Darlyne Bailey

Assistant to the president

Tel: 612-624-5745
dbailey@umn.edu

Suite 270B
McNamara Alumni Center
200 Oak Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

As the founding dean of the College of Education and Human Development and assistant to the president at the University of Minnesota, Darlyne Bailey was formerly the vice president for academic affairs and dean of Teachers College, Columbia University, from January 2002 to September 2006. Prior to that, she served as the dean of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University for eight years. Dr. Bailey earned a master's degree in psychiatric social work from Columbia University and a doctorate in organizational behavior from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

A recognized leader, Dean Bailey is both a Group XIII Fellow in the W.K. Kellogg National Leadership Program and the first recipient of the Campbell Leadership Chair in Education and Human Development. She is committed to multidisciplinary and multicultural practice, which is reflected in her research, teaching, and service on local and national professional and community boards. Dr. Bailey has written numerous book chapters and articles, along with several books, including Managing human resources in the human services and Strategic alliances among health and human services organizations: From affiliations to consolidations. Her latest book, Sustaining Our Spirits: Women Leaders Thriving for Today and Tomorrow (NASW, 2008), is the product of collaboration with four other women based on their experiences and those of 40+ women leaders in the non-profit, corporate, faith-based, and governmental sectors in the United States. Dr. Bailey has come to see her life’s work as creating visionary and engaged leadership to ensure that individuals, organizations, multi-organizational partnerships, and communities fulfill their highest potential.

Sustaining Our Spirits

Excerpts from the Foreword

Sustaining Our Spirits provides an authentic, real-life experience, rooted in research, with perspectives rarely examined in depth. This is a handbook for life’s journey for leaders who are women.

The significance of this new book can be celebrated by women everywhere, as they test, absorb, and make the lessons learned their own. This resource is not about theory but about lives fully lived and examined by eminently successful leaders—the great days, the tough days, the lessons applied and generously shared.

Frances Hesselbein
Founding President and Chairman of the Leader to Leader Institute

Great Conversations

Dean Bailey and Daniel Pink, best-selling author of A Whole New Mind, were the featured speakers for Revenge of the Right Brainers, June 3, 2008.

Listen to the audio [45MB .mp3 file]

State of the College address, October 5, 2007

“From dis-covering a college to creating our neighborhoods”

Read the transcript.

Listen to the audio [.mp3].