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Staley School presents at Leadership Education Institute

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Michaela Saunders, Kansas State University leadership communication doctoral student and communication coordinator and assistant to the vice president of academic affairs at Washburn University, and Kerry Priest, Ph.D., associate professor in the Staley School of Leadership and director of K-State’s leadership communication doctoral program, were presenters at the Leadership Educators Institute (LEI), Dec. 13-15, in New Orleans.

Kerry Priest and Michaela Saunders

A partnership between National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), The American College Personnel Association College Student Educators International (ACPA), and the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs (NCLP), the LEI provides a unique opportunity for all professional levels within the field of leadership education to engage in critical dialogue to promote positive, sustainable change on their campuses.

The bi-annual conference is a space and resource for professional learning and development.

Saunders and Priest presented the workshop titled, Stories in Action: Developing a Leadership Educator Change Narrative to Navigate Your Uncertain and Complex World. Continue reading “Staley School presents at Leadership Education Institute” →

‘Cats Connect: Enhance your community-building skills, meet new people

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“Meeting people with varying personalities who are going through similar situations that I am in was really reassuring and helped me feel more connected to K-State.”

Are you looking for a way to meet and connect with other K-Staters? Do you want to help build our K-State community? If so, sign up for ’Cats Connect – a new program at Kansas State University designed to build community through conversation.

‘Cats Connect is a peer-to-peer facilitated program designed to help groups of 4-6 Wildcats meet and develop friendships outside of their regular social circles. Groups meet for one hour for five consecutive weeks. During each meeting everyone will have the opportunity to respond to a series of fun and thought-provoking questions and engage in a small connection project.

Students, faculty, and staff are all invited to participate. Groups will be built based on shared experiences and availability. Participants can select in-person (on the Manhattan campus) or virtual meetings (via Zoom).

  • Session 2: Meets weekly beginning the week of March 27 through April 28

Registrations for Session 2 are due by Wednesday, March 22 Continue reading “‘Cats Connect: Enhance your community-building skills, meet new people” →

Nonprofit Community Coffee Hour

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K-State students, faculty and staff are invited to the Leadership Studies building lobby Tuesday, Dec. 6, from 12:30 – 2 p.m. to celebrate and learn about students’ nonprofit leadership projects. Coffee and snacks will be provided at this casual come-and-go event.

Attendees will hear from students in the Nonprofit Leadership Certificate program about their “big idea” projects outlining their vision and organizational design for an imagined nonprofit organization around an issue they care about. Some of this semester’s topics include support services for patients with cancer, renewing basketball courts in Western Kansas, revitalizing approaches to monoculture lawns in Manhattan, Kansas, food insecurity and much more.

For questions, email Chance Lee, Ph.D., director of nonprofit leadership, at chance@ksu.edu.

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Students discuss a nonprofit leadership poster topic at the 2019 Nonprofit Community Coffee Hour.

Vote: Who will get a pie in the face?

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The Staley School of Leadership Student Ambassadors are raising money for student scholarships through a Pie-In-The-Face Fundraiser. Alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends of K-State can vote for who they would like to see get a pie in the face by making donations to the Student Opportunities Fund, which supports scholarships for K-State students to travel with the Alternative Breaks and International Service Teams programs. Both of these programs are open to all students on the K-State campus.

Staley School team members participating in the fundraiser include:

  • Innocent Assoman, graduate teaching assistant
  • Trish Gott, Ed.D., associate director, assistant professor
  • Kait Long, administrator of student programs
  • Mary Tolar, Ed.D., dean
  • Andy Wefald, Ph.D., associate professor

The team member with the highest dollars raised will get a pie in the face. The team member with the second highest dollars raised will get to throw the pie. The pie will be thrown the week of Nov. 28,and will be featured live on social media.

One dollar is equivalent to one vote. Voting is open through Friday, Nov. 18. There is no limit to the dollar amount or number of votes you can place.