This article explores the connection between college student involvement and leadership identity development (LID), focusing specifically on the cocurricular experiences of student clubs and organizations, student government, sororities and fraternities, and student recreation/athletics. Key considerations for focusing on students' LID through…

This chapter focuses on co-curricular involvement and student leadership as applied learning experiences. Key considerations are presented for shaping environments and opportunities to scaffold and guide students' learning.

In this chapter, the authors examine the current literature and identify critical areas for future practice to support the needs of girls and young women and their leadership practices.

This chapter includes an overview of existing and emerging literature on gender and student development and key opportunities for leadership educators' practice to broaden our understanding of gender and student leadership.

How women understand and practice leadership is a growing focus in research and in practice. This study was the first of its kind to examine different variables that drive college women's leadership self-efficacy. The researchers sought to identify which of the 19 capacities of emotionally intelligent leadership (EIL) are significant drivers of…

There is a recent call for and emergence of leadership research that purposefully centers students' social identities and lived experiences in order to gain more nuanced understandings of college student leadership development and elevate marginalized voices in the leadership narrative. In this qualitative study, the researchers focused on the…

This qualitative exploratory study focuses on the leadership experiences of college men who held leadership roles in campus organizations. The researchers examined the students' experiences of leading their organizations and group members and the students' perceptions of gender roles influencing their leadership practice. Four male participants at…

This qualitative study focused on the successes and challenges experienced by four undergraduate college women while holding top leadership roles in student organizations. Interpretive and descriptive qualitative research methods were employed with aspects of case study and phenomenological approaches of inquiry. Data were collected through…