DeRuntz, B., & Henson, H., & Withee, T. (2022, August), Assessing Impact of the Leadership Development Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40875

\bibitem{asee_peer_40875}
  DeRuntz, B., \& Henson, H., \& Withee, T. (2022, August), \emph{Assessing Impact of the Leadership Development Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40875

Bruce DeRuntz, Harvey Henson, and Tom Withee.  "Assessing Impact of the Leadership Development Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40875 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_40875}
  Bruce DeRuntz, Harvey Henson, and Tom Withee.
  "Assessing Impact of the Leadership Development Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40875 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The efficacy of leadership training on undergraduate engineering and technology students before and during the COVID-19 pandemic was examined. A leadership development program (LDP) at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) emphasized active involvement and inter-personal relationship among participants to build a community of STEM leaders. The LDP recruited academically talented and economically disadvantaged STEM majors from partner community colleges and trained them as leaders. The directors framed the LPD within Social Interdependence Theory to promote and enable students to cooperatively learn to lead themselves, build leadership skills, and participate in leadership teams. The COVID-19 pandemic imposed extra challenges on implementing this model when teaching and learning switched to an online modality. Program organizers followed the program tenets and “Challenged the Process” to find innovative ways to maintain connections among and with students. Working together, students learned to apply their leadership training by organizing and completing service projects. Additionally, students practiced leadership skills within registered student organizations. Through dedication by students and coaches, the program exceeded expectations through the pandemic. The LDP continued with 100% graduation and 100% retention rates. Students in the LDP continued to show large, statistically significant gains in Leadership Self-efficacy, Motivation to Lead, and Grit compared to peers. This model of leadership development conceptually framed within the Social Interdependence Theory was effective. The LDP at SIUC is an exemplary program and could be a model for engineering leadership programs to follow. 
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