This spring semester, Kerry Priest, Ph.D., a professor at the Staley School of Leadership, participated as a virtual panelist in a symposium titled “Leadership for What and for Whom? Reimagining Leadership Education in College.” The event was hosted by the University of Tokyo’s Integrated Human Sciences Program for Cultural Diversity, in collaboration with the Women and Leadership Education Research Project (WALP). WALP is spearheaded by three Japanese leadership educators: Associate Professors Momo Waguri from Fukuoka Women’s University, Michiko Izumitani from Soka University, and Toru Kawai from Ritsumeikan University. Both Waguri and Izumitani previously attended the Leadership Education Academy in 2022, an initiative designed and coordinated by Priest.
The symposium aimed to challenge current paradigms in leadership education and foster discussions on critical topics such as women’s leadership development, the identity growth of leadership educators, and the creation of transformative educational programs. The event drew fifty participants, including professors, staff, students, and alumni from various universities across Japan, who joined both in person and online. Continue reading “Rethinking leadership education in college through global symposium”
How do leadership educators and developers help learners build the capacity to navigate our uncertain, ambiguous, and changing world? How must we reconsider our understanding of and approaches to assessment and evaluation in contexts of complexity? These are just some of the questions explored in a special issue of 
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First-year recipients are Mallory Applegate, Secondary Education, Mathematics and Thaddaeus Blakley, Wildlife, Fisheries, Conservation and Environmental Biology with a minor in Chinese. Both recipients were chosen because of their drive to make the most of Honors in their first year.
