9-11 DECEMBER 2024 // philadelphia, pa

Leadership is an integral competency for our profession. The leadership development of students is an important and ongoing process that requires commitment from both students and staff. Student affairs professionals and other university administrators play an essential role in coordinating, shaping, and evaluating the leadership development of students by designing leadership courses and programs, creating co-curricular opportunities, and utilizing emerging technologies. The Leadership Educators Institute (LEI) has a rich history of convening professionals committed to leadership development for nearly 17 years.

A partnership between NASPA, ACPA, and the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs (NCLP), LEI provides a unique opportunity for all professional levels within our field to engage in critical dialogue to promote positive sustainable change on their campuses.

The Leadership Educators Institute creates a space for student affairs administrators, scholars, and practitioners to discuss and advance current leadership topics, such as:

• Modern leadership theories and models including new research, applications, and critical perspectives
• Innovative and inclusive curriculum, pedagogy, and strategies for leadership studies courses
• Assessment and evaluation of leadership programs, student development, and learning outcomes
• Future directions in leadership education and development based on widely-used studies and standards such as the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership, CAS, and ILA Guiding Questions
• Unique co-curricluar program models and high-impact practices including those with cohort and multi-year engagement, distance and online learning, service-learning, mentoring, and global experiences
• Strategy and management of leadership program operations including staff training, funding, and partnerships
• Intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches to leadership education

Continuing Education

 National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)

NASPA has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5120. Programs that do not quality for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NASPA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

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Speakers

Tanya Williams

Lead Consultant and Coach
Authentic Coaching and Consulting

Tanya Williams’ mission is to provide and create spaces in relationships, conversations, communities for all people to feel seen and appreciated for their authentic selves. She believes that educating and working toward equity, as well as creating spaces of justice and communication all grow out of that desire. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Tanya is based in New York City and leads Authentic Coaching and Consulting (www.authenticseeds.org). She has over 20 years of diversity, inclusion, and social justice teaching, programming and facilitation experience in higher education including professional roles at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, and Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.

She holds a doctorate (Ed.D) in Social Justice Education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and her dissertation focused on internalized oppression and process toward liberation. She also holds an MS in Educational Administration and BA in Journalism and English from Texas A&M University.

Dennis C. Roberts

Independent Consultant

Dennis C. Roberts is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. A graduate of Colorado State University (Bachelor of Music and Master of Education) and the University of Maryland (Doctor of Philosophy), he was the founding chair of the Leadership Task Force of ACPA Commission IV in 1976. The integrative work of this group resulted in the publication of Student Leadership Programs in Higher Education (ACPA, 1981) advocating “that leadership capacity be cultivated beyond those who held elected or selected positions through providing opportunities for multiple populations, with multiple strategies, to achieve multiple purposes, such as training, education, and development” (CAS Student Leadership Standard, 2018, p. 1). The initial work of the ACPA Leadership Task Force grew into inter-association cooperation with other student affairs professional organizations.

Roberts has maintained a career-long commitment to cultivating student leadership including; contributing to the first draft of the CAS Standard, co-authoring the “Social Change Model of Leadership,” serving as the Leadership Education convener and Board member of the International Leadership Association (ILA) from its founding, serving on the drafting committee for the ILA “General Principles,” and contributing to and serving as an evaluator for the first cohort of institutions for the Carnegie Elective Classification “Leadership for Public Purpose.”

His interest in leadership persisted throughout his forty-one-year career as a student affairs educator. He last served as Assistant Vice President of Education for Qatar Foundation. During his seven years with QF he worked with Qatari and expatriate colleagues to create the student development and support services for its branch universities at Education City in Doha, Qatar. Prior to working abroad, he was Associate Vice President of Student Affairs at Miami University. He is past president of ACPA-College Student Educators International and has been a member of and presenter at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators throughout his career.

Roberts has authored 6 books and over 60 book chapters and other articles on student affairs, student learning, leadership, and internationalization. One of his most significant books was Deeper Learning in Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2007), which integrated leadership theory into a model that proposed leadership as “conviction in action” and offered recommendations for how higher education could improve its success in nurturing student leadership learning. His most recent publications include: Roberts & Yamanaka, International Perspectives in Leadership Learning, in A Research Agenda for Leadership Learning and Development through Higher Education (Komives & Owen, 2023); Schreiber, Roberts & Leask, Looking Back and Looking Forward in Towards Professionalization of Student Affairs Across the Globe (Bardill Moscaritola & Schreiber, 2023), Roberts & Yamanaka, Applying a Cultural Lens to Leadership Learning in The Role of Student Affairs in Supporting International Students at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education (Roberts & Ammigan, 2024), and Roberts, Qatar Foundation’s Education City – Early capacity building for an education hub (International Journal of Education Development, 2024).

