Advancing Leadership Education:Connecting to High Impact Practices July 7-10, 2011 University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
NLS 2011 Proceedings
About the Symposium
The National Leadership Symposium is a professional development experience designed for faculty members, student affairs professionals and other educators involved with promoting college student leadership education. The program is coordinated by the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) and the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs (NCLP).
Given the intense learning environment of the Symposium (included required reading prior to attending), it is advised that participants have significant professional experience in leadership education. Registration is limited to 50 people.
According to Day, Harrison, and Halpin (2009, p. 185) “Leader identities are built through the integration of learning and leading experiences with the self. This year’s National Leadership Symposium will invite leadership educators to engage in rich dialogue and reflective discussion about what it means to be a leadership educator. Participants will enhance their own individual insight about their commitment to leadership education, and then explore larger questions related to the purpose of leadership education and how we best create space for gaining knowledge and fostering student learning. Evolving from why we do this work, to what is this work about, the symposium will turn toward what are we really ‘doing’ through leadership education. Research about high impact practices related to learning will be discussed. Scholar authors will provide theoretical frameworks and practical considerations for this exploration. Scholars and participants will engage in thoughtful discourse about what it means to educate or develop students and ourselves in leading and leadership. The overall goal of the 2011 National Leadership Symposium is to envision how the future of leadership education can promote increasingly complex ways of being, knowing, and doing.
Participants in the 2011 National Leadership Symposium will:
Early Registration Fees and Deadline: $540 until May 25
Regular Registration Fees and Deadline: $570 after May 25
Final Registration Deadline: June 9, 2011
Registration Limit: This institute is limited to 50 participants and is open to NACA/NCLP members and non-members on a first-come, first-served basis.
Membership: To join NCLP or renew your membership, please go to http://www.nclp.umd.edu/
Refund Policy for All NACA Institutes: Refunds for registration will be made only for requests received in writing at the NACA Office prior to the early registration deadline for the respective event. No refunds will be given for registrations after the stated early registration deadline. However, participant substitutions may be allowed if the request is submitted no later than 3 weeks prior to the start of the institute. A $100 administrative fee will be charged for each cancellation.
Accommodations and Meals: The registration fee includes housing and all meals. Efforts will be made to honor roommate requests that are submitted on the Participant Information Form included in the registration confirmation packet. If you do not have a roommate preference, a roommate will be assigned to you. All meals will be provided through your registration. Please indicate any special dietary needs on the Participant Information Form.
Registration: Early registration begins March 2011
20th Anniversary National Leadership Symposium
Transforming Leadership Education for Significant Learning July 8th - 11th 2010 University of Richmond
NLS 2010 Proceedings
About the Symposium The National Leadership Symposium is a professional development experience designed for faculty members, student affairs professionals and other educators involved with promoting college student leadership education. The program is coordinated by the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) and the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs (NCLP). Given the intense learning environment of the Symposium (included required reading prior to attending), it is advised that participants have significant professional experience in leadership education. Registration is limited to 50 people. 20th Anniversary Theme For the 20th anniversary year of the National Leadership Symposium, the focus will be on the intersections of student learning and leadership. Transformative documents such as Powerful Partnerships and Learning Reconsidered challenge student affairs professionals to consider themselves as educators who facilitate student learning and development. Yet many practitioners continue to view themselves primarily as programmers, as providers of services and activities. This outlook can be especially detrimental to those working in the area of leadership development, which is increasingly calling for educators skilled in the creation of engaged pedagogy, integrative learning experiences, and intentional learning communities. The Symposium puts forth the following suppositions: that leadership can and should be learned; that the learning and development leadership capacities are inextricably intertwined; and that leadership educators can purposefully foster learning environments that help students integrate knowledge, skills, and experiences in meaningful ways. The 2010 Symposium will offer an overview of some of the ways learning theories can be applied to student leadership development. It will examine socialization to the role of leadership educator and the role of authenticity in education and the development of intentional learning communities. Select learning theories and their implications for leadership learning will be presented. Strategies for constructing leadership-related learning outcomes and assessing leadership learning will also be discussed. Participants in the 2010 National Leadership Symposium will:
