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Concurrent Session Track 3 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEADERSHIP
IN STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT

Location: Governors Boardroom (Maximum 16 participants) ORGANIZATIONAL

Presented by: Christopher Johnston, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, Grand Rapids Community College,
Grand Rapids, MI
At community colleges, the development and implementation of a student learning outcomes assessment plan can
present numerous leadership challenges. Students, faculty, and administrators should all provide some type of
leadership to the process, but often it is unclear who should do what and how. This session will ask participants to
ofer ideas and insights into how each of the following groups can provide efective leadership to the assessment
process.
• Individual Students
• Student Organizations (Honors Societies, Student Government, etc.)
• Individual Faculty Members
• Faculty Groups (Bargaining Teams, Senate, etc.)
• Administrators (Deans, Directors, etc.)

The attendees will beneft by:
• Identifying how student learning outcomes assessment impacts diferent groups within a community college
• Recognizing the importance of college-wide involvement and leadership in assessment planning and
implementation
• Debating and analyzing the diferent leadership roles involved in the assessment process
• Discussing strategies for improved leadership in the assessment process
• Developing and communicating implementable leadership strategies for assessment

WHY THE COMPULSION TO DEFINE AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP?

Location: Boca I LEADERSHIP

Presented by: Dr. Trent Keough, President & CEO, Portage College, lac la Biche, AB

Authentic Leadership has not been rarifed by its constant defnition. The discourse on authentic leadership (AL)
grows without answering a critical question: Why does AL need to be defned? This session will use attributes of
postmodernism and then Worldview theory to explain how perceptions of both authenticity and leadership were
undermined. Because belief in authenticity and leadership was eroded, there’s now a need to reconstitute the
legitimacy of their social presences. This thesis explains why leadership theorists manifest a compulsion to
redefne AL in the contemporary.

The Attendees will beneft by:
• Be able to identify key attributes of Authentic Leadership.
• Recognize that authenticity relies on social cohesion..
• Identify two theories answering why does AL need to be defned.
• Acquire a detailed understanding of Worldview theory.
• Identify social indicators of worldview atrophy for a replete explanation of the loss of authenticity.

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