Leadership Development Is a Basic Need: Strategies and Framing to Build Capacity in Scarcity Contexts

Program Type: General Interest Session

Professional Competencies: Student Learning and Development, Values, History, and Philosophy

Target Groups: Mid-level Student Affairs Professionals, New Professionals

Institution Types: Community Colleges, Mid-Size Colleges & Universities

Certification Domains: Student Learning, Development, and Success, Talent Management

Abstract

Campus basic needs programs are often overwhelmed, overstretched, and under-resourced. Often, these professionals are barely keeping up with student needs, leaving training and development as a back-burner priority. This session will explore strategies for offering leadership development and related framing that can help you support leadership development needs for the growing functional area of the Basic Needs Center or other units that are under-resourced, too busy, or caught in other transactional norms. Framing leadership development as a resource creates opportunities to identify and address important equity gaps at one of the root causes. 

Presenters

• Nicole Hindes
  Director
  Oregon State University
• Diana Park
  Science Librarian, Oregon State University Libraries & Press