Leadership - Office of the Provost

Leadership Scholars Program In 2010, the Carolina Leadership Initiative launched an exciting new Leadership Scholars program designed to identify, mentor, and support emerging student leaders at USC. Students accepted into this program spend a year leading a project at the university or in the Columbia community, and they also attend monthly sessions with university faculty and staff.

The Leadership Initiative is now accepting applications for its 2012-2013 Leadership Scholars program! Application materials are available here. Please contact Sarah Johnston, Graduate Assistant for the Carolina Leadership Initiative, with any questions: johnstsa@email.sc.edu.

We are pleased to announce that the following students were selected as Leadership Scholars for the 2011-2012 school year:

Lauren Talley	Educating the Populace: Reaching Out to the Underserved of Columbia through Diabetes Education Programs This project is geared towards educating Type II Diabetes patients at the Free Medical Clinic of Columbia, SC, on the severity of their disease. The aim is to improve the overall regulation of the disease through instructional classes and the use of glucose meters. After a period of 3 months, patients will come back to the clinic to be evaluated as to whether their Diabetes is being properly managed .
Jordan Addison	African-American Leadership and Education Symposium This one-day conference for University of South Carolina students as well as students from surrounding colleges will assist them in networking with professionals from the community while also learning how to further their education and enter the professional world. High school students would also be invited in an effort to expose them not only to the University of South Carolina, but also to the college admissions process.
Sam Johnson	Building Green Leadership This project is designed to research so-called ‘green’ values, design new ways to incorporate this nonstandard approach to leadership into select organizational structures on campus, and to implement those plans over the course of the 2011-2012 academic year. Most of these groups fall under the umbrella of the pre-existing campus ‘green’ organization Sustainable Carolina, a partnership between the Office of Sustainability and the Learning Center for Sustainable Futures.
Pedro De Abreu	Check Mate Foundation The Check Mate Foundation works with children in local elementary schools to instill character and leadership through the game of chess.
Coy Gibson	League of Student Organizations This project creates an effective network of communication among all USC student organizations that will inspire student involvement and growth in organizational leadership. The League's vision is to create a network that reaches all students by providing instant and accurate extracurricular knowledge through leadership "summits," a revised Student Organization website, transition handbooks, and a campus calendar of events.
Ben Muller	LGBTQ commUNITY Development Program This project is designed to promote unity among the University's LGBTQ population and Allies while also creating cross-campus awareness. The kick-off occurred at the "commUNITY Picnic," a Welcome Week event that welcomed LGBTQ individuals and Allies to the academic year and allowed them to meet each other and gain knowledge about campus and community resources. There will also be monthly workshops discussing topics pertanent to LGBTQ individuals (being out in the workplace, LGBT History Month, family support, health and wellness, financial aid, and leadership).
Sukhi Guram	Dental Health Project This project will compare the effects of monthly dental care coaching on improving dental health in elementary students compared to usual care.
Ashley Blanchard	Building the Carolina Women's Community through "The Dub" Website "The Dub" is a website designed to build community between the women who are currently living as underclassmen and upperclassmen alike in the buildings of McClintock, Wade Hampton, and Sims. It is meant to be used to connect students, provide leadership opportunities, and experience working with an online publication. "The Dub" hopes to promote a strong sense of identity, community outreach, as well as all around light-hearted humor!
Jim Talbert Reggie Bain	Carolina Science Outreach Carolina Science Outreach shares science with the public of South Carolina by offering a variety of presentations and programs to people of all ages. We are dedicated to both clarifying misconceptions about the scientific enterprise, as well as to recruiting new students into the sciences.
Erin Fedewa	Carbon Neutral Carolina Erin will collaborate with her fellow teammate, Nicole Rheinlander, to organize and plan USC's first carbon neutral athletic event. By incorporating both the community and student-athletes in offsetting carbon emissions from the athletic event, they hope to promote a change towards sustainability and environmentally-contentious decisions both on the University of South Carolina campus and in the community of Columbia as a whole.
Elizabeth Wilson	Regalia for Hope The Regalia for Hope (RforH) Project provides handmade earrings for female cancer patients throughout South Carolina. The organization believes in the empowerment of women and creates the jeweled gifts to inspire hope and reflect the patients' beauty - inside and out.
Cailin Preston	Campus Housing Eco Reps Cailin will collaborate with Margaret Bounds to train students from each residence hall on campus to serve as an EcoRep for their hall governments. The job of an EcoRep is to provide an environmentally conscious perspective for hall governments in an effort to make campus housing more sustainable and eco-friendly.
Nick Riley	The Gamecocks Thanks and Giving Meal This event will help coordinate the efforts of the Columbia community and the Gamecock network to have a positive impact on the homeless population around the city. The goal of this meal is to establish connections between campus partners, community leaders and businesses, and the homeless population of Columbia so that we can all recognize each others presence and move forward in a mutually beneficial way.