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Development Initiative for Academic Leadership (DIAL)

Top of Arts Building with the 51³Ô¹ÏÍøflag flying prominently aboveDIAL brings together 10-15 mid-career colleagues who have demonstrated leadership promise and interest. They work with one another, and with senior leaders at McGill, to deepen their understanding and proficiencies in relation to academic leadership. Selected DIAL mentees will be afforded unique opportunities in relation to intensive leadership training and exposure offered through multiple formats over a 9-month period (September to May, inclusive).

DIAL mentees will be tenured faculty or senior ranked contract academic staff who have demonstrated interest in and capacity for university leadership. Decisions will be made by the Associate Provost, Equity & Academic Policies and members of the Equity Team who oversee the PFMN, in consultation with an applicant’s Dean and Chair.

Application Process

Program Overview


51³Ô¹ÏÍø is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

For more information about traditional territory and tips on how to make a land acknowledgement, visit our Land Acknowledgement webpage.


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