What Matters to Me and Why

What Matters to Me and Why Leadership Lecture SeriesEmbracing Values, Building Community

This informal lunchtime series builds and strengthens bonds between people who teach, learn, and work together daily, and to foster understanding of how each of us embraces our values and K-State’s Principles of Community.

What Matters to Me and Why encourages reflection within the K-State community on matters of personal values, beliefs, and motivations in order to better understand the lives and inspirations of those who serve and shape the University. The presenter is encouraged to share a story of their personal journey - how they have chosen to live their life, the core values they have adopted, the personal choices they have made and lessons they have learned.

Lunch is provided.

Upcoming events

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26 | RSVP due by Monday, March 25
Leadership Studies Building Town Hall
Mr. Goodcents lunch provided in-person.
Participants can also attend via Zoom; link will be sent upon RSVP.

Dr. Alex Red CornDr. Alex Red Corn, assistant professor of educational leadership, College of Education

"Confronting Colonial Entanglements in Educational Systems: Tales from a Recovering Social Studies Teacher"

This session will explore Dr. Alex Red Corn’s stories of critical reflections and experiences around educational systems as a white-passing citizen of the Osage Nation. He will share experiences from K-12 schooling through the present, where he currently works in the Department of Educational Leadership, and offer some perspective on what it means to be working at state institutions that were built for the purpose of settler-colonialism and conquest at the expense of forcibly removing his Osage and other Indigenous Nation’s ancestors.

Dr. Red Corn is also the Coordinator of Indigenous Partnerships, Co-Chair of the Indigenous Faculty and Staff Alliance, Executive Director of the Kansas Association for Native American Education (KANAE) and Program Coordinator for the Indigenous Educational Leadership Graduate Certificate.

 

Past lectures

This series is sponsored by the Staley School of Leadership and a campus and community wide committee.