Producing Leaders

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General H. Hugh Shelton Leadership Center

NC State created the Shelton Leadership Center to inspire, educate, and develop values-based leaders committed to personal integrity, professional ethics, and self-less service. The Shelton Leadership Forum attracts over 700 university corporate partners, faculty, and students to seminars on values-based leadership in the private sector, k-12 education, higher education, military and communities. The Shelton Leadership Challenge Institutes, serving over 400 students, are intensive conferences for diversity and compassion through classroom instruction and social responsibility projects. Seven endowments valued at approximately $2 million provide scholarships to students with outstanding leadership credentials, offering incentives for further growth and leadership development. University Honors students participate in leading community engagement projects.
www.ncsu.edu/extension/sheltonleadership

4-H Youth Development

4-H is NC Cooperative Extension's dynamic, non-formal educational program for today's young people. The program combines efforts of youth, volunteer leaders, state land-grant universities, state and local government, 4-H Foundations, and the US Department of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service. These partners are working across the country to assist youth in developing knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will enable them to become productive and contributing members of society, 4-H programs such as organized clubs, overnight and day camping, school enrichment, individual projects/study, child care education, and instructional TV/video offerings.
www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fourh

Engineering Entrepreneurs' Program

Created in 1993, the goal of the Engineering Entrepreneurs' Program (EEP) is to teach engineering and computer science students skills in product development, organization, management, finance, marketing, and entrepreneurship. Today, the program is a multidisciplinary program open to undergraduates from all disciplines. More than 300 students have completed the EEP, working in teams to turn creative concepts into marketable products. For example, Donald J. Barnes helped build Red Hat into the world's leading open source software company; David Anderson created PeopleClick, and HR software company based in Raleigh that employ 340 professionals and is positioned for an IPO; and Scot Wingo co-founded and sold Stingray Software, then co-founded AuctionRover.com, which sold for $166 million. His third company, Morrisville-based ChannelAdvisor, currently employs 220 and plans to add 100 new engineering, sales, and account management jobs.
www.engr.ncsu.edu/eep

Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service

The Center for Student Leadership, ethics and Public service (CSLEPS) was created in 1998 by reorganizing existing leadership and community service functions into one center that offers a comprehensive program in leadership development, ethics training, and public service outreach to local and global communities. CSLEPS envisions leaders with wisdom, compassion, and integrity who will promote a lasting commitment to the betterment of society. CSLEPS has served as a model for other universities around the country as they aspire to offer a comprehensive program for their students while partnering with non-profit agencies and other community organizations. Through the Alternative Spring and Winter Break programs, CSLEPS currently has 12 service-learning partners from North Carolina to Costa Rica and Sri Lanka.
www.ncsu.edu/csleps

Diversity Community Outreach and Partnerships

The Office of Diversity and African American Affairs collaborates and partners with ethnic, cultural, religious, and other diversity-oriented community organizations, as well as private businesses and corporations interested in diversity issues. In return, these partnerships and collaborations increase NC State's access to research and educational resources in the community. By working together, these organizations conduct programs that enrich student, faculty, and staff understanding of diversity and multicultural issues that affect our communities, businesses and society. Examples of partners are Shaw University, St. Augustine's College, the City of Raleigh, NC Society for Hispanic Professionals, the Muslim American Public Affairs council and the NC River States Association.
www.ncsu.edu/provost/offices/diversity

The Science House

The Science House (TSH) annually reaches more than 3,500 teachers and 28,000 students in all 100 counties of North Carolina, through Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics teacher training, content courses, school-based assistance, curriculum materials, and student science activities.TSH helps teachers teach better so that students learn better. Strategically located in Lenoir, Edenton, Fayetteville, Jacksonville, and Asheville, satellite officer serve many of the most resource-poor school systems in the state. Founded in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences 16 years ago, TSH has served as a national model in linking research universities with K-12 schools. It has led teacher professional development programs in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Arizona, and Texas in addition to hosting national conferences on K-12 outreach from university science departments.
www.science-house.org