| UAF students are tomorrow’s local, state, and national leaders. The NLC offers Alaska’s emerging leaders the best environment and resources to develop their leadership potential and enhance their overall educational experience. The NLC fosters productive collaboration between academic and co-curricular programs, enabling leadership development at all levels.
Vision:
Acting as a networking hub for leadership programs, the NLC is a center of ideas, activities, leadership development programs, leadership recognition programs, and a leadership/policy think-tank. Within the context of a uniquely Alaskan landscape, the NLC looks inward to cultivate leadership among those with greatest potential at UAF. The center reaches outward to communities throughout the state and—as it expands beyond our state borders, to offer leadership development and to support the work of other programs to ensure that the leadership needs of Alaska are fulfilled. Membership:
The NLC brings together members of the UAF Leadership Initiative Task Force to share ideas, resources, leadership activities and opportunities, and to develop teams to work on new leadership initiatives at UAF. Current Activities: Offer a unique leadership course called Leadership Alaska: Making a Difference, which pairs participating Alaska Scholars with a recognized state leader as a mentor. Link UAF leadership courses offered through the School of Management, the Honors Program, the Tanana Valley Campus Applied Business program, the ROTC program, and the Northern Studies Leadership and Civic Engagement Minor. Serve as a resource and maintain a directory of leadership programs and opportunities at UAF. Support co-curricular programming for UAF students through the Leadership Development Program at the Wood Center. Sponsor the UAF Summer Leadership Institute for high school students. Offer a major annual speaker series of interest to the University community, with outreach to Fairbanks and the state. Provide training workshops in communication, conflict management, group dynamics, dealing with difficult people, managing diversity, facilitation, motivation, and various leadership topics to local for-profit and non-profit organizations throughout the state. Fund and conduct research on leadership issues.
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The Northern Leadership Center Speaker Series presents Joe Garcia, Director of the Center for Excellence in Management Education at Western Washington University
"Leading Multicultural Teams"
September 29, 2009 at 7 pm in Schaible Auditorium at UAF. This program is open to the public. (more information under Announcements)
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SOM Mourns the Passing of Dr. Susan Herman
The School of Management is deeply saddened by the death of Dr. Susan Herman, Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Director of the Northern Leadership Center. Susan's passion for life, her work and her extended family will be missed.
For more detail visit: http://www.uaf.edu/som/about/faculty/ba/s_herman/
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CHECK OUT OUR ANNOUNCEMENT PAGE TO FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION ON: Leadership Alaska: Making a Difference! by the students of Leadership Alaska, UAF is available now. ALSO CHECK OUT LINKS TO GREAT RESOURCE SITES! To email us, click here. |
