Leadership and organizational transformation: punishment days or academic days

This short paper presents the philosophy and planning that served as the foundation for a one day-long conference held to consider change and enhance the knowledge, skills and relationships among the faculty and administration within an engineering college. This is both a look back at one academic day and a look forward to next year´s session. Workshops illustrated technical, organizational and developmental concepts that could successfully facilitate change at the undergraduate level. While topics included the evolution of the colleges´ identity, students of the future, computers, multimedia and the academic community, college collaboration and the faculty role, the focus of the discussion is on the leadership steps toward a successful day