Second-Year Program
2013 Program
January 7–18, 2012
About the Program
In the second year of the program, students will investigate more deeply their own personal leadership style, developing their abilities in group work. Students will engage with a local nonprofit agency to form a strategic development plan, using their skills in writing, reflection and presentation.
An intense learning curve is typical of the Lewis Leadership Program experience. The program, which began 21 years ago, has teamed students with the Academy of Music, Friends of Children and Northampton Center for the Arts and other organizations.
Between the two interterm sessions, participants are encouraged to apply what they learn in summer internships. LLP participants have held internships at the National Institutes of Health and the White House, as well as in homeless shelters, art museums and newspapers.
Best of all, the combination of training in practical leadership skills and contributing to the local community left these students with a feeling that their work had made an important difference.
View sample second-year project (2013) (PDF)
View sample second-year project (2012) (PDF)
Read article: "Lewis Program Produces Smith Leaders"
2013 Schedule
Dining Options During Interterm
Breakfast and lunch options for Interterm are available here.
Monday, January 7, 2013
9 a.m.
Introductions and continental breakfast
Campus Center Carroll Room
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Understanding Leadership and Setting Life Goals
Campus Center 103/104
Jeanette Jackson and Maria Coolican
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
9 a.m. to Noon
Leadership
Campus Center 103/104
Jeanette Jackson and Maria Coolican
Noon
Lunch
1 to 2:30 p.m.
Social Entrepreneurship (combined session with first-year program participants)
Campus Center Carroll Room
Kayleigh Colombero '08, Program Director, Project Coach
2:30 to 4 p.m.
Leadership Experiences and Reflections (combined session with first-year program participants)
Campus Center Carroll Room
Jeanette Jackson and Maria Coolican
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Leadership
Campus Center 103/104 (with a working lunch)
Jeanette Jackson and Maria Coolican
1 to 4 p.m.
Leadership shadowing experiences
Thursday, January 10, 2013
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Leadership
Campus Center 103/104 (with a working lunch)
Jeanette Jackson and Maria Coolican
Friday, January 13, 2012
9 to 9:45 a.m.
Overview of Group Project Process, team assignments
Campus Center Carroll Room
10 to 11 a.m.
Presentation of group project with the Global Studies Center
Global Studies Center, Wright Hall
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Lunch and meeting with team leaders
Duckett Dining Room
Sarah Craig, Rae-Anne Butera and Patti Thornton
Afternoon
Team meetings and appointments with participants, constituents, stakeholders of the GSC, as needed
Saturday & Sunday, January 12 & 13, 2013
Appointments will be held with participants and constituents of the Global Studies Center. Meeting times will be set according to team needs.
Monday–Thursday, January 14–17, 2013
Meeting times will be set according to team needs except as follows.
Please use Campus Center 103/104 as your headquarters. Campus Center 003 is available as a breakout space.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Noon to 2 p.m.
Lunch and check-in meeting with all teams: What has your team concluded so far? What do you want to communicate to and learn from the other teams? What are your remaining questions? What are your plans?
Campus Center Carroll Room
Nancy Whittier and GSC leaders
7 to 8 p.m.
Refresher on presentation skills
Wright Hall 004
Patricia VandenBerg
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Noon
Booklets for presentation due to Erica Banz
Content must be sent in PDF format to ebanz@smith.edu. Send only one document with all pages in order and ready for print. If pages are numbered, they need to be in correct order for the entire booklet so all groups need to have pages numbered in bottom right corner of page. For instance, if Group One has pages 1–10, Group Two needs to have 11–20, etc.
7:30 to 9 p.m.
Practice presentation for comments by the director and team leaders
Wright Hall 004
Friday, January 18, 2013
9 a.m.
Presentation run-through
Campus Center Carroll Room
11 a.m.
Presentation to leadership of Global Studies Center (first years attend)
Campus Center Carroll Room
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Debriefing and Conclusions
Campus Center Carroll Room
