Mission

Mount Allison University understands leadership as a purposeful and collaborative process that fosters integrity, authenticity, and openness.
Leadership Mount Allison is designed to serve our diverse communities and involves a broad network of individuals in program delivery. It provides integrative opportunities to learn about leadership; develop a personal leadership philosophy; apply and practice leadership skills; and attain leadership competencies within a variety of academic and co-curricular contexts.
Through support for shared initiatives by students, faculty, staff, and community partners, Leadership Mount Allison helps to sustain an engaged university environment.  This leadership process promotes respectful dialogue, informed action, and honest self-reflection, to cultivate mutual understanding and personal growth.

Goals

Leadership Mount Allison strives to achieve the following goal:

1. To advance student leadership competencies in the following areas:

• Theoretical foundatons of leadership
• Self-discovery and personal development
• Understanding others and interpersonal development
• Development of groups, organizations and systems
  

2. In partnership with other University departments and units: ¹

• To support the advancement of leadership development across the Mount Allison community.
• to more fully integrate leadership development with the University's academic mission.
  
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  ¹ Goals based on the CAS standards for student leadership programs, Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education, Washington, 2009.  
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Values

Leadership Mount Allison is rooted in the following values:

• Everyone has a leadership capacity; leadership can be learned and exhibited in many ways.

• Leadership development programs should be informed by sound scholarship and generally accepted standards of practice.

• Leadership development is a dynamic process of personal discovery, challenge, and growth.

• Leadership development is tied to our inherent social and environmental responsibilities as community members.

• An integrated program promotes leadership development across the University community. It supports leadership training initiatives for students, staff, and faculty. It involves students, staff, and faculty in program delivery, development, and administration.

• Ethical awareness and decision-making are essential for leadership development.

• Leadership learning must be accessible and welcoming to all members within our diverse University community.  We value and encourage participation by individuals of any race, ethnicity, nation of origin, first language, socio-economic status, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, and/or ability.