Previous Leadership Fora

2003

On October 31st, the 2003 Leadership Forum in the Humanities, "Serving Students and the Common Good: Developing Servant Leadership in Institutions of Higher Education", brought together over 100 representatives from the government, nonprofit, foundation, higher education and business communities at the Carter Center in Atlanta. These leaders in servant leadership development came from all across Georgia to collectively consider the implications of human development in their work of developing leaders, particularly student leaders, from a servant leadership perspective. The Georgia Servant Leadership Alliance joined the Georgia Humanities Council in hosting this program.

"Serving Students and the Common Good", the publication based on the proceedings of this event, is available for download [PDF format, 1.1MB]. A limited number of hardcopy publications are also available, by request. To receive a hardcopy, please contact Jamila Owens at jrsmith@georgiahumanities.org.

2002

During the 2002 Leadership Forum, "Collegiate-Student Perspectives on Humanities and the World Today", 68 student representatives, nominated by their four-year public and private institutions from around the state gathered on November 1st at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Each of these students, humanities majors or undergraduates with significant coursework in the humanities, shared their personal perspectives on the value of the humanities as a program of study for themselves and their communities (campus, local, national and international) and in leadership. They also described the influences that led them to embrace these perspectives.

The Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher Education, the Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges and the University System of Georgia joined the Georgia Humanities Council in hosting this program.

We've produced a publication, based on the proceedings of this event, that we hope will capture the energy, passion and spirit of the day. We invite you to share in this experience by downloading a copy of Collegiate-Student Perspectives on the Humanities and the World Today. Grant opportunities are available for those that wish to continue the conversation locally. Details are available at the back of the text. Download the text (PDF, 745KB)

2001

This third Leadership Forum, "Good Citizenship as a Foundation for Leadership", held on October 26, brought representatives from local and regional leadership organizations around the state together to examine the meaning of "good citizenship". Scholars, business people, governmental officials, and community activists shared the stories of events when their actions manifested their definitions of "good citizenship". They also described the influences that led them to embrace these definitions and the outcomes that they hope will come out of their actions. Leadership Georgia, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership, and the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education were our co-sponsors for this event. The publication based on the proceedings of this forum, may be downloaded or requested from the GHC office. Download the publication (PDF, 3.4MB)

2000

The second leadership forum, "Building Our Community: a Conversation About the Present and the Future of the Nonprofit Sector in Metropolitan Atlanta", was also at the Carter Center, in October 200. Approximately seventy donors, board members, volunteers, and nonprofit staff members, shared "why they do what they do", and their stories helped the group identify some of the common values and motivations that lead people to involvement with the sector. The forum also focused on attendees' vision for the nonprofit sector of the future. The Georgia Humanities Council sponsored this forum, in partnership with the BellSouth Foundation, the Carter Center, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, Georgia State University, the Regional Leadership Foundation, and the Southeastern Council of Foundations. A publication, "Building Our Atlanta Community", based on the proceedings of this forum, may be downloaded (PDF format, 1MB) from this site or requested from the GHC office.

1999

In October, 1999, the first of these leadership forums brought 50 scholars from 35 of our state's colleges and universities together at the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum to discuss the role of the humanities in higher education and public life. Four scholars presented papers to spark and frame the discussion. At the conclusion of the forum, we collected these papers and summaries of the discussions that had occurred and worked them into proceedings, which we published, thanks to Georgia State University. Copies of this volume, The Future of the Humanities, may be downloaded (PDF format, 0.7 MB) from this site or requested from the GHC office.

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