Yesterday evening, the first fifteen students in our new Doctor of Executive Leadership program completed their initial four day residency. The residency focused on introductions of the students to the program and its expectations and foundations, bonding time for the new cohort, and time for the students to reflect on their learning and goals for study.
Here are some photos of the highlights:
Dr. White, the Dean of the School of Leadership and Professional Development, spoke with the students several times during the weekend, including during this talk about lifeline development, when he encouraged students to consider how their life histories and experiences have influenced their leadership development.
This is John Sellards, Creative Services Director at Mountain State, presenting about Social Media for Leaders. He introduced several avenues for students to get involved with social media, including Twitter.
Dr. Ruth Wylie, Associate Dean, also shared with the students throughout the weekend, partnering with other faculty members to cover topics including the DISC, leadership competencies, reflection/journaling, resiliency and change, and emotional intelligence.
Dr. James Owston, Dean of Online and Individualized Learning, instructed new students in the use of Blackboard and other technology tools.
Dr. Frank Hitt teamed with Roslyn Artis to present several lectures for DEL 700 "Culture of Inquiry."
Valerie Francis, one of the new students in the program, enjoyed expressing her thoughts about the weekend's activities.
In the keynote of the weekend, Dr. George Walker, a theoretical nuclear physicist and Senior Vice President for Research Development and Graduate Education at Florida International University, spoke about the topic of "Reinventing the Doctorate." Walker, chair of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, is a co-author both The Formation of Scholars: Reinventing Doctoral Education for the 21st Century and Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education: Preparing Stewards of the Discipline - Carnegie Essays on the Doctorate. Part of reinventing the doctorate includes universities deciding what they would like their students to become. In advance, departments will outline what habits of mind, content knowledge, what experiences, what skills and for what purpose they are developing in their students.
After the presentation by Dr. Walker, students wrote reflections about what it means to create intellectual communities. Bill Minear wrote:
If we are to seize the moment and take hold of an opportunity, now is the time. As the inaugural cohort class for the MSU Doctorate in Executive Leadership Program, we have been given a great opportunity by our faculty to begin our educational journey hearing first hand from a pioneer on the trail of opportunistic change within the leadership community. Dr. George Walker's concept of the intellectual community creates a "build it to fit your need" model, where the initiatives are collaborative and seamless, creating an open forum for dialect and a vision for keeping the passion of the researcher alive. It challenges all participants to remove boundaries and establish a coalition of intellectual learners that drive for common results.
I believe we learned as much as the students did this weekend. Plus, we had a tremendous amount of fun.
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Congrats you all !! keep up this good work .. nice to know about this...
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