ABSTRACT
The physical environment encompasses the influence of the physical setting of the campus. The physical environment includes both the macro (location of buildings, campus architecture, and space assignments) and the micro (office arrangements, proxemics of social commumication, and personal space). This chapter aims to describe and explore the ways in which the campus physical system, made of physical and artifact environmental factors, can encourage or hinder leadership behavior and how the participants discussed the role of the physical environment in their engagement as campus leaders. Physical environments and material elements within environments can have a functional as well as symbolic influence on leadership, with a wide range of complexity and determinism. This was clear in the examples of office location and office furniture. The Confederate rock was clearly a symbolic artifact. Participation in the planning and decision-making regarding the institution's physical environment is best addressed through formal institutional structures.
