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Journal Club meets for the last time this semester this coming Friday in Tilford 117 from 4-5:15p. If you would like to present an article and to ensure you get on the docket, please email Chris Francovich: francovich@gonzaga.edu. More details about presenting can be found here. Journal Club can also be found on Facebook: facebook.com/DPLSJournalClub.

The Journal Club in the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University is a forum for doctoral students and faculty to present journal articles, book chapters, or other scholarly works to colleagues. The interdisciplinary nature of our program should prove a rich context for surprise and delight. We would like to keep the presentations short and succinct and give everyone that wants to a chance to present. This experience is meant to be informal, enjoyable, and intellectually stimulating. It also can be a platform for developing and improving teaching and presentation skills.

Dr. Silvia Behrend will now be teaching DPLS 748 Feminist Ethics in the Spring 2013 term. The syllabus and the books will remain the same, however, the dates have changed to: Jan, 26, February 9 & 23, and March 9 & 23. The syllabus may be found here.

Journal Club will meet one last time this Fall 2012 term on Friday, November 30. Journal Club will take a hiatus until the second week of the Spring 2013 term in which it will meet at its regularly schedule time and place on January 25, 2013. We meet from 4-5:15 p.m. in Tilford 117.

Dialogue has been rich this term, and we are always looking for more contributions. For more information about presenting or archives, click here or contact Dr. Chris Francovich: francovich@gonzaga.edu.

Journal Club meets again this Friday in Tilford 117 from 4-5:15p. (It meets every Friday that classes meet.) If you would like to present an article and to ensure you get on the docket, please email Chris Francovich: francovich@gonzaga.edu. More details about presenting can be found here. Journal Club can also be found on Facebook: facebook.com/DPLSJournalClub.

The Journal Club in the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University is a forum for doctoral students and faculty to present journal articles, book chapters, or other scholarly works to colleagues. The interdisciplinary nature of our program should prove a rich context for surprise and delight. We would like to keep the presentations short and succinct and give everyone that wants to a chance to present. This experience is meant to be informal, enjoyable, and intellectually stimulating. It also can be a platform for developing and improving teaching and presentation skills.

No-Li Brewhouse Social
On Friday November 30, 4:30-8:30 p.m. (show up at any time), the GSA will be doing a social at No-Li Brewhouse (1003 E. Trent, SE corner of campus). All students are invited. You are welcome to bring a friend. The GSA will provide free appetizers. Drinks on you. Please RSVP at gsa@zagmail.gonzaga.edu.

Spring 2013 graduate assistantship (GA) applications are due November 16 to Marnie Broughton, broughton@gonzaga.edu. More information about a GA and the form may be found here.

Leadership and Film (LDRS 489.04, ORGL(COML) 689.01, DPLS 779)

Thursdays, 6-10 p.m., 1/17, 1/31, 2/07, 2/21, 3/07, 3/21, 4/04, 4/11 (Note: This class will meet on January 31 instead of January 24 as the other DPLS classes do.)

This course features a Collaborative Classroom combining four vital leadership learning communities: the Comprehensive Leadership Program for Gonzaga undergraduates, the Masters of Organizational Leadership Program, the Masters of Communication and Leadership Program, and the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies. The course initiates a thoughtful consideration of the nature of leadership as depicted in film. Through seeking understanding in dialogue with fellow learners, students are encouraged toward greater discernment of the person, the collective, and the context with regard to the dynamic systems involved in leadership. Film provides unique insights to investigate character and motive, as well as culture, allowing us to access meaning and significance through theoretical, analytic and dialogic inquiry. The course helps form in students the ability not only to be leaders, but in the words of Robert Frost, “awakeners.” Through the time spent viewing films and entering into discourse, we will become more sophisticated observers and practitioners of leadership as we seek to understand the essence of leaders through artistic representation. Reflection, introspection, and personal engagement aimed toward a richly layered encounter with the lives of leaders contributes to the formation of a more enduring and authentic leadership response to personal, organizational, and global complexities.

Texts
Film: A Critical Introduction by Maria Pramaggiore & Tom Wallis, Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2006
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Leadership by Brad Jackson & Ken Perry, Sage Publications, 2008
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer, Jossey-Bass, 1999
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, Continuum, 2000
American Masculine by Shann Ray, Farrar, Graywolf, 2011

Films (tentative schedule)
Amazing Grace
Crash
Doubt
Smoke Signals
The Crucible
Moneyball
Once

-Shann Ferch

The Tilford Café is no longer open Friday evening after 4 p.m. or on the weekends. Sadly, it isn’t cost effective for them. Marnie will have Starbucks Vias out and a cup for donations, just in case students need a quick up of coffee. She will place this next to the fridge on the 2nd floor on the counter. In addition, Duff’s in the Kennedy Apartments (just north of Tilford) will be open on the weekends.

When students take a semester off and then try to register for classes in a subsequent semester, Marnie Broughton has to “quick admit” them. Students must contact Marnie Broughton (broughton@gonzaga.edu) prior to the semester in which they intend to register. Students must be quick-admitted before they will be able to register for classes. This applies to all students, including summers-only students. This information may be found on the Admissions page on the DPLS website.

As of September 4, 2012, applications are accepted for the 2013 Ford Diversity Fellowships Program for Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching. Full eligibility information and online applications are available on our website at: http://nationalacademies.org/ford

Eligibility Requirements:

• U.S. Citizen or National
• Planning a career in teaching and research at the college or university level in a research-based filed of Science, social science or humanities

Stipends and Allowances:

• Predoctoral: $20,000 to the fellow, institutional allowance of $2,000 for three years
• Dissertation: $21,000 for one year
• Postdoctoral: $40,000 for one year, $1,500 employing institution allowance, to be matched by employing institution

Awardees have expenses paid to attend one Conference of Ford Fellows.

Approximately 60 predoctoral, 35 dissertation, and 20 postdoctoral fellowships sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies.

Application Deadline Dates:

• Predoctoral: November 14, 2012
• Dissertation: November 19, 2012
• Postdoctoral: November 19, 2012

For Further information please contact:

Fellowships Office, Keck 576
National Research Council of The National Academies
500 Fifth Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202.334.2872
Fax: 202.207.9464
Email: infofell@nas.edu

(Thanks to Evelyne Hart for passing this along.)