College student leaders' role awareness directly affects their behavior way and the positive effect of group action. It also affects college education quality and educational training task. This study investigated college students by self-compiled questionnaire. In the period of social transformation it compared college student leaders' role awareness from pursuit of motivation, eligibility criteria, generation mode, role play, value orientation. The results showed that:college student leaders' role awareness has changed obviously for more than ten years. Based on the new features of student leaders' role awareness, the paper put forward suggestions of cultivating contemporary college students' role awareness from four aspects.