CSL Newsletter

CENTER FOR STUDENT LEADERSHIP NEWSLETTER

ISSUE 1 – FALL 2010 Leadership Symposium The Cal Student Leadership Symposium is an annual campus event that draws nearly 500 student leaders and Cal Alumni from all over California and from as far away as Mexico. Entirely student planned and run, this conference is dedicated to connecting college...

Future Leaders Program The Future Leaders Program is a scholarship program for high achieving transfer students.

Eight students are selected annually to participate in a twoyear... (continued on page 2)

Blueprint Leadership Development Program The Blueprint Leaders for Social Justice program has 21 student participants this year. This fall students have been engaging in multiple ... (continued on page 2)

Indaba Multicultural Retreat The 2010 Indaba Multicultural Leadership Retreat continued to provide participants with an engaging

transformational leadership experience.

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Directors’ Message

our services to meet student needs and goals. We thank those who have donated to leadership development at CSL. Your donations are going to help provide leadership development opportunities to serve the next generation of students. If you wish to drop $5 dollars, or $50, or $1000 dollars, please consider contributing. Every penny counts!

Greetings from the Center for Student Leadership! We are excited to welcome you to our inaugural alumni newsletter. The goal of this annual newsletter is to keep you updated on what is happening in CSL.

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We have asked three Center for Student Leadership students to tell us the person they would most like to have dinner with and why.

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At CSL, we believe that getting involved on campus and developing your leadership skills is an integral part of a college experience. Our goal is to help each student who passes through 102 Sproul Hall find their “voice," gain a better understanding of how to collectively work together, and practice using tools and knowledge to create positive change. We offer a variety of involvement opportunities, many of which

Student Spotlight!

Amanda Carlton and Glenn DeGuzman

In closing, we envision a CSL where involvement and leadership development are embedded in student life. We believe these values enrich a college education, build community capacity, and inspire innovative ideas. We hope reading the newsletter will conjure up memories of your time here at Cal. Please stay in touch!!

were built and developed by you!

While many changes are currently occurring due to less funding, we have worked hard to reorganize and align Glenn DeGuzman

Amanda Carlton

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Leadership Symposium

Future Leaders Program

Blueprint Leadership Development Program

... students with the skills and experiences that will help them become effective agents of positive social change within their communities. This year's Symposium will be held on February 5, 2011.

... leadership course that fosters individual, group and community development. This semester FLP year one students have learned about the fundamentals of leadership theory. Additionally they are developing a social justice project, which will be implemented in the spring. The FLP year two students are using the skills and tools they learned last year; such as Leadership Colors, The Five Dysfunctions of Teams, Intercultural Conflict Styles, and The Gift of Feedback, in order to complete an organizational consulting project, which will be actualized in the spring as well. The largest change for FLP this year has been meeting together with other students in the Cal Leadership Institute for large workshops every Wednesday evening.

Through CLI, FLP students have forged relationships with students in leadership communities —such as Leadership Symposium and Blueprint.

... workshops. Students have been hard at work developing their social justice projects with the support of the CLI Student Mentors. In spring semester, Blueprinters will carry out their social justice projects in teams of 3-4. Blueprinters will contribute to positive social change through projects such as mentoring high school students who plan to become first-generation college students, teaching leadership skills to students in under-resourced high schools, raising awareness about e-waste and reducing their own usage, and holding workshops for resume building and job searching, as well as health consciousness for immigrant and refugee populations.

We look forward to seeing their accomplishments at the end of the year and hearing how their personal definitions of leadership and social justice have grown through engagement with community members and community partners.

The Leadership Symposium Planning Committee has been hard at work this semester planning for our 11th conference. This year we are excited to welcome a variety of speakers including national recognized leadership author, Barry Posner.

Opportunities remain for students looking to grow their leadership experience, as well as Cal Alumni looking to connect with this next generation of leaders. For more information contact

leadsymp@berkeley.edu or visit

campuslife.berkeley.edu/leadership/ symposium

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Indaba Multicultural Retreat The Indaba Multicultural Leadership Retreat is a national award-winning program that brings students together from selective leadership programs and student leaders from across campus.

In its third year, Indaba grew to hosting more than 70 student participants overnight at YMCA Camp Loma Mar in the Santa Cruz Mountain Range.

The majority of attendees were from the Cal Leadership Institute, including the Blueprint Leaders for Social Justice, Future Leaders Program, Leadership Symposium Planning Team, and University Health Services Senior Peer Health Coordinators. Other represented organizations

included the Cal Facilitation Team, ASUC Student Government, CalGreeks, Interfaith Action Initiative, and the Center for Student Leadership Peer Leadership Consultants.

Welcome to Indaba! Students enjoy making new friends, sharing their experiences, and learning the principles of leadership and teamwork.

A team of 14 facilitators and event staff, including students, CSL staff, and professional staff from other units at UC Berkeley, helped create memorable learning and growth experiences for participants. Students

explored who they are, where they come from, and what they believe in, while building a purposeful and sustainable leadership community through activities such as: “The Wall,” “Mars Buggy Race,” and the creation of a Multicultural Leadership

Quilt. Other Indaba highlights included an array of inventive team skits, s ‘mores by the evening bonfire, and the traditional closing activity of “Tap Someone Who…”, which recognized the meaningful impact of all participants.

Student Spotlight

If you could have dinner with any person, living or dead, who would you choose and why?

Maggie Dunbar: “I think Tina Fey would be absolutely hilarious to have dinner with ‐‐ witty, smart, and not afraid to be absolutely ridiculous. Well, either her or Mother Theresa. Totally the same thing.”

Jason Lee: “I would have dinner with Paul Ekman. He's a specialist on lie detecting through reading body

detector. I'm sure learning about the world through his lens would be an eye‐opening experience.”

Left to Right: Maggie Dunbar, Jason Lee, and Elizabeth Rangel Cortez

language and actions and has been known as the human lie

Elizabeth Rangel Cortez: “I would like to have dinner with Jesus, because I would like to get his interpretation of the scriptures and gain knowledge directly from him.”

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Thank you!

James Yuanxin Li Jennifer Yen Sizhe Liu Jasmine Tzeng

We would like to thank the following alumni and donors for their contribution to the Center for Student Leadership...

Adeeti Ullal Jessica Huang Rachel Luna-Hammer Rashid Siddiqui

Where are they now?

Olga Kalashnikova Joseph Bui David Shen

Catching up with a Center for Student Leadership alum...

What are you doing now?

I am currently studying at the UC Berkeley School of Law to get a JD in Family Law. What was the best part of your leadership program/ Center for Student Leadership office?

Alexandrea Scott ‘10

Alexandrea Scot graduated in May 2010 with a BA in Rhetoric and an AA in Philosophy from her community college. She was part of the Future Leaders Program (FLP) during her time at Cal.

The best part of the Center for Student Leadership office and FLP was that is was a reliable space, which had a trusting group of people that I could turn to for reflection and helped me remember the direction I want to take in life. What I took away from this place, I still carry with me and continue to reflect with friends and family.

What is something that you learned in leadership that has helped you after you graduated from UC Berkeley?

I have learned to focus on maximizing my strengths and

mitigating my weaknesses. In law school everyone is smart, and grades are given on a curve, so I focus on doing well in the classes that I like and are relevant for my career. Also, a lot of people like to give advice about studying, but we are already successful, so it’s important to do what has already worked for us, and knowing how to adapt when there has been a change in the material or the manner of testing.

Alexandrea Scott at the Annual Leadership Symposium in 2010 with (Left to Right) Glenn DeGuzman, Astghik Tsatryan, and Kan Yu

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Give Back!

At the Center for Student Leadership, we know that many alumni are not ready to contribute monetary donations. Many of you are in graduate school, paying student loans, and working in the non-profit field. Below are the TOP 10 ways to give back to the Center for Student Leadership. We welcome people power, in-kind donations, and monetary donations.

1. READ the CSL newsletter!

2. Donate $10 to sponsor a student to attend the Leadership Sym posium

3. Encourage a current student to get involved with CSL 4. Donate $25 to purchase StrengthsQuest for a student 5. PARTICIPATE in Leadership Symposium

6.Donate $50 to send a student to Indaba 7. Facilitate a leadership training or workshop for students 8. Donate $100 to ENHANCE leadership tools and supplies 9. Volunteer to be a mentor to a student

10. $250 Sponsor a Cal Lead Institute project

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