Cultivating Leader Identity and Capacity in Students from Diverse Backgrounds

Kathy L. Guthrie is assistant professor of higher education and coordinator of the Undergraduate Certificate in Leadership Studies at Florida State University. Tamara Bertrand Jones is assistant professor of higher education at Florida State University. Laura Osteen is director of Florida State University s Center for Leadership & Social Change. Shouping Hu is professor of higher education at Florida State University.

Executive Summary vii Foreword xi A Changing World Calling for New Leaders 1 Leadership and Diversity 4 Guiding Framework 5 Organization of Monograph 7 Contributions of Monograph 8 Defining Leadership Language and Guiding Models 11 Distinguishing Leader and Leadership 13 Distinguishing Leader and Leadership Development 15 Th e Individual: Leader-Based Models 16 Th e Process: Leadership-Based Models 21 Diverse Student Identity and Capacity Development 29 Student Identity and Capacity Development 30 Diverse Student Identity Development 39 Diverse Student Leader Identity 43 Diverse Student Leader Capacity 50 Environment Matters 55 National Context 56 Institutional Context 58 Curricular and Cocurricular Context 62 Exemplary Programs and Characteristics of Eff ective Practices 67 Exemplary Programs 67 Characteristics of Eff ective Practices 77 Guiding Questions for Eff ective Programming 84 Implications for Policy, Practice, and Future Research 89 Policy Implications 90 Practical Implications 91 Contributions to Future Research 93 Conclusion 94 Notes 101 References 103 Name Index 115 Subject Index 119 About the Authors 123