Kansas State University

Jackie believes a better world begins by developing the relationships with the people around us. We must be open to new ideas, embrace change, and respect our differences.

Top 5 Strengths: Relator; Empathy; Consistency; Responsibility; Adaptability.

Favorite Quote: "To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child a garden patch or redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Academic Mentoring program focuses on the academic and overall success of youth in the greater Manhattan area. K-State students eligible for Federal Work Study financial aid, are placed in school and community-based programs to promote and support academic skills, family literacy, social and emotional success, and positive youth development.

Cargill Fellows is a new program designed to help undergraduate students succeed in the workplace after college. Working in partnership with Cargill, the program offers students with a unique and innovative experience that focuses on developing their capacity to exercise leadership by collaborating well on teams, working with global and inclusive perspectives, and thinking critically through tough challenges – all things required to have a successful launch into a career.

Top 5 Strengths: Empathy, Relator, Responsibility, Harmony, Maximizer 

Favorite Quote: "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." – Viktor Frankl

Education

B.A. Kansas State University

M.A. University of Denver

Mary has taught multiple leadership studies courses. She directs the Coffman Leadership Institute and partners with K-State's Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy and Center for Engagement & Community Development.

Mary is a Rhodes Scholar, Truman Scholar, founding member of the National Association of Fellowships Advisors, and co-author/editor of The Lucky Few and the Worthy Many: Scholarships and the World's Future Leaders (2004). Research interests focus on the art and practice of civic leadership development, women's pathways to public service leadership, and undergraduate leadership development through applied learning.

Mary considers developing students as scholars and citizens the civic purpose of higher education and essential to a vital democracy and a healthy society. "The major challenges we face today are not simple matters of resources. They are not technical problems, but rather challenges that require new ways of thinking, marshalling resources in new ways to adapt to changing circumstances—challenges that call each of us to exercise leadership."

Top 5 Strengths: Ideation; Strategic; Input; Context; Learner.

Favorite Quote: "A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." —Henrik Ibsen

Education

B.A. Kansas State University
M.Litt. Oxford University
Ed.D. Kansas State University

Andy's research focuses on the fields of leadership, organizational behavior, and positive psychology. Specifically, he researches engagement in the work place, job attitudes, leadership, personality, and discrimination in hiring decisions.

Top 5 Strengths: Deliberative; Input; Context; Learner; Discipline.

Favorite Quote: "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." —John Quincy Adams

Education

B.A. Iowa State University
M.B.A. Kansas State University
Ph.D. Kansas State University

She serves as a senior scholar with the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and with the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She facilitates institution-wide visioning and planning processes for community-campus engagement, supports campuses in applying for and leveraging the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, guides inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional scholarly collaborations, and facilitates professional development across all partners in community-campus engagement. Patti co-developed the DEAL Model for Critical Reflection and the SOFAR partnership model and co-produced student and instructor versions of the tutorial Learning through Critical Reflection. She was co-editor with Bringle and Hatcher of the 2-volume set Research on Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessment and co-authored the Democratic Engagement White Paper with Saltmarsh and Hartley. Patti’s current scholarship interests include civic learning, place-engaged community engagement, institutional transformation for and through engagement, and the dynamics of ‘‘with-ness’’ in democratic partnerships that position all partners as co-educators, co-learners, and co-generators of knowledge. She is currently co-facilitating the international Service-Learning and Community Engagement Future Directions Project with Stanlick, Zlotkowski, and Howard; this multi-year, multi-venue, multi-voice project invites anyone interested in service-learning and community engagement to share and critique ideas for the future of this work. 

Lynda promotes leadership through community involvement. Her non-profit and for-profit experience brings a practitioner's view to the Staley School's classes and programs.

Involving students and community members in meaningful service through coursework, trainings, group activities and volunteer opportunities benefits the community and helps students develop the civic leadership skills they need to become community leaders.

Top 5 Strengths: Ideation; Adaptability; Woo; Communication; Positivity.

Favorite Quote: "When I give, I give myself." —Walt Whitman
"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." —Yoda

Education

B.S. Kansas State University
M.S. Kansas State University

Olivia earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969 and a master's in human development and the family from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1984. She has been recognized with many leadership and service awards, including the Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award in 2010 and the 2014 Susan M. Scott Community Leadership Award in recognition of her lifelong mission to inspire others to carry out their call to action.

Outside of the Staley School of Leadership Studies, Candi has been a co-chair of Cultural Community Harmony Week with Spanish Professor Doug Benson since 1999. Hironaka has also served as faculty advisor for the Mortar Board Senior Honorary. Candi taught kindergarten, first, second and third grade for 22 years before she and her husband, Bernard Pitts, moved to Kansas. She was selected for the Commerce Bank Presidential Faculty/Staff Award for Distinguished Service to Minority Students in 2004.

Susan developed and taught three of the four core courses for the minor. Additionally, she has published in the area of credibility and co-authored a book entitled, Leadership Lessons from Bill Snyder. Susan led the effort to secure 11 million dollars to build a home for the Staley School of Leadership Studies, and she oversaw the 36,000 square foot building project.

Bob's primary teaching responsibility was in the area of ethics and leadership. He is a nationally recognized expert in the area of leadership and school law. His research areas are leadership, equity, sexual harassment and abuse prevention. Recognized for his commitment to creating a positive learning environment, Bob has received both K-State's Outstanding Graduate Professor and Outstanding Undergraduate Professor Awards. He has served as a testifying forensic expert in over 100 court cases and serves as a consultant to school districts, universities, and corporations in the area of standards of care and harassment and abuse prevention. 

Bob is the author or co-author of 21 books and over 100 journal articles, monographs and book chapters, and has produced six educational video programs receiving national and international recognition. He is a frequent guest on national radio and television talk shows including: NPR's Talk of the Nation, the Today Show, CNN, and Outside the Lines with Bob Ley.  His work has been featured in numerous newspapers and popular magazines worldwide including the London Times, New York Times, USA Today, Education Week, Reader's Digest, Rolling Stone, and Oprah's O magazine.