General Information

  • Eligibility:
    • Permanent, full-time teaching faculty
  • Categories Supported: Teacher
  • Application Deadline: The Call for Applications is issued in spring of each year

Purpose

Elon’s Leadership Faculty Scholars program supports faculty who are interested in incorporating a leadership education component into their courses and exploring relevant pedagogies. The program has had participants from every college and most departments at Elon.

Description

At Elon, leadership education is not centrally about giving orders or attaining formal power. Rather, Elon’s approach is relational and collaborative, and focused on helping students develop into ethical, purposive, and inclusive leaders and initiative-takers in organizations and society. This approach is consistent with shifts in the field as leadership education has grown beyond its early focus on formal authority to embrace topics like self-knowledge, informal leadership, effective cooperation, group dynamics, and conflict resolution, which are relevant for students regardless what formal roles they may attain.

There are 4-5 faculty in each cohort. Each participant identifies an upcoming course that they would like to create or modify to include a leadership education component. Participants learn together from a series of workshops. They also have access to a Moodle site with teaching materials and other resources. Ideally, the new or revised course is taught the following academic year. Faculty receive a $1,000 stipend upon completion of program requirements.

How to Apply

Sponsoring Center or Office

Center for Leadership
Visit the Center for Leadership Website