Rice institute leader: Many universities fail to develop students’ leadership skills

“Our goal was never just to do a great job at Rice,” said Tom Kolditz, the founding director of the Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. “It was to develop a much more profound respect and commitment to leader development by universities and colleges, who currently claim to be producing the next generation of leaders. But in fact, they tend to do very little. And when they do something, often it’s for a very small group of students.”