Journal of Leadership Education: Volume 9 Issue 1 , Open Access

Leadership Attitudes and Beliefs of Incoming First-Year College Students

Donald V. Fischer, Maribeth Overland, Laura Adams

Due to limited resources available for leadership development programming at colleges and universities, there is a need to better understand the leadership attitudes and beliefs…

Evaluating a New and Aspiring County Extension Director Leadership Education Program: Determining Outcomes and Needed Improvements

K. S. U. Jayaratne, Mitchell Owen, David Jones

This leadership education evaluation study explored the leadership development outcomes of potential county extension directors and the ways to improve the program. The leadership…

The Effects of Experiential Learning with an Emphasis on Reflective Writing on Deep-Level Processing of Leadership Students

Copie Moore, Barry L. Boyd, Kim E. Dooley

Experiential learning and reflective writing are important components of college instructors’ repertoires. Learning is not complete without proper reflection. The purpose of this…

Leadership and the Millennials: Transforming Today’s Technological Teens into Tomorrow’s Leaders

Mary Ann Wisniewski

Although older and younger generations unfailingly tend to disagree on values and are inclined to perceive one another with a degree of skepticism and disapproval, it is an…

The Impact of Boys & Girls Club/Keystone Club Participation on Alumni

Tami Swigert, Barry L. Boyd

This study examined the impact of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGC), and its Keystone Club (KC) component, on the leadership and citizenship development of its alumni. 14…

Citation Structure: An Analysis of the Literature Cited in the Journal of Leadership Education from 2002 to 2006

Leslie D. Edgar, Casandra Cox

The Journal of Leadership Education (JOLE) has been a primary outlet of leadership education publishing and research dissemination since 2002. The purpose of this study was to…

Administrators’ Descriptions of Their Leadership Roles in a Precollege Program

Michael A. Owens

The purpose of this work is to describe how leaders of the Upward Bound (UB) program at a university in the western United States described their leadership roles in the program…

Leadership Program Planning: Assessing the Needs and Interests of the Agricultural Community

Eric K. Kaufman, Richard J. Rateau, Keyana C. Ellis, Holly Jo Kasperbauer, Laura R. Stacklin

Needs assessment is the first step in developing a leadership education program. During the spring of 2008 researchers and program planners conducted focus groups sessions with…

Antecedents of Emotional Intelligence: An Empirical Study

John E. Barbuto, Joana S. Story

This study examined the relationships between emotional intelligence, locus of control, and mental boundaries. Three hundred and eighty-two county employees were sampled using a…

Beowulf and the Teaching of Leadership

Tom Loughman, John Finley

Although it depicts a Germanic warrior culture of nearly 1,500 years ago, the Old English epic poem Beowulf contains timely insights into leadership and motivation, trust…

A Modern Technology in the Leadership Classroom: Using B logs for Critical Thinking Development

Gregory T. Gifford

Web-based resources are increasing both in number and conventionality. In particular, blogs have become a popular method for self-expression. Educators have been encouraged to…

How Literature Informs Notions of Leadership

Gregory L. Eastwood

Novels, short stories, plays, and poetry can help us understand the character traits, abilities, and contexts of leadership in ways that didactic methods cannot. I present…