Spring 2014 - The Loop

Spring 2014

Newsletter for the School of Leadership Studies

School of Leadership Studies

Director’s Note A new year – a time of beginning. And while beginning typically has one looking forward, new beginnings also provide rich opportunity for reflection. We’ve been doing quite a bit of both recently!

As director of the School of Leadership Studies, I have the happy honor of reflecting on and acknowledging the contributions our students and faculty have made both on campus and in communities near and far, just in the last few months. In this edition of The Loop, we reflect on recent activities, events, and accomplishments – on the progress we’re making together on developing knowledgeable, ethical, inclusive leaders for a diverse and changing world.

connections, and celebrated K-State alumna Nabeeha Kazi Hutchins as our 2013 Michael C. Holen Leader-in-Residence. Our alumni continue to amaze! Wildcats Leadership for Life (WLFL) is growing, adding to its mentoring program opportunities for alumni to network, continue leadership learning, and contribute to our current students’ experience. We are most fortunate to have exceptional alumni and friends willing to invest meaningfully in our learning community.

And let’s not overlook our own faculty and staff – SLS was recognized for our 3rd straight year of 100% participation in the All-University Campaign, receiving also the All-University Campaign Excellence award!

I hope you will find some time to read through these pages and reflect on all that your leadership studies family has done and is doing, and look forward to all the good work that awaits! The new year, I know, will be filled with new opportunities – and much to celebrate when next we meet….

In the following pages, you’ll hear from students, faculty, and community partners about how service-learning is advancing understanding and building capacity to make a real difference on local and global issues – from hunger initiatives to disabilities studies to cultural diversity in community development. Leadership Studies As always, K-State Proud! has long employed and advocated for servicelearning as a powerful method of teaching and learning, and this year we partnered to establish and deliver an annual service-learning institute for the university. With service-learning a prominent feature in the university’s and colleges’ 2025 strategic plans, we can expect new Mary Tolar, Director and exciting opportunities to grow this essential component of our work in leadership studies.

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In September, we welcomed alumni and friends to our annual Spirit of Leadership, where we shared our strategic vision, made and renewed

Spring 2014

Table of Contents Leadership Studies Alumni & Friends Classroom Highlights Conferences Food Security Initiatives Service-Learning Alternative Breaks & Edgerley-Franklin Scholars “Meet Dr. Dandaneau” Faculty & Staff Highlights

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alumni & friends

Becky (Sullivan) Fouard, 2011 K-State graduate, returned to campus on October 17 as part of the Leadership Alumni Speaker Series hosted by the School of Leadership Studies. The Leadership Alumni Speaker Series seeks to bring young alumni of the School of Leadership Studies back to campus to connect with students and provide first-hand insight into how leadership practices are carried out in professional settings. Fouard has already begun an impressive career. For two years following graduation, she held various roles at the Kansas Department of Agriculture, including most recently serving as the lead government official for marketing domestic and international products of Kansas food, agriculture, and agritourism companies. Fouard has recently transitioned into a role as the Senior Marketing Associate with Elanco Animal Health in Greenfield, IN. Fouard engaged students, faculty, and staff with her interactive presentation “#LeadershipAsAnAdult” to discuss key aspects of leadership, including building team rapport, expectation management, and execution of a project. The session began with a lively discussion facilitated by Fouard where attendees responded to three questions: 1) What do you expect out of team? 2) What do you expect out of yourself? 3) What does it take to execute a project?

Fouard then shared her insight on how to overcome challenges with empowering buy-in within a team, one of the most difficult parts of leadership she has experienced in the professional world. “In college, you volunteer your time to lead within the organizations you strongly connect to. In the workplace, your team members are paid to be there and may not have that same level of passion and motivation.” Drawing upon her leadership experiences as a student and professional, Fouard reiterated the importance of face-to-face communication, spending quality time with your team to build rapport, learning to effectively manage loss and disappointment to encourage future successes, and leading beside instead of ahead of your team members.

When asked what her one suggestion is for current students, Fouard’s concluded with her advice to be strategic. “Choose to invest your time doing the things and with the people that will give you the greatest pay out. Time is the only commodity you will never get back.”

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eader-in-Residence Congratulations to this year’s Michael C. Holen Leader-in-Residence: Nabeeha Kazi Hutchins

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Nabeeha is a 1996 K-State graduate and serves as Managing Director of Humanitas Global Development, a Washington, DC, based international development agency.

