Conference Updates

2011 Winter Leadership Retreat & Martin Luther King Day of Service

On Friday, Jan. 14 LSJ was honored to serve as a guest speaker for the 2001 Winter Leadership Retreat, hosted by the CCNY Office of Student Life and Leadership Development (OSLLD).

I was pleased to relay my popular “You Inc. - Build Brand U” seminar. Student Life events are a wonderful way to meet the entire student body, outside of my work with Media & Communication Arts (MCA) students. I was truly inspired by the contributions of young people, particularly the breath of books they’re devouring.

The group – a vast mix of political science, pre-med, philosophy and humanities majors – also exhibited innovative social networking strategies, with a few students having a broad network of nearly 1,000 friends. These were not just casual acquaintances, but carefully crafted networks of associates. It was very interesting to learn how young people are liaising with people across the globe with similar interests. Others have used Facebook and other platforms to stay in contact with relatives and fellow students, as they’ve studied abroad. The internet has allowed them to strengthen networks.

Other students were careful not to waste an inordinate amount of time online, and valued the civility of face to face contact as they developed a substantive network of peers and mentors on the road to success.

Thanks to Daniel Fidalgo Tome, special projects coordinator, OSLLD, who put together a tremendously inspiring event. He and Robert Rodriguez, CCNY acting vice president for student affairs explained how Martin Luther King exhibited inspirational leadership qualities that enabled him to motivate groups toward vast societal change. Seminar leaders used the MLK Service Weekend as a platform to explain how student leaders can corral energy and harness skills and interests to help solve many of society’s problems.

On Monday, the official MLK holiday, CCNY students will show their strength in service to the Harlem Community. But, the efforts don’t stop here; OSLLD and the Powell Center for Policy Studies offer a wide range of service learning opportunities students can participate in throughout the year.


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