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Guiding the Leaders of Tomorrow
Inter-association Leadership Education Collaborative (ILEC)
The
Inter-Association Leadership Education Collaborative (ILEC) represents
eight professional organizations, including ALE, committed to the advancement of
leadership education teaching, research, and professional practice
within higher education institutions.
We
support the advancement of the academic discipline of leadership
studies, with a specific emphasis on leadership education research and
practice within higher education. We advocate for the intentional
design, development, and integration of leadership theory and practice
into courses, programs, and educational experiences across all
institutional and organizational functions.
Contemporary
leadership education research and practice is situated across
undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools and through community
and organizational partnerships. Represented in the work of both
academic affairs faculty and student development professionals, access
to leadership education programs in all contexts should be inclusive in
nature. While this document is focused on the work of leadership
educators within the higher education setting, we also recognize that
leadership education happens both in formal and informal spaces outside
of higher education.
As
ILEC members, we have worked together to find common ground among our
various perspectives, and we acknowledge there are many more. What has
emerged is a set of propositions in pursuit of a disciplinary revolution
that challenges our field
to reconsider our
thinking, attitudes, and behaviors. This is an invitation to all who
engage in the work of leadership education to consider: What is required
of us to collectively build capacity of leadership learners to
resoundingly answer the question, “Leadership for what purpose?”
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