Twenty-Four Students Complete Emerging Leaders Program

The Emerging Leaders program, sponsored by New Student & Family Programs, is an exciting and engaging leadership program designed for first year students and others seeking to enhance their leadership skills. The program is an eight-week leadership series that aims to build and develop students leadership skills, team building abilities, leadership knowledge base, and self-awareness. Students commit one and half hours a week to this highly interactive series which uses experiential learning to explore the Social Change Model, originated by Helen and Alexander Astin through the Higher Education Research Institute in 1993.

The Social Change Model of Leadership Development defines leadership as collaborative, process oriented, and values-based. This model of leadership is structured around three dimensions of values the individual, the group, and the society and challenges students to view leadership from a different perspective while gaining skills that will lead to positive effective change in their communities. During Emerging Leaders sessions, students worked with positive change agents-ranging from their peers to staff, even graduate students who have held leadership roles. Participants worked in small groups and developed a service project plan that demonstrated what they learned and how they could make a difference at the University of Arkansas.

Twenty-four students participated and completed the Emerging Leaders program Wednesday, April 3.

The Spring 2013 graduates of the Emerging Leaders program are: Rahma Ali, statistics major, Cairo, Egypt; Sandra Amador, biological engineering major, David City, Panama; Brittany Bowden, business major, Conway; Xavier Clayton, psychology major, Helena-West Helena; Taylor Cooper, business marketing major, Missouri City, Texas; Lauren Cristal, marketing major, Memphis, Tenn.; Andrew Dixon, international relations major, Russellville; Trei Dudley, business management major, Lawrence, Kan.; Casey Evans, dietetics and nutrition major, Plano, Texas; Megan Johnson, biology-pre-med major, Memphis, Tenn.; Allison Kinsey, accounting major, Sherwood; Bethany Knight, biomedical engineering pre-med major, Russellville; Danielle Martin, business-information systems major, Little Rock; Darnesha Martin, accounting major, Little Rock; Austin Nguyen, English major, Van Buren; Hao Quach, business management major, Fort Smith; Tiffany Robinson, accounting major, Siloam Springs; Sharda Sims, business management major, Smackover; Lorene Thomas, history major, Rogers; Jeff Tran, biomedical engineering major, Fort Smith; Cody Vineyard, business management major, Whitewright, Texas; Brittany Williams, journalism-broadcast major, Forrest City; and Salena Young, accounting major, Conway.