The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education Kellogg Leadership Fellows Progra

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The National Association for Equal Opportunity in
Higher Education Kellogg Leadership Fellows
ProgramExercises for Alpha-Beta-Delta-Gamma-Zeta
Pairs

• HBCU Case Study Rubric
• Jackson State University
• (A Five Part Response)

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Challenge 1 Problem Statement
(Alpha Pair)

• First, please identify the cause-and-effect core
  problem (s) or central issue (s) in the proposed
  problem set scenario (s) provided with the case
  study (ies) construct (s).

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Challenge 2 Factual Analysis
(Beta Pair)

• Second, please provide a critical analysis of the
  systemic problem (s) or issue (s) across
  political, bureaucratic, technological, financial
  and academic matrix relationships impacted by
  compelling (a) ethical, legal, and moral (b)
  stewardship and accountability (c) leadership
  and stability (d) quality improvement and
  assurance and (e) change and transformational
  implications.

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Challenge 3 Organizational Tenets
(Delta Pair)

• Third, please assess (outcomes) the problem (s)
  or issue (s) against four organizational tenets
  (1) complexity theory, which refers to the
  interdisciplinary exploration of a set of
  theories from different angles that share focus
  on a complex adaptive system and evolution. (2)
  exchange analysis, which refers to overall
  patterns and system dynamics of value exchange to
  determine whether the value created system is
  healthy, sustainable and expanded (3) generative
  learning, which describes value-driven learning
  that seeks radical and innovative possibilities
  beyond the boundaries of current thinking and
  (4) community of practice, which defines a
  network of key principals or stakeholders who
  share concerns and deepen their knowledge by
  interacting with each other on an ongoing basis.

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Challenge 4 Diagnostic and Data-Driven
Decision-Making (Gamma Pair)

• Fourth, please discuss the scientific application
  of qualitative and/or quantitative data analysis
  as a diagnostic procedure to remedy the problem
  (s) or issue (s). Please provide examples for
  data verification and seeking empirical evidence
  to support scientific application (s).

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Challenge 5 Leadership Lessons Learned
Institutional Best Practices
(Zeta Pair)

• Fifth, based on the culminating responses to all
  of the above, discuss what leadership lessons
  could be learned from the case study(ies),
  problem(s), or issue(s), and how do these lessons
  compare, complement, or contrast with
  research-based or applied best practice(s). On
  this capstone challenge, the Zeta Fellows must
  either conduct a review of the literature for the
  best practice (s) or identify an institution(s)
  that utilize(s) an effective/efficient practice
  (s) that may or may not be referenced in the
  literature/body of work in the field.

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Creative Engagement for Stimulation

• In the interest of engaging creativity, the
  problem sets may have both implicit and explicit
  elements to stimulate creative thought. This may
  include cognitive elements that challenge the
  differentiation between fact and fiction the
  recognition between reality versus rhetoric the
  determination for accuracy and completeness of
  information the recognition of faulty reasoning
  and illogical fallacies the contrasting of
  points of view and, the drawing of prudent
  conclusions with an integration and synthesis
  toward resolve. Elements of contradiction, irony
  and hypocrisy may also be involved in the case
  study (ies).

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Specified Directions for Resolve or Resolution to
the Case Study (ies)

• Fellows will be divided up into five, 2 pair
  member groups, with each pair assigned to each
  challenge above. The assignments should be made
  based on individual and collective strengths,
  skill-sets, talents, interests, expertise, etc --
  allowing for the optimal leveraging and maximum
  utility of intellectual capital among the
  Fellows. Fellows assigned to Challenge 5 must
  receive the information from the others before
  completing their task. The completion of this
  assignment is due in March at the San Antonio
  meeting. For clarification on the directions or
  the challenges posed, Fellows should contact
  Joseph at jstevenson_at_jsums.edu.
• JMS- EPhD-10/05