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SERVICE Learning & Servant LEADERSHIP

‘Service’ – too often relegated to something done in one’s spare time – Caldwell Fellows seek to take deeply into the concept of service living. It is not to say that they drop everything and run for public office or work fulltime in social relief services. Rather, it is to seek to strengthen that part of themselves that is attached to something larger, whether family, community, nation or world; to see that their lives are inextricably bound up with the welfare of others. They perceive that serving precedes leading and thus strive to apply Robert Greenleaf’s principles of ‘servant leadership’ to leadership practices and vocations, including engineering, medicine, design, law, etc. Recognizing that all are not positioned equally to give of themselves, they take seriously the intellect, privilege and means that Caldwell Fellows possess and believe that "to whom much has been given is much required."

In this spirit, Caldwell Fellows commit themselves to deep engagement in service. Through the experiential learning design of the sophomore leadership seminar, Caldwell Fellows both practice the application of leadership theory and provide meaningful service in one of the program’s on-going community partnerships (see right panel). Continued engagement with one of the partners is encouraged for the full period of one's status as a Caldwell Fellow; upperclass(wo)men Fellows provide the leadership and mentoring to younger Caldwells at each of the project venues.