The Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy (ESCOP) offers a leadership development program designed as an integrated, experiential learning program to foster the development of emerging leaders. The goal of the ESCOP/ACOP Leadership Development Program is "to provide cutting-edge leadership learning experiences that facilitate personal growth and better prepare participants to lead change situations and bring value to universities and the land-grant concept."
Participants will accomplish the following objectives during the integrated three-phase program:
* Learn to manage change;
* Develop an understanding of personal leadership attributes; and
* Learn to work effectively with diverse individuals and groups.
Effective leadership is critical to the current and future success of research, higher education, and extension programs in agriculture, natural resources, and behavioral sciences in land-grant institutions.
Phase I workshop for Class 13 will be June 21-26, 2003, at the University Place Executive Conference Center and Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana. Phase II, the resident internship portion of the program, will be from July 2003 through the spring of 2004.
Phase III will be conducted as a 2-day program in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 2004.
The announcement and registration is being sent only by electronic means to state agricultural experiment station directors; directors of agricultural academic programs; 1890 institution research directors; deans of colleges of agriculture, family and consumer sciences, and veterinary medicine; directors affiliated with the National
Association of Professional Forestry Schools and Colleges, CSREES administrators and Hispanic serving institutions.
The first 78 qualified applications received on or before February 15, 2003, accompanied by the registration fee will be accepted into
Class 13. The registration fee is approximately $2250.
The Class 13 announcement and application form are available on the internet at:
http://www.escop.msstate.edu/committee/leadership/leadership.html
We can improve the quality of leadership in the land-grant agricultural research and higher education system through the ESCOP/ACOP Leadership Development Program. If you have any questions, please call Dr. LeRoy Daugherty, Program Coordinator for Class 13, at (505) 646-3125 or email
ldaugher@nmsu.edu .
(Revised September 17, 2003)