Campus Community
LFC Team - Community Mapping Exercise
Princeton is bustling with activities and overflowing with opportunities. This means that you should be able to find leadership development experiences that are tailored to your interests. We compiled the list of organizations below to help get you started.
Community Action
Community Action is a freshmen pre-orientation trip led by upperclassmen. Students lead a group of freshmen as they serve as community service volunteers at various places in the Princeton, Trenton, and Philadelphia areas. To become a trip leader, you must apply. For more details about this program, please check out their website:
http://pace.princeton.edu/incoming-freshmen/community-action
Outdoor Action
Outdoor Action is also a freshmen pre-orientation trip in which upperclassmen students lead a group of freshmen on various hiking trips along the East Coast. Before you lead a trip, there is a mandatory rigorous leader-training program. To be a leader, there is application process. For more information about this program please visit their website:
http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/leaders/index.shtml
Breakout
Breakout trips are also student-led groups providing community service activities, but these are sponsored by the Pace Center. Students propose trips that they would like to lead anywhere in North America. This is a great opportunity to lead not just freshmen, but students from all class years, and to travel beyond the immediate Princeton area. For more information please check out the website:
http://pace.princeton.edu/break-trips/breakout-princeton
Residential College Adviser
Residential College Advisers, or RCAs, are upperclassmen students that live among the freshmen/sophomores. RCAs provide support for underclassmen in all facets of university life, i.e., socially, academically, etc. For more information please visit the RCA website:
https://www.princeton.edu/odus/living/advising/
Reserve Officer Training Corp
If you are interested in joining the army post college and want to develop your leadership skills, ROTC offers a great opportunity to do so. For more information please visit the ROTC website.
https://www.princeton.edu/princetonarmyrotc/
Carl Fields Center
The Carl Fields Center offers a leadership education program through two mediums, a retreat and a mentoring program. For more details about either program, please look at their website:
http://www.princeton.edu/fieldscenter/education/leadership/
Student Organizations
To help develop leadership skills, a great idea is to find a student organization that you are interested in and assume an officer role. This gives you the opportunity to really see what it is like to be a leader and do so for something that you have a genuine interest in. Princeton has an extraordinary range of student organizations and club:
http://www.princeton.edu/odus/activities/organizations/directory/