Week 2- 5 Resources

http://www.gmu.edu/student/csl/- The Center for Leadership and Community Engagement at George Mason is a program where GMU students can get involved with different volunteer and community activities through the United States.

http://lead.gmu.edu/emergingleaders.html- The Emerging Leaders Program at George Mason is an eight week class that I will be participating in the upcoming weeks. I look forward to participate in learning different skills of leadership.

http://www.coro.org/site/c.nvI2IeNZJyE/b.2108577/k.EF3D/Leadership_New_York.htm
A place where New York residents can come and participate in different leadership activities. Different training also are involved with this as well. A good way back that a resident can give back to the community.

http://www.thenationalacademy.org/resources/
An interesting website that different resources in leadership skills. Some topic of discussions are "Leading Institutional Change" and " Leadership". Under each topic there are different articles.

http://www.situational.com/presentation.htm- Center for Leadership Studies
Discusses different situational leaderships resources. In each of the different areas there are little descriptions but there is also PDF files that describe the methods in depth.

Week 2- 5 Resources on Leadership

In my search for five resources on leadership studies, I found this quote on leadership from John F Kennedy:

” Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

1. Center for Creative Leadership- Is located in Washington DC and offers a exclusive focus on leadership education and research and unparalleled expertise in solving the leadership challenges of individuals and organizations everywhere. They are a worldwide organization.

2. The National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs is a program designed to serve college students for professional development. The program is offered at University of Maryland.

3. Situational Leadership based in California

4. Leadership Values is an organization designed to assist teams to further develop their skills using their program.

5.LeaderShape - Interactive, intense program to assist in further developing leadership skills

Week 1: Part 2

So I checked out the Chronicle of Higher Ed and Inside Higher Education and found some interesting blogs relating to higher education. Blogs relating to college deans and the balance between parenthood and work. One blog that I found here at Mason is the blog of our Dean of Admissions, Andrew Flagel.

His blog, Not your average Admissions Blog is relevant to our Mason community. I am new to the blogging world but I would find it rare for a Dean of Admissions to have a work related blog.


The blog following issues related to the Mason community, current affairs and most importantly for the position Dean Flagel is in, issues relating the student enrollment

Week 2 - 5 (or so) resourses on leadership studies (take 2)

The Methods of Research class that I am in right before the Leadership in Higher Education class got me looking into a lot of the organizations that deal directly with my studies. In searching out research studies, I came across the National Art Education Association (NAEA) which has a main office locally in Reston. Of course this resource might not be very helpful to many others in the class.

Link to the pdf: Resources on Leadership

Selected Bibliography that could be of interest: http://academicleadership.rutgers.edu/bibliography.php
There are a few more articles and resources in it that weren't on the other list.

I don't know if this is one of the links that was in the resources, but I came across this and it had quite a bit of info that seemed interesting: http://ecolecon.missouri.edu/globalresearch/

And, within that last link was this one: http://ecolecon.missouri.edu/globalresearch/chapters/subjectindex.htm
This is an extreme list of resources that you might find a gem in somewhere that relates to what you are looking for. There are web links to various international education resources and books. The site says that it is constantly being updated so perhaps it is continuing to grow.

Week1, Take 2

So I, and several others, realized that we needed to blog about a blog and not just blog. Well, I went through the blogs on Chronicle and was captivated by: "Brainstorm":
http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/

I liked this for the randomness of the news, but the posts often deal with policy and many times are formed more as supported rants than direct topics. There was a short blog about Obama's remarks about the recent snow on there. I also found an article about Brandeis Univeristy closing the doors of their art museum and selling off their collection. This was particularly disturbing to me, but it just goes to show the measures that one might have to take to keep things going.

A blog to follow

http://www.unifyingvoice.org/leadership/

I found that this blog would be interesting to follow.

Hello class, I am late joining this blog because of a venue mix-up last week during the first week of class, but I am looking forward to learning more about leadership in this class nonetheless. My name is Kim Cooper, and I am a grad student here at Mason studying for the masters in HE specialization through the interdisciplinary studies program here.

My most memorable leadership experience I guess would have to be when I established a scholarship fund for students from my high school pursuing a career in the health/allied health fields. The foundation/scholarship fund was formulated to honor the memory of a good friend and fellow classmate who passed away of cancer at the age of 26. She was a registered nurse. Going through the whole process of gathering information to establish a foundation, getting appropriate tax ID verification, etc., formulating and appointing trustees really developed a strong confidence level that I greatly appreciated. It proved invaluable and useful for my future career journey as well.