Additional professional experience includes working with the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative, UNICEF anti-child trafficking efforts in Romania, and public health program and policy development. The School of Leadership Studies was honored to recognize Nabeeha’s outstanding service to the global community by naming her the 2013 Leader-in-Residence at the Spirit of Leadership celebration. Nabeeha embodies the core tenets of award recipients, including a commitment to serving the common good and engaged leadership and collaboration to address current societal challenges.

StayConnected

Happy 2014! As the current president of the Advisory Committee for Wildcats Leadership for Life, I am excited to share with you some new upcoming opportunities for alumni and friends of Leadership Studies to invest in your professional development and engage with others in your area: • On Friday, March 28th from 12:00-1:00pm (CST), we will be hosting our first ever webinar for alumni and friends. Join us as we visit with Dr. Mary Kay Siefers, senior associate director and assistant professor, about adaptive leadership theory and ways to apply this practice in our own worlds. We hope to offer several of these webinars throughout the year if they are of value to you.

• We would like to help you connect with your Leadership Studies community in person. If you are interested in assisting with coordinating a local get-together (imagine meeting to watch a game, have dinner, etc.) please contact us at KStatewlfl@gmail.com.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out if there are additional resources that would be of interest to you as you connect back with Leadership Studies! Watch your email, as we will be in touch with more information! – Ben Fenwick, ‘05 WLFL is a program for Leadership Studies alumni who want to stay in touch with what is going on in Leadership Studies, keep informed about upcoming events and programs, and continue leadership education.

www.facebook.com/wildcatsleadershipforlife

Spirit of Leadership

Join us

for the 4th annual Spirit of Leadership this fall, our signature alumni and friends event! Enjoy a fun evening filled with celebration, reconnecting, and continued leadership development. The 2014 event will be held on a Friday before a home football game in early fall, date to be announced.

Giving Back

Detailed invitation to follow by mail and email.

Interested in giving back?

Support the School of Leadership Studies today at www.found.k-state.edu/leadership.

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lassroom ighlights

Culture & Context in Leadership LEAD

Students from the K-State English Language Program (ELP) and the LEAD 350 Culture and Context course came together this past semester for the ELP Collaboration Project.

Serving as the highlight of the course for many students, the project paired ELP and Leadership Studies students together to create a meaningful learning experience for all involved. Over two class periods, students shared with one another about their respective cultures, practiced language skills, and engaged in dialogue about various societal issues and norms. This collaboration created an environment for LEAD 350 students to visualize and practice their course content.

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Theories of Nonprofit Leadership Every semester LEAD 420 students host the Nonprofit Coffee Hour, an event where they showcase the projects they have been working on throughout the semester. During the course, students work alone or in pairs to create a theoretical nonprofit organization of their choice. The goal of the project is to teach students about the different factors that go into starting a nonprofit organization, the possible challenges that come with starting a nonprofit, but most importantly, that it is possible. Not only is the event an opportunity for students to highlight their hard work, but also for them to network with fellow community members, faculty, and alumni, as well as receive feedback and alternative ideas on their projects.

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Senior Seminar in Leadership LEAD

As part of the fall 2013 LEAD 450 Senior Seminar course, students worked in small groups to conduct an analysis of a leadership case study and present their findings to the class. Each section of LEAD 450 then chose one group to represent their class in the semiannual Senior Seminar case competition, where students made their presentations to a panel of faculty judges. The winning student team was selected from Dr. Irma O’Dell’s class and included: Jill Bergling, Family Studies and Human Services; Kayla Day, Marketing; Ursula Kamanga, Family Studies and Human Services; Austin Nichols, Journalism and Mass Communications; and Joney Wong, Psychology. To celebrate their success, Dr. O’Dell and students enjoyed lunch at the President’s Residence with First Lady Noel Schulz.

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International Leadership

Association

Faculty and students traveled to Montreal, Canada, to participate in the 15th annual International Leadership Association Global Conference. The conference, held from October 30-November 2, brought together individuals from more than 30 countries to focus on the theme Leadership for Local and Global Resilience: The Challenges of a Shifting Planet. ILA is a global membership organization for those who practice, study, and teach leadership and focuses on inclusion, impact, integrity, interconnection, interdisciplinary, and international perspective.

The faculty attendees included: Leigh Fine, Kerry Priest, Mary Tolar, and Andrew Wefald.

Their contributions to the conference involved presenting at various sessions, participating in roundtable discussions, and chairing symposiums and panel discussions.

Joining the faculty members at the conference were an undergraduate and a graduate student team that each participated in case competitions. Congratulations to the graduate team participants who won first place in their competition! Both student teams were asked to analyze the case, “Tim Hortons in 2013: Can its success in Canada be exported globally?� from a leadership perspective.

Graduate Team (pictured above): Erin Poppe, Masters student in Public Administration; Kyle van Ittersum, Masters student in Psychology; Lori Kniffin, Masters student in Counseling and Student Development; and Dr. Andy Wefald, assistant professor.

Undergraduate Team (pictured to the right): Kaitlin Long, senior in Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Studies; Lukus Ebert, senior in Sociology; Collin Huerter, senior in Political Science; Ryan Patterson, senior in Human Resource Management; and Carly Dickter, junior in Public Relations.

Olathe Ethics

Conference

On November 8, the Professional Careers Academy of the Olathe School District sponsored the inaugural 21st Century Ethics Conference that was created in collaboration with the School of Leadership Studies. The conference was hosted at the Kansas State University Olathe campus and provided Leadership Studies faculty, students, and alumni a unique opportunity to connect with the more than 120 students who were in attendance from all four Olathe high schools.

Kicking off the conference were breakout sessions led by Leadership Studies alumni from the Kansas City area. These individuals drew upon their professional insights and first-hand experiences to engage students in interactive discussions. Session topics included ethics within school policy, media, student rights, physician response, and other professional fields.

Dr. Bob Shoop, co-founder of the School of Leadership Studies and director of the Cargill Center for Ethical Leadership, served as the keynote speaker for the conference.

Shoop shared his expertise in ethics and leadership and guided participants through various ethical challenges they may face as high school students.

Members of the Leadership Studies Ambassadors concluded the day with a facilitation of small groups to further reflect on ethical issues and topics that were discussed throughout the conference.

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LEAD 212 students who participated in the project.

Food Security

Exploring

Initiatives

Hunger in

Many of you might remember doing a canned food collection as part of your LEAD 212 Introduction to Leadership Studies experience. The School of Leadership Studies has been partnering with the Flint Hills Breadbasket for over ten years to coordinate their food collection across the Manhattan community. Every year our students raise the bar for the total amounts of food collected, and this year was no exception. In fact, this past semester, around 900 freshman students in LEAD 212 collected a record total 15,978 pounds of food and $1,635.30 to donate to the Flint Hills Breadbasket.

Manhattan

Maribeth Kieffer, Executive Director of the Flint Hills Breadbasket, shares, “Donations exceeded any other year due to the leadership of the instructors and the new perspective they put in motion with a mapping system that made a big difference for students to get into homes and tell people about the issue of hunger. We also want to thank the students for all their hard work and the Manhattan community donors for making this drive so successful.”

This year, the Cats for Cans collection drive became part of a service-learning experience that focused on the role of leadership within addressing the issue of hunger. Titled the Hunger Project, students began by researching hunger in their home communities. Each learning community was then

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assigned a neighborhood within the Manhattan community.

Students developed a strategy to educate their respective neighborhoods on the issue of hunger, as well as collect cans and food items to contribute to the Flint Hills Breadbasket.

After collecting the food items, students delivered donations to the Breadbasket and were able to participate in the sorting process.

The Hunger Project provided a vehicle for students to actively apply and develop their individual leadership strengths to enhance the project’s impact. Students were encouraged to engage one another to breakdown the issue of hunger to the root causes and diagnose how leadership can affect the longterm needs of hunger locally, nationally, and internationally.

“It was cool talking about the strengths in class and seeing them play out through the project. Everyone has such different strengths, but yet they can come together to create a project that can impact hundreds of people in our community,” reflects Morgan Pehlman, freshman in Business Administration.

Flint Hills Breadbasket Staff (left to right) Rick Haworth - Operations Manager Valon Jones - Client Service Coordinator Maribeth Kieffer - Executive Director

From the

Students

Students concluded the semester with presentations that reflected upon the powerful impact and learning experiences that came from being part of the project:

“What stuck out to me the most was practicing servant we are doing for class. wanted the best grade. leadership. We realized This is something that is Towards the end, all we that it wasn’t just about us transforming us as leaders wanted to do was help as leaders but more about and helping to transform the hungry people in who we are influencing. the community because Manhattan. You can help we’re sharing with our the people around you, your By having the opportunity to work hands on to serve neighbors that there is an constituents, to earn their the community, you really issue of hunger and they respect and form a strong feel like you are making a can help be a part of the bond to accomplish the difference.” plan to fix it.” goal.”

