Nick Mamalakis Emerging Leader Program

The Nick Mamalakis Emerging Leader Program is a fifteen-week leadership development program for first year students and students new to AASU. The program will be highly interactive with participants taking a major role in each program. Mini-lectures, skill building workshops, and human potential exercises will provide the hands-on training for the partipants to learn to be more effective as a person and as a leader.

An Emerging Leader Advisory Council, composed of community leaders, Armstrong Atlantic State University faculty members and students, operates to provide a quality leadership training experience for each student. The opportunity to get to know these community and campus leaders on an informal basis will prove invaluable for the Emerging Leaders.

Program Director

What is the purpose of the program?

• To assist new students with their transition into college leadership opportunities.
• To teach new students the skills that are needed to be sucessful in leadership positions.
• To enable students to discover within themselves the qualities that make them effective people and leaders.
• To help direct new students into appointed and elected leadership positions that are available on campus.
• To develop new students as leaders so that their marketability upon graduation is improved.

What topics are covered in the program?

• Leadership Styles
• Consensus Seeking
• How to Run a Meeting
• Coalition Building
• Motivation
• Costumer Service and Leadership
• Leadership and Reward
• Ethics in Leadership
• Communication Skills and the Leader
• Table Manners and Courtesy
• How to be a Good Leader
• How to be a Good Follower

How do I apply to the program?

Only 25 students will be chosen for the Emerging Leader Class.

What is the cost of the program?

There is no cost if you are chosen to participate in the program, and the meeting sessions are held on fifteen consecutive Mondays during the semester from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Memorial College Center.

For more information, contact:

Division of Student Affairs
Armstrong Atlantic State University
11935 Abercorn St.
Savannah, Georgia 31419-1997
Phone: 912-344-2582 Fax: 912-344-3475
Email: students@mail.armstrong.edu