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The Staley School of Leadership at Kansas State University invites community professionals to the Mandela Washington Fellowship Manhattan Community Networking Event. Join the Fellows 4-5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 29, at the Leadership Studies building (1300 Mid-Campus Drive N. Manhattan, KS, 66506). Please RSVP here. Continue reading “Community professionals invited to network with global scholars”
The Staley School of Leadership launched the Leading Change Institutes (LCI) in 2015 to harness creative, collaborative thinking from globally recognized leaders addressing real issues with tangible strategies for moving forward.
In this series, practitioners who will participate in the upcoming Leading Change Institute will highlight practices and perspective of leadership in their communities. Each contributor is also an alumnus of the 2022 Mandela Washington Fellowship at Kansas State University.
These practitioners kicked off a Leading Change Institute on Advancing Perspectives of Leadership Movements and Strengthening Democratic Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa in March (View photos on our Facebook page).
This LCI will be a series of events repeated regionally throughout Sub-Saharan Africa through 2027.
For decades leadership has been studied in the U.S. through a centrally western lens. This work has led to deep insights about strengthening practices of leadership that reflect democratic ways of knowing, being, and practicing leadership at individual, collective, and systemic levels. Leadership scholars understand less about how practices of leadership emerge globally and specifically in the Sub-Saharan Africa context. Continue reading “Staley School kicks off Leading Change Institute in Ghana “
During the spring 2023 semester, students in Kansas State University’s LEAD 499: Advanced Nonprofit Leadership class created and completed a series of grant-funded projects that developed their leadership skills, taught them about the value of creating positive change in their community, and engaged Manhattan, Kansas, residents of all ages.
In the Nonprofit Leadership undergraduate certificate, an academic offering from the Staley School of Leadership, students study all aspects of exercising leadership in nonprofit organizations, often through experiential projects and service learning. This includes learning about designing an effective organization, engaging volunteers, setting mission and vision, funding ideas, and much more.
Funding from grants is essential to many nonprofit organizations – usually foundations or governments. As such, many nonprofits want to hire employees skilled in grant-writing. Through this project, students engaged in the real-life grant process. Rather than solely studying it in the classroom, learning happened through doing and through service.
Students in LEAD 499 applied for and received four grants from the Hershey Heartwarming Young Heroes Grants, which are administered through Youth Service America (YSA). The purpose of this grant program is to “build meaningful connections and create more inclusive, empathetic, and kind communities.”
They divided the class into four groups, each with a project centered around Global Youth Service Day. Through these projects, they engaged a large and diverse array of community partners in Manhattan — from elementary schools to assisted living facilities.
The combination of the students’ hard work and the support of Hershey’s and YSA enabled the LEAD 499 class to bring funds into the community to spread kindness, understanding, and empathy through their group projects.
Tamara Bauer, instructor for LEAD 499, was excited for the creative ideas each group came up with to meet the purpose of the grant. Not only did students engage in intentional service, they collaborated to improve their grant writing skills.
Students submitted the following descriptions of each of the projects this semester: Continue reading “Nonprofit leadership students engage community, supported by Hershey Heartwarming Young Heroes Grants”
As educators and program coordinators plan for global collaborations in a post-pandemic world, we have an opportunity to reimagine partnerships with reciprocity at the forefront. Active listening is very important when collaborating with community partners.
In this blog, Kait Long, director of student engagement at the Staley School of Leadership, illustrates the importance of listening to and collaborating with community partners in global leadership and service work.
As our world began reopening post-pandemic last year, our staff at the Staley School of Leadership and colleagues around the world began asking critical questions of what it means to be in global partnership. That is, after strictly virtual engagement for two years, and no in-person exchange or learning, how to intentionally re-launch our work together? After so much change, how do we continue collaborating in meaningful ways? As Mac Benavides detailed in his recent blog post, a partnership inventory is a critical first step in partnering with intentionality, and with the goal of reciprocity. Continue reading “Examining Service-Learning Today: Active listening in global partnerships”
As educators and program coordinators plan for global collaborations in a post-pandemic world, we have an opportunity to reimagine partnerships with reciprocity at the forefront. Taking inventory of current patterns and future possibilities is a first step in relaunching community-based global learning programs.
In this blog, Mac Benavides, Ph.D., provides insights and tools to take inventory of global partnerships in community-based global learning.
Collaboration without Dependence: Taking Inventory of Global Partnerships
As we pass the third anniversary of the beginning of the global pandemic, the world is undergoing a process of reawakening. We are not waking up to the same reality as pre-pandemic times, but instead to a hunger for new possibilities. The COVID-19 pandemic necessarily paused operations across the globe as we grappled with health and infrastructure challenges worldwide. In community-based global learning and international development spaces, this also meant that intra- and international partnerships were put on hold, creating space for much-needed reflection from program coordinators and community partners. Continue reading “Examining service-learning today: Global partnerships”
Staley School recognizes campus and community members for excellence
The Staley School of Leadership invites the campus community to Celebrating Service and Leadership, an annual awards event. Students, community members and groups will be recognized for service in leadership and more.
The event will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 23. Registration is requested by Friday, April 21.
The following individuals and organizations will be recognized: Continue reading “Staley School recognizes campus, community with spring awards”
Are you interested in bringing new teaching practices into your classroom? The Staley School of Leadership and the K-State Teaching and Learning Center invite all K-State faculty and staff to a workshop on how to increase class engagement by incorporating service-learning into your curriculum.
Service-learning is a high impact practice that brings practical experience into the classroom by connecting learning goals to service opportunities. Lori Kniffin, Ph.D., assistant professor at Fort Hays State University, will offer a service-learning workshop 1:30-3:30 p.m. Monday, April 10, at the Leadership Studies Building Town Hall, room 114. Participants are invited to bring a course or syllabus to workshop for the final 30 minutes.
If you are interested in bringing service-learning into your classrooms, refining a current practice, or developing your practice as a teacher, this workshop is for you.
For questions, call 785-532-6085, or email leadership@ksu.edu.
The Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy (ICDD) invites K-State students to participate in a cross-national study. This study will focus on group conversations about challenges facing the new generation and solutions to those problems. These sessions will take place in person and online during March and April 2023.
Students will be placed in groups and during each 90-minute session, will discuss various challenges they are facing.
Topics may include:
Groups will discuss how these challenges are affected by the current historical circumstances including the global pandemic, high-speed internet access, TikTok, digital currency, and more.
They will then be asked to contribute solutions to address these problems. These will think about possible ideas, evaluate them, and conceptualize projects they might enact as future leaders.
The deliberations are part of the Kettering Foundation’s project that aims to compare different modes of classroom deliberation. It looks at face-to-face forums, zoom-based forums, as well as forums held through a specialized text-based deliberation platform. The purpose is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each of these modes by considering the level of participation, types of argumentation involved, and the resulting quality of deliberative reasoning. As a result, the study hopes to speak to the relative benefits of various forms of deliberation in the classroom that can be informative for future policy making.
Use this link to sign up and choose your preferred time online or scan the QR code. For questions, email Keyhan Shams at keyhan@ksu.edu.
The Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy (ICDD) was formed in 2004 as an interdisciplinary, non-partisan organization in response to increasingly complex public issues that challenge democratic decision-making. ICDD engages in research, education, and facilitation of civic conversations to promote greater citizen participation.
