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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 their efforts in service, leadership and more.
The event will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 21. Registration is requested by Friday, April 19.
The following individuals and organizations will be recognized. Continue reading “Staley School recognizes campus and community members for excellence”
Save the date! The fall 2024 Wildcat Dialogues will take place 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the K-State Student Union. The committee is seeking volunteers to help with planning and promotions, facilitators for small group discussions, and students to share their stories at the event.
Wildcat Dialogues is an event for all first-year students at Kansas State University. Participants come together in small groups for a facilitated discussion that focuses on curiosity, sharing personal stories, and listening to learn together as they begin their journey within our diverse campus community. Wildcat Dialogues is designed to encourage meaningful dialogue across differences to help create communities of belonging at K-State.
K-State faculty, staff and students are invited to serve on the planning committee and serve as facilitators for the seventh Wildcat Dialogues
The committee will meet once a week starting in August until the event. We will work together to organize and promote the event, and recruit and train small group facilitators. Wildcat Dialogues would not be possible without the collaboration of many campus partners and students. In 2023, nearly 40 members of the K-State campus community contributed to planning the event.
This event depends on the input, expertise, and experiences of our students, staff, and faculty from across all areas of the university to succeed, and having an engaged team to plan helps us to impact hundreds of first-year students each year.
Additionally, facilitators for small groups are needed. Facilitators help the small groups focus on deliberate conversation to build intentional connections for intercultural learning and leadership development. All facilitators will receive training prior to the event.
To join the planning committee or to inquire for more information, please fill out the interest survey form or email Tamara Bauer at tamara@ksu.edu or Mariya Vaughan at mbjv@ksu.edu.
K-State students are also encouraged to share their stories as part of the event
Submit your story for Wildcat Dialogues!
As a feature of this event, a panel of students will be selected to share a public story of their K-State experience. We invite you to consider sharing YOUR K-State story with new Wildcats.
How have your identities, background, and life experience influenced your experience in the K-State community? What has challenged you, stretched your understanding of the world, or helped you to recognize ways in which we could all be a more inclusive K-State family?
Selected students will work with faculty and staff to cultivate leadership, presentation, and storytelling skills. Others may be contacted to share personal experiences as Wildcat Dialogues facilitators and presenters at additional events.
To share your story, complete this short form by Monday, April 22. Students will be contacted by our committee members for additional information. If their stories are selected, they will be guided through a process to prepare for the Wildcat Dialogues event, which includes filming the story by the end of August.
Wildcat Dialogues is coordinated in partnership between the Staley School of Leadership, K-State First, the K-State Student Union, and Student Belonging and Inclusion, alongside a large committee representing students, faculty, and staff. This collaboration represents the commitment by our campus community to create a culture of belonging for all.
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.
This fund supports scholarships for K-State students to travel on Staley School domestic and international Service Teams trips. Service Teams trips are open to all students on the K-State campus, and provide an immersive applied learning experience serving within a community.
Staley School team members participating in the fundraiser include:
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 Friday, April 19, and will be featured live on social media.
One dollar is equivalent to one vote. Voting is open through Friday, April 19. There is no limit to the dollar amount or number of votes you can place.
Save the date! HandsOn Kansas State, housed in the Staley School of Leadership at Kansas State University, is hosting a community clothing swap Saturday, April 20, at Bosco Plaza, located north of the K-State Student Union. Parking will be free in the K-State parking garage. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., campus and community members are invited to peruse gently used, donated clothing and take what they need for free.
Help HandsOn Kansas State celebrate Earth Day by reusing and recycling clothing. Swap, style and sustain to minimize waste in landfills and make a positive impact on our planet.
If you’re in the mood and have started your spring cleaning, gather your gently used clothes for donating to the swap now!
Accepted donations
Donations NOT accepted
Donations can be dropped off at the Leadership Studies Building, 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. Monday, April 15, through Friday, April 19, located at 1300 Mid-Campus Drive North, on the K-State campus. See map below. A collection box will be in the main lobby of the building.
For questions, email handson@ksu.edu.
Donations are not required to attend the swap and take clothing. This event is free of charge. Participants at the swap will shop in 20-minute increments.
Email handson@ksu.edu for questions.
The Staley School of Leadership invites students, staff and faculty to the What Matters to Me and Why leadership lecture featuring Dr. Alex Red Corn, assistant professor of educational leadership in the College of Education. The lecture will take place 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, in the Leadership Studies Building Town Hall and on Zoom. Lunch from Mr. Goodcents will be provided in person.
