The Center for Leadership Excellence is dedicated to the development and celebration of leaders. The Center focuses on three primary target activity areas: education, training, and research and development. Through these three areas, the Center strives to complement and enhance existing leadership initiatives and to offer new avenues of leadership programming through providing materials, research, and assistance in teaching, measuring effectiveness, developing a leadership data base, and working with other units to provide avenues for student engagement.

The mission of Western Kentucky University’s Center for Leadership Excellence is to enhance currently existing leadership programs, and to expand leadership education, training, and development for the University and its constituent groups. The Center envisions a future in which it is known regionally and recognized nationally for providing access to programs where students and other citizens can engage more effectively in society. The Center will develop individual and group potential to improve the quality of life in the University’s target mission area.