January 25, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute
Leadership Reconsidered: Engaging Higher Education in Social Change discusses the importance of leadership-development education at the university level in order to prepare students for life after college and to help them find solutions to pressing social problems. Written by a dozen scholars and practitioners in the field of higher education, the report urges colleges and universities to encourage collaborative, rather than hierarchical, styles of leadership. For example, they point to team teaching and interdisciplinary courses as ways that faculty members can provide a model of collaborative leadership. They also identify group leadership traits, such as shared purpose and disagreement with respect, and individual leadership traits, such as commitment and empathy, as vital components to a collaborative leadership style, which must be “taught, modeled, internalized, and applied by students, faculty, and staff.” This publication, which was co-published by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland at College Park, is available free online at http://www.wkkf.org and at http://www.academy.umd.edu.
Publisher: W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 1 Michigan Avenue East, Battle Creek, Mich. 49017-4058; (616) 968-1611; fax (616) 968-0413; http://www.wkkf.org; 103 pages; free.
