Women and Leadership Development in College (PDF)

Jennifer M. Pigza is Director of the Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action, the center for community engagement and place-based justice at Saint Mary's College of California, where she is also an adjunct assistant professor of leadership. She is co-editor of Leadership Development through Service-Learning (New Directions for Student Leadership series) and is founding co-editor of the journal Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE). Her writing and practice focus on critical pedagogy, leadership development through community engagement, and organizational leadership. Julie Owen, PhD, is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the School of Integrative Studies, George Mason University, where she coordinates the leadership studies major and minor, and is affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program, and with Women and Gender Studies. Owen has authored over 30 publications, including serving as co-editor of the Handbook for Student Leadership Development, and editor of Innovative Learning for Leadership Development (New Directions for Student Leadership Series No.1). Daniel Tillapaugh, PhD, is assistant professor and chair in the Department of Counselor Education at California Lutheran University, where he primarily teaches in the Counseling and College Student Personnel Program. A graduate of the University of San Diego with a PhD in leadership studies, the University of Maryland with a MEd in counseling and personnel services, and Ithaca College with a MusB in music with an outside field of sociology, he worked as a student affairs administrator for 10 years before becoming a full-time faculty member. His research interests include intersectionality and student development in higher education, college men and masculinities, and college student leadership development and education. From 2012 to 2016, he served as the chair for the Coalition on Men and Masculinities, an entity group of ACPA-College Student Educators