It provides opportunities for personal reflection and skill development in context, and encourages leaders to foster collaboration for positive social change. Leadership can be learned. Educational efforts to enhance leadership can be fruitful on many levels. The Center helps students move beyond unexamined assumptions about leadership to a reflective, action-oriented process. Recognizing that all do not have to lead in every domain, the Center offers relevant skill development opportunities in particular contexts.
Higher education is an important period for leadership development.
It is more than rhetoric to note that current students will be leaders in the next millennium. While later training and experience will add to leadership abilities, young people's orientations toward serving and leading often take root and are launched during the college years. A developmental understanding of students informs the leadership education process. Leadership is a complex phenomena. Leadership may be studied from a variety of academic disciplines.