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LEADERSHIP STUDIES

PARTNERSHIPS

Leadership Studies—the partnership between UTK faculty, academic/student life administrators, and student leader educators—reflects a shared set of values, vision, and mission that uniquely prepare University of Tennessee students through seamless experiential leadership education.

This approach is more than a curricular or co-curricular; it is an acknowledgement that a meta-curricular community facilitates the 21st century college student’s leadership education. This community of educators’ coaches increasingly career-ready self-authored personally and socially responsible leaders through intentionally structured and progressively complex learning experiences.

WE VALUE

  • Authenticity
  • Equity
  • Ethical behavior
  • Collegial partnership
  • Universal inclusivity

OUR SHARED PRINCIPLES

  • Be respectful, inclusive and behaviorally just
  • Cultivate informed self- authorship
  • Act in service to others at the university and beyond
  • Demonstrate systemic and organizational thinking and action
  • Commit to access of leadership education for all
  • Strive for interpersonal and contextual
  • consciousness and responsive behavior
  • Recognize that students learn by coached “doing”
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LEADERSHIP STUDIES PROGRAM

  • Karen D. Boyd, ELPS Undergraduate Leadership Studies Coordinator, Associate Professor of Practice
  • Gary Petree, PhD, Assistant Professor of Practice

ASSOCIATES

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Faculty

  • Robert Kelchen, PhD, Department Head and Professor
  • Pamela S. Angelle, PhD, Professor
  • Jimmy G. Cheek, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor Emeritus
  • Jessica Wildfire, EdD, Executive Director for Student Athlete-Development, and ELPS Adjunct Professor  

Student Life and Academic Services Offices

Honors Leadership Program

  • James Williams, PhD, Director 

ELPS 350 Sections Offered by instructors from:

  • Clay and Debbie Jones Center for Leadership and Service
  • Multicultural Student Life
  • Housing
  • Office of Student Conduct
  • New Student and Family Programs
  • Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life
  • Center for Student Engagement
  • Undergraduate Admissions

Approved ELPS 350 Practicum Sites Only

  • Undergraduate Research Teams

ELPS Electives Offered

  • Clay and Debbie Jones Center for Leadership and Service
  • Thornton Athletics Student Life Center

Non-Degree Undergraduate Leadership Programs Offered in Conjunction with Leadership Studies

  • VOLeaders Academy
  • Emerging Leaders
  • Leadership Knoxville Scholars

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

325 Bailey Education Complex
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996

Phone: 865-974-2214
Fax: 865.974.6146

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
865-974-1000

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