Professional Documents
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Hope Howard
Seattle University
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Student Affairs
Experiential learning is critical to success of S.A. grad students (Renn & Jessup-Anger,
2008)
Social Justice Philosophy
Emotional Intelligence has a predictive effect for identifying outstanding RA performance
(Jaeger & Caison, 2006)
RAs must approach their role with the greater good of their community in mind ( King, 2012)
Practicing Empathic Response
experiential exercises emphasizing awareness and empathic responding and practice of
these skillsbeyond that of didactic training alone (Pasco et al., 2012, p. 134).
Service-learning in leadership courses has been shown an effective approach to
development of leadership behaviors in undergraduate students (Foli, Braswell,
Kirkpatrick, & Lim, 2014).
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Research Questions:
HOW DO STUDENT LEADERS EXPERIENCE THEIR
TRAINING PROGRAMS IN RELATION TO THEIR
LEADERSHIP IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT?
Center for
Housing & Student
Residence Life Involvement Innovation Center
About 50 RAs; houses Houses student Houses Ignatian
47% of all 4,511 government, student Leaders program,
undergrads (Fall, 2014 clubs/orgs, and responsible for iLead.
data). leadership development.
Methodology 6
Qtrs at SU: 3 6 9 12
Pacific Islander; 15%
Asian; 23%
Students: 1* 6 2 2
*transfer
Findings Identity: Training: Identity- 8
Challenging Based Content &
Social Justice: Dominant Views Hands-On
Connection & of Leadership Delivery
Community
you fly amongst all of the people who are
I was kind of your birds that youre teaching your peers still
disappointed that iLead leadingyou have to [do] not understand, it's
is not something thats lead from within, not kind of disheartening in a
accessible to all from in front. way it's like there's
students. Or that there -Gwendolyn nowhere to hide because
are meetings on you live where you work
campus that are it's just a lot of extra
totally closed off to I do realize that you weight to carry. -Laura
students who dont hold dont need to have
leadership positions. some kind of title to be
-Mia a leader. I think how
you define leadership
makes you a leader.
Findings 9