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Call
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The LEAD Project:
Building Communities of Color
Leading through Education,
Activism and Diversity
The Black Community Services
Center, Native
American Cultural
Center, Asian American
Activities Center,
and El Centro Chicano are proud to announce the LEAD Project: Building
Communities of Color, a leadership development program for students
interested in exploring issues of collaboration and social change with
particular emphasis on Stanford’s ethnic communities.
Organization and
Expectations
The LEAD program spans Winter and Fall quarters and consists of weekly
meetings, a Fall quarter weekend retreat, and a student designed and
executed social change project in the Winter quarter. The retreat will
orient students to the Social Change Model of Leadership Development
through discussion and experiential exercises. Following the retreat, students will plan
and execute a social change activity or program in a small group setting,
thereby increasing their understanding of the Social Change Model through
its practical application.
Participant expectations are the following:
- Attendance at weekly
meetings through Fall and Winter quarters, beginning on Thursday,
October 11 at 4:00 p.m. at El Centro Chicano.
- Attendance at the retreat
(Friday afternoon, October 26 to Saturday evening, October 27) at an
off-campus facility.
- Eight to ten hours per
quarter of participation in a social change project determined by
students in small groups.
The Social Change
Model
The staff of the ethnic community centers have offered LEAD, entering its
ninth year, as a training for emerging leaders, based on the Social Change
Model of Leadership Development. We
believe that the model’s framework of collaborative, non-hierarchical
leadership is a useful tool for organizers searching for effective methods
of working across communities.
The Social Change model emphasizes value-based,
collaborative and non-hierarchical leadership as a means for diverse groups
and individuals to create effective movements for social change. The Social Change Model of leadership was
designed to “instill in young persons a strong sense of civic
responsibility and a desire for social change” (Astin, 1996). The seven core values (consciousness of
self, congruence, commitment, collaboration, common purpose, controversy
with civility and citizenship) stressed by the model are reinforced by the
action of social change.
Selection to the
Program
Five students will be selected by each of the ethnic community centers to
participate in the retreat; freshmen and sophomores will be given priority.
Retreat Logistics
Transportation,
overnight accommodations and meals will be provided. This program is funded by the Asian American
Activities Center,
Black Community
Services Center,
Native American Cultural
Center, and El Centro
Chicano; there will be no cost to program participants.
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