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Leadership Development Program---IP2
What is it?
IP² stands for Information Power Squared. Because one of the fundamental qualities of excellent leaders is the ability to use information powerfully, the IP2 Leadership Program provides students voluntary opportunities to reinforce and advance their ability to locate, evaluate, and use information to pursue personal interests, to solve problems as a member of a group, and to write and present scholarly ideas.
Students apply for admission to the IP2 Leadership Program. Admissions criteria encourage students with solid academic standing to challenge themselves academically and to be active in campus leadership and community service. In each area--academics, campus involvement, and community service—students earn “credentials” through successful completion of projects designed to cultivate their ability to find and use information in a variety of contexts.
Do I have time to be a participant?
The program is designed to capitalize on courses students can or must take in their programs of study and on activities on campus and/or in the community in which students are often already involved. The difference is participants in the IP² Leadership Program enhance their participation and abilities through applying Information Power . . . and Information Power creates leaders.
Why should I do it?
Besides developing their leadership ability, students who receive full admission to the IP2 Leadership Program and remain in good standing will receive a $500 annual academic scholarship (payable by $250 per semester) and students who earn the necessary credential in the three areas will graduate with the President’s Award for Student Leadership, an honor bestowed at graduation and recognized with an honor cord, certificate, and notation on students’ official transcripts. Ideally, student engagement in the three areas of the IP2 Leadership program will foster a climate that engenders greater engagement for an increasing number of students—in that way too, participants serve as leaders.
How do I do it?
Students applying for acceptance in the IP2 Leadership Program must complete the IP2 Leadership Program Application Form and submit it to the Director of Student Life by the 15th of each month for prompt review by the IP2 Leadership Program Admissions Committee. Click here for Application Forms or in the Student Life Office in the Campus Center.
