7 Revolutions: The Fort Hays State University Experience

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7 Revolutions The Fort Hays State University
Experience
Curt Brungardt, Ph. D.
Darrell Hamlin, Ph. D.
Brett Whitaker
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Presentation Outline

• History and future of 7 Revs at FHSU
• Our uniqueness
• The Kansas Perspective
• Leadership Lessons
• Service-Learning
• Personal Perspective

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History of the 7 Revs at FHSU

• Joined the 7 Revs Fellows Group (Fall 2006)
• First course (Fall 2007)
• Offered each semester since (4 total)
• Team taught
• 100 level leadership studies course

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7 Revs Future at FHSU

• Forward thinking. World ready.
• Required freshmen course (first year experience)
• Interdisciplinary course
• Redesign course format (Realliance)
• Co-curricular programming (forums, KLC, etc.)

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Pedagogy of Engagement 1

• History and future of 7 Revs at FHSU
• Our uniqueness
• The Kansas Perspective
• Leadership Lessons
• Service-Learning
• Personal Perspective

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Keys to Making the Connection

• Manage scale of global trends
• Relate trends to state and local issues
• Conduct an exercise or discussion so students can
  reveal what they already understand about these
  connections
• Connect local knowledge to global trends

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Examples from Kansas

• Migration and urbanization
• Wind and water
• NGOs in Greensburg
• Technology and economic development
• National Guard

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Pedagogy of Engagement 2

• History and future of 7 Revs at FHSU
• Our uniqueness
• The Kansas Perspective
• Leadership Lessons
• Service-Learning
• Personal Perspective

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Defining Leadership
Leadership is an influence relationship among
leaders and followers who intend real changes
that reflect their mutual purposes.
Rost, 1991
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Elements

• Influence
• Leadership related to followership
• Real change
• Common good

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Leadership Lessons from 7Rs

• The future is part of the present
• Global trends become local problems
• Trends overwhelm static paradigms
• Multiple and overlapping trends demand complex
  leadership
• Strategic thought is action on the future
• Leadership is strategic momentum
• Leadership serves the common good

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Pedagogy of Engagement 3

• History and future of 7 Revs at FHSU
• Our uniqueness
• The Kansas Perspective
• Leadership Lessons
• Service-Learning
• Personal Perspective

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Service-Learning in 7Rs

• Objectives of Service in 7Rs
• Global trends are local problems
• Citizens engage problems
• Civic life is informed action
• Virtual Service
• Service to the virtual community

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Pedagogy of Engagement 4

• History and future of 7 Revs at FHSU
• Our uniqueness
• The Kansas Perspective
• Leadership Lessons
• Service-Learning
• Personal Perspective

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Answering the Call
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The Key Question

• Can we (any of us) play a role that would impact
  consequences of the 7 Revolutions?
• Can we, as ordinary citizens, help (even so
  slightly) move our world from peril to promise?

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Does It Really Matter?

• Does it really matter?
• Does it matter that we know and recognize these
  unstoppable trends?
• What can we do?
• What can ANYONE do?

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What Can We Do?

• Personal Lifestyle Decisions
• Influence Public Policy
• Influence nonprofit and educational sectors
• Influence the private sector

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Personal Lifestyle Decisions
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Influence Public Policy
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Influencing the Non-Profit and Educational Sectors
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Influencing the Private Sector
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Making the Change
Through the various roles we play in life
(employer, parent, civic activists, etc.) just
maybe our actions can improve our chances for
promise