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Doctoral Student Guide
The Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies (DPLS) welcomes you and invites you into a process, culture, and context that serves the heart, mind, and soul. We hope that this wiki-based student guide will help give you a flavor of our culture and a positive expectation of what your doctoral studies may hold in store. If you ever have any questions, concerns, ideas, or comments please let us know. The faculty and staff of the DPLS and the broader School of Professional Studies are here for you as a resource and a source of community and support.
All Are Welcome Here
Dear Doctoral Community,
First of all, thank you, one and all for your strength and compassion, and for helping to make our community, and our university, a place of discernment, depth, love, and transformative change. One of the key elements we'd like to affirm as faculty is that we are grateful for this work together and we hope to communicate to the whole DPLS community our aspirations to be a community of tolerance, respect, and diversity. The following reflect our intentions and planning for the coming semesters.
First, we intend to include in our orientation events a film such as we viewed at our first diversity conversation (And Yet We Stayed), written material on the topic of intercultural awareness and issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, and other types of diversity, and an opportunity to engage with others in the community in a direct cafe style conversation about the community's values, ethos, and philosophy surrounding the topic.
Second, we intend in the spirit of building community and directly embodying our values around diversity to host and facilitate once a semester on a Friday night between 7:30- 8:30 an hour long shared break from class work to reflect on and engage with one another around community and inclusion.
Third, we will use graduate assistant hours these coming semesters to build a bibliography on diversity to include books, peer reviewed articles, audios, and videos. We will also follow this up with Foley Library to make sure that we begin to purchase materials for wider use in the DPLS community.
Fourth, the faculty have made a commitment to continually review, assess, and dialogue with one another a survey and audit of texts used by both core and adjunct faculty. We affirm with you that our choices around texts and readings are fundamentally connected with the call to honor the pluralistic and inclusive needs of our community and society.
Finally, in addition to a commitment to deeply engage respectful ways of being with each other in class through the use of dialogue on how the classroom community is formed and deepened, we also intend to keep the DPLS-Diversity site open and respond to communications at dpls-diversity@googlegroups.com. This is a closed list and you will only be able to send emails to the list. The 5 core faculty are members of the list and will have access to the communications. We would like to keep this channel open and resolve to respond well to communications sent to the list.
We are currently planning that two of our annual orientations will include a community wide cafe conversation. We also trust that we will get better at coordinating, hosting, and communicating the nature and intent of the forum. We believe this will be a good way to both mentor new members into our community as well as give people a forum to speak and listen around the respectful and mutually influential ways of being with each other across all levels of diversity in the doctoral program.
Again, on behalf of all of us, thank you for your openness and willingness in working together on this critical aspect of our shared experience.
Respectfully,
Caroline, Chris, James, Lisa, & Shann
Navigating the DPLS Student Guide
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Contacting the Department
Post: Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies, Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Spokane, WA 99258-2616
- Office: Tilford Building Rm 223, E 111 Desmet
- Phone: 509.313.3485
- Fax: 509.313.3463
- Email: mailto:docinfo@gonzaga.edu
