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Leadership education must evolve to keep pace with the growing recognition that effective leadership happens in a complex environment and is as much a systemic variable as a personal one. As part of a program review process, a graduate leadership program at a private Midwestern university conducted a qualitative review of 18 online graduate programs in leadership education. In the absence of a discipline or accrediting body to govern leadership degree programs, we utilized the integrating framework of complexity leadership theory (CLT), as well as two professional societies, to understand how the curricula and competencies of online graduate education align and diverge to meet the changing assumptions and challenges of leadership.

This report reviews a series of intervention experiments aimed at reducing incidence and prevalence of heroin addiction in six Chicago neighborhoods. A key element in the research-intervention model is the mobile epidemiological field team. During outreach, the team attempts to involve active addicts in attractive, convenient treatment Projects are evaluated by monitoring local incidence and prevalence trends before, during, and after intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Incidence data are presented describing an epidemic of heroin addiction among Negro youth in Chicago following World War II. The epidemic reached its peak in 1949 and declined during the early 1950s. This report examines the effects of a variety of societal control measures on the epidemic's decline, and the implications of the findings for addiction control programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago, Illinois. Comparison of death toll with the Great Chicago Fire of 1871; Incidents; Contributing factors to death toll; Development of early warning system.