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The Guidelines for Leadership Education Learning Community and the Guiding Questions are both moving into
the second stage of development and we need your help. As a “living document” the Guiding Questions were created to be in
a constant state of use and change. In a recent survey, conducted by the
Leadership Education Member Interest Group,
approximately 86% of respondents suggested they would be interested in learning how to utilize the Guiding Questions in
program design and assessment. However, in the same survey only 23% of respondents have utilized the Guiding Questions at their institution.
Over the next few months, there will be a number of initiatives set in motion to provide members
with information about utilizing the Guiding Questions. This learning community will be the central hub to communicate
the wonderful work that is being done throughout the association. If you have an interest in being part of these initiatives,
please send an email to matthew.sowcik@wilkes.edu. Along with this site, we will also be utilizing
ILASpace as a forum
to discuss the use of Guiding Questions. Please feel free to participate in the dialogue and check out what others
are saying about Guiding Questions.
Once again, the ILA wishes to thank the many volunteers who contributed to this document including
the more than thirty five members of the learning community, led by Steve Ritch. The learning community and the ILA
hope you find Guiding Questions useful in helping to guide design and assessment of your program.
The Guidelines for Leadership Education Programs Learning
Community (GLEP/LC) and Guiding Questions:
Guidelines for Leadership Education Programs are volunteer
projects rooted in discussions and presentations dating back to the 2002
Annual ILA Global Conference in Seattle. Discussions and further exploration of the topic occurred over the next four
years at ILA conferences and a special roundtable forum held at Regent
University during which the following benefits and aims of this document were
declared:
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Create frameworks to articulate both the essential nature
and distinctiveness of individual leadership programs.
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Address issues of legitimacy both internal and external to
academia.
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Serve as a resource for new and developing programs.
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Serve as a reference for programs responding to accrediting
processes.
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Maintain an internal locus of control and creativity for
individual programs.
As work continued on the document, in April 2007 the group became the first
ILA Learning Community.
The first face-to-face meeting of the GLEP/LC at the 2007 Annual ILA Global Conference in Vancouver resulted in
significant refinement of the guiding questions. The second face-to-face meeting
of the GLEP/LC at the 2008 Los Angeles Conference further refined the final
writing and editing tasks. Guiding Questions is the result of
this progression of volunteer work.
Organizer: Dr. Matthew Sowcik, Assistant Professor and Director of Leadership Education,
Department of Ent. And Leadership Studies, Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre PA 18766
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