Leadership Challenge
Leadership Challenge is a four-day residential experience designed to be an intensive leadership development retreat both to identify and create individual leadership potential and to promote unity and collaboration for approximately 50 K-State students. Participants are challenged to examine their identity and the diversity of others and how this can be used to enhance their leadership at K-State as part of a caring community to give back to the university.
“Leadership Challenge is a high profile, intense leadership development opportunity that the school is able to offer students outside of the minor. It helps us achieve our mission in the broadest possible sense to the benefit of the entire K-State community,” Leadership Studies director Mary Tolar said.
The theme for Leadership Challenge 2012 is “Right Here, Right Now” and will take place
in Junction City, KS at the 4-H Rock Springs location on March 1-4, 2012. The mission
of Leadership Challenge is to develop knowledgeable, ethical, caring, inclusive leaders
for a diverse K-State. Goals of the program include:
- To understand the many facets of leadership.
- To enhance the knowledge of self.
- To increase the understanding of others and how that impacts the practice of leadership.
- To understand the value of diversity and the importance of inclusion.
- To identify opportunities and challenges for improving the K-State community.
- To strategize collaborative approaches to implement change at K-State.
- To have fun and develop new relationships.
“Leadership Challenge 2012 is structured to allow students a chance to have their lives gain greater meaning and purpose during the four day retreat at Rock Springs,” coordinator J.R. Love said.
“We are very excited to have top quality people from the campus of Kansas State University to help facilitate the development process of these students,” commented Jessica Pope. Five faculty/staff participants were selected this year to serve as Senior Expedition Leaders. These individuals are from the College of Business, College of Human Ecology, Division of Greek Affairs, Recreational Services, and Housing and Dining Services.
Leadership Challenge first started in 2003 through the collaboration between faculty from Leadership Studies, representatives from the Office of Student Activities and Services, Housing & Dining Services and several student leaders on the K-State campus. The program was held in January, over four years with the following themes:
- 2003 Meet the Challenge
- 2004 Extreme Leadership: Exchange, Experience, Explore, Evolution
- 2005 Leadership in Motion: Motivate, Optimize, Visualize, Empower—MOVE!
- 2006 Lighting the Flame of Leadership
Leadership Challenge 2012
March 1-4, 2012
4-H Rock Springs
Junction City, KS
How to Apply?
Download the Student Participant application
For more information on Leadership Challenge 2012 please contact J.R. Love, II at jrlove51@ksu.edu or 785-532-3326.