The Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute is committed to promoting community-based learning experiences that prepare students to become engaged public leaders and informed global citizens while also enriching and giving back to the communities that surround and support Miami University.
By connecting students and communities, in Southwest Ohio and around the world, the Wilks Leadership Institute advances the understanding and practice of the types of engaged leadership necessary for building a vibrant democratic society today and in the future.
The Institute was established as the result of an endowment from Miami graduate and renowned philanthropist and attorney, Harry T. Wilks.
The Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute is hosting a national symposium: "Leadership Education and the Revitalization of Democracy". To learn more, please visit the symposium website.
What's New
Wilks Scholars Featured in Op-Ed posted Friday, January 18th, 2008
The Hamilton Journal-News editorial profiled students involved in the Acting Locally program on January 14, commending the students' work to relieve tensions between Hamilton's Hispanic residents and other members of the Hamilton community.
Read the article here:
Easing Tensions a Worthy Project
The Hamilton Journal-News editorial profiled students involved in the Acting Locally program on January 14, commending the students' work to relieve tensions between Hamilton's Hispanic residents and other members of the Hamilton community.
Read the article here:
Easing Tensions a Worthy Project
Fall Leadership Conference posted Friday, November 16th, 2007
"I wish the day was longer!" - student participant
The 2007 Harry T Wilks High School Engagement Fall Program was held at Miami on 15 November 2007. As part of the Wilks Institute's ongoing commitment to collaborative work with all of our community partners, the High School Engagement Program adopted a new format this year. A small group of students from Talawanda and Hamilton high schools came to Miami to explore their own understandings of leadership and citizenship and discuss issues...
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"I wish the day was longer!" - student participant
The 2007 Harry T Wilks High School Engagement Fall Program was held at Miami on 15 November 2007. As part of the Wilks Institute's ongoing commitment to collaborative work with all of our community partners, the High School Engagement Program adopted a new format this year. A small group of students from Talawanda and Hamilton high schools came to Miami to explore their own understandings of leadership and citizenship and discuss issues that are important to them.
As part of the day's activities, the students took the Freedom Summer Walking Tour. This experience helped stimulate discussions about strategies for social change that would be most effective today.
The students identified several issues that matter to them and their community - including school funding, school climate and the need for spaces to have dialogue. Over the rest of the academic year, Miami student collaborators will work with the high school students, supporting them as they transform their ideas into action.
Events
Harvest MOON Festival on Sunday, October 28th, 2007, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Harvest Moon Festival includes animals, kids' activities, the opportunity to meet local...
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The Harvest Moon Festival includes animals, kids' activities, the opportunity to meet local farmers, and locally grown foods. Music by John Kogge and the Lonesome Strangers, the Full Moon Country Band and Smolder.
The Harvest Moon Dinner features local foods, prepared by Miami University Wilks Scholars and friends. Featuring special guest speaker Carol Goland, Executive Director of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association.
For more information, contact Whittney Barth
John Saltmarsh on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
John Saltmarsh is the Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE)...
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John Saltmarsh is the Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston as well as a faculty member in the Department of Leadership in Education in the Graduate College of Education. From 1998 through 2005, he directed the Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study at Campus Compact.
John spoke to a group of faculty and students about the need to build institutional support for engaged learning. He presented a number of strategies and pathways for doing so as individual scholars, departments and institutions.
