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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
Elizabeth Dole talks at first leadership lecture series
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Miranda Anaya/KANSAN Senator Elizabeth Dole discussed her experiences in the White House and with the American Red Cross on the Robert Dole Institute of Politics on April 30.
DARBY VANHOUTAN
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n front of a crowd of nearly 120 people, former U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole spoke Sunday afternoon about what it's like to be a leader and a woman, and how the two go hand-in-hand.
The event was held at the Dole Institute of Politics, which is named after her husband Bob Dole, and kicked off the Elizabeth Dole Women in Leadership Lecture series. The series will celebrate Dole and several historic papers of hers being brought to the Dole Institute of Politics.
Among the 120 attendees were Provost Neeli Bendapudi and Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. In her introduction before Dole's speech, Gray-Little laid out the multiple leadership roles Dole herself has occupied, many of which had never been held by a woman before her.
"I'm used to that," Dole said on being the only woman in the room. "Just doing my own thing and following my star. I advise the young women today to find what you're passionate about. Women are moving forward in massive ways today. I was there on the cutting edge I guess."
The North Carolina native has held positions like president of the American Red Cross, Federal Trade Commission member, public liaison assistant to President Ronald Reagan and later the first female Secretary of Transportation. She was also the first female senator for North Carolina and the Secretary of Labor for President George H.W. Bush, making her the first woman to serve two different positions in two presidents' cabinets.
White House and working on policy, as well as what advice she had for women in the audience.
Dole Institute of Politics Director Bill Lacy led the event and asked Dole a series of questions regarding her history serving in the
The experiences and trials that 80-year-old Dole discussed stood out to Andi Leuszler, a junior from Lenexa who attended the
talk.
"It was an inspiration," Lesztru said. "To hear somebody from that perspective who went through all of these struggles and did really well and succeeded is just a nice thing to be reminded of. It's nice to remember that we have made a lot of progress as women."
Junior from Santa Clara, California, Victoria Snitsar said that the most inspiring thing that stood out to her was Dole speaking on how she ran for president in 2000, almost becoming
the first woman to clinch a Republican presidential nomination.
"I'm planning to take her words to heart and am excited to see how I can use them in my own life and how I can follow in some of the trails that she blazed," Snitsar said after the event.
Trailblazers such as Dole will be featured in the lecture series in the fall semesters of years to come. According to Lacy, the lectures will feature women from a variety of backgrounds who can speak on their experience in leadership roles. There was no argument, Lacy said, that Elizabeth Dole would be the inaugural speaker of the series.
"I thought today was a wonderful kick-off," Lacy said after the event. "We couldn't conceive of a better way to start a lecture series on women in leadership than to have the individual for who the series is named as your guest."
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The Adidas Leadership Scholars program is partnering with the University. Students will participate in a six week summer program before their first semester.
Adidas, KU partnering for leadership program
▶ HAILY DIXON
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When one thinks of the brand Adidas, thoughts of a sports brand, clothing, shoes and even Jayhawk uniforms may come to mind, but its relation to academics? Not so much.
However, a program called Adidas Leadership Scholars is coming to the University, starting this summer.
According to DeAngela Burns-Wallace, vice provost for Undergraduate Studies, the program is a partnership between Adidas and the University. Its mission is to support first-generation college students, in addition
to students of low-income backgrounds.
The program will require 150-200 incoming freshmen to make a four-year commitment at the University, including attending a six-week Summer Success Academy prior to the start of a student's first semester at the University.
After the six-week program in the summer, the students will be involved in a series of programs and workshops, according to the website. With the immersion into the program, students will be able to apply these skills they learn through Adidas Leadership Scholars during their time at the University and after graduation.
"For Adidas, they truly believe that helping students be successful is a key part of the work that they do, across their relationships with higher-ed institutions," Burns-Wallace said.
Burns-Wallace said the program seeks to give students professional, academic and personal peer support, match them with an advisor and help them find their major sooner.
According to the Adidas Leadership Scholars page, students who participate in the program must complete 30 credit hours per year and maintain at least a 2.50 GPA.
The program will im-
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Dean candidates for social welfare offer plans, goals
EMILY WELLBORN
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The school has been looking for a successor since the previous dean of the School of Social Welfare resigned in the spring of 2016.
Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to view all of the presentations and evaluate the candidates before 4:30 on Wednesday. Here's a look at the candidates:
"The pool of candidates brought back to campus was a strong one," said Stephen Mazza, dean of the School of Law and chair of the search committee, in an email. "The SSW faculty, staff and students participated actively in the various parts of the interview process for each candidate."
MICHELLE CARNEY
Four candidates for the dean of the School of Social Welfare gave their presentations over the last two weeks to the University community on "The Social Work Profession in 2027 and the Role of Schools of Social Work in Preparing For It," which focused on common goals of diversity and innovation.
Carney has been the director of the School of Social Work at Arizona State University since 2014. She said that because the University is at the end of an accreditation cycle, there is an opportunity to update the curriculum.
"I think that that's really important as a dean especially in today's educational arena that you really need to be thinking ahead, whether it be two, three, five, 10 years and try to figure out what's coming in the future for students as well as for the school."
Wesley Church School of Social Welfare dean candidate
"Some schools have tried some innovative things, but in most programs we sort of make students decide whether they want to work with individual families or groups or whether they want to work with the more larger systems - communities, organizations, legislation, that sort of thing - and I think it's a false dichotomy," Carney said. "I think we need to be teaching students to think critically, and we need to be using real world cases and problem solving opportunities so that they can apply content that they've learned rather than sort of repeat or regurgitate or spit back content that they have just read."
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Carney also said her diverse experience would help her stand apart from the other candidates.
"I've been an associate dean at a similar sized university, University of Georgia, and I was also the director of a nonprofit institute for about 10 years so I have that leadership experience and I've been at Arizona State as the director of a very large school of social work for three years," Carney said. "I've had the variety of experiences and I have just an excitement about where I think social work can go."
WESLEY CHURCH
Church is the director of the School of Social Work at Louisiana State University and said he wanted to go into social work after spending time as a correctional officer in
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