Cultivating Leader Identity and Capacity in Students from Diverse Backgrounds

A goal of higher education is to develop students into leaders capable of guiding modern society. Too often, though, the leadership development curricula does not address the diversity of student populations, a critical failing if the new leaders are to respond comprehensively to societal issues. By addressing the intersection of undergraduate leadership development and student diversity, this volume provides insight on effective programming and intentional interventions, offering paths to optimize the development of all students’ identity and capacity to lead.

Table of Contents

• A Changing World Calling for New Leaders
• Defining Leadership Language and Guiding Models
• Diverse Student Identity and Capacity Development
• Environment Matters
• Exemplary Programs and Characteristics of Effective Practices
• Implications for Policy, Practice, and Future Research 

This is Volume 39 Issue 4 of the Jossey-Bass publication ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph in the series is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education problem, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.

Executive Summary vii

Foreword xi

A Changing World Calling for New Leaders 1

Leadership and Diversity 4

Guiding Framework 5

Organization of Monograph 7

Contributions of Monograph 8

Defining Leadership Language and Guiding Models 11

Distinguishing Leader and Leadership 13

Distinguishing Leader and Leadership Development 15

Th e Individual: Leader-Based Models 16

Th e Process: Leadership-Based Models 21

Diverse Student Identity and Capacity Development 29

Student Identity and Capacity Development 30

Diverse Student Identity Development 39

Diverse Student Leader Identity 43

Diverse Student Leader Capacity 50

Environment Matters 55

National Context 56

Institutional Context 58

Curricular and Cocurricular Context 62

Exemplary Programs and Characteristics of Eff ective Practices 67

Exemplary Programs 67

Characteristics of Eff ective Practices 77

Guiding Questions for Eff ective Programming 84

Implications for Policy, Practice, and Future Research 89

Policy Implications 90

Practical Implications 91

Contributions to Future Research 93

Conclusion 94

Notes 101

References 103

Name Index 115

Subject Index 119

About the Authors 123

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