By Sandra J. Peart, Dean and E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies and President of the Jepson Scholars Foundation
Leadership pundits and scholars alike have remarked that political divides have become more rancorous over the last two decades. Senator John McCain’s death is a powerful and moving reminder that we have lost another of the very few remaining leaders
Read moreWe are less than a week away from Move-In Day for the Class of 2022. This year, more than 11,800 students applied for about 800 spots — an 18 percent increase in applications in one year. As you would expect,
Read moreI am taking this week off from the blog to do some traveling. I’ll resume posting next Thursday, July 26. Thank you for continuing to read and share posts! I am excited to continue our conversation on leadership, ethics, economics,
Read moreAt a recent Marshall Center lecture, Michael Zuckert opined that late twentieth century political theory scholars began to neglect the problem of statesmanship and focused too heavily on leadership. What’s the difference? In his view, the moral qualities of leadership
Read moreThere is much to be learned about leadership by studying the past. In particular, we learn about good leadership by studying what great leaders did and how they accomplished it. At the Jepson School, we have organized our curriculum with
Read moreTwo days after this post is published, the Jepson School will celebrate Finale, our senior recognition ceremony. The following day, we’ll graduate 73 leadership studies majors (almost doubling the number who graduated a decade ago!). They are diverse in their
Read morePerhaps the most important lesson I took away from Dr. Vivian Pinn’s remarks to a large crowd of students, faculty, and community members is that leadership sometimes has to change perceptions. Through her decades-long career, Dr. Pinn refocused public health
Read moreThere are few academics of greater stature than Robert Putnam. On Monday evening, the crowd that filled Cannon Memorial Chapel learned precisely why. Dr. Putnam inspired us with a talk about what he calls the growing opportunity gap. The idea
Read moreIn a wonderfully articulated opinion piece, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch and Virgil Henry Storr expounded on how Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments described a system of ethics in which discourse leads to moderation. Smith’s idea is that discussion facilitates the imagination:
Read moreClose to a decade ago, I published an opinion piece in USA Today: “Ethics in an Uncivil Age” (30 September 2010). At the time, it seemed that we were at a watershed, when incivility was at an all-time high. Of
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