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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:
  • An awareness of how one's identity, positionality and power conditions impact one's leadership beliefs and actions.
  • A specific exploration of leadership from gender and racial perspectives.
  • The ability to interpret leadership behaviors from a variety of standpoints, as well as the ability to cultivate a variety of voices and leadership styles.
  • An exploration of ways to negotiate multiple interpretations of leadership.
  • Illumination of commonalties between scholars, theorists and practitioners as a way of thinking about our role as educators.
  • Applications from pluralistic perspectives as a guide to the creation of leadership instructional tools for both the academic and co-curricular setting utilizing the case study method.
  • Creation of networks developed through book reviews, skill sessions and small group work.


Scholars-in-Residence
  • Dr. Barbara Crosby
    Author of Leadership for Global Citizenship: Building Transnational Community
  • Dr. Adrianna Kezar
    Assistant Professor, George Washington University
    Director, ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education
  • Dr. Lea Williams
    Author of Servants of the People: The 1960's Legacy of African American Leadership


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:
  • Leadership for Global Citizenship: Building Transnational Community by Barbara Crosby
  • Servants of the People: The 1960's Legacy of African American Leadership by Lea Williams and
  • Women of Influence, Women of Vision: A Cross-Generational Study of Leaders and Social Change by Helen Astin and Carole Leland


What's New

NEW PUBLICATIONS
Two new publications are available in the Insights and Applications Series:

- Mentoring and Leadership Development
- ROTC Programs and Leadership Development

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SAVE THE DATE
The 2008 Leadership Educators Institute will be December 4-6 at the University of Maryland - Adele H. Stamp Student Union, Center for Campus Life.


EXPLORING LEADERSHIP
The second edition of Exploring Leadership is now available at Jossey Bass.


CONCEPTS & CONNECTIONS Our most recent newsletter, Volume 15, Issue 1 on assessment is now available for purchase here.
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