{"title":"Practicing What We Preach: General Principles for Leadership Programs.","authors":"Kathy L Guthrie, Gayle Spencer","doi":"10.1002/yd.70011","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>International Leadership Association's General Principles for Leadership Programs is a fluid document designed to provide resources to create, redesign, and assess leadership programs. This article provides a broad introduction to the General Principles for Leadership Programs, including the history and a brief overview of the five main areas the principles use as pillars in advancing leadership programs. These areas include context, conceptual framework, content, learning, metrics, outcomes, and assessment.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"7-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145076103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decolonization, Culture, and Citizenship: Toward a Brighter Future.","authors":"Xatyiswa Maqashalala, Trisha Gott","doi":"10.1002/yd.70000","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"To advance the practice and study of leadership for a better world\" is the clear and stated mission of the International Leadership Association (ILA). The organization offers a commitment to the advancement of leadership as a broader commitment to the advancement of the global community. Generous in scope, this is cultivated through a community of global membership. Tending to a mission and principles with an eye toward internationalization, global practice, and leadership, we also must contend with the current tenor of US institutions and policy, colonial legacies, and current practices. As educators, our work is in the educational spaces, classrooms, research, programming, learning, and practice. The principles offer us an avenue to advance with global practice top of mind.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"21-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying Content: Integrating Theory, Design, and Student-Centered Learning.","authors":"Joshua K Taylor, Brittany Devies, Kathy L Guthrie","doi":"10.1002/yd.70005","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the content application of the ILA General Principles for Leadership Programs. Introducing the leadership content design (LCD) framework, the authors explore leadership content application through a robust co-curricular example of the Hargis Leadership Institute. The article demonstrates a pathway for developing transformational leadership learning content through the implementation of a learner-centered approach to content design. By leveraging leadership theory, this article demonstrates how leadership educators can innovate to create intentional and relevant content.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"71-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144859741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership-As-Practice: Grounding Theory in Application and Cultural Relevance.","authors":"Trisha Gott","doi":"10.1002/yd.70008","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Leadership programs establish relevance and garner public trust in higher education by demonstrating their usefulness to communities and society across sectors. In this article, the General Principles were leveraged as a tool to make sense of a pedagogy of practice applied to coursework and programs over the course of programmatic growth. This article will explore how the principles were applied to build practice orientations to knowledge. Learning as a practical application brings knowledge into the field and requires practical application through understanding and attendance to cultural capital. As collectives navigate the social hierarchies and realities of connecting knowledge, a core practice of how humans make sense of knowing by doing, the General Principles are a tool.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"93-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying Context: African Praxis, Ubuntu Ethics, and an Applied Model.","authors":"Oliver Seale, Simon Kagwe","doi":"10.1002/yd.70002","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, the authors present and engage with the conceptual and theoretical underpinning of leadership education and leadership development in Africa. Specifically, leadership education programs which are focusing on nurturing a new generation of leaders, adept at navigating the complexities of a globalized world, while remaining deeply rooted in their national and local heritage. They locate African leadership theory and praxis in the context of change, and examine how the International Leadership Association (ILA) General Principles for Leadership Programs (2021) provides an organizing framework for the redesigned Executive MBA program at the African Leadership University in Kigali, Rwanda.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"41-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12488181/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144859742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metrics, Outcomes, and Assessment: Creating Data-Driven Decisions in Leadership Programs.","authors":"Jarred Pernier, Freddy Juarez, Brittany Devies","doi":"10.1002/yd.70010","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Metrics, outcomes, and assessment are important, yet often forgotten, elements of effective leadership programs. This article will provide an overview of metrics, outcomes, and assessment in regard to leadership programs. The article will then provide example programs and practical guidance on using metrics, outcomes, and assessment in leadership program design. Considerations for telling the data story of leadership programs and future implications for practice are shared to conclude the article.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"99-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144875694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Framing the Use of Conceptual Frameworks in Leadership Programs.","authors":"Dennis C Roberts","doi":"10.1002/yd.70004","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The depth of work required and the relationships built in the process of agreeing to a conceptual framework for leadership learning are daunting. Whatever expenditure of effort that is required, achieving a comfortable consensus pays off in expanding the reach and the potential impact of leadership learning initiatives. The ILA General Principles for Leadership Programs advocate conceptual frameworks that are unique and purposeful for specific organizational contexts and include responding to questions related to centrality and coherence. Aligning with organizational context and striving for centrality and coherence then allows the framework to serve as a catalyst for constant improvement and expansion.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"47-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Framing the Use of Context in Leadership Programs.","authors":"Kathy L Guthrie, Brittany Devies","doi":"10.1002/yd.70003","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores context as a critical component of leadership learning and leadership program design. Building from the foundation established in the General Principles for Leadership Programs (International Leadership Association), we further define context, including looking at cultural, historical, ideological, personal, and social contexts. The concept of context in leadership program development and how to use context as a general principle is explored deeply in this article.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"33-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144859743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership Education at a Crossroads: Adapting the ILA General Principles for a Changing World.","authors":"Dennis C Roberts","doi":"10.1002/yd.70009","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ILA General Principles for Leadership Programs were originally conceived to advocate approaches to leadership cultivation that would increase visibility, encourage greater cooperation, and be applicable across diverse organizations and cultural contexts. Subsequent to their release as a concept paper, the General Principles have been disseminated and tested in a variety of ways and are now promoted as a model for coherent and comprehensive leadership program design and implementation. While the General Principles achieved some success, this concluding article proposes that economic, social, and political changes must be considered when using the General Principles and that it is essential that leadership educators commit to greater consensus and coherence in their shared work.</p>","PeriodicalId":37658,"journal":{"name":"New directions for student leadership","volume":" ","pages":"107-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12488180/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}