Student leadership development the focus of next Chester E. Peters Lecture in student development at K-State

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Thursday, March 29, 2007

STUDENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT THE FOCUS OF NEXT CHESTER E. PETERS LECTURE IN STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AT K-STATE

MANHATTAN -- A leadership expert is coming to Kansas State University for the next presentation in the Chester E. Peters Lecture Series in Student Development.

Susan Komives will speak about student leadership development at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the K-State Student Union's Main Ballroom. A reception will follow. The lecture, sponsored by the College of Education dean's office, is free and open to the public.

Komives is co-founder and research and publications editor for the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs. She is a senior scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, where she also is an associate professor for the college student personnel program in the department of counseling and personnel services at the College of Education.

Komives and her research team recently published on leadership identity development. She is co-principal investigator of the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership, a 52-campus study with more than 63,000 respondents. The study is examining college student leadership outcomes and campus practices that contribute to those outcomes.