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I am Nathenael Dereb, I am the president of the National Society of Leadership and Success at UMBC. This organizations is an amazing program for current and new students who aspire to be great leaders. By joining the organization and going through the induction process we feel confident that members will be equipped with the fundamentals of leadership, furthermore they will have access to over a quarter million in scholarships and awards, a special job bank where employers seeking to hire NSLS members and so much more. This program will build leader who make a better world. It helps students discover and achieve their goals and develops them academically, personally, and professionally. I believe that you are a good candidate to join as an executive board member and help this program flourish at UMBC.

The Society's mission is to build leaders who make a better world. It does this by helping students discover and achieve their goals, and develops them academically, personally, and professionally.

- LARGEST LEADERSHIP SOCIETY- It is the largest collegiate leadership society in the U.S. - CHAPTERS AND MEMBERS - More than 500 chapters currently exist at colleges across the country, with more than half a million members.

Established in 2001.

For most honor societies, students pay a membership fee and are inducted immediately. For the Society, students are required to participate and learn in the involvement-based leadership program in order to be inducted.

Orientation An interactive Leadership Training Day 3 different Speaker Broadcasts

Orientation is an event where student members learn: o About the Society o Steps to Induction o Membership benefits o Calendar of events.

Students also participate in a communication skills activity, called DiSC. It helps students discover their own specific communication style and the communication style of others to become a better leader.

LEARN LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES - During the three-hour interactive workshop, students participate in activities to apply leadership principles immediately into their lives. LEADERSHIP MODELS - Through a video, students are exposed to leading research on student leadership development. The video was created based on the following models: o Social Change Model o 5 Practices of Exemplary Leadership o Servant Leadership Model o 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Students participate in speaker broadcasts from the nation's leading speakers, authors and celebrities. OPEN TO ANYONE ON CAMPUS - The Society provides six speaker broadcasts per year. Speaker Broadcasts are open to anyone on campus, not just Society members.

The average size chapter is 100-300 students, depending on campus population, which means students are participating in the leadership program who may never have been involved on campus before.

The Society has had many examples of increasing student retention with its leadership program.

Many honor societies exist on campus that only benefit the highest academic achieving students. The Society doesn't have a national GPA requirement and works with campus leaders to invite students based on their academic achievements OR leadership potential.

First, the Society allows Chapter Leaders to work with National Office to decide on the GPA criteria that works for our campus. Therefore, the Society can be more inclusive than the traditional honor societies.

hese are peer mentoring groups of 6 to 8 student that come together to focus on their goals and discuss how to achieve them. These groups are where students learn the science and art of goal achievement. During this entire process we are using this as an opportunity to teach them about SMART goal setting and give them a chance to put it into practice.

Members can continue to engage with the program in several ways: They can become a "Peer Facilitator," where they Serve as a facilitator for the next group of Success Team Meetings Executive Board- Members can step up into Executive boards positions within the chapter.

For students working towards their induction, they have access to: Scholarships- over $250,000 in scholarships and awards Past Speakers- archive of broadcast speakers in the past, Job Bank- online job bank for employers looking for Society members Partnerships- Discounts from companies like, Geico insurance, dell electronics, textbooks, and Princeton review on test prep courses. For example, if a student wants to take $1000 Course to prep for GRE, they could save 10% or $100 on a $1000 course. They would have already gained the value of membership fee.

Direct support from the national office for both student members and chapter leaders Support through technology - the full website portal designed for our individual chapter The events management system we will use to make sure things are running smoothly They drive student attendance

The society has designed the "Pillar program," which are the five best practices for the chapter to be successful and they all are. Most of them involve basic communication with the chapter leaders and the national office, both of which I already do weekly with my Program Director and Executive Board. For achieving this, we will get $1,400 off the $2,800 chapter due, and we are collecting dues during the free program year to go towards Year 2. After the first year, there are other "best practices" that open up, where we can get up to $2,200 off the chapter dues.

The 1st Year of annual dues have been covered by the Society. It is free for our campus to pilot the program and we can discontinue the program at any time. EARN FUNDS BACK- Next, the Chapters also receive funding from the Society. Our chapter receives $5 for every student that joins and an additional $5 for every student that is inducted. These funds can be used to pay for the chapter dues, as well as other programming expenses. Chapters can use that money back as they see fit such as the induction ceremony, or to take students to a regional conference. The average size chapter is 100-300 members. With the pillar program and the funds we receive back from the Society we should be able to cover the dues. This is how the majority of schools pay for their program.

I will be working as the student president for the organization; my main responsibilities are to establish and govern a Society Chapter on my campus, find an executive board, get sponsorship by a department or registered as a student organization, work with the sponsoring department and National Office to invite students to join, and schedule events and run events.

The main responsibility is to serve as my mentor and oversee the chapter. Ensure that the chapter operates within the guidelines and principles of the institution. The most important duty of the advisor is to work with the National Office to invite students to participate. The time commitment to serve as an advisor is a minimum of 4 hours per month, that is less than 1 hour per week to meet with me, answer emails etc... A final duty would be getting to review, comment and approve the Success Network Team Goals that the student members will submit online.