Servant Leader Cohort: Teaching Accountability to Community

Presentation Format

Individual Presentation

Intended Audience

All Audiences

Program Abstract

The GIVE Center exists as an on-campus clearinghouse for volunteer efforts within varying degrees of community. The center differentiates itself by placing an emphasis on fusing the two roles of the servant and the leader within GC’s students. This year, it undertook the task of developing a Servant Leader Cohort where students learned the philosophy of servant leadership and built community by completing an impact project through collaboration between community partners on campus organizations.

Presentation Description

The GIVE Center is an on-campus clearinghouse for volunteer efforts not only within the local Milledgeville-Baldwin community, but nationally and internationally as well. Where the GIVE Center differs from all other centers of its kind is its emphasis on fusing the two roles of the servant and the leader into one entity. This past year, The GIVE Center developed and facilitated a servant leadership cohort for a designated group of committed servant leader fellows. The primary goals of the servant leadership fellows program were to: (1) enable fellows to possess an understanding of The GIVE Center’s servant leadership characteristics and Robert K. Greenleaf’s philosophy of “servant leadership”; (2) for the fellows of the cohort to build community through mutually beneficial collaborations with registered service groups and community partners; and (3) to provide statistical evidence supporting our notion that servant leaders perform better on our student learning outcomes when compared to other campus leaders. Fellows were expected to complete the servant leadership program by attending the project activities, exhibiting proficiency of the learning outcomes through application, provide confirmation of student learning through critical reflection, and successful completion of an impact project through collaboration of community partners and on-campus departments. Our intent by attending this conference is to share our experience and findings with other professionals in the Service-Learning and Civic Engagement community. Participants of our session can expect to learn about the inaugural year of our cohort, the various impact projects and their effects on our community, and to engage in thoughtful dialogue as to whether or not leadership can be taught.

Location

Room - 210

Start Date

4-14-2016 1:45 PM

End Date

4-14-2016 3:00 PM

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Apr 14th, 1:45 PM Apr 14th, 3:00 PM

Servant Leader Cohort: Teaching Accountability to Community

Room - 210

The GIVE Center is an on-campus clearinghouse for volunteer efforts not only within the local Milledgeville-Baldwin community, but nationally and internationally as well. Where the GIVE Center differs from all other centers of its kind is its emphasis on fusing the two roles of the servant and the leader into one entity. This past year, The GIVE Center developed and facilitated a servant leadership cohort for a designated group of committed servant leader fellows. The primary goals of the servant leadership fellows program were to: (1) enable fellows to possess an understanding of The GIVE Center’s servant leadership characteristics and Robert K. Greenleaf’s philosophy of “servant leadership”; (2) for the fellows of the cohort to build community through mutually beneficial collaborations with registered service groups and community partners; and (3) to provide statistical evidence supporting our notion that servant leaders perform better on our student learning outcomes when compared to other campus leaders. Fellows were expected to complete the servant leadership program by attending the project activities, exhibiting proficiency of the learning outcomes through application, provide confirmation of student learning through critical reflection, and successful completion of an impact project through collaboration of community partners and on-campus departments. Our intent by attending this conference is to share our experience and findings with other professionals in the Service-Learning and Civic Engagement community. Participants of our session can expect to learn about the inaugural year of our cohort, the various impact projects and their effects on our community, and to engage in thoughtful dialogue as to whether or not leadership can be taught.