Applicants in four categories of paid student leadership positions – Resident Assistant, Connections Links, Presidential Student Ambassadors and Student College Relations Assistants – kicked off their Super Bowl weekend Saturday with insight and inspiration from an all-pro roster of campus motivators.The Staff Selection Leadership Summit in the Bush Campus Center, organized by Meghan R. Delsite Coleman, assistant director of student engagement, offered a varied menu of programming aimed at helping students nurture their leadership potential and become the best versions of themselves.
Following a welcome from President Davie Jane Gilmour, the agenda comprised an introspective exercise with Allison A. Bressler Grove, director of student engagement; a conversation in which panelists answered such questions as, "What does leadership mean to you?" and "What was your most impactful leadership position?"; a trio of concurrent breakout sessions; lunch in CC Commons; resume development with Lizze R. Winters, coordinator of career programming; and a closing message from keynoter Carolyn R. Strickland, vice president for enrollment management/associate provost.