Organizational Affiliation

Current CSLEE Headquarters

Since May 2014 the headquarters of the CSLEE has been located at the Rock Ethics Institute at The Pennsylvania State University. The program center’s original headquarters was at OISE / University of Toronto from 1996 through 2003. During that time the center was jointly operated by OISE/UT and the University of Virginia. From 2003 through 2009 the headquarters shifted to Penn State University and the University of Virginia ceased its affiliation. From 2009 through 2011the headquarters moved to Nipissing         University in Ontario, Canada. From 2011 through 2014 the headquarters was re-located to the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

CSLEE Goals, Purposes and Objectives

•  To foster a high standard in the practice and study of ethical educational administration and leadership at all levels. 
• To foster close links among those concerned with studying the role played by values and ethics in the improvement of educational administration and leadership in the United States of America and internationally.
• To facilitate the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge about research and practice in values and ethics in educational administration and leadership.
• To foster high standards in the preparation and continuing education of educational leaders.
• To encourage the establishment of national and international research partnerships among those universities concerned with the practice and improvement of ethical educational administration and leadership. 
• To foster the annual international conference and signature events, which highlight and promote the study of values and ethics in educational administration and leadership.
• To promote inter-institutional exchange of teachers, students and practitioners of educational administration and leadership.
•  To recognize outstanding competence in, and signal service to, high standards in the study and practice of values and ethics in educational administration and leadership at all levels.
• To undertake any other activities which from time to time are seen by the Consortium to be in the interests of the Consortium and ethical educational administration and leadership.

Program Center Activities and Publications

Annual Conference

The annual conference sponsored by the CSLEE stands out as the most tangible evidence of our scholarship and creative professional work in this field since 1996. Since the summer of 1996 a considerable amount of intellectual momentum has developed in the field of values and ethics within Canada, the United States and world-wide. We think our Center can justifiably claim some credit for this phenomenon. Consider that in the twenty years the center has existed it has annually hosted successful conferences. These conferences have been delivered at center affiliated university locations such as Toronto (Ontario), Charlottesville (Virginia), State College (PA), Umea (Sweden), Brisbane (Queensland), Oklahoma City, and Huntsville (Ontario). The conference has also been delivered twice in Bridgetown (Barbados), and three times in Victoria (British Columbia). Average attendance has been about 100 participants, although in recent years the conference has consistently attracted more than130 attendees each year. Typically 75 or more individual presentations are delivered at the most recent conferences. This annual conference has become an institution.

Representative Sample of Other Activities and Outcomes (2012-2014)

•  sustained collaboration with faculty at eight university based centers world-wide
• two (2) refereed journals published quarterly: VEEA and JALE
• 22 graduate level and 1 under graduate level courses related to the center mandate
• 19 short conferences, colloquia, institutes, pre-service & in-service projects
• 51 refereed journal articles published by center associates from 2012 to 2014
• 8 edited academic books by center associates on values themes 2012 to 2015
• 18 books and chapters in books on values themes from 2012 to 2014
• 2 professional publications and one video on values and ethics from 2012 to 2014
• 75refereed conference papers from 2012 to 2014
• 11 research projects related to values and leadership from 2012 to 2014
  

The Two Refereed Journals of the CSLEE:

Values and Ethics in Educational Administration (VEEA)

VEEA is a fully refereed journal of the UCEA Consortium for the Study of Leadership and Ethics in Education (CSLEE). The journal was established in September, 2002. This journal is published quarterly, both in traditional paper format, as well as online. VEEA is a project operated by The Consortium for the Study of Leadership and Ethics in Education of UCEA, which was established as a University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Program Centre in June 1996. The current editor is Professor William Frick of the University of Oklahoma.

Editorial Objectives: The Values and Ethics in Educational Administration (VEEA) journal is dedicated to promoting and disseminating a broad range of scholarly inquiry relating to the areas of values and ethics, and their relationship to theory and practice in educational administration. The editor believes that the areas of values and ethics represent a promising direction for research into the practice of educational administration, and is prepared to consider a wide range of disciplined empirical and conceptual works of interest to both scholars in the field as well as practicing administrators.

Journal of Authentic Leadership in Education (JALE)

The Journal of Authentic Leadership in Education (JALE) is a refereed journal established in January 2010. This journal is published quarterly, online. JALE is a project operated by Nipissing University Centre for the Study of Leadership and Ethics of UCEA, which was established in 2009. The journal is housed in the Schulich School of Education, Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada under the editorship of Heather Rintoul.

Editorial Objectives: The Journal of Authentic Leadership in Education is dedicated to promoting and disseminating a broad range of scholarly inquiry relating to the areas of values and ethics, and their relationship to theory and practice in educational administration. The editor believes that the areas of values and ethics remain a critically important direction for research into the practice of educational administration, and is prepared to consider a wide range of disciplined empirical and conceptual works of interest to both scholars in the field as well as practicing administrators.

In recent years such scholarship has increasingly been referred to as authentic leadership. Authentic leadership is a metaphor for professionally effective, ethically sound, and consciously reflective practices in educational administration. This is leadership that is knowledge-based, values informed, and skillfully executed. Leadership by definition refers to practices that extend beyond the usual procedural context of organizational management. Authentic leadership implies a genuine kind of leadership – a hopeful, open-ended, visionary and creative response to social circumstances, as opposed to the more traditional dualistic portrayal of management and leadership practices characteristic of now obsolete research literature on effective principal practices (Begley 2001).

Annually Presented CSLEE Awards to Recognize Excellence

One of the ways the CSLEE carries out its mandate is by annually recognizing scholars who have demonstrated excellence in an area which we regard important.  We have three awards presented annually.