National Leadership Symposium
Leadership in a Global Context July 9 - 12, 2009 University of Richmond
NLS 2009 Proceedings
Now in its 19th year, the National Leadership Symposium is a professional development experience designed for faculty members, student affairs professionals and other education practitioners involved with promoting college student leadership education. The National Leadership Symposium is a joint program coordinated by the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) and the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs (NCLP). Given the intense learning environment of the Symposium (included required reading prior to attending) it is advised that participants have significant professional experience in leadership education. Registration is limited to 50 people. This year's symposium will explore the meaning of leadership in a global context. According to many practitioners and scholars global leadership is an emerging field that seeks to understand and explain the impact of globalization processes on leadership. Our scholar authors will provide theoretical frameworks and practical considerations for this exploration. They will also provide thoughtful discourse and perspectives on what it means to prepare students for a global society. Participants will engage in rich dialogue and examine the intentional development of programs that can support students' understanding of the emerging language, style and practice of leadership, which fully values and takes into account an international viewpoint. The concept of cultures interrelatedness and interdependence will be discussed as these connections relate to the establishment of global priorities and mobilization toward purposeful action. Learning objectives of the 2009 Symposium include:
In order to fully participate in the Symposium experience, delegates are expected to have read the following articles and books:
Scholars-in-Residence:
Program Chairs:
Accommodations and Meals: The Symposium participants will stay in the Lakeview Residence Hall. Each suite has two single-occupancy bedrooms and a shared bathroom. Efforts will be made to honor suite mate requests that are submitted on the Participant Information Form included in the registration confirmation packet. If you do not have a suite mate preference, a suite mate will be assigned to you. All meals will be provided through your registration. Please indicate any special dietary needs on the Participant Information Form. Early Registration Fees and Deadlines: TBA Regular Registration Fees and Deadlines: TBA Workshop Registration Limit: This workshop is limited to 50 participants and is open to NACA/NCLP members and non-members on a first-come, first-served basis. Refund Policy: Refunds for registration will be made only for requests received in writing at the NACA Office prior to the early registration deadline for the Symposium. No refunds will be given for Symposium registrations after the stated early registration deadline. However, participant substitutions may be allowed. A $100 administrative fee will be charged for each cancellation.
2008 National Leadership Symposium
Authenticity as a Spiritual framework for educating a new generation of leaders July 10 - 13, 2008 University of Richmond Richmond, VA
NLS 2008 Proceedings
Now in its 18th year, the National Leadership Symposium is a professional development experience designed for faculty members, student affairs professionals and other education practitioners involved with promoting college student leadership education.
The National Leadership Symposium is a joint program coordinated by the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) and the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs (NCLP). Given the intense learning environment of the Symposium (included required reading prior to attending), it is advised that participants have significant professional experience in leadership education. Registration is limited to 50 people.
This year's symposium will explore the connection of spirituality to leadership and paves the way for scholars and practitioners to revisit the foundation of leadership based on authenticity. Our scholar authors will provide a theoretical framework for defining authenticity and value-based leadership with an emphasis on spirituality. Participants will engage in critical discussion and consider the intentional development of programs that can support studentsÕ deeper meaning of leadership. As well, participants will consider the purposeful action colleges and universities can take to develop morally authentic habits in students, which can serve to influence communities and organizations toward a deeper commitment to social and civic responsibility.
Learning objectives of the 2008 Symposium include:
In order to fully participate in the Symposium experience, delegates are expected to have read the following books:
Accommodations and Meals: The Symposium participants will stay in university apartments. Each apartment has two single-occupancy bedrooms. Efforts will be made to honor apartment mate requests that are submitted on the Participant Information Form included in the registration confirmation packet. If you do not have an apartment mate preference, an apartment mate will be assigned to you. All meals will be provided through your registration. Please indicate any special dietary needs on the Participant Information Form.
Workshop Registration Limit: This workshop is limited to 50 participants and is open to NACA/NCLP members and non-members on a first-come, first-served basis.
