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Constance Dean Qualls, ASHA fellow and chair and professor of speech-language pathology, recently returned from Harvard University, where she attended the 2013 Management Development Program (MDP). The MDP, presented by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a highly regarded, intensive leadership institute for deans, directors, and department heads that is designed to be both informational and transformational. Joined by 110 of her colleagues from the 50 states and 16 countries, Qualls attended plenary and small-group sessions that focused on effective leadership in higher education, developing and leading high-functioning teams, fostering institutional transformation, aligning strategic planning with financial management, ethical decision making, change management, and identifying the conditions that lead to opportunities for professional development and personal transformation. She met with individual colleagues, including those from Singapore, Denmark, Nigeria, China, and New Zealand, to establish domestic and international networks that will, hopefully, be of benefit to Buffalo State. Qualls looks forward to using her Harvard experiences to enhance the Buffalo State experience both now and in the future.