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One University's response to the anti-leadership vaccine: Developing servant leaders

By Polleys, Mary Sue
Publication: Journal of Leadership Studies
Date: Tuesday, January 1 2002
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This article addresses the need for institutions of higher education to be involved in the development of leaders

who believe that power and authority are for helping others grow. A description of the Servant Leadership Program at Columbus State University is offered as one university's effort to address this need. Students commit to leadership development through academic study, extensive community service, and mentoring. The purposes of this paper are to explain the servant leadership philosophy and how it interfaces with major leadership theories and to describe how the philosophy is being applied through the CSU program.

"We give every appearance of sleep-walking through a dangerous passage of history," writes John Gardner (1990). "We see the life-threatening problems, but we do not react. We are anxious but immobilized." Gardner lists immensely threatening problems of our times such as terrorism, AIDS, drugs, threat of nuclear conflict, toxic waste, depletion of the ozone layer, and the very real possibility of economic disaster as current problems crying out for leadership (Gardner, 1990).

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