This seminar focuses on using diagnostic assessment for radically increasing the rate of second language acquisition with students of all proficiency levels and abilities. The status quo of DA will be explicated, along with a sharing of where those in the forefront of this work intend to take DA next. While DA has principally been used with foreign language instruction, many of the principles could probably be adapted to other subject matter areas.

Betty Lou Leaver, PhD from Pushkin Institute (Moscow), is associate provost at the Defense Language Institute in Monterrey, California. Previous positions have included a variety of educational administration roles at New York Institute of Technology in Jordan and Bahrain, National Foreign Language Center, Federal Language Training Lab, NASA, and the Foreign Service Institute, as well as teaching stints at Bryn Mawr College, Middlebury College, Monterey Institute of International Studies, and the University of Pittsburgh. She has nearly 200 publications, including a dozen books, two of which are considered seminal works in the field, and has presented at conferences and conducted faculty development in 23 countries.

LCC International University has the ambitious vision of developing a new generation of leaders for Eastern Europe. This presentation highlights the applicability of the Social Change Model of Leadership Development to this private university and features an analysis of the predictors of socially responsible leadership in the student population.

Leonidas Donskis is a philosopher, historian of ideas, political commentator, and critic. He was born on August 13, 1962, in Klaipėda, Lithuania. Donskis graduated from Lithuanian State Conservatoire (now Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater), majoring in philology and theater, and then pursued his graduate studies in philosophy at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. Having received his first doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vilnius, he later earned his second doctorate in social and moral philosophy from the University of Helsinki, Finland.

His main scholarly interests lie in philosophy of history, philosophy of culture, philosophy of literature, philosophy of the social sciences, civilization theory, political theory, history of ideas, and studies in Central and East European thought.

A wandering scholar, he has researched and lectured in the USA, Great Britain, and Europe. Donskis has been an IREX-International Research and Exchanges Board Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, USA; a Swedish Institute Guest Researcher at the University of Gothenburg and a Guest Professor of East European Studies at the University of Uppsala, Sweden; a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bradford, Great Britain; Paschal P. Vacca Chair (Distinguished Visiting Professor) of Liberal Arts at the University of Montevallo in Alabama, USA; and a Fellow at the Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary.

Currently, Donskis serves as Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, and Director of the Political Science and Diplomacy School at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. In addition, he acts as Foreign Docent of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki.

In the face of such ignominious human acts as genocide, how can literature best heed the ethical call to bear witness to such reprehensible events?

Society can be divided into three sectors: public (governmental), business, and nonprofit. Nonprofit organizations, like LCC, rely on voluntary work, and they have neither governmental authority nor many of the resources business organizations have. Dr. Coita identifies the reasons nonprofit organizations need marketing. He presents the strategic directions for nonprofit marketing first for the entire sector and second for specific organizations. Competition is identified as the best-hidden public in the nonprofit context. Recognizing the existence of nonprofit competition is a clue that a nonprofit organization has adopted a strategic marketing perspective. In this context, Dr. Coita will share the original contribution of his research: a ten-element marketing mix for nonprofit activities and organizations.

The session will describe some ongoing research into the problems of measuring servant leadership within and across cultures. In particular, Dr. Fields will present a) the results of a study that compared the levels and effects of servant leadership experienced by two samples in Ghana and the USA and b) the first stage results and design of a study striving for a reliable and parsimonious measurement of servant leadership.

Dr. Fields is a Fulbright Scholar at LCC for the 2006-2007 academic year. Following this year, he will return to his role as professor in the School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia in the USA.

Since the mid-20th century, the study of the composition of Joshua has been pulled in two direction. One direction, following the ideas of von Rad, sees Joshua as the end of the Hexateuch. Other scholars, picking up on the work of Noth, see it as part of an extended Deuteronomistic History. This paper examines the earliest stage of the composition of Joshua and concludes that neither theory is fully satisfactory. Instead, it argues that Joshua 2-11 and parts of 23-24 were composed at the same time and by the same hand as the material in Deuteronomy 5-11 and 27-28. Deuteronomy and Joshua were originally two volumes of the same work and circulated as a combined document. Only later was this work incorporated into the larger Hexateuch by the work of the Yahwist.

Dr. Kevin Wilson has a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He recently published a book entitled Conversations With Scripture: The Law (Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars Study Series). Dr. Wilson is in his third year as a faculty member in the Theology Department at LCC.