This practitioner guide introduces the leadership for liberation framework that includes cultural commitments, mindsets, and liberatory values and concepts. The values and concepts introduced in this guide originally emerged from a critique of the Social Change Model of Leadership and how it neglects to mention race, power, and oppression. The…

In this report, the fourth in the "On Shared Equity Leadership series," the authors describe the ways that leaders in different campus roles contribute to shared equity leadership (SEL) efforts. SEL is a leadership approach that scales diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work and creates culture change by connecting individual and…

Emerging evidence demonstrates that integrated programs, which combine academic and socioemotional supports and bridge boundaries between academic and student affairs, can improve college success rates for low-income, first-generation college students. This article explores the organizational value of integrated transition programs across several…

This report discusses the findings from a three-year study of the California State University STEM Collaboratives project, funded by the Helmsley Charitable Trust. The project selected eight CSU campuses to rethink the ways in which they support first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minority students in science, technology,…

This study focused on examining the roles that leaders, in particular college presidents, may play in creating organizational learning that helps move diversity agendas forward. This study highlights under-examined information sources (students own stories and experiences) for creating organizational learning that can advance a diversity agenda.…

Interviews 36 community college faculty and administrators, and examined leadership beliefs and contextual conditions that affect diverse perspectives. Results suggest that individuals' positionalities (by gender, race, ethnicity, role within the institution, discipline or field of study, among other characteristics) appear to be related to…

Summarizes results of a national study of academic and student affairs that examined reasons for collaboration, number of institutions engaged in partnerships and types of collaboration, successful approaches, and barriers to and facilitators of collaboration. (EV)

Proposes that student affairs practitioners need to rethink some of the key assumptions of their leadership development models and practices in order to meet the needs of a changing student body. Study results illustrate that different strategies are necessary for the development of leadership among a diverse group of students. (Contains 36…

Reviews three prominent process change models--Kuh's seamless change, planned change, and restructuring--that have been advocated for creating a seamless learning environment. Also discusses whether results from an empirical research study support that these models aid in establishing collaboration. Offers a model for successfully creating…

During the 2002-2003 academic year, six roundtables were held to explore uses of the data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) for improvement of student learning. This paper describes the roundtable discussion held in St. Louis, Missouri, in March 2003. Participants were student affairs administrators from a range of institutions…