Abstract
Community colleges are a democratizing force in post-secondary education, different from but equal to universities. They offer an expedient route to the labour market. This suggests the need for colleges to focus on the development of their students' leadership ability and to implement strategies for evaluating the success of leadership development efforts on college campuses. The goal of this paper is to document some of the ways community colleges can further promote student leadership development and implement innovative approaches to increase student engagement.
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:44:17 -0400
From: "Katharine Janzen"
Subject: Leadership article
To: Arun Jacob
Cc: Catherine Drea
Many thanks again Arun, for submitting your paper to the College Quarterly. I now have the following feedback from the members of the editorial board for your consideration and response, please and thanks:
My only serious problem with this piece is the notion of "non-hierarchical leadership" which seems to me to be every so slightly counter intuitive. The development of the sorts of "skills," "values" and "cognitive understanding" that the author advocates are well and good, but not the sort of thing I normally associate with "leadership." The author seems to understand this well and takes some pains to explain that his new view of leadership is attuned to the 'postindustrial' or (who knows?) perhaps the postmodern world. If this is so, then I would have much to debate with him, but he never really addresses the question of how the new leadership 'style' came into being and why it should be taken seriously as an element of 21st century corporatism. I wish, in short, he has set his argument in a more concrete theoretical context vis-à-vis contemporary structures and patterns of power and authority in both private and public organizations. That said, the article itself is well written, amply (if not overly) supported by citations and might well be provocative from the viewpoint of administrative dinosaurs.
I look forward to your response... Katharine
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