The College of Agriculture and Human Sciences (CAHS) Student Leadership Apprentice Program had an excellent start this month. The advisors and co-creators, LaRachelle Smith and Danielle Y. Hairston Green received thirty applications from students who were either enrolled or employed in CAHS to participate in the eight-month long intense program. Ten emerging leaders completed all of the requirements for selection and were invited to join Cohort 3 of SLAP 2016-2017. The first of a series of seven workshops occurred on Friday, September 09, 2016.
Mark D. Tschaepe, SLAP Executive Mentor, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences at Prairie View A&M University facilitated this highly engaging session. Tschaepe’s presentation “Identifying Core Values and Effective Communication” included an eye-opening discussion on microaggression and how unstated, unquestioned, and undetected issues of microaggression can impact values and beliefs and subsequently damage an individual’s leadership. One excited apprentice shared that, “If this is the way our workshops will be moving forward, I am even more excited about this experience with SLAP.” Another apprentice suggested that “this topic should be shared with all students and faculty on campus. It is timely, and needed”.
The next discussion will be held on September 16, 2016. Ali Fares, SLAP Executive Mentor and Associate Director for Research in the Cooperative Agricultural Research Center, will discuss “Setting a Professional Agenda and The Importance of Creativity.” This session is designed to help apprentices identify key policy and advocacy techniques that will help them address causes they are passionate about while challenging them to be creative and innovative in their approach.
The SLAP program is a research project designed to help students interested in careers in Agriculture to develop key non-cognitive skills that are essential to early career success.
IRB Protocol: 2016-002
Danielle Hairston-Green, Ph.D.
Program Specialist, Family and Consumer Sciences
dyhairstongreen@pvamu.edu
(936) 261-5118