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Colleges and Universities publicly market institutional mission statements as indicators of the impact the institution will have on specific aspects of student’s development (Adam, 2016). However, because mission statements are not typically considered when classifying or ranking academic institutions there is presently no direct way to regulate, substantiate or hold these organizations accountable to claims made in their mission statements (Meacham and Gaff, 2006). The Delphi Method was employed to determine to what extent do the mission statements of institutions participating in the Multi-Institutional Survey of Leadership (MSL) reflect the selected socially responsible leadership values conceptualized in the Social Change Model. These specific values were: Consciousness of Self, Controversy with Civility, and Citizenship. Consensus among experts on the strength of the presence of these values in institutions mission statements was low. The 2015 MSL’s student outcome findings for 90 institutions were then compared to the Delphi Method’s Institutional Mission Statement findings via Spearman’s Rho correlational test. The hypothesis that aggregate student outcomes would reflect differences in institutional mission statements was partially and very weakly supported. The hypothesis that disaggregate student outcomes would reflect differences in institutional mission statements was partially and very weakly supported. |
