ABSTRACT
Albert is a staff member at a liberal arts college that is creating a new student leadership development program. He conducts research and investigates benchmarks for leadership development programs from various sectors-business, policy, and non-profit organizations. He has discovered many strong models. He develops a proposal for the new program and brings it to the student affairs division meeting. Several people object to the proposal because it has adopted models from outside higher education and they feel the somewhat hierarchical models do not fit into the culture of the academy. Another group makes reference to a previous proposal for a leadership development program that seems to have had many of the same elements, which failed. Yet, others ask why the proposal does not include the Council of the Advancement of Standards’ guidelines for leadership development. A high-level administrator notes that she likes the emphasis on entrepreneurialism in the model. The division head asks Albert to refashion the proposal and bring it to the next meeting, taking into account all of the feedback provided. What was Albert missing in his preliminary attempt to promote the change and how can he be more successful at the next meeting?
