University Role in Promoting Leadership and Commitment to the Community

Leadership can be defined as caring about people and working toward completing a mission. Consequently, there is a strong relationship between leadership and community service (or engagement with the community). Part of the mission of the university or college should be to develop the students’ leadership skills and their feeling of commitment toward their community (at a small and local level) and society (at a large level). We present some programs that were established for this purpose, and discuss the reaction of the students to them and how these programs were successful in achieving their goals and how they helped the students define and understand leadership and participate actively in service projects for the welfare of the community.