-Logan Krizek, freshman in -Riley Gay, freshman in -Kristi Katlin, freshman in Biology Architecture, Planning, and Design Pre-Veterinary Medicine “This isn’t just a project

“In the beginning, I just

“It really opened my eyes and showed me that people can truly care about people they don’t even know, and that everyone is important.”

- Taylor Hageman, freshman in Biological Systems Engineering

*Watch a video on the full Hunger Project at www.youtube.com/kstateSLS

Project Before After

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HandsOn Kansas State Named as 2013 Hunger Champions Congratulations to HandsOn Kansas State for receiving the 2013 Hunger Champion Award from Harvesters Community Food Network of Kansas City! HandsOn K-State was recognized as a hunger relief leader for their exceptional work to raise awareness around the issue of hunger and encourage relief efforts. The Hunger Champion Award recognized efforts of HandsOn K-State during the 2012-2013 school year, which included many campus hunger-related activities such as classes on food security. Using the theme, “Hidden Hunger,” the group held three mobile food pantries, providing food to nearly 2,500 people. Student volunteers strived to reach their fellow students through the food distribution by creatively using social media to promote the pantries to a demographic not usually considered to be hungry. Volunteers also helped rebuild a food pantry in Riley, Kansas. HandsOn K-State is a program of the School of Leadership Studies that promotes civic learning and leadership through meaningful volunteer and service opportunities between campus and community.

Ross Allen and Mackenzie Mong, Student Coordinators for HandsOn Kansas State, accept the 2013 Hunger Champion Award at the Circle of Hope award ceremony.

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ervice-learning continues to be a cornerstone of The School of Leadership Studies with partners across campus serving as champions for this teaching and learning for citizenship education, community development, and growth. Service-learning is an educational practice that allows students to learn and reflect on community based learning experiences. By bringing service-learning into the classroom, students become equipped with skills of teamwork and civic responsibility they can take with them into their future careers and communities.

2013 Service-Learning Institute The 2013 Service-Learning Institute was hosted by the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies in partnership with School of Leadership Studies and the Teaching and Learning Center of Kansas State University.

The event took place Thursday, September 26th and Friday, September 27th and was highly interactive. The faculty in attendance were encouraged to use the workshop as an opportunity to design and develop high-impact servicelearning curriculum for use in their spring and fall 2014 courses.

Serving as the convener, host, and keynote speaker of the event was Dr. Patti Clayton. Dr. Clayton is a senior scholar with the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She has facilitated over 100 conference sessions and has extensive experience as a practitioner-scholar in communityengaged teaching and learning, including teaching with service-learning in a variety of fields. Her work focuses on building the capacity of individuals, units, institutions, and the field as a whole for scholarly community-engaged teaching and learning. “The Service-Learning Institute raised the bar for Kansas State University. It called for more collaboration in our communities and more intentional cocreated work. I feel our students are craving engaging courses that build community. They need to be involved and feel ownership of their learning instead of just being the recipients of knowledge. We are all teachers, and we are all students and if we work together we can build capacity for healthier communities.�

- Lori Kniffin, Advisor and Instructor for the School of Leadership Studies; Participant in 2013 Service-Learning Insititute

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K-State Athletes Host Special Olympics Athletes for a LEAD 212 Class Project program, K-State athletes first attended some of the Special Olympics athletes’ softball games and bowling tournaments to show their support and begin connecting with each other.

In July 2013, 40 Kansas State University athletes hosted 35 Special Olympics athletes for “Be the Fan” program, an afternoon of activities at the K-State football training facility. K-State athletes developed various stations for the Special Olympics athletes to participate in with the goal of building teamwork and confidence within themselves and one another. Beyond the afternoon

Assistant professors Dr. Andy Wefald and Dr. Mike Finnegan, partnered with Kim Schnee in the Manhattan High School Special Education Department, and saw this as a valuable learning experience for both sets of athletes.

