LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE

Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Office
John Lane House
Telephone: (570) 208-5875

The King's College Leadership Initiative Program seeks to provide a variety of experiences in order to enhance leadership qualities in students. You as a student will have the opportunities to develop:
o Oral presentation skills along with use of technology
o Ethical decision-making
o Confidence and skills to facilitate positive change
o Appreciation for those persons who are different
than ourselves
o Increased self-awareness and self-confidence
o Application of formal learning to life experiences
The program is based on the Social Change Model of Leadership Development (Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996). The model is structured on seven critical values:
Individual Values Group Values
o consciousness of self o collaboration
o congruence o common purpose
o commitment o controversy with civility

Community/Societal Values
o citizenship
The Leadership Initiative program offers formal education by means of academic as well as non-credit learning experiences. A unique characteristic of the program is the emphasis in each of its components on the study of ethical decision-making and the diversity of our society.

FORMAL LEADERSHIP LEARNING
The application of formal learning to life experiences is an important part of leadership training. To develop this skill in students, the College's leadership program offers diverse educational experiences.

Emerging Leaders Program:
This program is for first year students and sophomores who have an interest in pursuing leadership roles on or off campus. It includes topics such as leadership skills, leadership styles, group process, motivation, ethics and diversity.

Spring Leadership Conference:
The conference began in 1992 as a means of introducing new leaders to the elements of leadership styles, motivation, and process. The conference features a nationally-or regionally-known leadership facilitator along with sessions that focus on the needs of organizations at King's.

Intercollegiate Leadership:
This is a program sponsored by six local colleges/universities and the Leadership Wilkes-Barre program. The program includes six day-long seminars throughout the academic year, and covers topics such as: leadership skills, diversity, the media, justice, and human services. The College selects seven students, usually sophomores and juniors, to participate in the program.

Leadership for the 21st Century
(PS/HRM/WMST 294):
Taking this one-credit course you will have the opportunity to understand and apply the seven values of the new social change model to actual on-going leadership experiences within a club/organization in which you are an active member. The course is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Leadership and Executive Skills in Health Care Administration (HCA 492):
This course is a capstone course for Health Care Administration majors that is a synthesis of the health care in conjunction with leadership.

CURRENT LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Involvement through over fifty student organizations. Over 200 students hold leadership positions in student organizations on campus.

Community service through the Office of Volunteer Service, a program of Campus Ministry, offers activities for community service.

Resident Assistants are responsible for a floor community usually housing between 25 to 55 students. The RA is responsible for programming, community development, student conduct, advising and administrative tasks.

Campus Ministry Programs. Campus ministry staff provides a wide range of leadership opportunities for students as members of the campus ministry team.

Orientation Directors are responsible for working with the New Student Orientation Program in development of the campus orientation program held in August and January of each year.

First-year Experience Co-Leaders. Upperclass students serve as co-leaders for the first-year experience seminar program each Fall

The area of coordination of leadership opportunities for students has come under Student Affairs and specifically through the office of the associate vice president for student affairs. The associate vice president coordinates with administrators, faculty and students, leadership opportunities for students in student affairs, campus ministry and academic affairs programs.