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by Susan R. Komives (Author), John P. Dugan (Author), Julie E. Owen (Author)
"This is a comprehensive handbook provides essential research, theoretical framing, and practical guidance to help higher education practitioners develop, advance, and sustain a student leadership program. This new and thoroughly revised edition introduces a model for designing and executing any student leadership program, which will serve as a framing device for the book. This model covers: Foundations of Leadership Education, Program Design, Program Context, and Program Delivery. In addition, the book includes a rich, organized array of further recommended resources that will be connected to elements in various chapters."--
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Praise for the Second Edition of The Handbook for Student Leadership Development
"This is a must-have book for leadership educators and all student affairs professionals who want to develop impactful leadership programs and the leadership capacity of students. Buy it. Read it. Use it to develop the needed leadership for our collective future."
-- CYNTHIA CHERREY, vice president for campus life, Princeton University, and president, the International Leadership Association
"As we continue to encourage leadership behavior in young people, it is very easy to get lost in a forest of new theories, programs, and definitions. This handbook serves as the compass to guide us, and it grounds the field of student leadership development in principles and best practices. Our challenge is to put this work into action."
--PAUL PYRZ, president, LeaderShape
" Comprehensive in design and scope, the second edition of The Handbook is a theory and practice resource manual for every leadership educator--inside and outside of the classroom."
--LAURA OSTEEN, director, the Center for Leadership and Civic Education, Florida State University
" Every college administrator responsible for coordinating student leadership programming should have this book. The Handbook for Student Leadership Development takes the guesswork out of leadership program design, content, and delivery."
--AINSLEY CARRY, vice president for student affairs, Auburn University
" I recommend without hesitation the Handbook for Student Leadership Development to student affairs professionals who desire to enhance the leadership experiences for all their students as well as teachers who are seeking ways to bolster their students' classroom experiences."
-- Dr. WILLIAM SMEDICK, director, Leadership Programs and Assessment, Office of the Dean of Student Life, and lecturer, Center for Leadership Education, Johns Hopkins University
Author Biography
SUSAN R. KOMIVES is a professor at the University of Maryland and cofounder of the National Clearing-house for Leadership Programs. JOHN P. DUGAN is assistant professor in the Higher Education graduate program at Loyola University Chicago. JULIE E. OWEN is assistant professor of leadership and integrative studies at the New Century College of George Mason University. CRAIG SLACK is the director of the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs. WENDY WAGNER is the coeditor of the first edition of Leadership for a Better World: Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. The National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs supports leadership development in college students through professional development for leadership educators.