The School of Leadership Studies continually looks for ways to embed service-learning into its curriculum, and “Be the Fan” was the perfect outlet for students to further this learning outside of the classroom. Wefald mentioned, “I enjoyed watching the athletes’

relationship grow throughout the project, which made me excited about the bigger opportunities we can shoot for with the Special Olympics program in the future.” It was an opportunity for the K-State athletes to share their talents with and learn from the Special Olympics athletes who usually serve as some of the biggest K-State fans throughout the year.

The “Be the Fan” program concluded with a special autograph signing where K-State athletes brought shirts and stood in line to receive autographs from the Special Olympics athletes.

“The overall ability of our athletes to work together increased. Our student athletes are still talking about the K-State athletes asking them for their autographs...it was the highlight of their summer,” said Jamie Schnee, Special Olympics Coach.

Spanish Translation Course Impacts Local Organizations Through Service-Learning Within her Introduction to Translation Course at K-State, Dr. Laura Kanost seeks to provide a meaningful and empowering experience through her students’ work by teaching with a service-learning pedagogy. Kanost is an Associate Professor of Spanish and a champion of service-learning on campus.

Throughout the fall semester, students in her course worked on a group project with community partners that began in September.

Each group was partnered with The Crisis Center, Manhattan Public Library, or Flint Hills Adopt-A-Family to produce professional quality Spanish translations for materials used by the respective organization. The project began with students engaging with their community partner to learn about the purpose of the translations and the targeted audience. Students submitted the final translations to their community partners in early December and had the opportunity to

gather feedback, as well as hear the impact their documents are having within the community. Through these interactions with the community organizations, the full circle of servicelearning came together for Kanost’s students.

“We are excited to get students’ support and at the same time offer them a professional experience that makes their work real. This allows us to get access to quality translations that are a respectful and accurate representation of our message to share with Spanish speaking families in the Manhattan community,” Danielle Schapaugh, Public Relations Coordinator of the Manhattan Public Library, expresses when sharing how this partnership has impacted the library.

Liam Reilly, senior in civil engineering, shares, “By helping the Manhattan Public Library, we will be able to reach more people and help people who would not otherwise know about the services available. Knowing that we could be bettering the lives of people who would have otherwise not known about a service due to language barriers is definitely the biggest takeaway for me.”

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Alternative

Breaks

& Scholars the

EdgerleyFranklin

Alternative Breaks is a program of the School of Leadership Studies focused around the servicelearning model by providing students the opportunity to participate in an intense service experience during their winter, spring, and weekend breaks. This model challenges participants to prepare, act, reflect, and evaluate their service experience, as well as expands both the community impact and students’ personal growth through service.

Alternative Breaks sites are typically located in larger cities, making the program a perfect match for the K-State Edgerley-Franklin Urban Leadership Scholars – a scholarship program that focuses on preparing future leaders for the challenges facing urban communities and families. The scholarship is made possible by the Edgerley and Franklin families and recognizes their continuous support to individuals from urban areas who support their communities. Although it is not a requirement for Edgerley-Franklin students to participate in Alternative Breaks, many choose to and find it a valuable experience.

During the fall 2013 semester, Bernard Franklin, co-sponsor of the scholarship program, recognized the potential for service and partnership with the Edgerley-Franklin students and connected them to organizations that help meet the needs of the Kansas City area, such as El Centro, where a group travelled this past fall. El Centro is a nonprofit organization committed to strengthening communities and improving the lives of Latinos in the Kansas City area through educational, social, and economic opportunities.

In the future, the Edgerley-Franklin program plans to continue working with Alternative Breaks. Planning is in the works to create a spring break site in the Kansas City area specifically for the Edgerley-Franklin students. This would provide them the opportunity to travel and develop as a group. During their time in Kansas City, the group hopes to work with several partners throughout the week to help students understand different levels of challenges that urban communities often face.

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Former Edgerley-Franklin Urban Leadership Scholars at an Alternative Breaks program site in Chicago (from left to right: Michelle Foster, Ismael Hernandez, and Miguel Valdes).

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Dandaneau Dr.Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies

Since beginning as Kansas State University’s inaugural vice provost for undergraduate studies in August 2012, Steven Dandaneau has strived to support K-State undergraduates in their pursuit of academic acheivement. Dandaneau’s focus is to enhance the quality and value of K-State’s undergraduate educational experience, which is key to the K-State 2025 goal to become a top 50 public research university.

