professorship the university’s board created upon his retirement as president that now carries his name. He has served as senior advisor to the president of the Teagle Foundation and was the foundation's president from 2010 to 2013. He also served on the foundation's board of directors from 1989 to 2014, including several terms as chair of the program committee and as chair of the board. Prior to his association with the University of Richmond, he served as president of Centre College from 1982 to 1988, and as president of Salem College from 1979 to 1982.
He began his teaching career in 1967 at Wells College before moving to Chatham College where he served as Associate Professor of Religion, Executive Assistant to the president and associate provost. He served at the Pennsylvania State University from 1977–1979 as chief of staff to the university provost.
Dr. Morrill received his A.B. in History from Brown University in 1961, graduating magna cum laude, his B.D. in Religious Thought in 1964 from Yale University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and the recipient of the Tew Prize for excellence in studies; and his Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he was a James B. Duke Fellow. Dr. Morrill attended the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard in 1974. He has received honorary degrees from four institutions, including the École des Haute Études Internationales in Paris, France, and he is a member of the Order of Academic Palms. He studied in France as an undergraduate, principally at L’Institut D’Études Politiques and is fluent in French. In 1997, he served as a member of the Organization for Economic Development’s (OECD) four-person team to evaluate the initial years of study in French Universities.
Dr. Morrill has written widely on issues of values and ethics in higher education and has published several articles and made numerous presentations on strategic planning and leadership for colleges and universities. One of his special interests is the relationship between undergraduate education and civic and professional responsibilities. He is the author of Teaching Values in College (1980) and Strategic Leadership in Academic Affairs: Clarifying the Board’s Responsibilities (April 2002-AGB). He has a book in progress on Strategic Leadership: Using Strategy as a Process and Discipline of Leadership in Colleges and Universities.
He served as a member of the board of Central Fidelity Banks, Inc., and as a board officer of The Association of American Colleges and Universities and was recently a member of the National Panel for AAC&U’s project on “Greater Expectations for Higher Education.” He was chairman of the College Commission and president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He is a member of the CIC (Council of Independent Colleges) Panel of Presidential Consultants.
William Troutt, Ph.D., is in his second decade at Rhodes College and his third as a college president. Dr. William E. Troutt is one of only three college presidents in America currently serving in that capacity for more than 30 years.
Dr. Troutt was named Rhodes’ 19th president on March 30, 1999 and formally inaugurated into the office on April 14, 2000. Over the next four years he led the college community in the creation of a widely endorsed Rhodes Vision. A new college curriculum, the establishment of endowed faculty chairs and support, key partnerships to enhance student learning, the move from scholarships to fellowships, and a nationally recognized student work program are a few of the outcomes of the Rhodes Vision.
A nationally recognized leader in education, he has worked with key stakeholders to establish strategic aspirations for Rhodes. As a result, Rhodes has strengthened its focus on excellence in the classroom and beyond through student research, internships, study-abroad, service, and stronger connections with the Memphis community. Additionally, he has worked closely with trustees to implement a new trustee governance structure that serves as a national model.
Dr. Troutt’s tenure as Rhodes’ president has been remarkably successful. The College has climbed to the top tier of national liberal arts colleges, has achieved higher retention and enrollment rates, has increased diversity on the campus, has constructed a new apartment-style student residence complex, developed a student research partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and, notably, secured the largest gift in Rhodes history--$35.5 million to build the Paul Barret, Jr. Library and a $6 million Priddy grant to fund service learning. In 2012, he led the establishment of the Memphis Center at Rhodes to focus on the human experience of Memphis and the Mid-South region. In 2015, he oversaw the completion of a $314 million capital campaign to support student scholarships, faculty recruitment, community engagement, and campus enhancements, including the $30 million Robertson Hall science facility.
Well known nationally for his contributions to higher education, Dr. Troutt chaired the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education. This commission was an 11-member panel charged with addressing public concerns about rising college prices and making recommendations for keeping American higher education affordable. The commission’s findings and recommendations, which received bipartisan Congressional support and the endorsement of the higher education community, served as a guide for the Higher Education Reauthorization Act of 1998. Troutt served as Chairman of the American Council on Education and as former Chairman of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. He is published in the Peabody Journal of Education, the Journal of Higher Education, and New Directions for Institutional Research.
Dr. Troutt previously served as president of Belmont University from 1982-1999,starting his tenure at age 32, where he was named one of the nation’s most effective college presidents in a study funded by the Exxon Foundation. Dr Troutt announced on 14 April 2016 that he will retire as president of Rhodes in June 2017 after 18 years as president of Rhodes and 35 years as a college president.
He holds the Ph.D. degree from Vanderbilt University, the M.A. from the University of Louisville, and the B.A. from Union University.
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