Presentation from 'World Relief' on Human Trafficking

Many of you know that some of our ORGL students spent some time in Romania accompanying refugees in their work with the UNHCR. Additionally, our students had an opportunity to learn about "modern day slavery" - human trafficking in Eastern Europe. We worked closely with a pivotal UNHCR implementing partner, Generatia Tinara that contextualized this endemic issue not merely for Eastern Europe & Thailand, but also for Western/Northern Europe and United States. You can learn more about this global issue from CNN Freedom Project, but GU is also hosting Mark Kadel from World Relief Spokane to share an interactive presentation on human trafficking and address questions about modern day slavery. Join us if this interests you.

Day/Time: November 29th, 8-9:30pm
Location: Jepson 109

Call for (Graduate) Papers - Revolution Conference 2012

Several of our ORGL/COML had an opportunity to work with the UNHCR at a refugee transit/camp center during the Spring of 2011, accompanying many refugees displaced from Libya during the "Arab Spring" - "Arab Awakening" - "Arab Uprisings". Their displacement, oppression, and persecution could not have been more vivid for our graduate students working with the UN staff, delivering services, developing programs, and accompanying refugees in daily camp life. Most impressively, students were able to identify explicit hardiness principles in the lives of refugees and an implicit servant leadership framework in the operations of the UNHCR Office. What started in Tunisia in December 2010 has mushroomed to a sense of efficacy in multiple Northern African Countries. The following call for papers will interest graduate students passionately engaged in studying the crossroads between these global movements and leadership.

I am attaching a Call for Papers that specifically seeks work of graduate students in this area.

How to begin a revolution is a question that has received much attention from many great thinkers. The goal of the 2012 Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Mahindra Humanities Center is to reverse that perspective and ask:
How to end a revolution?

(click on revolution to learn more about the conference hosted at Harvard University. Some partial funding may be available from Gonzaga University - GSBA)

Gonzaga ORGL/COML Turkey Bowl! Students/alumni vs. Faculty/Staff

You are invited to a traditional community building event that is growing in infamy and lore on behalf of the ORGL Student Committee.  This Saturday (11.19.11) will mark history with yet another in a long line of defining moments that will make famous coaches like Vince Lombardi, Paul Brown, and Mike Ditka take notice.  At 2 PM graduate students, alumni, staff, and faculty players will converge upon the frozen tundra outside of Jundt Art Museum and draw lines in preparation for battle and the 3rd Annual Turkey Bowl.  The football game and festivities should last for about 2 hours, so feel free to bring hot chocolate and plenty of blankets to keep warm.  It is supposed to be in the high 30s with a chance of snow that day, so it should be perfect football weather.  We will have a fire pit (safe and contained) to assist with the warming process, but please remember to dress warm.

This amazing test of wills should be quite the spectacle, so please feel free to pack the field and stands by inviting spouses, significant others, or interested friends to play and watch.  Even if you are not the greatest of players, we would love to have you there as this is all about the camaraderie and the love of the game and our GU community.

Following the game I believe that some of the graduate students will be extending the community building complete with chili and other treats to warm tired bones in the Tilford building.  Information will be provided about that during the event. Hope to see you there...

Academic Scholarship Opportunities

Students interested in higher education, doctoral studies, or simply staying connected with the academic discipline of leadership studies often pose questions about the process of engaging and staying engaged in this type of work. Apart from publishing and teaching, presenting at and/or attending academic conferences is the greatest opportunity that many students pursue in order to learn more about their academic discipline in the context of current research, learning about current and seminal works in the field, and the invaluable opportunity to network with colleagues on a given topic of interest. I will highlight several academic conferences that are closely affiliated with the academic discipline of leadership studies. Our ORGL & doctoral students have presented papers at all of these conferences, some of which were impressively honored for exemplary research. Personally, I presented a number of papers with students at the International Leadership Association, Association of Leadership Educators, Society for Business Ethics, Business and Leadership Symposium, and the Alliance of Universities for Democracy. Lastly, please recognize that your faculty in the ORGL Program are connected with many of these organizations by serving on executive boards, editorial boards, and/or conference planning.

The follow question from students after receiving this information is: "Is there any funding to support graduate students in presenting papers at academic conferences?" The Graduate Student Association is a wonderful organization on campus that has partially funded/supported our graduate students in attending conferences. Naturally, they have a proposal protocol that you have to follow in request of funds.

The following are annual conferences closely associated with our shared leadership discipline. Please connect with their listserve and/or stay current with their website in order to keep up with their developments and Call for Papers (CfP).
Click on the following links:

• Alliance of Universities for Democracy
• Association of Leadership Educators
• Business and Leadership Symposium
• International Leadership Association
• Servant Leadership Conference
• Society for Business Ethics
• SU/GU (Seattle & Gonzaga University Leadership Conference)
• Western Academy of Management

A film to prime your interest in the Leadership & Hardiness Course

Banff films bring extreme outdoor pursuits to Spokane's big screen. The Banff Mountain Film Festival is famous for fostering films chronicling the passions and obsessions - tragedies as well as victories - of mountaineers, endurance and extreme athletes, and environmental and cultural efforts around the world. This year's winner is 'COLD' - a film that captures the pain, fear and doubt of high-stakes extreme mountaineering, complete with a harrowing descent that amplifies the trio's isolation and exposure. COLD, along with other films will be coming to Spokane in the upcoming weekend.

Click on COLD

To see more films click on Banff Mountain Film Festival

The Leadership Seminar Conundrum

Hi Everyone - please view/listen to this brief informational video in preparation for the 680 Seminar Course. It is relevant to all students; students just entering the program and many others that are progressively anticipating the course.

680 Leadership Seminar Video