Leadership Conference Research Articles

Non-ordained

The Catholic Church, constructed on an all-male clerical model, is a hierarchical and gendered institution, creating barriers to female leadership. In interviewing members of the clergy and women religious of the faith, this article examines how female non-ordained and male clerical religious leaders engage and influence social policy. It specifically addresses how women religious maneuver around the institutional constraints of the Church, in order to take action on social issues and effect change. In adding to the scholarship on this topic, I argue that part of the strategy of women religious in navigating barriers of the institutional Church is not only knowing when to act outside of the formal hierarchy, but realizing when it is in the benefit of their social policy objectives to collaborate with it. This maneuvering may not always safeguard women religious from institutional scrutiny, as seen by the 2012 Doctrinal Assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, but instead captures the tension between female religious and the clergy. It also highlights how situations of institutional scrutiny can have positive implications for female religious leaders, their policy goals and congregations. Finally, this examination shows how even when women are appointed to leadership posts within the institutional Church, they can face limitations of acceptance and other constraints that are different from their female religious counterparts working within their own respective religious congregations or outside organizations.

The mentorship imperative for health leadership.

Mentorship plays an important role in supporting the career development of health leaders. An examination of mentorship programs in different organizational settings provides a frame of reference to discuss and explore personal and professional mentorship experiences. Specifically, between October 2015 and April 2016, the Emerging Health Leaders (EHL) National Health Leadership Conference (NHLC) working group collaborated on an environmental scan of mentorship programs and activities to understand innovations in mentorship. In April 2016, EHL Toronto developed a mentor feedback survey using the LEADS in a Caring Environment framework to capture the varied experiences of mentors engaged in EHL Toronto's past mentorship events. A summary of this data presented at the 2016 NHLC situates a discussion on the highly interconnected and iterative nature of mentorship and leadership development in career progression. Mentorship is seen as a continuous journey of discovery, shared learning, and personal and professional development to achieve leadership excellence.

Composite Analysis of Means: Inquiry of CFO Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in SDA North American Division Conferences

This examination was aroused by thoughts that perceptions of SDA Conference leadership impacts how roles, responsibilities and relationships of CFOs are viewed in terms of their understanding and working knowledge of CFO duties. Data collected in Bermuda, Canada and USA. Descriptive Statistical analysis of Means indicated significant differences among leadership perceptions .

Building a “Dwelling Place” for Justice: Ethos Reinvention in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Where Do We Go from Here?”

Abstract This essay examines Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech “Where Do We Go from Here?” Delivered at the 11th annual convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the speech addressed the contentious racial politics that permeated the post–Voting Rights landscape. I argue that the speech constituted King’s call for the SCLC to reinvent its ethos—both its “character” and its “dwelling place.” In issuing this call, King cultivated new possibilities for the conceptualization and practice of social justice activism.

Conferences & Events

Grant Managers Network Annual Conference Symposium on Women, Philanthropy and Civil Society Jewish Funders Network International Conference Hispanics in Philanthropy 2017 Leadership Conference

A Review of Women’s Leadership Conferences: Ways Public Research Institutions Support Female Students Opting-In

A Review of Women’s Leadership Conferences: Ways Public Research Institutions Support Female Students Opting-In

The 6th International Military Leadership Conference: Military Leaders Development – The Multiple Approaches

The 6th International Military Leadership Conference: Military Leaders Development – The Multiple Approaches

AbbVie hosts Pharma Leaders Conference

AbbVie hosts Pharma Leaders Conference

Substantive Black Political Representation: Evidence from Matching Estimates in the United States House of Representatives

I seek to determine whether race is a factor in how black representatives vote in the United States House of Representatives; if so, this suggests electing more black representatives may improve the economic and political position of blacks if policy positions taken by black representatives on bills that fail to pass would provide tangible positive impacts to members of the black community if passed. Confounding the impact of legislator race, districts represented by blacks on average are quite different than those represented by whites. While past research on this topic uses linear regression techniques with undesirable properties, I improve on past research using matching techniques with more desirable properties. Utilizing a combination of Mahalanobis and propensity score matching, within-caliper matching, and exact matching using data from the 100th–113th Congress, I show black representatives are more likely to vote in agreement with the majority of the Congressional Black Caucus on all votes and on Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Americans for Democratic Action, and Congressional Quarterly key votes, indicating a substantive racial impact on roll-call voting.

