Engaging Undergraduate Students to Be Agents of Social Change: Lessons from Student Affairs Professionals

Abstract

With an emphasis on how student affairs professionals and student development theory can assist public administration faculty, this article offers a framework for educating and developing undergraduate public administration students to be effective agents of social change. Developed with roots from student development theory, The Social Change Model of Leadership Development (SCM) is proposed as a framework that public administration faculty can implement to design and evaluate curricula that meet the demands of developing socially responsible students. Included in this article are examples of how the SCM can be used in the classroom.