Membership

The total number of members is 13 and each voting member has one equal vote. Each member holds either a formal university position or represents a particular community body. The specific composition of the board is as follows:

  • Coordinator of the Leadership Studies minor, Chair
  • Coordinator of Leadership Prize
  • Faculty Leadership Fellow
  • Director of the Center for Leadership, ex-officio
  • Five members of the teaching faculty appointed to staggered three-year terms by the Chair. Each undergraduate school (College of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, School of Communications, and Love School of Business) have a representative member; the remaining member is at-large. Preference for membership selection will be given to faculty members who teach in the Leadership Studies minor and or served as Faculty Leadership Scholars.
  • Two Leadership Studies minor students, (one Leadership Fellow and one non Leadership Fellow), each appointed to a two-year term by the Chair
  • One staff member, ex-officio, to be appointed to a three-year term by the Chair
  • One external expert, ex-officio, (academic or applied), on leadership studies