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President's Leadership ProgramThe President's Leadership Program (PLP) brings to the UNC campus a new diversity of dialogue through training in leadership theory and practice. Twenty-five incoming freshmen are admitted each year, with a total of 50 students active in the two-year program. The students selected will be outstanding high school seniors with demonstrable leadership skills and potential. These skills will be further developed and reinforced in a mix of traditional classes, leadership seminars, workshops, practice and mentoring relationships. The program's chief resource will be local, state and national leaders in business, government, education and the arts, who will be invited to share their wisdom, inspiration and practical experience. Each student will receive scholarship assistance on a renewable basis for up to two years, and are also asked to complete an internship and/or study abroad. PLP continues to welcome alliances with other programs, such as Honors and Life of the Mind, in which other outstanding students are engaged.
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PLP Seeks to support it scholars in the practical, independence-affirming experience of living, studying and working, for at least a term, either in an urban or international setting. Students in the program come from all walks of life, whether that be rural, suburban, or metropolitan areas. For this reason, it is one of PLP’s main goals to help its young adults adjust first to college in Greeley and then to wherever their professional life may take them. PLP aims to support and guide them through these crucial transitions. Either an internship or study abroad is required, and both are encouraged, in the interest of facilitating these life changes. An academic program, resting where possible on the foundations of appropriate University classes offered for General Education credit, forms the basis of the PLP structure. PLP faculty will be drawn from the community, the UNC faculty and the PLP staff. Heavy emphasis will be placed on recruiting people from outside the University whose credentials include constructive management of change. In the first year, students will be asked to complete MIND 180 (Great Ideas of Western Tradition), and PLP 100, the Foundations of Leadership seminar. In the sophomore year PLP 200, a class that stresses both concepts of change and the role of tradition in culture will be offered. PLP makes available an internship or study abroad experience in the junior year. In the senior year, there will be a capstone class reflecting on your college adventures and the world of work to come. There will be in addition competitive scholarship opportunities for juniors and seniors involved in study abroad, internships and thesis research. Students will also be encouraged to take elective classes in PLP-related subjects. View the program flyer. (PDF) View the Brochure. (PDF) |
