Leadership for a Better World: The Social Change Model of Leadership Development

With support from the Values Leadership Development Fund, the Division of Student Affairs presented

Leadership for a Better World: The Social Change Model of Leadership Development

featuring renowned author and professor, Susan R. Komives

Friday, September 11, 2009

Susan Komives discussed the major components of the social change model and how students, faculty and staff can enact positive change at Denison and beyond. We were thrilled to have Susan join us for this one-of-a-kind engagement. If you missed Leadership for a Better World and would like to view a DVD of Susan's keynote address, please contact Assistant Director of Student Actitivies Natalie K. Pariano.

More about Susan Komives:

Susan R. Komives is Professor of College Student Affairs at the University of Maryland. She is president of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education – a 36 association consortium advancing standards of practice and self-assessment. She is former President of the American College Personnel Association and a former Vice President for Student Development at two colleges. She was Associate Dean of Students at Denison University from 1973-1978.

She was a member of the ensemble that developed the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. Komives is co-author of two editions of Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want to Make A Difference (Jossey-Bass 1998, 2007), Management And Leadership Issues for a New Century (Jossey-Bass 2000), and co-editor of Handbook of Student Leadership Programs (National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs, 2006) and Leadership for a Better World: Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership Development (NCLP; Jossey-Bass, 2009). She is co-founder and Research and Publications editor for the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs and a Senior Scholar with the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership. She is lead author of the Leadership Identity Development model research and is currently is co-PI of the Multi-institutional Study of Leadership project, a 100 + campus study of college student leadership outcomes and campus practices that contribute to those outcomes www.leadershipstudy.net.

Komives is the Spring 2006 recipient of both the NASPA Contribution of Scholarship and Literature Award and the ACPA Contribution to Knowledge Award. She has been honored as a NASPA "Pillar of the Profession" and was the 2004 recipient of the NASPA Robert H. Shaffer Award for Academic Excellence as a Graduate Faculty Member; and by ACPA with the Esther Lloyd Jones Professional Service award, is a Senior Scholar Diplomate, and as an ACPA Diamond honoree.