THE COMMISSION on Higher Education and the Asian Institute of Management teamed up and recently launched the Global Academic Leadership Program which aims to upgrade the leadership skills of State Universities and Colleges and CHED officials.

The CHED-AIM GALP is a 40-day online program that aims to equip the participants with concepts, frameworks, principles and innovative tools that will assist them in performing their leadership functions.

The program will also strengthen the participants’ problem-solving, decision-making and team-building skills given the challenges of the 21st century learnings and the new perspective of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

The GALP participants will be trained in four cohorts, with SUC and CHED officials joining virtually.

Cohort 1 commenced their training right after the opening ceremony last March 15, while Cohort 2 started their training on April 5, 2021. Cohorts 3 and 4 will begin their training on April 26 and May 17, 2021, respectively.

“The objective of this program is quite simple — we recognize that the challenges facing academic leaders in higher education is very broad and numerous. They deal with a wide range of stakeholders — students and their patients, faculty, alumni, local governments, audit and budget agencies, legislators, even informal settlers who illegally occupy their campuses,” CHED Chairman Prospero De Vera III said.

“So we want to capacitate our leaders both in the SUCs, as well as the CHED bureaucracy in the regions and central office so that they get the necessary skills needed as they address the concerns and demands of these stakeholders,” he added.

The AIM School of Executive Education and Lifelong Learning — which runs the GALP — is the executive development arm of AIM. SEELL provides leading-edge, differentiated and results-oriented executive education programs.

GALP also supports CHED’s new vision and mission of continuous improvement of the leadership skills of SUC officials as part of the modernization of Philippine higher education.

AIM President Jikyeong Kang,  De Vera, Commissioner Aldrin Darilag, and Commissioner Lilian De Las Llagas launched GALP under CHED’s International Continuing Professional Education Grants recently.

The GALP is one of the key internationalization programs of CHED’s International Affairs Staff under Director Lily Freida Milla.