A general overview and bibliometric analysis of seven ACM hypertext and web conferences

Bibliometric analysis of published scientific papers is a widely used practice to conduct quantitative evaluations and assessments of conferences. In this study, we performed an in-depth bibliometric, scientometric and exploratory analysis of ACM SIGWEB sponsored conferences by visually analysing the DBLP database. We conducted a series of experiments and empirical analysis to answer several questions. Our results showed that the articles published in SIGWEB conferences stem from a variety of countries while the degree of cross-country collaboration is relatively low and that most co-authors of publications are by researchers who all reside in the same country. Collectively, SIGWEB conferences have a higher hosting rate and local community participation in places where the USA and Europe make the greatest conference contributions. Our results showed that the participation of female authors in SIGWEB conferences is increasing while in contrast, there is a huge gender imbalance in leadership and official conference positions.

Blood Picture: L. W. Diggs, Sickle Cell Anemia, and the South's First Blood Bank by Richard H. Nollan

Reviewed by: Blood Picture: L. W. Diggs, Sickle Cell Anemia, and the South's First Blood Bank by Richard H. Nollan Steven Noll Blood Picture: L. W. Diggs, Sickle Cell Anemia, and the South's First Blood Bank. By Richard H. Nollan. ( Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 187. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-62190-221-8.) Long a staple of popular history, the biography is often a throwback to the "great man" genre of historical writing, where authors use breezy prose to write about the lives of important people in minute detail. By providing a lens to examine the period in which the subject lived and worked, biographies that examine larger questions can appeal to an academic audience as well. Blood Picture: L. W. Diggs, Sickle Cell Anemia, and the South's First Blood Bank shows the promises and pitfalls of using biography as a form of historical analysis, as it examines the life of Lemuel Whitley Diggs, a Memphis physician and medical researcher whose life spanned much of the twentieth century. Richard H. Nollan chronicles the life of L. W. Diggs from his birth in Hampton, Virginia, at the turn of the twentieth century to his death in 1995. While examining Diggs's family and personal life in some detail, Nollan focuses most of his attention on Diggs's more than fifty-year career at the University of Tennessee Medical Units (now the University of Tennessee Health Science Center) in Memphis. More than simply an academic physician, medical scholar, and teacher, Diggs was instrumental in the dissemination of knowledge about sickle-cell disease (SCD) and established the first major center for the study of the disorder. His long career included significant research and publications on SCD, public outreach, and intense personal work with patients (almost all of whom were African American) and their families on living better with the disease. Tied in with his work on SCD and hematology, Diggs marshaled community and university resources to create the first blood bank in the South in 1938. Finally, Nollan examines Diggs's role in the founding of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, a hospital that treated catastrophic childhood illnesses free of charge to patients. This book works best when Nollan discusses Diggs's relationship with both the city of Memphis and his fellow physicians and researchers. Diggs was not simply another doctor, but also an important figure in this emerging New South city. Nollan concludes that "Diggs's stature in the community and his [End Page 742] reputation as a physician grew because of his sickle cell research and his interest in medical technology, especially his commitment to blood banking" (p. 80). Diggs's research, patient care, and commitment to teaching reflected the larger changes taking place in American academic medicine throughout the middle of the twentieth century. Using increased federal resources and grant monies, Diggs continued his work on sickle-cell disease and its relationship to the African American community. In recognition of his contributions to this field, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference awarded Diggs the Martin Luther King Medical Achievement Award in 1972, highlighting a life dedicated to service and a "doctor-patient relationship … based on trust and mutual respect" (p. 156). While Nollan succeeds in allowing the reader to understand Diggs as a doctor, a family man, and an individual, he does less well in placing Diggs in the context of the Jim Crow South. Nollan tangentially examines issues of race throughout the book. Given that Diggs was engaged in a long-term longitudinal study of a disease and its effects on the black community, Nollan should certainly have given more attention to the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study taking place at the same time. There also is little mention of black doctors during this period. The reader is left wondering how Diggs related to these physicians and what they thought of him and his research. As a layman with little medical knowledge of SCD, I would also have liked Nollan to have better explained the disease and its various permutations. These concerns, however, do not negate the value of this book. Though at times a bit hagiographic in his approach, Nollan...

