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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn
more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
-John Quincy Adams
"Time is neutral and does not change things.
With courage and initiative, leaders change things."
-Jesse Jackson
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world, indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Mead
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to one another."
-John F. Kennedy

THE LEADERSHIP SCHOLAR PROGRAM

 

The TCU Leadership Center offers a variety of leadership seminars designed to assist students in their leadership development.  These seminars are open to any student interested in exploring leadership.  To complete the Leadership Scholar Program and receive a leadership medallion at graduation, students must earn 4 or 5 leadership credits, depending on when they began the Leadership Scholar process.

 

For those beginning the Leadership Scholar Program during or after Fall 2010, the requirements are as follows:

  • 3 seminars must be taken from a Core Curriculum that includes:
    • Exploring Leadership
    • Ethical Leadership
    • Philosophy of Leadership
    • Intercultural Leadership
    • Community Action
  • 2 additional leadership credits can be earned by:
    • taking two additional seminars (any combination of Core or Elective Seminars*)
    • taking one additional seminar and completing one leadership training equivalent**
    • completing two leadership training equivalents

Those who began the medallion track prior to Fall 2010 only need to earn 4 leadership credits (a combination of seminars and leadership training equivalents).

 

*Elective Seminars include:

  • Connections
  • Creativity in Leadership
  • Vocation and Ambition
  • Spirituality and Leadership
  • Gender and Leadership
  • Strengths-Based Leadership
  • Philanthropy and Leadership
  • Leading Through Dialogue
  • The Emotionally Intelligent Leader

  • Frog Camp Tundra

  • Leadership in Film

  • The Healthy Leader Within

**Leadership Training Equivalents include: 

  • Training for Frog Camp facilitators, Connections mentors, OSA Directors
  • RA training
  • Leadership 4 Life coaches training
  • Other trainings approved by Leadership Center staff

LEADERSHIP CREDIT

 

If you have questions about whether you have received credit for a particular seminar and/or experience, please contact Tracy Harris at t.l.harris@tcu.edu or 817-257-7855.

 

 

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The Leadership Scholar Program

 

 

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