Refund Policy: Refunds for registration will be made only for requests received in writing at the NACA Office prior to the early registration deadline for the Symposium. No refunds will be given for Symposium registrations after the stated early registration deadline. However, participant substitutions may be allowed. A $100 administrative fee will be charged for each cancellation.
2007 National Leadership Symposium
Celebrating the Social Change Model: Insights and Applications for the Future July 12 - 15, 2007 University of Richmond Richmond, VA
NLS 2007 Proceedings
To register, please visit www.naca.org/NACA/Events/WorkshopsOtherEvents. You do not need to be an NACA member to register online. Early Registration Fees and Deadlines: $495 until June 19, 2007 Regular Registration Fees and Deadlines: $525 after June 19, 2007
The 2007 National Leadership Symposium is a professional development experience designed for faculty members, student affairs professionals and other education practitioners involved with promoting college student leadership education. The National Leadership Symposium is a joint program coordinated and sponsored by the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) and the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs (NCLP). Given the intense learning environment of the Symposium (including required reading prior to attending), it is advised that participants have significant professional experience in leadership education. Registration is limited to 50 people. In 1993, Helen and Alexander Astin of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA created a Working Ensemble of colleagues from across the country to contemplate a model of leadership development for academia. The work of this Ensemble produced the Social Change Model. In honor of the 10th year of the Social Change Model, this year's Symposium will consider the leadership needs of our increasingly complex and diverse world. Our scholar authors will share stories of real social change agents who exemplify the values of the model and challenge participants to make meaning of those stories as well as the lessons imbedded in the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership. Individually and collectively, participants will consider the ways in which these stories and the study inform the work we, as leadership educators, do to educate our colleagues and students for change. Symposium Outcomes
Learning objectives of the 2007 Symposium include:
National Leadership Symposium Scholars-in-Residence
Required Reading
In order to fully participate in the Symposium experience, delegates are expected to read and generate a working knowledge of these assigned books and documents on leadership constructs prior to the program. The particular books that will be discussed are:
2006 National Leadership Symposium
Educating Tomorrow's Leaders through Contemporary Learning Organizations July 20 -23, 2006 University of Richmond Richmond, VA
To register, please print and fax/mail the registration form available on the National Leadership Symposium brochure.
The 2006 National leadership Symposium is a professional development experience designed for faculty members, student affairs professionals, and other education practitioners involved with promoting college student leadership education. The National Leadership Symposium is a joint program coordinated and sponsored by the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) and the National Clearinghouse of Leadership Programs (NCLP). Given the intense learning environment of the Symposium ( including required reading in prior to attending), it is advised that participants have significant professional experience in leadership education. Registration is limited to 50 participants. In his 1990 book The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge acknowledged that organizations can learn. An interdisciplinary perspective forms the foundation of basic principles of how organizations can learn and why leaders and members of organizations should care about learning organizations. Starting with Senge's idea of the learning organization, but moving beyond it, the theme of the 2006 National Leadership Symposium is "Educating Tomorrow's Leaders through Contemporary Learning Organizations." What do today's learning organizations look like? How are they created? How does technology influence how and if organizations learn? Symposium Outcomes
Learning objectives of the 2006 symposium include:
A modern classic of Jungian psychology, The Hero Within has helped hundreds of thousands of people enrich their lives by revealing how to tap the power of the archetypes that exist within. Drawing from literature, anthropology, and psychology, author Carol S. Pearson clearly defines six heroic archetypes - the Innocent, the Orphan, the Wanderer, the Warrior, the Altruist, and the Magician - and shows how we can use these powerful guides to discover our own hidden gifts, solve difficult problems, and transform our lives with rich sources of inner strength. This book will speak deeply to the evolving hero in all of us and reverberate through every part of our lives. With poignant wisdom and prolific examples, it gives us enduring tools to help us develop our own innate heroic gifts - the Orphan's resilience, the Wanderer's independence, the Warrior's courage, the Altruist's compassion, the Innocent's faith, and the Magician's abiding power.
Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book The Fifth Discipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organzations cannot thrive today without learning to adapt their attitudes and practices. But companies that establish change initiatives discover, after initial success, that even the most promising efforts to transform or revitalize organizations - despite interest, resources, and compelling business results - can fail to sustain themselves over time. That's because organizations have complex, well-developed immune systems, aimed at preserving the status quo. Now, drawing upon new theories about leadership and the long-term success of change initiatives, and based upon twenty-five years of experience building learning organizations, the authors of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook show how to accelerate success and avoid the obstacles that can stall momentum. The Dance of Change, written for managers and executives at every level of an organization, reveals how business leaders can work together to anticipate the challenges that profound change will ultimately force the organization to face. Then, in a down-to-earth and compellingly clear format, readers will learn how to build the personal and organizational capabilities needed to meet those challenges. These challenges are not imposed from the outside; they are the product of assumptions and practices that people take for granted-an inherent, natural part of the processes of change. And they can stop innovation cold, unless managers at all levels learn to anticipate them and recognize the hidden rewards in each challenge, and the potential to spur further growth. Within the frequently encountered challenge of "Not Enough Time," for example-the lack of control over time available for innovation and learning initiatives-lies a valuable opportunity to reframe the way people organize their workplace. This book identifies universal challenges that organizations ultimately find themselves confronting, including the challenge of "Fear and Anxiety"; the need to diffuse learning across organizational boundaries; the ways in which assumptions built in to corporate measurement systems can handcuff learning initiatives; and the almost unavoidable misunderstandings between "true believers" and nonbelievers in a company. Filled with individual and team exercises, in-depth accounts of sustaining learning initiatives by managers and leaders in the field, and well-tested practical advice, The Dance of Change provides an insider's perspective on implementing learning and change initiatives at such corporations as British Petroleum, Chrysler, Dupont, Ford, General Electric, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi Electric, Royal Dutch/Shell, Shell Oil Company, Toyota, the United States Army, and Xerox. It offers crucial advice for line-level managers, executive leaders, internal networkers, educators, and others who are struggling to put change initiatives into practice.
The World Café is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization's or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions. Filled with stories of actual Café dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Café can be adapted to any setting or culture. Examples from such varied organizations as Hewlett-Packard, American Society for Quality, the nation of Singapore, the University of Texas, and many others, demonstrate the process in action. Along with is seven core design principles, The World Café offers practical tips for hosting "conversations that matter" in groups of any size-strengthening both personal relationships and people's capacity to shape the future together.
Free yourself from the limiting belief that you can't draw and move into the dynamic world of visible thinking for you and your students. The authors have compiled a symbolary of easy- to-draw iconographs that can be used to enrich communication, provoke deeper thought, and make the process of creating Mind Maps and Mindscapes for note taking and review in your classroom a breeze. Visual Thinking breaks down the process of drawing into small steps so that anyone who thinks they cannot draw will find that in fact, they can. Visible thinking templates help students work through challenging problem-solving activities. As their thinking processes are recorded, students become more thorough and skillful in reaching conclusions and making decisions.
