Since 1992, the University of Richmond Jepson School of Leadership Studies has explored how visionary leaders bring people together and drive change. The 25th anniversary Jepson Leadership Forum invites you to explore your own vision. Join us as we confront some of the most critical and divisive issues facing our world today — from wealth and social inequality to terrorism — and learn to analyze your information, express your opinions, and even change your mind.
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Educating students for and about leadership
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A faculty of experts
Faculty serve as resources for national and international media, providing insightful opinions and expert views on leadership and issues of the day
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Alumni who lead
Graduates leave Richmond with knowledge of leadership frameworks and with the critical thinking and communication skills that enable them to excel in their chosen careers
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Nationally and internationally known visitors and speakers from wide-ranging backgrounds build a community dialogue around leadership
Since 1992, the University of Richmond Jepson School of Leadership Studies has explored how visionary leaders bring people together and drive change. The 25th anniversary Jepson Leadership Forum invites you to explore your own vision. Join us as we confront some of the most critical and divisive issues facing our world today — from wealth and social inequality to terrorism — and learn to analyze your information, express your opinions, and even change your mind.
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The John Marshall International Center for the Study of Statesmanship hosts speakers who examine and discuss the problems and prospects of leadership, constitutionalism, political economy, politics, and ethical reasoning.
The John Marshall International Center for the Study of Statesmanship hosts speakers who examine and discuss the problems and prospects of leadership, constitutionalism, political economy, politics, and ethical reasoning.
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The Jepson Community
Jepson School visiting scholar explores trust and ethics in economic transactions
Scholars & Practitioners
Dr. Al Goethals pens book on presidential leadershipDr. Al Goethals, who holds the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Leadership Studies, is the author of Realignment, Region, and Race: Presidential Leadership and Social Identity, published by Emerald Points.
Dr. Julian Hayter named a Virginia Festival of the Book featured authorDr. Julian Hayter, assistant professor of leadership studies, has been named a speaker for the 2018 Virginia Festival of the Book. Hayter will discuss his book The Dream is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia at the festival in Charlottesville, Va., this March.
New book co-edited by Dr. Kristin BezioDr. Kristin Bezio, associate professor of leadership studies, co-edited Leadership, Popular Culture and Social Change, published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Drs. Julian Hayter and Al Goethals co-edit new book
Dr. Julian Hayter, assistant professor of leadership studies, and Dr. Al Goethals, who holds the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Leadership Studies, co-edited Reconstruction and the Arc of Racial (in)Justice, published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
- New book co-edited by Drs. Jessica Flanigan and Terry L. Price
Dr. Jessica Flanigan, assistant professor of leadership studies, and Dr. Terry L. Price, Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics, co-edited The Ethics of Ability and Enhancement, published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Dr. Ernesto Semán authors new bookDr. Ernesto Semán, assistant professor of leadership studies, authored Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas, published by Duke University Press.
- Drs. Peter Kaufman and Kristin Bezio co-edit book
Dr. Peter Kaufman, George Matthews & Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies, and Dr. Kristin Bezio, associate professor of leadership studies, co-edited Cultural Icons and Cultural Leadership, published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
Dr. Jessica Flanigan authors new bookDr. Jessica Flanigan, assistant professor of leadership studies and PPEL, authored Pharmaceutical Freedom: Why Patients Have a Right to Self-Medicate, published by Oxford University Press.
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Dr. Jessica Flanigan receives 2017 ODK Faculty Member of the Year Award
Dr. Jessican Flanigan, assistant professor of leadership studies and philosophy, politics, economics and law, was given the award for excellence as a motivator, mentor, and teacher.
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Dr. Julian Hayter appointed to mayor's Monuments Commission Work Group
Dr. Julian Hayter, assistant professor of leadership studies, was appointed to the Monuments Commission Work Group by Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney.
