LEADERSHIP RESOURCES AND LINKS

In addition to the Office of Student Activities and Greek Life, there are several areas and departments at Washburn University that offer established leadership programs designed to help you explore your leadership potential. Please visit their offices and/or Web sites for more information:

Washburn Institute for the Study and Practice of Leadership
http://www.washburn.edu/leadership
Henderson Learning Resource Center, Room 101 & 110
(785) 670-2000

Office of Residential Living
http://www.washburn.edu/services/studentlife/resliving/index.html
Lobby Area, Living Learning Center (LLC)
(785) 670-1065

Multicultural Affairs
http://www.washburn.edu/mao
Morgan Hall, Room 110
(785) 670-1622

In addition, there are several national organizations that SAGL recognizes as great leadership resources. You are encouraged to visit the following sites or to let us know if you find other resources that are helpful:

EmergingLeader.com
http://www.emergingleader.com/
EmergingLeader.com is a user-driven site which serves both as a sounding board for fresh leadership ideas and a repository for lessons learned and experience gained.

Student Leader Magazine
http://www.studentleader.com
In Student Leader, you'll find tips on how to recruit new members, get publicity, battle apathy, raise money, get along with the campus media, deal with your administration, win your next campus election, and lots more.

Fast Company Magazine
http://www.fastcompany.com
You'll find great information about leadership on this comprehensive Web site. From "teamwork" to "organizational change," this site is never short of good ideas.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
http://www.emkf.org
he Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (EMKF) works with partners to encourage leadership across America and improve the education of children and youth. The Foundation focuses its operations and grantmaking on two areas: entrepreneurship and education.

In education, EMKF works in partnership with others to improve the lives of children and their families, to create an environment where they enter school prepared to succeed and, once in school, are able to prepare for life as productive, contributing citizens.

National Clearinghouse of Leadership Programs
http://www.nclp.umd.edu/
Established in 1992 at the University of Maryland College Park, the National Clearinghouse of Leadership Programs (NCLP) provides a central clearinghouse of leadership materials, resources, and assistance to leadership educators. Current membership consists of approximately 500 individuals.

Advancing Women in Leadership
http://www.advancingwomen.com
Advancing Women in Leadership represents the first on-line professional, refereed journal for women in leadership. The journal publishes manuscripts that report, synthesize, review, or analyze scholarly inquiry that focuses on women's issues.

American Leadership Forum
http://www.alfnational.org/
The American Leadership Form is a nonprofit organization, national in scope, dedicated to joining and strengthening established leaders in order to serve the public good. It enhances leadership by building on the strengths of diversity and by promoting collaborative problem solving within and among communities.

College and Character: John Templeton Foundation
http://www.collegeandcharacter.org/
The goal of the John Templeton Foundation's College and Character Initiative is to encourage colleges and universities to do as much as they can to reinforce the positive values instilled by parents, such as honesty, compassion, self-discipline, and respect. The initiative seeks to foster widespread conversations within the higher education community about character development and to inform college-bound students, parents, policy makers, and the general public about how colleges and universities, individually and collectively, are responding to this challenge.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation
http://www.wkkf.org/
"To help people help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations."

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to apply knowledge to solve the problems of people. Its founder W. K. Kellogg, the cereal industry pioneer, established the Foundation in 1930. Since its beginning the Foundation has continuously focused on building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to solve their own problems.

Center for Creative Leadership
http://www.ccl.org/
The mission of the Center for Creative Leadership is to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide.