Mary Hale Tolar, Ed.D.
Dean, associate professor
Mary Lynn and Warren Staley Chair for Leadership
mtolar@ksu.edu
Ideation | Strategic | Context | Learner | Input
Campus office: 262 Leadership Studies Building
Teaching
This is an extraordinary community committed to growing the capacity of individuals and groups to lead change locally and globally. The energy and good will our students and colleagues consistently bring to this work is inspiring. I am excited by the opportunities we have, discover, and create - to connect students with experiences that help them develop and exercise leadership in their professional, community, social and personal lives.
Courses
- LEAD 251: Honors Leadership
- LEAD 450: Senior Seminar in Leadership Studies
- LEAD 502: Independent Study in Leadership Studies
- Leadership communication doctoral program faculty, LEAD 815
- LEAD 801: Foundations of Leadership
Research areas
- Art and practice of civic leadership development
- Women's pathways to leadership
- Leadership development through service-learning
Grant awards
- Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, Leadership in Civic Engagement Institute Grant
- Kansas Leadership Center
- Outstanding Support of International Initiatives, Kansas State University, 2018
- Mary Lynn and Warren Staley Endowed Chair for Leadership
- Rhodes Scholar
- Truman Scholar
- Kansas Leadership Center
- International Leadership Association
- National Association of Fellowships Advisors
- Phi Beta Kappa (Beta of Kansas)
- Gott, T., Tolar, M.H., Kanoute, S., & Ndiaye, S. (2022). Grassroots movements in Senegal to grow critical hope. In Guthrie, K., & Priest, K. (Eds.) Navigating Complexities in Leadership: Moving Toward Critical Hope. Information Age Publishing.
- Kliewer, B. W., Gott, T., Long, K., & Tolar, M. (2022). The Practice and Impact of Leadership in a Sub-Saharan Context. In The Study and Practice of Global Leadership. Emerald Publishing Limited.
- Sibanyoni, L. K., Gott, T., & Tolar, M. H. (2021). Leadership as Courageous Practice. In Women Courageous. Emerald Publishing Limited.
- Gott, T., Kliewer, B.W., Priest, K.L., & Tolar, M.H. (2018). The Path Forward: A Case for Openness in Leadership Studies. Journal of Leadership Studies, 12: 56-59.
- Tolar, M.H., Boone, K., Procter, D., & Steffensmeier, T. (2017). And Now for Something Completely Different. Journal of Leadership Studies, 11(1), 71-74.
- Kniffin, L., Shaffer, T., & Tolar, M.H. (2016). Winding Pathways to Engagement: Creating a Front Door. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 23(1), 91-95.
- Chrislip, D., Arensdorf J., Steffensmeier, T., & Tolar, M.H. (2016). Leadership in the Civic Arena. Leadership and the Humanities, 4(2), 126-142.
- Ed.D. in educational leadership, Kansas State University
- M.Litt. (read) In modern history, the University of Oxford
- B.A. in history and speech, Kansas State University
Staley School of Leadership
252 Leadership Studies Building
1300 Mid-Campus Dr. N.
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6085
leadership@ksu.edu