Education for Liberation

Education for Liberation Jill Ogline Titus (bio) Jon N. Hale. The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xi + 300 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $60.00. Crystal R. Sanders. A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xii + 250 pp. Figures, map, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.95. Crystal R. Sanders’ and Jon N. Hale’s excellent new books on grassroots educational projects in Mississippi during the 1960s paint a vivid picture of the centrality of education to civil rights activity in the state. Taking education for liberation and participatory democracy as central themes, both books delve deeply into the relationship between the education of African American youth and the unfolding struggle for racial justice. While both books stand alone beautifully, when read in tandem they offer a particularly rich interpretation of the connections between classroom programs and grassroots empowerment. While Hale focuses on the Freedom Schools and Sanders on Head Start, both ground their respective stories within the rich history of black Mississippians’ lengthy quest for freedom in all forms; both define “education” expansively—looking beyond the students immediately served to examine the impact of these programs on the larger community; and both explore the long-term legacy of these investments in human capital. Both authors have conducted impressive oral history work, grounding their accounts in an extensive and diverse interview base, and both tell their stories with passion and vigor. Pushing back against the short shrift that was historically provided to the Freedom Schools in accounts of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, Hale argues that this minimization of the schools’ role has obscured the extent to which “young people still in middle and high school were on the front lines of the civil rights movement” and served as catalysts for local action in communities across the state (p. 2). In fact, the book makes a compelling argument that “the schools were by far the most successful initiative of the Freedom Summer campaign,” as measured by their success in cultivating new forms of protest among attendees (p. 15). While the story of the Mississippi Freedom [End Page 348] Democratic Party’s rejection of the compromise offered at Atlantic City and the impact of the summer’s tensions on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) are well known, by emphasizing the continuing activity engendered by the Freedom Schools, Hale shifts the narrative from the costs of the summer project to its gains. The Freedom Schools carries the story beyond August 1964, highlighting ongoing activity after Atlantic City and the schools’ impact on the development of federally funded educational initiatives such as Head Start. While highlighting antecedents such as Highlander Folk School workshops, the Citizenship Schools operated by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), McComb’s Nonviolent High, and the Freedom Schools organized by Northern blacks boycotting urban school systems in protest of systemic segregation and discrimination, Hale argues that Mississippi’s Freedom Schools—originally proposed by SNCC organizer Charlie Cobb—constituted “the most significant network of schools that illustrated the extent to which the civil rights movement incorporated education into its overarching goals and organization” (p. 35). Yet he is careful not to denigrate pre-1964 activities by portraying the schools as students’ first introduction to democracy in action. Indeed, he devotes an important chapter to following seven students whose exposure to civil rights activities in their hometowns throughout the early years of the 1960s eventually led them to the Freedom Schools as a channel for expanding their involvement in the movement. Once enrolled, the students encountered “one of the most progressive curricula in American history”: an educational experience built around citizenship, creative expression, and African American history and literature (p. 93). Developed in consultation with such luminaries of the movement as Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Bob Moses, and Bayard Rustin, the schools were intended to supplement, not replace, the instruction students were receiving in the state’s public schools. Academic subjects received coverage, but instructional models were more horizontal than vertical, with teachers encouraging students to take the lead in deciding what to study, how to approach...

The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North ed. by Mary Lou Finley, Bernard Lafayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr., and Pam Smith

Reviewed by: The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the Northed. by Mary Lou Finley, Bernard Lafayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr., and Pam Smith Tom Adam Davies The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North. Edited by Mary Lou Finley, Bernard Lafayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr., and Pam Smith. Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century. ( Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. Pp. xiv, 495. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-6650-6.) In January 1966 Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) spearheaded a nonviolent direct-action campaign in Chicago alongside a local umbrella group, the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO). Targeting slum conditions in the city's black neighborhoods and the racially discriminatory practices of [End Page 473]local housing officials and realtors, the SCLC, the CCCO, and others in the broader Chicago Freedom Movement (CFM) conducted a series of marches through lily-white neighborhoods that met with fierce, and often violent, resistance. The deeply hostile reaction of white Chicagoans to calls for open housing laid bare the extent of white racism and institutional bias in the North for all to see. Dismayed with the disruption and controversy caused by their marches, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley eventually agreed to negotiate with King and CFM leaders. The so-called Summit Agreement reached in late August 1966 brought an end to the CFM's direct-action campaign but secured only limited reforms and weak commitments from city officials and local real estate representatives to eradicate discriminatory housing practices. Contemporary critics labeled the campaign a failure and called it a defeat for King, the SCLC, and the CFM—a judgment echoed by many historians over the last half century. This book, however, succeeds in overturning that analysis. Examining the "deep impact" of the CFM's campaign, it makes a compelling case that, in the longer term, the campaign and its adherents made a real difference in the city and beyond (p. 3). Divided into five parts, the book begins with two sections that together historicize the CFM's housing campaign by revealing its roots in earlier black protest and activism in the city and illuminate the lived experience of organizing in the urban North by drawing heavily on firsthand accounts from a range of movement participants. The remaining three parts trace the impact and programmatic legacies of CFM activism in a number of different areas, including the passage of landmark fair housing and fair lending legislation at both the local and national levels, the development of tenants' rights activism in the city and beyond, and the growth of independent black political power in Chicago from the 1980s up to the present day. Overall, as the authors suggest, the book makes clear that "the ripples spreading out from the Chicago Freedom Movement changed Chicago and the nation" (p. 4). In the process this book makes a valuable contribution to civil rights historiography in several respects. First, by placing Chicago—not popularly recognized as an important site of civil rights activism—firmly within a "long civil rights movement" framework, the collection helps further undermine traditional civil rights narratives that tend to focus only on events below the Mason-Dixon Line and bring the curtain down on the nonviolent movement after the SCLC s direct-action campaign in Selma, Alabama, in May 1965 (p. 100). Second, although King is an important focus, the book really does more to underline the limits of his role. Innovatively combining the voices of both activists and scholars, the book highlights the extent to which the CFM was a broad, diverse, and, to a degree, multiracial and interfaith grassroots effort that relied on the support and industry of a range of different organizations and people from communities across the city—and that was not free of its own internal divisions, pressures, and problems (especially concerning gender). Finally, by taking the longer view of the CFM's short-lived housing campaign, this book also reminds us that progress is often slow and [End Page 474]incremental, and it forces us to reconsider how...