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From American folklore to sustainability, the 2018 Jepson Research Symposium highlighted the breath and depth of a leadership studies education. #SpiderPride
Patrick Hughes' senior honors research started with an intuition that studying leadership personality and ideology alone wasn't enough to explain leader emergence. He believed that context was an essential part of the story. His research, "Mussolini, Hitler, and Perón: Economic Conditions and the Emergence of Illiberal Leadership," will be one of nine projects presented at the Jepson Research Symposium tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. in Jepson Hall. #LeadershipStudies
Presidential Leadership students and professor Al Goethals visit George Washington's Mount Vernon for a discussion of the first president's leadership.
A Jepson education studies #leadership through the lens of the humanities and the social sciences. But a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article argued that the humanities are "The humanities are not just dying—they are almost dead.” Read Dean Sandra Peart's response on #LeadershipSpeculations.
Jepson senior Dana Rafferty is exploring how mindsets impact interracial interactions on college campuses. Rafferty is one of nine students who will present at the 2018 Jepson Research Symposium on Friday. #GrowthMindset #LeadershipStudies
“Now more than ever, we’ve found that right versus wrong, good versus bad, is biased by individual circumstances.” — Michael Watrous, Jepson School Class of 2003, talks about using his Jepson education to build and motivate sales teams. https://jepson.richmond.edu/about/support.html
Every day Jepson grads use their leadership studies education to make a difference in their communities and workplaces. Now it’s our turn to tell your story through the Jepson Initiative, a strategic communications campaign to tell business and industry leaders who we are, what we do, and what our alumni are capable of accomplishing. Learn more at https://jepson.richmond.edu/about/support.html and make your gift today. Because the world needs leaders.
"Through all of his engagement, the recipient of this year's Servant Leader Award was always motivated to serve others — his peers, his University, and the city that surrounds the University — first."
Congratulations to Jepson Senior Marius Young, 2018 recipient of the Jepson Servant Leadership Award.
With just over a month left until Commencement, celebrations for the Class of 2018 are underway! At last week’s Jepson Senior Banquet, Dr. Julian Hayter told the soon-to-be-graduates, “Understanding context. That’s what you’ve earned at Jepson. A profound understanding of context.”
Dean Sandra J. Peart shares four principles to successful negotiations. #LeadershipSpeculations
"I think the visit really highlighted the importance of and value in creating a supportive workplace environment." — Holly McNaughton, ’18
During a recent visit to the CBS6 broadcast news station, Jepson students looked at how theories and models of leadership manifest themselves in the workplace. #LeadershipinPractice
Dr. Thad Williamson pens essay in Boston Review's Fifty Years Since MLK: "The question for us is the same as it was for King fifty years ago: ‘Where do we go from here?’"
#MLK50
“Majoring in leadership sounds like the ultimate off-field training for an NFL quarterback prospect who soon may command a corps of hardened veterans.”
Bleacher Report speaks with Richmond Spiders Football quarterback Kyle Lauletta on majoring in #leadershipstudies.
“I think there’s a common perception that you have to make a trade off: You have to choose between being charismatic and confident and compelling, being a good leader on the one hand, and being sort of thoughtful and critical and self-skeptical…I don’t think the trade off has to be there.”
Julia Galef closed out the 2017–18 #JepsonForum series with a presentation on "Reframing How We Think About Divisive Issues." Watch her Jepson Leadership Forum Take 5 interview with Patrick Hughes, ’18, and her full presentation online at jepson.richmond.edu/forum.- "We have difficulty with the granularity."
At the 2018 Virginia Festival of the Book, Dr. Julian Hayter discussed competing narratives surrounding the Civil Rights Movement as part of the panel on "Loving, Learning, Voting: Virginia Civil Rights." #VABook2018
"It’s a commitment that reminds us all why we stepped foot in Jepson Hall as young undergraduates, and ties us back to the purpose of the degree as we engage positively in our communities, continually challenge our own perspectives, and ultimately serve for the good of others."
