LINDSBORG -- The Kansas Leadership Center recently named Bethany College a recipient of the 2021 Transformation Grant.
KLC partners with different organizations each year and guides them through a three-step leadership program.
Dr. Adam Pryor, vice president for academic and student affairs, applied for the grant on behalf of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Members of the committee will act as the Bethany College Core team. The members of the committee are: Pryor, Dr. Mark McDonald, Jessica Esquivel, Laura Jackson-Stenlund, and Brittany Torres.
This program was highly recommended by other organizations who have participated. The committee recognizes that fostering a true spirit of inclusion on campus is not as easy as fixing a technical problem. It requires examining the capacity for self-evaluation, adopting common language for articulating the challenges faced, and finding ways to celebrate the successes of slow, gradual change in the community.
KLC helps organizations develop the adaptive leadership skills to address large-scale, seemingly intractable, challenges and measure progress toward goals that can be difficult to quantify like promoting inclusion. In the coming weeks, the committee will be soliciting additional employees to participate in the KLC program.