The current mayor, the first African American mayor of Houston, is a man who she recruited to be police chief, amid great controversy. The current city controller, Sylvia Garcia, is the first Hispanic woman in that post, and she is being put forward to succeed the current mayor. My goal is to help students move from seeing what they want their world to be like to actually having a plan to achieve it through public policy. The central core of leadership, she believes, is responsibility. I want to encourage them to understand that they are responsible for what happens to them today and tomorrow, and for what happens to our world in the future.
Nothing beats meeting the beast head on.
The point is to build trust, one of the fundamentals of leadership, in an environment that also stresses communication skills, problem solving in a group setting, conflict resolution, leadership-followership dynamics and confidence. In another course, on ethics and leadership, students are encouraged to explore their own core leadership values and wrestle with real-life ethical and moral dilemmas. Taking the Leadership Ball and . . . Running At Maryland, the College Park Scholars Public Leadership program has been one of the most popular of the Scholars options. About 150 freshmen and sophomores participate each year.