Oregon Institute for Leadership Development (OILD)
The Oregon Institute for Leadership Development is a unique opportunity for women from each community college in the state to gather and learn about developing and enhancing their leadership skills.
A selected group of women come together to gain insight on work styles, to consider community college issues, and to reflect on professional ethics, personal value systems, gender dynamics and leadership. Participants have an opportunity to hear from women who are in community college leadership roles, college presidents, deans, faculty, support staff, who come to share their stories of personal and professional growth. OILD is a time for learning, reflecting, and growing. It’s a time for meeting women from other community colleges and for expanding networks. It is also a time for fun. The institute is usually held in June at the beautiful Silver Creek Falls Conference Center.
24th Annual OILD
The Twenty-fourth Annual OILD was held at the Silver Falls Conference Center, June 24 - 27, 2013. This is a professional development opportunity for community college women interested in leadership as well as personal and professional growth.
Many women who have attended over the last several years have assumed leadership roles in their institutions. The investment in this development opportunity provides many benefits for the college as well as the individual. Similar to past years, we are asking that each college make its participant selection using local criteria.
Information on the program and selection process will be sent to the AAWCC Campus Contacts and college presidents in January.
OILD Directors
| Mary F.T. Spilde, Co-facilitator spildem@lanecc.edu (541) 463-5315 Lane Community College President 4000 East 30th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97405 |
Jan Woodcock, Program jan.woodcock@umpqua.edu (541) 440-4706 Umpqua Community College Social Science Faculty 1140 College Road Roseburg, Oregon 97470-0226 |
Julie Huckestein, Logistics jhuckest@chemeketa.edu (503) 399-6575 Chemeketa Community College Chief Administrative Officer PO Box 14007 Salem, OR 97309-7070 |
OILD History
Many community college women who attended the National Institute for Leadership Development wanted to create a process for Oregon women who did not have a Master's Degree and were therefore ineligible for NILD. A committee was formed by the OAAWCC Chapter to see what a similar workshop could look like should we offer one. Lily O'Rielly chaired it. Stephanie Sussman was on it as was Alice Jacobson and several other women. They came up with a plan.
The major hump was how to get the college presidents to support it. Stephanie Sussman went around to several of them and spoke to them about the workshop and their need to support and cover costs. At the time PCC had three college Campus Deans who sat on the President's Council who were women, Alice Jacobson, Betty Duva ll and Pamela Transue and Darlene was President of Clatsop CC. They brought the issue to the President's Council and I believe there was a unanimous approval to support it. The first one was held at Silver Falls. NILD supported it from the beginning. The founders always thought of OILD as a way to provide support for women to go back to school and increase their skills. So in a way it was a feeder for future NILD participants.
In 1995, Stephanie Sussman wrote her dissertation on OILD identifying the key elements needed in a leadership training program for women in CC's. She did a survey of the participants, their supervisors when they went to OILD and their supervisors at the time of the survey, The results were overwhelmingly positive.
In 2006, the Oregon Institute for Leadership Development received the Model Award at the AACC convention.