RSVP online by Monday, March 25
Dr. Red Corn will be presenting Confronting Colonial Entanglements in Educational Systems: Tales from a Recovering Social Studies Teacher
This informal lunchtime series supports K-State’s Principles of Community by encouraging reflection on matters of personal values, beliefs and motivations to better understand the lives and inspirations of those who serve and shape the university.
Our series is sponsored by the Staley School of Leadership, and supported by a cross-campus planning committee.
Five undergraduate students from Kansas State University presented their research at Kansas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol on Friday, March 1.
K-State’s Scholar Development and Undergraduate Research (SDUR) commends these students for their efforts, learning outcomes and exemplary representation of K-State. Gratitude is also due to the faculty mentors and research programs who helped create these transformative student experiences.
Student presenters, photographed left to right are:
Students were selected through a formal application process and reviewed by a committee. Upon selection, students attended a training session, created their research posters and invited their state representatives to attend the event.
This poster session featured presenters from each of the Kansas Board of Regents institutions (KBOR). Throughout the presentation, the students interacted with a diverse group of attendees: peers, state representatives and their staff, administrators from KBOR institutions, and the public.
Students, faculty, and staff are invited to further celebrate the efforts of undergraduate researchers from all corners of campus at the upcoming Undergraduate Research Symposium, on Thursday, April 11, from 4-6 p.m. in the Student Union Grand Ballroom. (link)
Scholar Development and Undergraduate Research is housed within the Staley School of Leadership. The Staley School also includes undergraduate and graduate leadership studies academic programs, leadership and service co-curricular programs, and the University Honors Program. The Staley School equips learners with leadership skills and academic excellence through applied learning experiences, in-class learning, and community partnerships around the world. To learn more, visit www.k-state.edu/leadership.
K-State students are invited to nominate a member of the Staley School of Leadership faculty or staff for the 2024 Rost award.
The nomination for is just four short questions. Any nomination submitted will be presented to the faculty/staff nominated, so this is also a great opportunity to pass on a positive message of support to members of the Staley School faculty and staff. All Staley School of Leadership faculty and staff – which includes the University Honors Program and Scholar Development and Undergraduate Research – are eligible.
Nominations are due by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, March 17.
Established by the Staley School of Leadership student ambassadors, the Rost award recognizes faculty/staff who exemplify the mission statement of the Staley School, which is to develop knowledgeable, ethical, caring, inclusive leaders for a diverse and changing world.
The winner of this award should not only demonstrate these characteristics in their own lives, but should also inspire others to become better leaders.
The Staley School Ambassadors will form a committee, review nominations and carefully select the 2024 recipient. The award is presented at Celebrating Service and Leadership, the Staley School spring awards event.
View a list of past recipients. For questions, email Kim Ralston, communications program administrator and co-advisor for the Staley School Ambassadors, at kamullen@ksu.edu.
The Staley School of Leadership at Kansas State University includes undergraduate and graduate leadership studies academic programs, leadership and service co-curricular programs, the University Honors Program, and Scholar Development and Undergraduate Research. The Staley School equips learners with leadership skills and academic excellence through applied learning experiences, in-class learning, and community partnerships around the world. To learn more, visit www.k-state.edu/leadership.
With the increase of online learning in higher education, the opportunity and demand for online service-learning courses are also increasing. Online service-learning can create conditions for students to learn professional and civic skills such as effectively working across a continuum of face-to-face and online environments, as Endersby and colleagues (2017) call the continuum of virtuality, or developing digital student leadership skills (Ahlquist, 2017).
In this blog, we share two approaches to course design for the asynchronous environment: one with a faculty-identified partnership and the other with student-identified partnerships. Although the logistics of online service-learning may look different than on-campus sections, they can be equally valuable and viable.
The basics such as the components of service-learning or the categories of learning goals remain the same (revisit What is Service-Learning? in this blog series). We conclude with a list of considerations for designing and implementing online service-learning.
English course at Kansas State University
In an online, asynchronous section of Written Communication for the Workplace, Ania’s students collaborated on a writing project with the Manhattan Area Habitat for Humanity. Habitat wanted to share its community work through online storytelling, so Ania and the Development Manager designed a project where her students would write profile articles of the organization’s staff, board members, and homeowners (see example). Continue reading “Designing online service-learning: Examples and considerations”
