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Dr. Joe Fellows

The Leadership Fellows Program was created to bridge the educational gap between learning/understanding and grasping/implementation. Undergraduate university students who desired to expand their knowledge of leadership theory and application proposed the creation of the program. We are now in the second year of the Dr. Joe’s Leadership Fellows and the program continues to grow and develop.

The Leadership Fellows Program is a prestigious, rigorous, and unique environment where selected students enhance their leadership skills in an arena – beyond the university -- that supports the fellows’ trials, errors, and successes. Leadership educators accept the fact that many people are socialized leaders who learned from experience and, consequently, shaped their leadership future accordingly. However, it is also accepted that leadership education augments achievement by initiating conscience decisions to focus on skill development and increase strengths to hasten leadership accomplishments. The Leadership Fellows Program systemizes executive leadership development.

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Internships

Explaining agriculture from the ground up is all part of a day’s work for more than 130 Texas A&M University student interns at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™. The more than 35-year-old program allows agricultural communications and journalism students and other agriculture students to work for the Show’s marketing department, events and attractions, and executive office during its three-week run every March.

The Leadership Living Learning Community (L3C)

The Leadership Living Learning Community (L3C) is an award-winning program for freshmen interesting in studying leadership, regardless of major. Program participants live on the same floor of a residence hall on the A&M campus and complete a 1 credit class each semester focusing on leadership theory and skill development.

 The L3Caddresses seven key components based on the institutional mission of the university and research conducted by the Association of American Colleges and Universities:

1. development of first year students’ transition and integration within the larger university community;
2. intentional integration of learning;
3. creation of meaningful engagement between students and faculty;
4. creation of opportunities for interaction with diverse students, staff, and faculty;
5. emphasis on holistic learning outcomes in empowered, informed, and responsible learners;
6. development of students’ ability and construction of new knowledge and knowledge of self in relationship to a larger community; and
7. development of social and academic support networks which will support their transition into and through the learning experience.

 The program is administered through a partnership between the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications and the Department of Residence Life.