Third Annual Geneva R. Johnson Forum on Innovations in Physical Therapy Education: Formation of a Doctoring Professional: Are We Shying Away From Education that Really Matters in the Lives of Our Graduates?

INTRODUCTIONDr Geneva R. Johnson (Figure 1) continues to influence physical therapy education as an inspirational participant in the Third Annual Geneva R. Johnson Innovations in Physical Therapy Education Forum (GRJ Forum). Dr Johnson is recognized for her longstanding leadership and mentorship, having contributed to the advancement of physical therapy education, practice, and research for over 60 years. The GRJ Forum started in 2014 through the collaborative efforts of the Academic Council of Academic Physical Therapy (ACAPT) and the Physical Therapy Learning Institute (PTLI).3,12 Once again it was the keynote for the 2016 Education Leadership Conference (ELC) held in Phoenix, Arizona. As expected, the Forum continues to foster creative ideas for positive change to promote excellence in physical therapist education, a hallmark of Dr Johnson's legacy.As in previous years, the Forum set the stage for energy, enthusiasm, and excitement for conference participants as discussions evolved to explore new opportunities to promote excellence in education. The GRJ Forum design is like no other in our profession. Key to its success is provocative speakers who share personal perspectives, immediately followed by active engagement all participants. As Tschoepe shared in her recognition to Dr Johnson and the introduction of the Forum, many remember what has become known as "Dr Johnson's 3 Ps of strong leadership skills": passion, persistence, and perseverance. Illustrations of these, as well as other essential personal leadership skills, were explored throughout the Forum by many speakers at ELC 2016.THE GRJ FORUM: ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTUREThe GRJ Forum is designed to:* Create a safe environment for key stakeholders in physical therapy education to discuss the infinite possibilities of the future, rather than solving problems of the past.* Encourage vision, innovation, creativity, and provocative new ideas that can positively influence the future of physical therapy education.* Challenge educators to proactively advance physical therapy education to prepare graduates to meet projected societal and professional needs rather than merely react to external pressures.3The 2016 GRJ Forum featured Dr Emma Stokes, an international visionary leader and current World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) president, who energized the over-800 conference participants and set the stage for ongoing conversation and idea development throughout the conference. Her keynote was followed by 3 Ignite Talks from active leaders in physical therapy education in the United States - Dr Michael Majsak, Dr Bob Rowe, and Dr Chris Sebelski. Collectively, they shared individual perspectives of what each believed to be critical to foster graduate success in physical therapist practice that is entrepreneurial in spirit, illustrates personal ownership and accountability, and offers a unique value to the health care team to facilitate optimal, efficient, and effective individual-centered health promotion and management. Discussion by over 200 participants followed these speakers, and they more thoroughly explored the 13 themes presented, and discussed "how might we" or "wouldn't it be great if..." Participants had options to discuss 2 different themes, and table facilitators shared 3 possible highlights that might illustrate innovation and educational change to include education that really matters to better prepare physical therapist graduates for success in their future professional careersTHIRD ANNUAL GRJ FORUM HIGHLIGHTSKeynote Address - Walk With the DreamersEmma Stokes, PT, PhD, is deputy head of the Department of Physiotherapy and a fellow of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. She teaches in the university's entry to practice and PhD programs in Dublin and Singapore. Her research focuses on matters related to professional practice; particularly, leadership in the profession. She has received numerous awards and professional recognitions for her contributions to the physiotherapy profession and has been a board member of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) since 2007. …

Hot topics, urgent priorities, and ensuring success for racial/ethnic minority young investigators in academic pediatrics.

