HIGH POINT, N.C., July 17, 2009 – Students from High Point University recently had the chance to make an impact on middle-school-aged children by presenting a special leadership seminar to 13 boys and girls at the Carson Stout Boys and Girls Club.
The two-hour seminar, led by five HPU students, placed emphasis on setting moral standards and creating a personal mission statement, and allowing these two important things to drive people in the journey through life.
“We defined various leadership styles and provided assessments to the participants so that they could determine their style,” says Duwane Rager, HPU student. “We also used interactive leadership exercises to emphasize the importance of communication between team members and to give a real-life example of the definition of leadership, which we created in the beginning of the seminar.”
Dr. Brett Carter, associate dean of students at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, also participated in the event.
Carter, an HPU alumnus and vice president of operations for the board of directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater High Point, helped provide real-life examples of his leadership within the community, and how it was rooted in his time as a member of the Boys and Girls Club when he was younger.
At the completion of the seminar, students were presented with HPU T-shirts, “an act to present the character trait of generosity that is so highly regarded here at HPU,” adds Rager. “Generosity ties into effective leadership.”
At High Point University, every student receives an extraordinary education in a fun environment with caring people. HPU, located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, is a liberal arts institution with 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 50 countries and more than 40 states at campuses in High Point and Winston-Salem. It is ranked by US News and World Report No. 5 among comprehensive universities in the South and No. 1 in its category among up-and-coming schools. Forbes.com ranks HPU in the top 6 percent among “America’s Best Colleges.” The university offers 66 undergraduate majors, 40 undergraduate minors and seven graduate degree programs. It is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and is a member of the NCAA, Division I and the Big South Conference. Visit High Point University on the Web at www.highpoint.edu. Chris DudleyVice President for [email protected]