Willower Award of Excellence: The first award is called the Willower Award of Excellence in honour of Don Willower from Penn State who was one of the earliest participants and sponsors of the center’s work.  This award is given for significant scholarly achievement. The list of recipients since 1996 includes many world class scholars. The awards presented for the years 2012 through 2014:

Paul Begley Award: The second award is the Paul Begley Award for graduate student research on the values and ethics of educational leadership. This award was established in 2012 and there have been two awards given during the period 2012 – 2104.

CSLEE Authentic Leadership Award: The third award is the CSLEE Authentic Leadership Award for service to the field. This award was established in 2014. There has been one award given during the period 2012 – 2014.

How the reports, publications and other products associated with the work of the CSLEE address the three strategic goals of UCEA:

We summarize the relevance of the work of the CSLEE to the mandate of the UCEA with the following.

The UCEA’s strategic goals are listed as:

1. Promoting, sponsoring and disseminating research on essential problems of practice.
2. Improving the preparation and professional development of school leaders and professors.
3. Influencing policy and practice through establishing and fostering collaborative relationships.

Essentially, the UCEA’s strategic goals relate to educational leadership. On the other hand, the goals of the CSLEE focus on the values and ethics of educational leadership. We consider this an important and even essential aspect of educational leadership studies.

Valuation processes address notions of purpose, critical inquiry, due process and justice. This is more than just a grand statement. Over the twenty years that the CLEC has existed, we have conceptualized these notions and demonstrated their application in the practical setting of schools and universities with increasing precision.   A brief explanation follows.

We have found it useful to conceptualize leadership as comprised of three key elements or components –purposes, goals and/or objectives; relevant knowledge and processes; and context. The study of values and ethics most obviously relates to the first component of leadership –purposes, goals and objectives. Topics like the ethics of leadership, the purposes of education, core values and first principles are good examples. And yet other topics that the CSLEE often considers – like moral literacy, ethical analysis, and ethical problem solving also can be seen to relate to the second element of leadership we term the knowledge and processes of leadership. So that too is an important part of our mandate and one that is particularly appealing to practitioners. And finally, recognizing that any ethical position must be assessed from within a particular context, the third component of leadership is also relevant to our work. In short, the work of the CSLEE is focused by a scholarly perspective highly relevant to the goals of the UCEA.

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Values and Ethics in Educational Administration (VEEA) Journal

A Fully Refereed Journal of the UCEA Consortium for the Study of Leadership and Ethics in Education

Values and Ethics in Educational Administration is a refereed journal established in September, 2002. This journal is published quarterly, both in traditional paper format, as well as online. VEEA is a project operated by The Centre for the Study of Leadership and Ethics of UCEA, which was established as a University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Program Centre in June 1996. In 2003, the Rock Ethics Institute at The Pennsylvania State University became affiliated with the journal. The journal is currently under the editorship of William C. Frick.

EDITORIAL OBJECTIVES: The Values and Ethics in Educational Administration (VEEA) journal is dedicated to promoting and disseminating a broad range of scholarly inquiry relating to the areas of values and ethics, and their relationship to theory and practice in educational administration. The editor believes that the areas of values and ethics represent a promising direction for research into the practice of educational administration, and is prepared to consider a wide range of disciplined empirical and conceptual works of interest to both scholars in the field as well as practicing administrators.

Past Awardees for Willower Award of Excellence, Authentic Leadership, and Paul T. Begley Award 2009 – 2017

Willower Award of Excellence

2017 Pamela Bishop, Western University (Canada)

2015 Tony Normore

2014 Christopher Branson, University of Waikato

2013 Hollie Mackey, Oklahoma University

2012 Steven Gross, Temple University

2011 Michelle Young, UCEA

2010 Olof Johansson, Umea University

2009 William Lloyd Boyd, Penn State University

2008 Charles Burford, Australian Catholic University

2007 Nancy Tuana, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University

2006 Pauline Leonard

2005 Robert, J. Starratt, Boston College

2004 William Greenfield

2003 Gail Furman, Washing State University

2002 William Foster

2001 Joan Poliner Shapiro, Temple University

2001 Jacqueline Stefkovich, Penn State University

2000 Donald J. Willower, Penn StateUniversity

1999 Cyril Coombs, OISE / UT

1998 Paul Begley, Penn State University

1997 Margaret Grogan, University of Missouri

1996 Chris Hodgkinson, University of Victoria

Authentic Leadership Award

2017 Heather Rintoul, Nipissing University (Canada)

2015 Michael Bezzina, Australian Catholic University

2014 Ron Wildman, Nipissing University (Canada)

Paul T. Begley Award

2017 Tiffany A. Roberts, Nipissing University (Canada)

2017 Candace M. Miller, Western University (Canada)

 JALE Journal

The Journal of Authentic Leadership in Education (JALE) is a refereed journal established in January 2010. This journal is published quarterly, online. JALE is a project operated by Nipissing University Centre for the Study of Leadership and Ethics of UCEA, which was established in 2009. The journal is housed in the Schulich School of Education, Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada under the editorship of Heather Rintoul.

Editorial Objectives: The Journal of Authentic Leadership in Education is dedicated to promoting and disseminating a broad range of scholarly inquiry relating to the areas of values and ethics, and their relationship to theory and practice in educational administration. The editor believes that the areas of values and ethics remain a critically important direction for research into the practice of educational administration, and is prepared to consider a wide range of disciplined empirical and conceptual works of interest to both scholars in the field as well as practicing administrators.

Current Issue

 Archived Issues of JALE

Archived PDF issues of JALE can be accessed at the following link.   
https://csle.nipissingu.ca/archived-issue/