'Emerging leaders' on campus
By Justin Woodward
Last Updated:3:45 PM EST 2/24/10 Section: News
Vice President of Student Affairs and Diversity Rick DeJesus-Rueff will join teachers from four other educational systems for the Emerging Leaders Program, a new pilot program from Leadership Rochester.
Leadership Rochester is a non-profit group, and according to its website, leadershiprochester.org, it exists "to provide established and emerging leaders with knowledge and access to resources, enabling them to understand and respond to the quality of life challenges facing the Greater Rochester region."
Each year the group admits between 35 to 40 adults into its nine month long leadership training program.
The group hears from prominent community leaders and discusses how to address issues facing the Rochester community.
The idea started when Leadership Rochester learned of a similar Niagara county program which was already established.
The program has been running for a few years and works with local colleges in the area. All of the adult mentors are graduates of the adult leadership program. Leadership Rochester contacted the contributing schools through their alumni such as DeJesus.
The Rochester program is drawing students from both the city and suburban schools. The program aims to make the students more aware of civic issues and what resources are available to confront them.
He did however meet with the students last fall, at which point the students gave feedback on what direction they would like the program to go.
DeJesus said "the students were very interested in meeting their peers in other schools."
The first activity for the students took place earlier and was a daylong retreat. The retreat focused on addressing the issues of economic differences in the community through exercises involving the students separating into different economic groups and attempting to work as a society.
DeJesus said the exercise tends to mimic society at large, and that much of the same problems show up in the simulation as do in the real world, making the students aware of the issues surrounding economic disparity.
Leadership Rochester is a non-profit group, and according to its website, leadershiprochester.org, it exists "to provide established and emerging leaders with knowledge and access to resources, enabling them to understand and respond to the quality of life challenges facing the Greater Rochester region."
Each year the group admits between 35 to 40 adults into its nine month long leadership training program.
The group hears from prominent community leaders and discusses how to address issues facing the Rochester community.
The idea started when Leadership Rochester learned of a similar Niagara county program which was already established.
The program has been running for a few years and works with local colleges in the area. All of the adult mentors are graduates of the adult leadership program. Leadership Rochester contacted the contributing schools through their alumni such as DeJesus.
The Rochester program is drawing students from both the city and suburban schools. The program aims to make the students more aware of civic issues and what resources are available to confront them.
He did however meet with the students last fall, at which point the students gave feedback on what direction they would like the program to go.
DeJesus said "the students were very interested in meeting their peers in other schools."
The first activity for the students took place earlier and was a daylong retreat. The retreat focused on addressing the issues of economic differences in the community through exercises involving the students separating into different economic groups and attempting to work as a society.
DeJesus said the exercise tends to mimic society at large, and that much of the same problems show up in the simulation as do in the real world, making the students aware of the issues surrounding economic disparity.
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