BackgroundThe number of racial/ethnic minority children will exceed the number of white children in the USA by 2018. Although 38% of Americans are minorities, only 12% of pediatricians, 5% of medical-school faculty, and 3% of medical-school professors are minorities. Furthermore, only 5% of all R01 applications for National Institutes of Health grants are from African-American, Latino, and American Indian investigators. Prompted by the persistent lack of diversity in the pediatric and biomedical research workforces, the Academic Pediatric Association Research in Academic Pediatrics Initiative on Diversity (RAPID) was initiated in 2012. RAPID targets applicants who are members of an underrepresented minority group (URM), disabled, or from a socially, culturally, economically, or educationally disadvantaged background. The program, which consists of both a research project and career and leadership development activities, includes an annual career-development and leadership conference which is open to any resident, fellow, or junior faculty member from an URM, disabled, or disadvantaged background who is interested in a career in academic general pediatrics.MethodsAs part of the annual RAPID conference, a Hot Topic Session is held in which the young investigators spend several hours developing a list of hot topics on the most useful faculty and career-development issues. These hot topics are then posed in the form of six “burning questions” to the RAPID National Advisory Committee (comprised of accomplished, nationally recognized senior investigators who are seasoned mentors), the RAPID Director and Co-Director, and the keynote speaker.Results/conclusionsThe six compelling questions posed by the 10 young investigators—along with the responses of the senior conference leadership—provide a unique resource and “survival guide” for ensuring the academic success and optimal career development of young investigators in academic pediatrics from diverse backgrounds. A rich conversation ensued on the topics addressed, consisting of negotiating for protected research time, career trajectories as academic institutions move away from an emphasis on tenure-track positions, how “non-academic” products fit into career development, racism and discrimination in academic medicine and how to address them, coping with isolation as a minority faculty member, and how best to mentor the next generation of academic physicians.

Women in Educational Leadership Conference Hosts 30th Annual Conference

Women in Higher EducationVolume 25, Issue 12 p. 1-1 Leadership Women in Educational Leadership Conference Hosts 30th Annual Conference Kelly J. Baker, Kelly J. BakerSearch for more papers by this author Kelly J. Baker, Kelly J. BakerSearch for more papers by this author First published: 05 December 2016 https://doi.org/10.1002/whe.20378Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume25, Issue12December 2016Pages 1-1 RelatedInformation

Learning to lead: Segmentation of attendees to a Christian leadership conference

Christian leadership conferences are religious events in which attendees can improve their leadership skills in their current or potential area of ministry. Despite considerable anecdotal evidence, there is limited empirical research that has determined why attendees are motivated to attend these events and if they can be differentiated based on their personal characteristics and year of event attendance. To address these research gaps, 335 questionnaires were collected at an Australian Christian leadership conference during the 2013 and 2014 events. To better equip me in my current leadership role and to feel encouraged to learn more about God were the two dominant motivations identified by respondents, regardless of the year of data collection. Motivational differences also existed based on respondents' personal characteristics. This study has provided theoretical and practical implications for religious nonprofit organizations relating to these issues and provides future research opportunities.

Analytical Inquiry of Cfo Responsibilities: Aggregate Analysis Of Perceptual Differences Among Sda Conference Leaders In The Usa, Canada And Bermuda

The basis of this investigation was incited by the notion that the perceptions of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Conference leadership significantly impacts how the responsibilities of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are perceived in terms of their understanding and working knowledge of the importance and performance of CFO duties. Data was collected from a purposeful sample of N=399 at fifty-seven SDA Local Conferences in the United States of America (USA), Canada and Bermuda. A Mixed-Methods sequential exploratory research design utilizing Descriptive Statistics and Student-Newman-Keuls Post-Hoc Tests reflected significant differences among the aggregate results of conference leaders consisting of presidents {CEOs}, treasurers {CFO}, and board members {BM}, concerning CFO responsibilities. Discussion and Conclusions include potential conflicting leadership expectations of the CFO’s responsibilities, and a negative influence on the organizational culture and climate. Implications are applicable to organizations where leadership expectations of the CFO’s responsibilities have changed or may not be clearly defined or understood.

Different Perspectives [MicroBusiness

Reports on the author's attendance at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) and the Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference (WIE ILC).

IEEE WIE International Leadership Conference 2016 [Women in GRS

IEEE WIE International Leadership Conference 2016 [Women in GRS