Educational leadership at Nipissing University

Leading experts in education from all over the world met at Nipissing University recently for the Second Annual NUCSLE Summer Colloquium:  Values and the Future of Educational Leadership.
As part of Nipissing’s summer institute on Educational Sustainability for PhD candidates, the colloquium generated important discussion on educational leadership in early childhood education, elementary/secondary education, post-secondary education, and professional education.

There were 55 delegates who attended the colloquium, which attracted expert presenters from Canada and the United States as well as New Zealand.  It was sponsored by the Nipissing University Centre for the Study of Leadership and Ethics (NUCSLE), one of seven university centres in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Sweden, and the United States that comprise the University Council for Educational Administration Consortium for the Study of Leadership and Ethics in Education(UCEA CSLEE).

“We were very pleased with the success of the second annual colloquium,” said Dr. Ron Wideman, professor of education at Nipissing and the director of NUCSLE. “As a preeminent institution for education, and the only Canadian university included in UCEA CSLEE, Nipissing has the ability to attract leading scholars from around the globe.  This was a fantastic opportunity for our doctoral students, our faculty and all of the delegates to engage in important discussions and collaborate on complex issues in education.”

Looking ahead, Nipissing will host the Nineteenth Annual UCEA CSLEE Values and Leadership Conference at the Deerhurst Resort in September 2014. Previous conferences have been held in Brisbane Australia; Umea Sweden; Victoria, British Columbia; and State College, Pennsylvania.  The eighteenth annual conference is being held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, this September.