For decades, researchers have been studying leadership and have found it to be very difficult to fullyunderstand. A basic knowledge of leadership is available, but the details are hard to specify. Thesedetails include the complexity of the construct of leadership (Bass & Stogdill, 1990), the difficulty offorming a single definition or theoretical perspective from many possible options (Edmunds &Yewchuk, 1996; Simonton, 1995), and the lack of valid and reliable measures of leadership ability(Edmunds, 1998; Jarosewich, Pfeiffer, & Morris, 2002). All of these issues make researchingleadership difficult because it is hard to gain new knowledge and understanding of a topic when thereis not a solid foundation to build upon.Leadership has been examined on multiple levels including gifted programs in primary schools andleadership development in business, but not a lot of research has specifically looked at the collegestudent and how they view and develop leadership. This study will focus on college student leaders andhow they define leadership. Specifically, it will compare student leaders who are in a programdesigned to enhance leadership development with student leaders who are not receiving formalleadership training.