Supporting leaders of university management in meeting (5)
I believe the answer is:
forum
'meeting' is the definition.
(forum is a kind of meeting)
'supporting leaders of university management' is the wordplay.
'supporting' becomes 'for'.
'leaders of' says to take the initial letters.
The first letters of 'university management' is 'um'.
'for'+'um'='FORUM'
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for forum that I've seen before include "Place to discuss ideas" , "Place for open discussion" , "Place to meet people" , "Meeting of people for discussion" , "Public meeting-place for open discussion" .)