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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1996
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A new class, University 210,
"Creating and Managing Change:
Principles of Leadership" will be
offered for the first time this
spring as part of the Leadership
Rice program.
"We would like students to
come out of the Rice experience
with the underlying principles of
leadership, with the experience
of having applied those principles
and with the visionandipitiative
to recognize and implement
change wherever they see the
need," Wiess College Master
John Hutchinson said.
. According to Glenn Levy, as-
sistant to Leadership Rice Direc-
tor Connie Burke, the class will
have open enrollment. However,
it y/ili be limited to 75 people,
with preference given to sopho-
more* and juniors. Seniors will
then be given priority, while
freshmen are encouraged to wail
at least a year. The course will be
targeted toward all students.
Hutchinson expects that the
course will be a mandatory pass/
lail but will not count toward the
limit of four pass/fail courses.
However, it is anticipated that
the grade required to pass will be
higher than in most courses,
around B-level work, Hutchinson
said.
UNIV 210 will be a seminar,
team-taught by award-winning
members of the Rice faculty in-
cluding English Professor Den-
nis Huston, Sociology Professor
Stephen Klineberg, History Pro-
fessor Carol Quillen, Philosophy
Professor Larry Tempkin, Social
Sciences Professor Beth Tebeaux
and English Department Linda
Driskill. The speakers are all vol-
unteers and anticipate no finan-
cial reimbursement.
Atfiording to Hutchinson,
there will be an emphasis on the
development of communication
skills, and many of the assign-
ments will involve some sort of
group work.
The current w&rking draft for
the course lists lecture topics
such as the complexities of ethi-
cal consideration, rhetoric and
negotiation, the Cuban Missile
Crisis, women's suffrage and
Houston as a microcosm for the
transformation of late 20th-cen-
tury society.
Because-the course is team-
taught, with each member teach-
ing to his strength, a possible
drawback is that the course might
be disjointed.
"[ UNIV 210] isn't really going
to be'a cohesive course," Burke
said, "But students are going to
step back and say, "Wow! That
was really interesting.'"
Grades will probably be based
on a written proposal or oral pre-
sentation of case studies, a jour-
nal and peer evaluations, Levy
said. The course will also involve
a service component.
to cultivate leaders
Program offers students leadership, mentoring opportunities
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After Vice President for Student
Affairs Zenaido Camacho read the
applications of the incoming fresh-
men last August, he was impressed
by the wide variety of talents and
enormous potential of the students.
It was then that he came up with tin-
idea for the Leadership Rice pro-
gram. .
"What We need to do at Rice is to
get you started thinking about what
you are going to do with your abili-
ties. You don't take as much time to
nurture all these talents that you
have, | and) personal self growth gets
atrophied because it is neglected."
Camacho said.
"Rice students need qualities that
distinguish them as more than- a
scholar. Rice students have shown
that they have the ability to learn
technical knowledge, but what we.
don't give our students enough of is
skills beyond the classroom,"
Camacho said.
This sentiment is reflected be
fond the hedges. "We have some
employers and educators who feel
that Rice students lack some essen-
tial skills for success in all fields,"
Leadership Rice Assistant to tin-
Director Glenn levy said.
According to Leadership Rice
Director Connie Burke, multi-tal-
ented students come to Rice, but
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load, or because their interests do
not coincide with the clubs or stu-
dent organizations on campus, stu-
dents do not get involved. Leader-
ship Rice is an "opportunity to get
involved in a leadership role, and to
think outside the 'box,'" Burke said.
The program, as it currently ex-
ists, is comprised of three parts.
First, students are required to take
the course University 210, "Creat-
ing and Managing Change: Prin-
ciples of Leadership."
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'Rice students
need qualities that
distinguish themselves
as more than a scholar.'
— Zenaido Camacho
V.P. for Student Affairs
Students can then apply for sum-
mer internships in Houston, which
will enable them to form mentoring
relationships with leaders in the cul-
tural, legal, political, financial, cor-
porate, medical and social arenas.
