Seton Hall Selected as New Home for Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – Following a national search, the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, the leading international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the awareness, understanding, and practice of servant leadership, has selected Seton Hall University as its new home. The Center’s programs include workshops, online learning, speakers, and an international conference that connects, educates and inspires servant leaders from around the globe.

A prominent thought leader in leadership, education, religion, nonprofits, and management circles, the late Robert K. Greenleaf founded the Greenleaf Center, originally known as The Center for Applied Ethics, in 1964. His landmark essay, “The Servant as Leader,” and his book Servant Leadership: A Journey Into Legitimate Power and Greatness, launched the modern servant leadership movement.

Institutional trailblazers such as Stephen Covey, Peter Drucker, Peter Senge, Warren Bennis, and Margaret Wheatly have praised his servant-leadership model, which promotes the ethical use of power and people-centered, values-based organizations. The 10 characteristics of servant leadership include listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people, and building community.

The Greenleaf Center will relocate from Atlanta, GA, to Seton Hall’s South Orange, NJ, campus on July 1 and will be housed in Presidents Hall. The Center’s decision to be based at Seton Hall followed a highly competitive national search and selection process.

“The university and the Greenleaf Center share a commitment to the fostering of servant leadership throughout the nation and the world. By associating the Center’s research and advocacy with Seton Hall’s culture of service and leadership, we will create a powerful alliance for spreading Robert Greenleaf’s transformative ideas,” says Interim Seton Hall President Mary J. Meehan, who serves as a board member and former chair of the Greenleaf Center.

Seton Hall's commitment to servant leadership is an integral aspect of its mission and in keeping with the university’s Catholic values to cultivate students as servant leaders and to inspire all university constituents with a dedication to servant leadership. The university supports these efforts with its Center for Vocation and Servant Leadership, Servant Leader Scholars program, and an annual Servant Leadership Day.

Joseph Patrnchak, Greenleaf Center board chairman and a national pioneer in the field of servant leadership, recently addressed the University community on “Servant Leadership and the Engaged Enterprise,” during Seton Hall's eighth annual Servant Leadership Day. “The Greenleaf Center considers it a privilege to be here at Seton Hall. We recognize that the qualities of servant leadership have permeated the University for many years, and that Seton Hall has fully committed to servant leadership and forming students as servant leaders,” said Patrnchak.

About Seton Hall University
One of the country’s leading Catholic universities, Seton Hall has been showing the world what great minds can do since 1856. Home to nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students and offering more than 90 rigorous academic programs, Seton Hall’s academic excellence has been singled out for distinction by The Princeton Review, U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Seton Hall embraces students of all religions and prepares them to be exemplary servant leaders and global citizens. In recent years, the university has achieved extraordinary success. Since 2009, it has seen record-breaking undergraduate enrollment growth and an impressive 110-point increase in the average SAT scores of incoming freshmen. In the past decade, Seton Hall students and alumni have received more than 30 Fulbright Scholarships as well as other prestigious academic honors, including Boren Awards, Pickering Fellowships, Udall Scholarships, and a Rhodes Scholarship. The university is also proud to be the third most diverse national Catholic university in the nation.

During the past five years, the university has invested more than $165 million in new campus buildings and renovations. In 2015, Seton Hall launched a School of Medicine as well as a College of Communication and the Arts. The university’s beautiful main campus in suburban South Orange, N.J. is only 14 miles from New York City—offering students a wealth of employment, internship, and cultural and entertainment opportunities. Seton Hall’s nationally recognized School of Law is located prominently in downtown Newark. The university’s Interprofessional Health Sciences (IHS) campus in Clifton and Nutley, NJ, opened in the summer of 2018. The IHS campus houses the University’s College of Nursing, School of Health and Medical Sciences, and the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University. For more information, visit www.shu.edu.

Featured

  • Spaces4Learning Announces Winners of 2025 Product Awards

    Spaces4Learning has just announced the winners of the 2025 Product Awards! The award program recognizes innovation and excellence in products that enhance learning environments in K–12 schools and institutions of higher education.

  • i-PRO, NovoTrax Partner for New School Emergency Response Solution

    i-PRO Americas, Inc., which manufactures edge computing cameras, recently announced a partnership with NovoTrax, provider of end-to-end life safety and mass notification solutions, to address gaps in emergency response workflows at K–12 schools, according to a news release.

  • AP Construction Breaks Ground on Two Projects for Austin ISD

    Adolfson & Peterson Construction (AP) recently announced that it has broken ground on two renovation projects for the Austin Independent School District, according to a news release. The work at McCallum and Anderson High Schools totals 97,350 square feet and is scheduled for completion in January 2027.

  • cutaway view of a modern school building, showing various rooms and zones

    Layering AI into HVAC Systems Shows Reduction in Carbon Emissions

    Heating and cooling systems are just one of the many new ways that AI can be integrated into schools. According to a new study from Schneider Electric's Sustainability Research Institute, AI-powered HVAC systems in schools can lead to significant carbon emissions savings.

Digital Edition