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The Initiative |
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Three Distinctive Leadership Studies Programs Pilot
Innovative Cross-Disciplinary Approach
"Teaching Responsible Leadership" integrates leadership studies across the liberal arts curriculum on three campuses and,
in the long term,
seeks to engage other liberal arts colleges nationwide in this important endeavor. Support from the
W. M. Keck Foundation
is enabling
Claremont McKenna College,
Loyola Marymount University and the
University of Richmond to pilot new courses and to
engage and assist other colleges interested in incorporating
courses or elements of the curriculum on consideration of
responsible leadership.The leadership studies programs of
the three institutions participating in the Keck initiative
present three distinctive models. The Jepson School of Leadership Studies
is a separate school with its own faculty at the University
of Richmond. The
Kravis Leadership Institute
at Claremont McKenna College coordinates courses offered
in several different disciplines. The Institute for Leadership Studies
at Loyola Marymount University focuses more on special programs and specific topics such as leadership in Southern California. The local needs of the three campuses differ accordingly. The University of Richmond sought to undertake this project to broaden the study of leadership on its own campus beyond the school dedicated to the subject. Claremont McKenna wanted to add
leadership courses from a range of disciplines including the sciences. Loyola Marymount sought to expand its academic offerings and reach on campus. By working together, the three colleges are able to share course development, cover a wider range of disciplines and serve as a resource to colleges with a similar range of involvement in leadership studies.
The faculty of the three programs have a history of working together that grows naturally out of a shared
conviction that leadership studies requires far more than mere technical
competency. It requires ethical reasoning, analytic rigor, empirical support for the development of theory and perspectives from a whole range of liberal arts disciplines. The three programs are shaped by the
belief that the obligations and responsibilities of leadership should be directed to benefit other individuals, our communities and society.
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