Over Four Years of College
Many researchers have studied leadership for years; it leads to several theories that pertained to the development of leadership skills, the attainment of the skills, and its outcomes on both effective and ineffective leaderships. Leadership is diverse including range of philosophy, frameworks, and models. In addition, the research is comprehensive, intricate, and some part has conflicts in terms of classification, definition, and skills and development. Leadership scholarship focuses on organizational and institutional leaders with affect the institutions and organizations. Leadership research attended to executive, corporate, and positional leadership. In student leadership, it is centered on leadership development; the relationships between college students and the collegiate leaders.
The study on student leadership has a positive influence to student leadership skills. The classroom educational experiences have proved that it affects the leadership development among the students and it differs from student leadership that focus on interpersonal traits, the values, beliefs, and attitudes. Arguably, the college and universities have their role that influences the social change among the students. However, these institutions emphasized the importance of the positive influence of the character and moral development of the students. In general, the higher education advocates the importance of every outcome that includes the social responsibility, moral growth, and civic engagement. Socially, a responsible leadership emphasized that leadership collaborates to individuals and groups. In addition, higher education declares that the experiences relates to different perspective and preparation of the students for global society.
The findings of the research demonstrate the positive influences of interactional and informal diversity, its outcomes from the college students as responsible leaders in the society. As suggested, higher education and student affairs professionals promote intentional and strategies to sustain the diversity related programs initiating influences of the desired college outcomes respectively.
I used a qualitative research on the writing and critique of the journal article. The journal article demonstrates good information; it provides clear information about the diversity experiences on socially responsible leadership in college. The findings of the research are parallel to the positive effects of diversity on college students, by suggesting that diversity experiences positively affect student leadership development. In addition, the research addressed relevant implications for higher education and student affairs professionals.
Bibliography
Parker, E. T. (2013). Effects of diversity experiences on socially responsible leadership over four
years of college. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education , 6 (4), 219-230. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/eds/detail?sid=de207a49-c1ba-4675-b65f-1a9141ce015c%40sessionmgr4001&vid=5&hid=4208&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#db=pdh&AN=2013-43360-001.
