Greetings to CTCH 792- Leadership in Higher Education! My name is Kevin Christian and I am currently a second year student in the Doctor of Arts program in Community College Teaching at George Mason University. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Media Arts and Master's degree in Business Administration. I currently reside in Alexandria, VA.
I have been involved in leadership activities since my little league football days at the Silver Hill Boys and Girls Club in Marlow Heights, Maryland. I served as team captain and quarterback during my 6th and 7th grade years. In both junior high and high school, I was active in student government, student activities, and wrote for the student newspaper.
As a junior in college, I was chosen to participate in on the Student Leadership Team. This was truly and honor, because only a select group of students were chosen based on rigid credentials. With this honor you were engaged in many campus activities in which you lead other students. For the past 20 years, I have worked in the area of education as an administrator, assistant director, adjunct professor, and program developer.
For the last five years, I have worked as the Senior Program Associate for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity for the American Association of Community Colleges (www.aacc.nche.edu). As the leading advocacy association for community colleges, I have the opportunity to work with community college presidents from all over the United States on issues that affect diversity and diverse student populations on their respective campuses.
Of of my most recent accomplishments was assisting in the development of a joint Leadership and Diversity Statement between my association AACC and the Association of Community College Trustees (www.acct.org). To read a copy of this statement, please access the following link http://webadmin.aacc.nche.edu/About/Positions/Pages/ps07272008.aspx.
While my experiences with leadership vary, I look forward to working with all of you this semester to develop my skills as a leader and to learn for each of you the skills that you bring as a leader.
If you are interested in learning more about leadership programs that I am involved with, please review the following websites:
1). The Lakin Institute for Mentored Leadership @ http://webadmin.aacc.nche.edu/newsevents/News/articles/Documents/071620081ncbba_lakin.pdf2).
2). The National Community College Hispanic Council Leadership Symposiumhttp://www.ncchc.com/leadership-symposium/event-basics.asp
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I enjoyed reading your post about you started your journey of being a leader.I saw that we started our journey of being leaders in high school. Are you still using the same skills that you learned in high school or did you developed new ones? In reading your post I realized that I forget some important events that I have participated in a leadership activities. This raised the question, Are all activities that we participated a part of leadership? In the reading I saw that it was very hard to come up with a clear definition of leadership because of all the traits and characteristics that go into leadership.
I am looking forward to working with you. I am also looking forward to learning for your many years of experiences as well.
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