“It’s all about access to excellence. We want as many students as possible to earn degrees in a timely manner and for those degrees to facilitate life-long learning, as well as achievement of our students’ most lofty ambitions,” said Dandaneau.

As part of this broader mission, Dandaneau serves as a champion for the School of Leadership Studies.

With his office located in the Leadership Studies Building, Dandaneau has contributed first-hand to many SLS programs. Dandaneau has, for example, led a LEAD 212 small group and made possible the Service-Learning Institute. This experience inspired him to extend his work into the classroom through the university’s First Year Seminar.

Mary Tolar, director of the School of Leadership Studies, shares, “Dr. Dandaneau is an advocate for students’ academic experiences. He cares about students individually and collectively, and works hard to ensure that resources and structures of the institution are used in the best interests of students and their success.”

As part of the service-learning efforts across campus, Dandaneau worked with Trisha Gott, assistant director for service-learning at Leadership Studies, to develop a K-State First Seminar on Disabilities Studies, which Dandaneau taught this past fall semester.

The class consisted of ten freshman students who applied the formal concepts taught

by Dandaneau in the classroom via their

service to the K-State and local community and with the help of several key partnerships. For example, students assisted a graduate student in the College of Architecture, Planning and Design, to test wheelchair access to outside entrances on campus.

“In Dr. Dandaneau’s class, I developed a deeper understanding of the relationship between society and disabilities. My perspective changed not only as to how I view disabilities, but also as to how society determines normal versus disabled,” said Sydney Edmisten, freshman in open option.

Students also partnered with the K-State undergraduate group, Wildcat Buddies, which works with clients at the Big Lakes Development Center, a large community organization serving individuals with developmental disabiliites in the local Manhattan and surrounding areas.

Dandaneau’s students put their learning throughout the semester into action through their service with Big Lakes clients, including a specially planned year-end holiday celebration.

Dandaneau’s impact on students is evident through the transformational learning he has helped facilitate in the classroom. Alex Thibault, freshman in open option, shares, “My biggest takeaway in the Disabilities Studies class is to not take things to be true on the basis that someone told you so.

Find out for yourself what is true.”

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Faculty & Sta

Highlights Farewell

Welcome Marcia Hornung

Coordinator of Partnerships & Instructor

Not Pictured

Sharon Breiner

Kirsten Zoller

Karey DeBardeleben

Moved with family to Pratt, KS

Working at K-State Salina

Sarah Donley

Instructor

Senior Administrative Assistant

Senior Administrative Assistant

Graduate Research Assistant

Best Wishes in Retirement Dr. Bob Shoop

It is time to bid farewell to Dr. Bob Shoop as he transitions to retirement in December after his service of 37 years to K-State as a professor, scholar, and visionary leader. Bob has touched countless lives through his impactful work, and we will be forever grateful for Bob’s lasting legacy on the School of Leadership Studies. Bob is a co-founder of the School of Leadership Studies and served as the inaugural director of the Cargill Center for Ethical Leadership.

Dorothy Smith

After 42 years of extraordinary service to K-State, we extend our best wishes and gratitude to Dorothy Smith on her retirement this past December. Dorothy joined the School of Leadership Studies in 2009 as executive assistant for Dr. Mary Tolar, director of the School, and has most recently served as administrative assistant to Dr. Steven Dandaneau, vice provost for undergraduate studies.

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Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. J.R. and Megan Love Married June 15, 2013. J.R. is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the School of Leadership Studies.

Mr. Kyle Van Ittersum and Ms. Christina Luster Engaged on August 13, 2013. Kyle is a Graduate Research Assistant for the School of Leadership Studies.

Emmett Marsh Born on November 4, 2013 to Kristin and Jason Marsh. Kristin is an Administrative Officer for the School of Leadership Studies.

Steve and Angie Williams

Completing the Waddell and Reed Marathon on October 19, 2013. Steve is the Custodial Specialist for the School of Leadership Studies.

School of Leadership Studies Faculty and Staff For the third year in a row, the School of Leadership Studies achieved 100% participation in the All-University Campaign for K-State, an annual internal fundraising effort for faculty and staff to give back to K-State.

SLS was also recognized with the All-University Campaign Excellence Award.

Dr. Mike Finnegan

Earned his Ph.D. in Student Affairs in Higher Education. Mike is an Assistant Professor for the School of Leadership Studies.

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