Guidelines for Leadership Education Programs
Learning Community
Meeting Report
International Leadership Association Annual Conference
November 12, 2008
The Guidelines for Leadership Education Programs Learning Community met to determine final actions necessary to produce the first edition of Guiding Questions: Guidelines for Leadership Education Programs. Fifteen members attended including section leaders from four of the five sections.
Consensus quickly emerged that our work is nearly complete and that the purpose of the learning community will soon be accomplished.
The following actions were determined to be necessary to move Guiding Questions from its current stage as a draft to the first edition:
Review and revision of Guiding Questions will be accomplished through the ILA conference proposal process. At their business meeting, members of the Leadership Educators MIG agreed to make the review and revision process a permanent conference proposal track. Thus, proposals to amend or to add research and best practice resources to Guiding Questions will undergo a peer review process on an annual basis.
Further, both the overview section and the entire Guiding Questions will be field tested. The overview section will be tested by faculty at three institutions to determine utility as a basic set of questions to frame substantive discussions about development of leadership education programs. The results of this testing will be reported as part of an invited article in an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Leadership Education.
Later, once the first edition has been "published" on the website, institutions will be invited to pilot test Guiding Questions to evaluate its utility as a tool to help develop, evaluate, or reorganize leadership education programs. So far, representatives from three institutions have agreed to participate in this more comprehensive process. Results from these field tests may, time permitting, may be presented at the conference in
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