Finally, in the following fall semes-
ter, students who have participated
in the summer internships will be
required to take University 310, "Cre-
ating and Managing Change: Case
Studies in Leadership." This semi-
nar course will be led by various
community leaders and focus on a
case study approach.
The latter two parts of the pro-
gram were piloted this past spring
and summer, with 15 students par-
ticipating in the paid summer in-
ternships and UNIV 310.
"I have a much better apprecia-
tion for community involvement.
Also, I've realized something about
myself." Will Rice College junior
Stephen Prilliman, one of the 15 st u-
dents involved in the pilot group,
said. "In high school, I was inter-
ested in being involved in various
clubs and organizations. When I got
to Rice, I panicked about the aca-
demics and buried my head in my
books. This program lias helped me
realize how important being involved
is to me and how fnuch I enjoy work-
ing with people on projects and see-
ing the results of that work."
Hanszen College senior Jenn
Healey spent the summer at City
Hall working with Leonel Castillo,
Mayor Bob Lanier's education liai-
son. "I got an inside view of city
politics. I now understand how diffi-
cult it is to be a government official
who must respond to the needs and
interests of diverse groups and indi-
viduals," Healey said.
"The program definitely has
merit, I think, but it's also had a lot of
bumps in the start-up,", Lovett Col-
lege sophomore Christine Adessa
said. "I saw leadership Rice as an
opportunity to grow and acquire the
skills 1 need to accomplish things I
wanted to do at Rice, both for myself
and for the rest of the student body."
Adessa interned with Colleen
Morimoto, executive director of
Young Audiences of Houston Inc.
According to Burke, some of the
internships were not very success-
ful. The internships with the non-
profit organizations were more suc-
cessful, probably because they are
accustomed to working with volun-
teers, Burke said, She anticipates a
training workshop for the mentors
before the next set of internships.
"I think sustainability is going to
be the biggest problem. Student
interest won't be," Burke said.
Burke is leavingjhe program this
year for .mother position in the uni-
versity. A replacement is currently
being sought. According to Levy.
Burke is "the guiding force of this
program" and her leaving came as a
surprise.
"She did an excellent job of get-
ting the program running ... but we
think the program has a strong
enough start that we can continue
with what she started with a new
director." said Academic Coordina-
tor for Leadership Rice John
Hutchinson.
"There is no such thing as an
indispensable person," Burke said.
'The graveyards are full of indis-
pensable people. There willbe other
people that come in behind if you
have a good solid foundation."
The Leadership Rice program is
raising a lot of its oWn funding in
terms of donations from the Hous-
ton community, most notably the
Hershel and Hilda Rich family. Costs
of the program include the salary for
the program director, the summer
internships and the costs of running
the program itself. The university at
this point contributes only to the
salary of the staff member, accord-
ing to Camacho.
levy said that though there are
no immediate financial problems, a
source of long-term funding, such
as aid from the university, would
need to be found.
The goal of leadership Rice is to
"provide students with a vision for
how they might like to see change
accomplished [and to) encourage
students to be more expansive in
their thinking," Hutchinson said.
"In my mind 1 was thinking of
ways to get you to thi.nk more glo-
bally ... [my goal is that] one of these
days when students come to Rice
they come knowing that they are
expected to do many things with
their lives and their culture will nour-
ish that. We spend so much time
feeding your intellect that I want to
feed your soul ... [your] character,
compassion, integrity," Camacho
said.
Burke hopes that leadership
Rice will encourage the faculty to
teach such "soft skills" as communi-
cation. working as a team and think-
ing in a visionary way, as opposed to
simply focusing on the theoretical
and technical.
levy also reflected this senti-
ment, saying that "Rice focuses too
much on analytical thinking and ne-
glects the possibilities, [leadership
Ricel will challenge the Rice com-
munity to reconsider the way it
teaches.
"leadership Rice has the poten-
tial to really change Rice, and the
next year or so is going to be crucial
in deciding whether this program
becomes an example of the best Rice
has to offer or [whether it] fades
into the background."
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