SENIOR SCHOLARS
Senior Scholars: Leading Leaders
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The Senior Year as a LEAD Scholar is designed to actively lead other leaders! In this year, our Senior Scholars assume a formal leadership role within the LEAD Scholars organization (officer, advisory board member or committee chair) and ensure the growth and development of the LEAD Scholars program. It is also a year for our Senior Scholars to begin final transition out of their university campus involvement and into their post-graduate lives.
LEAD SCHOLARS LEADERSHIP ROLES
There are three categories of leadership roles that Senior LEAD Scholars may assume within the LEAD Scholars program their senior year:
Program Committee Requirements:
Things the Senior Scholars/Committee Chairs might choose to consider (not an exhaustive list or checklist-just a resource!) are:
A copy of the Senior Scholar assigned roles and structure will be developed by the Senior Scholar cohort and provided to the President /Advisor at the 2017-2018 Kick-Off meeting.
LEAD SCHOLARS LEADERSHIP ROLES
There are three categories of leadership roles that Senior LEAD Scholars may assume within the LEAD Scholars program their senior year:
- PRESIDENT: there are only two officer positions within the LEAD Scholars organization, a president (current senior) and president -elect (current junior). The President is responsible for working directly with the president-elect and the LEAD Scholars Advisor in the holistic planning and implementation of the LEAD Scholars program. The president mentors and develops the president-elect throughout the year and the presidency is passed at the Senior Send-Off event. The president also sits on the Advisory Board.
- ADVISORY BOARD: three current seniors (with the president and president-elect serving as the fourth and fifth members) will serve as the LEAD Scholars Advisory Board. This group serves as the voice of the LEAD Scholars group, provides feedback for program growth and development and serves as a judiciary council for peer accountability within the LEAD Scholars program when needed.
- PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS: the remaining seniors serve as program committee chairs for developing the LEADALL campus wide programs each semester. The Program Committee Chairs will work together as a cohort to design the program committee positions and structure each year. The committee structure will have it's own reporting format (as determined by the seniors) with one person designated at the top of the communication pyramid who will provide the leadership team (advisor, president and president-elect) with progress updates. Within the reporting structure and committee structure designed by the LEAD scholars, the scholars will hold each other accountable for contributions and execution of the program.
Program Committee Requirements:
- it must occur in November (fall) or February (spring)
- it will be planned and led by Senior LEAD scholars
- every LEAD scholar will attend
- the topic/theme must relate to leadership (directly or indirectly)
Things the Senior Scholars/Committee Chairs might choose to consider (not an exhaustive list or checklist-just a resource!) are:
- topic/theme
- format (lecture, interactive, rotating stations, experiential, combination, etc.)
- logistics (date, time, duration, reservations needed, maintenance tickets, approvals needed, etc.)
- communication amongst LEAD scholars (what does that look like? reporting structure)
- timeline (when do things need to get accomplished? how will that be accomplished?
- accountability (how will scholars hold one another accountable to task completion/involvement?)
- components (what needs to be included?)
- resources available and needed (if you need items or funds not provided, how will you procure them? what if procurement attempts fail? what is the backup?)
- marketing (how will the event be advertised?)
- purpose (what could the student population benefit from related to leadership? how can we make it worth students' time?)
- assessment (how will you know if the program has been successful or not? how will program attendance be monitored? how will you use assessment data to improve programming for the future?)
A copy of the Senior Scholar assigned roles and structure will be developed by the Senior Scholar cohort and provided to the President /Advisor at the 2017-2018 Kick-Off meeting.