Leadership Resources
Student Leadership and Engagement Tip Sheets
Dealing with Bureaucracy, Making Effective Presentations, Motivating Your Members, Planning Effective Meetings, Preparing a Budget, Smooth Officer Transition, Transition Plan
Student Leadership Conference Resources
How to Promote and Fund a Successful Event Presentation
Leadership Through Relationships
Leadership Blog
"The Ripple Effect" blog encompasses the power of interaction in a leadership context, and focuses on the fact that as leaders we have multiple factors in our lives that contribute to our development. Each week this blog will feature leadership journeys, tricks of the trade, what’s happening on campus or in the world…and more!
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Other Conference Opportunities
National Jesuit Student Leadership Conference (NJSLC)
Date: To Be Determined
Location: Regis University
Applications Available: March of 2016
NJSLC gives students a unique opportunity to learn about their specific leadership position and meet students from accross the country who have similar positions.The conference is full of workshops, social activites, small group discussions, a day of service, and opening and closing banquets.
Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI)
Date: June 13 - June 17, 2016
Location: Springfield, Massachusetts
The institute is open to 50 undergraduate students on college and university campuses in the U.S. and abroad. This advanced experience is for students who have done a fairly significant amount of work on social justice issues.
College Media Advisors: National Spring College Media Convention 2016 (CMA)
Date: March 12 - March 15, 2016
Location: New York City
The National College Media Convention is the largest gathering of college journalists and advisers in the world. Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Association partner to prepare nearly 400 practical and professional learning sessions, from high-profile keynotes to specific, problem-solving breakouts, hands-on workshops and discussion groups
College Media Advisors: Fall National College Media Convention 2017 (CMA)
Date: To Be Determined
Location: Dallas, Texas
The National College Media Convention is the largest gathering of college journalists and advisers in the world. Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Association partner to prepare nearly 400 practical and professional learning sessions, from high-profile keynotes to specific, problem-solving breakouts, hands-on workshops and discussion groups
ACPA Next Generation Conference (Next Gen)
Date: March 5 - March 6, 2016
Location: Montreal
Next Gen is a unique opportunity for approximately 100 undergraduates to learn about careers in student affairs. Participants will meet and learn from current graduate students, graduate preparation program faculty, and seasoned student affairs professionals who work at a variety of colleges and universities.
Clubs and Organizations
Check out the external Clubs and Organizations Information Database site for additional resources.
Social Change Model
The Social Change Model of Leadership views leadership as a process rather than as a position and promotes the values of equity, social justice, self-knowledge, personal empowerment, collaboration,citizenship, and service. (Read More... )
Recommended Readings
Books for Self-Awareness
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements is a practical guide to how to not only better yourself as a leader, but also as a citizen of the world. Don Miguel Ruiz's use of toltec traditions will surely aid you in the work you do in leading groups and teams.
Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit, New and Revised by Lee G. Bolman
Leading With Soul showcases how leadership at its best is a marriage between the head and the heart. In this book, Bolman and Deal use a fictional story to showcase how leading with purpose and heart can lead to real results.
General Leadership Books
Leadership for a Better World: Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership Development by Susan R. Komives and Wendy Wagner
Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney
The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry P. Posner
Books to Inspire Social Change
Soul of a Citizen by Paul Rogat Loeb
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein