Snyder Leadership Legacy Fellows

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Applications are currently closed. Applications open each spring semester for the following academic year. Know a student who is a great candidate for the program? Nominate a student for Snyder Fellows at this link.

What do Snyder Fellows do?

Here are examples of some of the regular activities Fellows will participate in.

• May retreat: Kickoff the program in May with an all-intensive retreat. Fellows get an overview of the history of the program, build on leadership and professional development, interact with K-State football alumni and establish a sense of community.
• Monthly meetings: Participate in meetings to continue building community and focus on leadership/professional development through guest speakers (athletes, scholars, and business leaders) and workshops.
• Coaching: Fellows will be paired with a peer coach to meet with monthly. Coaching sessions are focused on the transition from college to career. Coaches might be alumni, faculty members or professionals from around the nation.

  

• Youth mentoring: Fellows work with youth in the Manhattan Parks and Recreation to coach teams and mentor players in various sports for eight to ten weeks of the fall semester.
• Ambassadors: Serve as ambassadors at events involving the Staley School of Leadership and Coach Snyder’s legacy. Responsibilities range from attending as guests to volunteer assistance.
• Service-learning: Uphold Coach Snyder’s values of service and community through service-learning experiences in Manhattan, Kansas, and surrounding midwestern communities.
• Coffee talks with Coach Snyder: Fellows engage in small group conversation with Coach Bill Snyder. Fellows help drive conversation with questions regarding Coach Snyder’s legacy and other topics relevant to their growth and development.

The Snyder Leadership Legacy Fellows program will:

• Provide a leadership development opportunity rooted in Coach Snyder's 16 Goals for Success to top students of Kansas State University.
• Provide an opportunity to engage in a leadership dialogue with Coach Snyder.
• Purposefully connect students to community and business leaders, successful athletes and scholars along with peers who all share an interest in exercising leadership in their lives.
• Provide tools and resources that will aid students in working toward a common goal, with others, as a team, in a competitive environment.
• Raise the visibility, importance, and expectations of leadership in action, during and after a student's formal education.
• Elevate students' passion for service, encouraging and connecting them with resources capable of transforming visions into actions that make a difference in the world in which they live.

Coach Snyder is a developer of leaders, whose legacy continues to have a tremendous impact far beyond the game of football. The Staley School of Leadership and K-State Athletics honor Coach Snyder’s leadership legacy in a manner that, like his understanding of leadership, serves individuals and communities broadly.

The Staley School will further Coach Snyder’s efforts by extending to new audiences the opportunity for personal and professional leadership development that he has so generously provided to those with whom he works and lives. The Snyder Fellows and this program will advance Coach Snyder’s work in leadership development for future generations.