2009 Africana Leadership Institute - Program & Curriculum

The Center for Black Leadership (CBL) is inviting applications for admission to the 2009 Africana Leadership Institute (ALI) at the University of Kansas from May 18-29, 2009.

The ALI is a two-week workshop designed in the form of a roundtable where current and aspiring leaders in the public and private sectors and in various fields are brought together to discuss and learn matters related to Africana leadership, especially in African countries north and south of the Sahara, and the Caribbean. The workshop explores leadership and discusses governance from multiple perspectives—educational, civil, legislative, judicial, economic, environmental, health, religious, and municipal—especially as they adapt to a multicultural and global world. Matters related to ethics, social justice, accountability, transparency, and good governance in these various spheres will be addressed.

The Institute is open to legislators, public service personnel, department heads in private and public sectors, educational leaders (deans, department heads, registrars, deputy registrars, school principals), city leaders, local government council chairmen and chairwomen, state attorneys and judges, religious leaders, business leaders, law enforcement agents, officials of customs and immigration, health care providers at the senior management level, state commissioners, board leaders, and leaders of political parties at the local government and state levels.

Participants will visit the Kansas State Legislative Assembly and observe legislators at work if they are in session, visit the Governor’s mansion in Topeka, the Kansas City Mayor, the Dole Institute of Politics, the Museum of Natural History, the Boeing Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Pendleton Farms of Lawrence, the Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and the Kansas State University School of Agriculture. The Institute thus matches discussion with practical observation.