Reclaiming Higher Education’s Purpose in Leadership Development

Gain a greater understanding of leadership-learning programs across disciplines, pedagogies, and departments. This volume focuses on the collective and unique capacity in higher education to leverage and align university resources with leadership learning across college and university initiatives. why we should focus on reclaiming the purpose of higher education and embrace leadership development across disciplines, how we can do this and what this may look like, and how we can assess this has happened. This is the 174th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Higher Education. Addressed to presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other higher education decision makers on all kinds of campuses, it provides timely information and authoritative advice about major issues and administrative problems confronting every institution.

Gain a greater understanding of leadership-learning programs across disciplines, pedagogies, and departments. This volume focuses on the collective and unique capacity in higher education to leverage and align university resources with leadership learning across college and university initiatives.* why we should focus on reclaiming the purpose of higher education and embrace leadership development across disciplines* how we can do this and what this may look like, and* how we can assess this has happened.This is the 174th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Higher Education. Addressed to presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other higher education decision makers on all kinds of campuses, it provides timely information and authoritative advice about major issues and administrative problems confronting every institution.

EDITORS' NOTES 5Kathy L. Guthrie, Laura Osteen1. Purpose, Mission, and Context: The Call for Educating Future Leaders 9Vivechkanand Chunoo, Laura OsteenThis chapter calls on higher education to reclaim its role in leadership education. Specifically it examines higher education's purpose, context, and mission as clarion calls to embed leadership education throughouthigher education institutions.2. Liberal Arts: Leadership Education in the 21st Century 21Kathy L. Guthrie, Kathleen CallahanMany connections exist between the principles of liberal arts and the objectives of leadership programs in higher educations; this chapter discusses how leadership education can connect to a liberal artscurriculum.3. Creating Problem-Based Leadership Learning Across the Curriculum 35Sara E. Thompson, Richard A. CoutoThis chapter explores problem-based learning (PBL) as effective pedagogy to enhance leadership learning. Through institutional examples, research, and personal experiences, the authors provide a rationale forfaculty and staff to utilize PBL across the curriculum.4. Critical Leadership Pedagogy: Engaging Power, Identity, and Culture in Leadership Education for College Students of Color 45Vijay Pendakur, Sara C. FurrThis chapter focuses on how the application of critical pedagogy to leadership education allows for issues of identity, power, and culture to shape leadership learning. Examples from the authors' work withstudents of color are used as illustrations.5. Developing Critical Thinking Through Leadership Education 57Daniel M. Jenkins, Anthony C. AndenoroThis chapter provides the critical leadership logic model as a tool to help educators develop leadership-learning opportunities. This proactive logic model includes curricular and co-curricular experiences toensure critical thinking through leadership education.6. Developing Socially Responsible Leaders in Academic Settings 69T. W. Cauthen, IIIThis chapter begins the exploration of what leadership education is through examining the relationship between educational involvement and academic autonomy in the development of socially responsibleleaders.7. Developing Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: The Need for Deliberate Practice and Collaboration Across Disciplines 79Scott J. Allen, Marcy Levy Shankman, Paige Haber-CurranThis chapter continues the discussion of what leadership education is and highlights the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership. The authors assert the need for deliberate practice and better collaborationbetween student affairs, academic affairs, and academic departments to develop emotionally intelligent leaders.8. Leadership Competency Development: A Higher Education Responsibility 93Corey SeemillerMoving from why, how, and what, this chapter closes with a focus on how we know the outcomes of leadership education. This final chapter provides an overview of leadership competency development as acritical component of higher education.INDEX 1