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LEADERSHAPE
GOES GLOBAL
Building future leaders
NC State’s Global LeaderShape Institute gets to the heart of the university’s Think and Do mission. Students
participating in the weeklong initiative prepare to share their leadership skills on campus and in the greater
community, creating and learning how to achieve a vision for their communities.
The LeaderShape Institute on campus derives from a national organization with a mission “to transform the
world by increasing the number of people who lead with integrity and a healthy disregard for the impossible.”
Since 2004, the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service has hosted an annual six-day session
for NC State students.
This year, a new part of the program emerged, one designed to further increase students’ cultural competency.
With the help of NC State’s Global Training Initiative (GTI), LeaderShape initiated a special session involving
students from NC State and Zhejiang University, one of China’s leading higher education institutions. In the
future, organizers hope to increase funding for the Global LeaderShape Institute to become an annual event
and include more students from more universities around the world.
“Seeing our stellar NC State students working alongside China’s top collegiate scholars left me feeling very
optimistic and hopeful that students of this generation have big, achievable ideas centered on leaving this world
a better place,” said David McNeill, GTI associate director.
Excerpted from the original article by Emily Packard.