Kate Materna Rezabek, '02, writes about #JepsonEDGE in a new #LeadershipSpeculations guest post.
Julia Galef presents "Reframing How We Think About Divisive Issues," the final event in the Jepson School's 25th anniversary year #JepsonForum series Vision and Division. Watch live at 7 p.m. #JepsonSchool25
"A common purpose is more than a mission statement," said Dr. Gill Hickman, one of Jepson's founding faculty members, speaking on invisible leadership in Dr. Lauranett Lee's Leadership & the Humanities class this afternoon. "A common purpose is a deeply held sense of common destiny."
“I essentially got to have an open forum with a massively important political consultant and strategist.” — Jackson Wade, ’20
Karl Rove, who spoke at #URichmond as part of the 2017–18 Sharp Viewpoint Speaker Series, addressed students in Dr. Allison Archer’s #Leadership & the Social Sciences class on Thursday. #SpiderPride
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"First, the best teachers are a constant exemplar of a leader who listens to learn..."
Dean Sandra J. Peart writes about leadership and lessons learned from being a boss in a new blog post. #LeadershipSpeculations
@JepsonSchool on Twitter
- Students showcase scholarship at annual Jepson Research Symposium. #spiderpride https://t.co/U4SCV0njj8 https://t.co/8yTjmtFrim
- "The Role of Growth Mindset on Cross-Racial Interactions on College Campuses" by Jepson senior Dana Rafferty — one… https://t.co/6sL0aajxs8
- Jepson senior Patrick Hughes explores the economic conditions correlated with illiberal #leadership… https://t.co/JQjN80tnha
- Do students do better in the labor market as a result of their college education? New blog post by Jepson Dean Sand… https://t.co/DLngPSElyv
- Dean Sandra Peart makes a different kind of case for the #humanities. #leadershipspeculations… https://t.co/S4458fKudl
- 2018 Jepson Research Symposium presentations explore topics ranging from American folklore to sustainability.… https://t.co/wczQazvHJv
- Jepson alumni: Help spread the word about Jepson by making a gift to the Jepson Initiative today.… https://t.co/nytmVTO33N
- Dean Sandra Peart pens response to @Chronicle article "There Is No Case for the Humanities" on her blog.… https://t.co/aPB2dqupf5
- Jepson senior Dana Rafferty will present her research on "The Role of Growth Mindset on Cross-Racial Interactions o… https://t.co/qD22tIDLBI
- From 'My Life As An NFL Draft Prospect: Kyle Lauletta': "Studying in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at Ric… https://t.co/YVZk3FSZoI
- Jepson senior Jacob Litt, who coordinates volunteers for the @urichmond chapter of @CampKesem, on Virginia This Mor… https://t.co/CpjqHId9Tw
- Students discuss #nonprofit management and fundraising with @vshousing director of housing development Julie Anders… https://t.co/xcI9hS1Qjk
- Michael Watrous, '03, speaks on using his Jepson education in his career: "My ability to put myself in other people… https://t.co/H2N1FzcKdK
- Nine students to present research at the 2018 Jepson Research Symposium on April 20 https://t.co/CLPcO74heH https://t.co/DjLvVxTMYU
- Julian Hayter quoted in today's column "Williams: City of Richmond has outgrown its residency requirement"… https://t.co/RJDGoCxRBo
- Students apply #leadership theories and models to workplace settings during visit to broadcast news station.… https://t.co/LrWseDpNeD
- David Nichols, associate professor of political science at @Baylor, to discuss "A Populist Presidency" this Friday.… https://t.co/nhNI95Dtr6
- Subscribe to #LeadershipSpeculations — Dean Sandra J. Peart writes about #leadership as it relates to current event… https://t.co/Wjo2Xef4dQ
- "If there’s one way in which things have, quote, gotten worse, I think it’s just that the problems we have to think… https://t.co/qZOkxKCzBi
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