Astin and Astin (2000), W.K. Kellogg Foundation, note "leadership occurs when people become concerned about something and work to engage others in bringing about positive change" (p. 23). At the University of Arizona we have taken that philosophy and integrated it into every component of our course to help students learn about and engage…

This brief summarizes the importance of professional development, identifies core competencies for youth workers, highlights professional development training delivery models, and sets fourth next steps for professional development that can benefit youth programs. Programs often attribute their success to effective youth workers, and research…

The Leadership and Service Programs office at Ball State University in Indiana started the Excellence in Leadership Program in 1994. Funding for three years was secured from the Kellogg Foundation to develop a comprehensive leadership program that would be run by the student activities staff in cooperation with Academic Affairs. After the grant…

This article describes a training program to increase supervisory skills in manpower agencies. Supervisors taking part in this program were employed by a state manpower agency in Maryland and trainers were university faculty in rehabilitation counselor education. Participants' reactions ranged from satisfaction to resentment at the selection…

Various types of citizen training programs were surveyed by the staff of the St. Louis (Missouri) Leadership Program to determine the characteristics of a successful training program. The study is based on the belief that an active citizenry is a necessity for a democracy and that citizenship training and education are necessary to encourage…

The supervisor of Parent Education in Cincinnati describes the lay leadership training program organized to train leaders in parent study-discussion groups. Comments are directed toward the program's growth, purposes, and success. (AG)

The result of a national working conference held in October, 1976, this publication describes twelve respected and successful internship/fellowship programs, each of which has had a demonstrated record of successful identification, selection, training, and finally, placement of minority group individuals in positions of leadership and…

During the 1972-1973 year the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) implemented a variety of program activities to improve training skills, to assess needs, and to package certain products for dissemination to the profession in general. Specific activities included training sessions, on-site visits, development of instructional materials, and…

The author describes his year at Teachers College, Columbia University, under the Klingenstein Fellowship program, which is designed to develop educational leaders for private schools. (KC)

Presents a model for selection and training of group leaders. (Author)

A creative leadership development program was designed to provide 10 Black and Indian college administrators with knowledge and techniques from the behavioral sciences for the purpose of augmenting their creative leadership skills. (SBH)

Reviews history of YMCA Soviet-American international exchange experiences. Relates summer 1987 experiences of Soviet delegation of camp leaders to America. Describes five types of Soviet camps and their similarities to American programs. (NEC)

This paper describes the formation of the Southern Extension Leadership Development (SELD) program. The program was developed in response to the growing need for understanding and coping with the many changes currently and potentially affecting Cooperative Extension Systems (CES). Two of the biggest changes affecting CES are the changing nature of…

Describes a program in which student leaders were trained to help change the climate of an urban high school. (IRT)

Describes a training program for early childhood program directors in Israel. The program focuses on leadership training and is based on the belief that the growth and development of children and their families depends on the home, the educational setting, and the community at large. (CM)