Vernon Wall

Director of Business Development
LeaderShape

Vernon A. Wall has accumulated over 30 years of professional Student Affairs experience at Iowa State University, the University of Georgia, UNC-Charlotte and UNC-Chapel Hill. He has experience in Greek life, new student orientation, student activities, leadership development, global education and university housing. Vernon currently lives in Washington DC where he serves as the Director of Business Development for LeaderShape, Inc. Vernon is also President and Founder of One Better World, LLC – a consulting firm specializing in engaging others in courageous social justice and equity conversations. In spring of 1998, Vernon sailed with Semester at Sea as a member of the Student Life Team accompanying 600 students on a voyage around the world. Vernon is also a past President of ACPA – College Student Educators, International. With degrees from North Carolina State University and Indiana University, Vernon is the consummate scholar-practitioner. Vernon is a nationally known speaker in the areas of social justice and leadership styles and is one of the founders and facilitators of the Social Justice Training Institute. Vernon has written several articles and has co-edited two books on issues of inclusion on today’s college campus. His award-winning programs and presentations have been seen by thousands of students, faculty, and staff on campuses across the country. Vernon’s passion for social justice and inclusion is grounded in a quote from his late grandmother: “May the work I’ve done speak for me.”

Abby Kiesa

Deputy Director
CIRCLE at Tufts

Abby Kiesa joined CIRCLE after working with students across the country on the topic of institutional support for civic engagement. As a result, Abby brings a changemaker’s lens to her work at CIRCLE, a national applied research center focused on systemic support for broader and more diverse youth civic and political engagement. CIRCLE is a part of Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life. Now, as Deputy Director of CIRCLE, Abby has specialized in the processes through which research and data insights influence practice. In addition to organizational strategy work, she currently co-leads projects focused on structural shifts needed to “grow voters” and build media ecosystems support inclusive youth civic engagement. Abby is well-versed in the wide range of youth civic and political engagement efforts and practice and brings a broad view of the institutions and interventions that can make up ecosystems for civic development among all youth. Abby has been cited by news outlets such as The New York Times, CSPAN, NPR, and PolitiFact. She has an MA in American Studies from the University of Maryland.

Rand Quinn

Associate Professor of Education Policy and Leadership
University of Pennsylvania

Rand Quinn is an associate professor of education policy and leadership at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent published work explores youth organizing and civic preparation, access and mobilization of school-based social capital, the professionalization work of teacher activism, and the dynamics of university-school-community partnerships. Quinn serves in a wide range of roles at Penn, including as an advisory committee member of the Environmental Innovations Initiative. In 2023, he was appointed faculty director of Civic House and the Penn Civic Scholars Program. Quinn is a former community organizer, public policy advocate, and nonprofit leader who worked to advance education, welfare, housing, and immigrant rights. Quinn earned his Ph.D. in education from Stanford University and was a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 2012.

Stephanie King

Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives
ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge

Stephanie King is the senior director of strategic initiatives for the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. She previously held the role of director for civic engagement and knowledge community initiatives at NASPA where she directed the NASPA LEAD Initiative and co-managed/co-created the Voter Friendly Campus program.

King has worked in higher education since 2009 in the areas of student activities, orientation, residence life, and civic learning and democratic engagement. She earned her MA in psychology at Chatham University and her BS in biology from Walsh University. She has contributed to a few publications including Effective Strategies for Supporting Student Civic Engagement (May 2018), Higher Education’s Role in Enacting a Thriving Democracy: Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Theory of Change (June 2018), Power to the Polls (November 2022), and Leaning into Politics (2024).

King also serves as an Election Clerk & Town Meeting Representative for Dedham, MA.

LOCATION

Marriott Philadelphia Downtown

Registration Rates

n order to qualify for member rates for the Leadership Educators Institute, membership with ACPA, NASPA, and/or NCLP must be valid through 11 December 2024. You must have your own individual membership. Members who purchase a Leadership Educators Institute Registration understand their membership needs to be active through 11 December 2024. If it is not active prior to the start of the Leadership Educators Institute you will not be provided with your Leadership Educators Institute Event credential unless you renew your membership or pay the difference between the non-member and member registration cost.

Registrations can be paid by check, VISA, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express. All fees must be prepaid. Purchase orders are not accepted. Refunds will be given for cancellations, received in writing to [email protected] by 8 November 2024. Registrations can also be withdrawn by registrants by using the event registration system through 8 November 2024. After 8 November 2024 there are no refunds. ACPA, NASPA, and NCLP reserve the right to charge a service fee of US$50 for returned checks. Registrations are non-transferable. The conference may be cancelled or postponed due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen circumstances. In this case, the fees will be fully refunded; however, the sponsoring organizations will not be responsible for other additional costs, charges or expenses, including cancellation/change charges assessed by airlines and/or travel agencies.

schedule-at-a-glance

11 December 2024

• 7:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Registration Open
• 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast Provided
• 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Closing Keynote
• 9:50 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Concurrent Sessions VII
• 11:05 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. Concurrent Sessions VIII