TO: Cornell Fraternity & Sorority Student Leaders:

Learn the techniques, tools and skills to be a more effective leader of your chapter. This Leadership Academy is designed to enhance your capabilities as a new member educator, mentor, trainer and chapter leader. By developing personal leadership skills, participants will be better equipped to provide support to a Chapter-wide and Cornell community-wide initiative for change. In addition, this one-credit (PE) course will appear on your transcript and strengthen your resume for employment or other post-graduate pursuits.

Enrollment in this pilot program is limited. A maximum of 30 chapters will be chosen to participate. Each chapter must send two participants: the New Member Educator for Spring 2013 Recruitment (required) and the President or other Executive Board member. Chapters with less than 20 members can send just one person, but two are still preferred.

The program consists of five three-hour early evening sessions in October and November, along with individual meetings with mentors throughout the year.

UNIVERSITY SUPPORT
The senior administrative leaders at Cornell believe strongly in the importance of this initiative; they have agreed to fund 75% of this program and meet with participants during the series. This program was created by us with a strong collaboration with the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.


BENEFITS to INDIVIDUALS:
• Enhance your personal skills in leadership, teambuilding and communication
• Receive individual leadership coaching and training from nationally recognized leaders in the field of team and leadership development
• Meet university VIP’s—upper level administrators and trustees—at networking events
• Influence the development of future training programs for Cornell fraternity/sorority leaders
• Receive one PE credit on your transcript reflecting your leadership training experience—good resume builder

BENEFITS to CHAPTERS:
• Chapter leaders receive skills training that is directly applicable to new member education as well as other chapter activities
• Chapter leaders receive real-time mentoring and support for their work with their chapters
• New members benefit from having well-trained New Member Educators
• Chapters in program receive a 4-hour teambuilding program in Spring 2013 for new member class for a significantly reduced fee

*REQUIREMENTS:
• Individual participants are required to participate in all sessions and complete all assignments
• Individual participants must be chapter officers in Spring 2013
• Participating chapters must be planning to do intake/recruitment and new member education in Spring 2013

SCHEDULE for 2012:
May 1, 2012 —Application due to Cornell Team & Leadership Center
June 1 and ongoing —Chapters Notified of Selection
Monday Section dates: Oct. 15, Oct. 22, Oct. 29, Nov. 5, Nov. 12—3-hour classes from 5-8pm, dinner included; Wednesday Section dates: Oct. 17, Oct. 23, Oct.31, Nov. 7, Nov. 14th.
Monday Nov. 12 and Wednesday Nov. 14th —Last class session, certificates awarded

Apply now! Don’t miss this opportunity to help your chapter and chapter leaders develop better communications, leadership skills and stronger bonds. Click here for application.

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Questions? Contact Amy Kohut,
Director, Cornell Team & Leadership Center
aek44@cornell.edu
607-254-4897