Wanlu Li is a female scholar with a Ph.D.inEducation. She currently serves as a lecturerat Shanghai Normal University Tianhua Col-lege.Her research focuses on leadership inhighereducation and digitalization in highereducation. She has published articles onhigher education leadership, student devel-opment and management, and the applica.tion of artificial intelligence technology.In2021,she was honored with the title ofShanghai Higher Education Counselor of theYear.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Introduction............................................................................................ 1

Chapter 2 Literature Review................................................................................... 6

Theoretic Framework .........................................................................................6

The Importance of Undergraduates' Leadership Development......................... 9

An Overview of Leadership Education in Higher Education ..........................10

Changes In Counselors' Roles and Responsibilities........................................ 16

Counselor Interventions and Student Leadership Outcomes...........................21

Key Factors Influencing Leadership Development......................................... 23

Chapter 3 Ethics and Methodology .......................................................................25

Ethics Consideration ........................................................................................ 25

Overview of Action Research Methodology ................................................... 26

Research Design ...............................................................................................31

Chapter 4 Results.................................................................................................. 37

Chapter 5 Conclusion............................................................................................54

References................................................................................................................ 57