Additional Campus Programs & Resources

Dean of Student Affairs
The Dean of Student Affairs has organized a working group to explore the future development of campus-wide leadership training and development opportunities. For more information visit the Dean of Students website. http://leadership.stanford.edu

Community Centers – The LEAD Project
The Black Community Services Center, El Centro Chicano and the Asian American Activities Center have collectively offered The LEAD Project: Leading through Education, Activism and Diversity for the past several years. Selected students participate in a two-quarter program in which they explore non-hierarchical leadership methods and complete a social change project of their choosing and design. The program begins with a retreat that explores the Social Change Model of leadership development with a particular emphasis on collaborative work and its applicability to issues of common concern among students of color. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/elcentro/lead

Athletics
The athletics department is in the development stages of creating and launching a leadership program designed for student athletes. During 2005-06, they plan to implement a monthly leadership seminar series and hope to eventually develop a ropes course and training facility that can be used by athletes as well as other campus constituencies.

School of Education
The Stanford University School of Education (SUSE) has launched a new Social Sciences, Policy and Educational Practice master’s program entitled Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies (POLS) . The program emphasizes the organizational and policy context of education and the knowledge and skills leaders need to be effective in complex environments.

The Haas Center has collaborated with Professor Steve Davis from SUSE to develop his course: EDUC 270A Learning to Lead in Public Service Organizations as well as EDUC 121X Leadership & Civic Responsibility . For more information please see our Leadership Courses page.

Graduate School of Business
The GSB’s Center for Leadership Development and Research http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/cldr/ has been established and is continuing to develop its program and resources. The Center provides a forum for the entire Business School community to share their collective experiences, innovate, and learn by combining rigorous scholarship with experiential learning and topical dialogue.

Additionally, the GSB offers the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute (SELI) and has launched the Center for Educational Leadership (CEL). These are joint ventures between Stanford’s School of Education and Graduate School of Business. Both foster the development of school and community leaders who have a deep appreciation of instruction and learning, organizational design and management, and the leadership of change processes.

Contact:

Jon McConnell, Student Development Programs Director, jonmc@stanford.edu, (650)725-2867