Leadership and Service Community
If accepted into the Leadership and Service Community, you will be able to select a room on your web date depending on availability. Please visit the following address for more information on our room selection process: http://www.uhs.ilstu.edu/apply/room_selection.shtml.
- Lifestyle Location - Wilkins 4
- Faculty Mentors - Harriett Steinbach and Yvonne Pena
This community is for students who want to increase their leadership potential through diverse activities such as community service, leadership trainings, experiential trips, and mentoring relationships.
Faculty Mentors
Floor programs and activities are geared towards developing the leadership skills of the residents and broadening their capabilities to create positive change in the world around them. Residents work along side their Faculty Mentors and their Resident Assistant to engage in community activities that help them to develop both individually and as a group.
Resident Assistant
The Resident Assistant on the Leadership and Service Community is highly involved in the implementation of floor programs, serves as a campus
resource for his/her residents, and enforces University Housing Services policies and regulations.
All new residents must fill out and submit an application to live on the Leadership and Service Floor.
Service & Leadership Applications
Components of the Leadership and Service Community
- Pre-Orientation Trip
- Residents of the community and their mentors will spend time prior to the start of fall semester on an experiential trip that will include activities such as high and low ropes course, motivational leadership speakers, and strong direct service projects. This event is a great opportunity for residents to learn more about the opportunities the floor has to offer, explore their own leadership styles, make a difference in another community, and build their relationships with one another
- Regular Community Programs related to a variety of topics associated with Leadership and Service.
- Multiple Community Service Projects a Semester
- Learning Partner Program
- Your Learning Partner Groups or Pairs will be a mix of new and returning students. These pairs will exist throughout the year in order to allow you to serve as resources for each other and also to encourage you to challenge each other to be better leaders
- Small Group Opportunities
- Passion Group Project - Develop and implement a plan to create positive social change for an issue you and a small group of others are passionate about.
- Community Committee - Take on a leadership role with your community in helping to plan special events, compile a community newsletter, etc. Committees are developed based on the specific needs of the community.
- On-going Service Project - Develop and coordinate a regular on-going service opportunity for yourself and other members of the community to participate in.
- Leadership Book Club - Meet regularly to read and discuss different readings on leadership topics with other students from the community and your faculty mentors. Develop ways to share this information with other residents and to use the information to better your leadership abilities.
- MLK Day Trip - This one day trip taken each spring by members of the community unable to participate in the Civil Rights Movement Trip. Residents of the community travel to a different location each year and explore how that community recognizes the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Residents in the community use this traditional "day off" as a "day of learning".
- Semester and Year end Celebrations Banquets
Leadership & Service Community Policies
Students living on the Leadership & Service Community are expected to actively participate in the programs provided for the community, because substantial funding is provided to create and implement the unique opportunities available only to residents of this community. If a resident does not fulfill the requirements listed below, that resident may be asked to change communities at the conclusion of the semester.
Listed below are the requirements for residents of the Leadership and Service Community. The Pre-Orientation Trip mentioned in the section above can count for 1 Community Program and 1 Community Service Project. This Pre-Orientation Trip is strongly encouraged for this reason and because it serves as a cornerstone for your community experience.
Community Requirements
1st Year/ New Transfer Students living in the Leadership & Service Community must complete the following in order to remain in the community for the following semester :
- Attend 1 Community Program per month (4/semester)
- Participate in 2 Community Service Projects per Semester
- Serve as a Learning Partner to 1 or more residents on the community
- Involved in one of the following Small Groups: Passion Group, Community Committee, On-going Leadership and Service Project, or Book Club