YOUNGSTOWN Leadership Erie director to speak at YSU symposium

YOUNGSTOWN -- David Kozak, professor of public policy and director of leadership studies at Gannon University, Erie, Pa., will serve as the first speaker in Youngstown State University's 2003 Williamson Symposium Series.
Kozak, who is also director of Leadership Erie, will discuss "Leadership in Business and Politics," at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday in Kilcawley Center's Ohio Room at YSU.
From 1991-99, Kozak led an effort to revive Leadership Erie, which has graduated 450 leaders in the 1991-2001 classes under his leadership.
Background
Much of his career has been spent either in the military, working with the military or in politics. Most recently he was a visiting professor with the department of social sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Since 1988, he has been a consultant on national public affairs to the Chautauqua Institution.
He spent four years in the Strategic Air Command as a missile launch and test officer, and from 1981-88, he was a professor of public policy at the National War College in Washington, D.C., where he taught courses on U.S. government, politics and policy-making to midcareer military and state department officers. Before that, he was on the political science faculty of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Col., from 1972-81.
Kozak also serves on the national advisory council and as program chair for the Center for the Study of the Presidency, and in 1994, he gave a briefing to 80 White House staffers on "Golden Nugget Lessons Learned from the Study of the Presidency."
For more information on the symposium, call (330) 941-3068.