2004 National Leadership Symposium
Leadership in a Challenging World: A Call for Transformative Civic Engagement July 15 - 18, 2004 University of Richmond Richmond, VA
The 2004 National Leadership Symposium is a professional development experience designed for faculty, student affairs administrators, and staff practitioners involved with college student leadership development. Participants should have significant professional experience in leadership education. College students, and young people in general, are looking for a world that embraces all living beings, not just those who are privileged enough to live in circumstances of affluence and power. We all seek leadership that both heals and transforms; l eadership that heals the wounds of a global society that is experiencing the deep and continuous pains of violence, medical epidemics, fractured social relationships, poverty and forced isolation. Leadership that transforms the very consciousness of people such that acceptance of old ways of acting out of fear and hatred are exceptions, not the rule. Behaving differently is significant, though not sufficient to build or sustain the kind of change that is needed in the world. A broader collective understanding of the dynamics of democratic engagement, power and social change is required to be effective in leadership roles in all institutions, by all people. People of all ages and in all life circumstances are not only ready to engage in this type of leadership, they are being called by historical conditions to do no less. Symposium Outcomes
Leadership that creates pathways to social change, civic engagement and learning that makes a difference will be the focus of our work at the 2004 Leadership Symposium. Specifically, Symposium participants will:
Scholars-in-Residence
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2003 National Leadership Symposium
Making the Case for Leadership Education: Leadership Lessons Learned July 17-20, 2003 University of Richmond Richmond, VA
Perhaps the highest hope we have for students as they graduate from college is that they will become responsible, informed citizens contributing where they live and work. James MacGregor Burns concluded, "Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth." How can we help to prepare students to assume roles of leadership without clear understanding and observable evidence that our programs contribute to the educational missions of our institutions. So begs the question and forms the foundation for this year's National Leadership Symposium, "How can we make the case for leadership education on our campuses?" The National Leadership Symposium will focus on an examination of the impact of leadership programs and courses in higher education. What do our students learn and how do they demonstrate that learning? How do we effectively tell the story of leadership education outcomes? Symposium Outcomes
In order to fully participate in the Symposium experience, delegates are expected to read and generate a working knowledge of three assigned books on leadership constructs prior to the program. The particular books that will be discussed are:
2002 National Leadership Symposium
Defining Moments: Teaching Leadership to the Millennial Generation July 18-21, 2002 University of Richmond Richmond, VA
"The kids who grew up with peace and prosperity are facing their defining moment," declared Newsweek magazine on November 12, 2001. The millennial generation is coming to campus and beginning to assert their ideas about the nation and the world. More than any recent generation, they are focused on their communities and have the capacity to make a difference. How are we to respond as leadership educators? The National Leadership Symposium for summer 2002 has been designed to look at defining moments for the millennial generation as they intersect with emerging theories of leadership and ideas about the teaching/learning process. We will explore together the work that we must do to prepare ourselves to become more effective leadership educators in a world in which the very nature of leadership is changing. Symposium Outcomes
Specific outcomes of the Symposium will include:
Required Readingse
In order to fully participate in the Symposium experience, delegates are expected to read and generate a working knowledge of three assigned books on leadership constructs prior to the program. The particular books that will be discusses are:
2001 National Leadership Symposium
Pluralistic Leadership: Intersecting Tensions and Connections July 19-22, 2001 Marquette University Milwaukee, WI
According to Cox as stated in Kezar (2000)*, pluralistic leaders produce a climate that values diversity, draws on aggregate voices and resources of the campus, fully integrates all cultures into the organizational system, minimizes institutional cultural disposition and reduces intergroup conflict. The overall goal of the 11th annual National Leadership Symposium is to address how collaborative forms of leadership have the capacity to cultivate an inclusive environment. The program will focus on the utilization of case studies as a device for enhancing collaborative leadership within a pluralistic society. Symposium Outcomes
The Symposium, through its unique Scholars-in-Residence format, will provide delegates the opportunity for intellectual exchange with educators in the field. Intended outcomes of the three-day Symposium are:
Required Readings
In order to fully participate in the Symposium experience, delegates are expected to read and generate a working knowledge of the assigned books on leadership constructs prior to the program. Discount ordering information will be included in the delegate registration packet. The books that will be utilized as a foundation this year are:
2000 National Leadership Symposium
A New Millennium for Theory and Practice: Civic Leadership, Servant Leadership, and Character Leadership July 20-23, 2000 University of Richmond Richmond, VA
At the dawn of the new millennium, we are confronted with unique phenomena, vague predictions and uncertain outcomes within the evolvoing discipline of leadership studies. The overall goal of the 10th annual National Leadership Symposium is to address the theoretical ground upon which the study and practice of undergraduate leadership education stands. An objective is to clarify and shape the conceptual diversity that tends to cloud our understanding of the complex relationship between leadership theory and practice. The program will center on conversations and applications of civic, servant, and character leadership development. Symposium Outcomes
The symposium, through its unique Scholars-in-Residence format, will provide delegates the opportunity for intellectual exchange with educators in the field. Intended outcomes of the three-day Symposium are:
