Research
KLI Leadership Research Fellowships
KLI faculty and students investigate a wide range of research topics in leadership. KLI currently offers two research fellowship program opportunities for CMC students, with three available awards. These competitive fellowship awards are designed to provide students with financial fellowships that will allow them to focus more of their time on leadership research. It also encourages faculty members to support and encourage knowledge and understanding of leadership and organizational effectiveness through student research.
Awards
Up to three awards will be provided. Each fellowship award is $2,000. One half of the award is payable in the fall semester and the second half is paid in February. The award is taxable income.
Leadership Thesis Fellowship Program
This Fellowship is designed to encourage and support senior thesis research on topics related to all areas of leadership. This fellowship is open to CMC seniors only.
Leadership Research Fellowship Program
This Fellowship is designed to encourage and support student research on projects related to all areas of leadership. This fellowship is open to all CMC students.
Ongoing Research
KLI supports and disseminates research through a variety of means. Advancing research in leadership is of great importance to the Institute.
Current Research Topics
Early Career Success
The Early Career Success project is a joint project with the Lowe Institute investigating the early career success of CMC alumni and how it relates to their pre-CMC characteristics as well as their extracurricular and academic experiences at CMC.
Competency Mapping
The Competency Mapping Team’s purpose is to recognize capabilities that determine leadership according to our core values of creativity, collaboration, and courage.
Race and Leadership
The Race and Leadership team looks at race relations and racial discrimination in organizational leadership. The team will first research theories by leading scholars to conduct individual and collective studies using different literature.
Women and Leadership
The Women and Leadership team seeks to better understand the gender disparity issue in leadership, while uplifting women in leadership along the way.
Assessment
The Assessment Team is responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the leadership development plan and programming that KLI offers its students.
Responsible Leadership in Tech
This Team aims to discover which aspects of responsible leadership contribute most to the successful use of technology, particularly AI, in a particular section.
Followership
The Followership Team studies followers in the workplace and how people perceive the role of follower.