The book 5 Steps to Effective Student Leadership: Insights & Examples (New City Press, 2014) combines student affairs best practices with Ignatian spirituality in a resource for the formation of student leaders. Inspired by the lives and experiences of actual student leaders, 5 Steps offers real-world examples of how to engage students in effective practices that both teach the individual and build the community. The authors are BC alumni Dennis Carr and Hannah Trost and Lynch School of Education lecturer Michael James, director of LSOE’s Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education.