Document Type
Article
Abstract
I thought the way I would begin is to share with you the defining moment of when I came to understand that I needed to do business differently. One of the courses I teach is a public policy class, and I had a very bright group of students whose assignment was to read Shore's book, Within Our Reach. They were to develop a working paper which they would present to community and political leaders as the capstone experience for the seminar on, "Moving Toward a Youth Policy'' in Los Angeles. That was scheduled, the students were doing brilliant work, and it proceeded; the night before, of course, was the civil unrest. Half of the students in the class lived in areas that could not transport out to get to campus.
As I was watching my city burning, it suddenly occurred to me that what I believed was important was irrelevant. If society had not found some way to bind together as a community, then what I was doing in the classroom, even the twenty years I have spent in leadership development, would not work. Within two weeks I went in, turned in my letter of resignation to the college and said that I had to do work differently. They refused it and immediately gave me a sabbatical. That was difficult to explain to the faculty because it totally violated every governance procedure known. Nonetheless, that is what we did.
Publication Date
1995
Journal Title
National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs
Volume
5
Issue
1
ISBN
1-881516-04-0
First Page
11
Last Page
26
Publisher
Institute for Youth Leaders
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1995 Institute for Youth Leaders, College of Education, School of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services, University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Mabey, Cheryl
(1995)
"Youth Leadership: Commitment for What? (Keynote Address),"
National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs: Vol. 5, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/nyls_monographs/vol5/iss1/5
Comments
Monograph no.5 of this series covers the 1994 National Youth Leadership Symposium