The DPLS Blog at Gonzaga University

Great work Rebekah!

Her recent article appears on pages 10-12 of the below journal, a health management and Hospital journal which is based in Europe. The journal is translated into several other languages.

http://healthmanagement.org/uploads/HO_V15_i2_web.pdf

Gonzaga DPLS grad Dr. Melina is the series editor for the powerful new book from the International Leadership Association and Jossey-Bass!

The book is called The Embodiment of Leadership.

Covering leadership in the arts and humanities, this volume explores the notion that leadership is both a discursive practice and a performative identity that is situated in a body that not only thinks, but moves, acts, has emotions and desires, ages, experiences, hurts, and senses. This idea moves leadership beyond the intellectual functions such as visioning, strategizing, and persuading, and the actions that emanate from the intellectual realm, and situates leadership firmly in a corporality that is raced, gendered, cultured, sexual, instinctual, and emotional. It suggests that leadership itself is an embodied text that can be “read” to discover personal and cultural meaning.

Each year the International Leadership Association publishes a book that captures the best contemporary thinking about leadership from a diverse range of scholars, practitioners, and educators working in the field of leadership studies. In keeping with the mission of the ILA, the International Leadership Series Building Leadership Bridges connects ways of researching, imagining, and experiencing leadership across cultures, over time, and around the world.

Notably, this is the very series in which our own faculty, Dr. JoAnn Barbour was the series editor for three exceptional books as well.

Finally, Dr. Stephanie Guastella Lindsay, one of our DPLS grads too, has a beautiful and profound chapter in the book edited by Dr. Melina.

You can order Dr. Melina’s book, The Embodiment of Leadership, here:

http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118551613.html

All students are invited to the Akwaba potluck dinner hosted by two of your colleagues, Evelyne Ello Hart and Kae Reynolds. The potluck dinner will occur Saturday, June 22, from 5-7:30 p.m. in the Tilford 4th Floor Lobby. In addition to bringing food to share, students are encouraged to bring books to swap or sell. To RSVP, contact Evelyne: 503-380-1475 or e.ellohart@gmail.com.

Journal Club is beginning back up this Monday, June 17, 10-11:30 a.m. in Tilford 115. We will meet each Monday morning for the entire six-week term this summer. As you may already be able to tell, we have made some changes to Journal Club. First, for the summer, we will be meeting on Monday mornings, and coffee will be included. (Donations will be accepted.) Second, we have opened up Journal Club to the entire Gonzaga community. That means undergrads, master’s students, faculty, and staff are invited, too. For more info about Journal Club, its benefits, dates, times, and more, please click here.

Any and all new students from fall 2012, spring 2013, and summer 2013 should plan to attend the New Student Orientation on June 21 from noon-2:30 p.m. in Tilford 117. Orientation is the time to get up to speed on the resources Gonzaga provides students to make their educational experience easier on them. Orientation is a time to meet the faculty and a few other students, also. Some further orientation materials may be found here. In addition, you may add this event to your Google calendar. A light lunch will be provided at Orientation. See you then!

A memorial service for Margie Card, the Tilford Cafe manager who warmly greeted all her guests, will be held this Saturday, June 8, 2013, at 11 a.m. in the Student Chapel in Gonzaga’s College Hall (3rd floor, east end). Reception to follow in the Globe Room, Cataldo Hall. Our love and prayers continue to be with Margie’s family as they mourn.

We wish to inform you that DPLS 705 Leadership & Social Justice and DPLS 777 Intercultural Leadership, both classes taught by Dr. David Whitfield, will continue to be held regardless of number of students enrolled. More information about these classes may be found here, here, and here.

We apologize. There was an error for the course formerly listed as DPLS 772 this summer 2013. Instead, this course is an Ethics course, which the syllabus lists as Leadership and Applied Ethics: Contemporary Issues. If you do not need any more Ethics courses, you probably do not want to be enrolled. If you were prepared for Ethics, this number will be listed as DPLS 746, and we will transfer currently enrolled students into that new number. We have updated the syllabus found on the syllabi page. Please also note the updated dates and location for this course.

If you have questions, please feel free to email or call Marnie Broughton: broughton@gonzaga.edu. Thank you.

The photographs from the DPLS Graduation Banquet are now up on Facebook. Don’t our graduates look beautiful?

Dr. David Whitfield would like to invite you to consider enrolling in either of his two classes this summer. To find out more, click the links below for the flyers, or go to ZagWeb.

DPLS 705 Leadership & Social Justice

DPLS 777 Intercultural Leadership