2- The Michigan Daily -Wednesday, July 12, 1995 Continued from page 1 Allen-Meares also said that the grant will provide the School of Social Work with cutting-edge opportunities. "(The center) is a new concept in social work," she said. The grant will provide the center with funding for five years. Kristine Siefert, assistant dean of re- search in the School of Social Work, said that the school will conduct a series of pilot research projects. "We see (the research) as ongoing and something that will have a lasting impact," she said. Some studies will focus on at-risk in- fants, welfare recipients, childhood poverty and preventive intervention programs. "Each project developed through the center has to do with poverty and mental health," Siefert said. John Wallace, assistant professor of Social Work, will be studying the relation- ship between poverty and mental health in African American adolescents to design an intervention program. "The center is unique in that it mar- ries research in poverty with research in mental health," Wallace said. "Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of people from across campus gives re- searchers an exciting opportunity to look at issues in a much broader way and with much more useful outcomes." Research will be conducted both na- tionally and in the state of Michigan, and, Siefert said, and one project will take place in Ann Arbor. "The grant has importance for re- cruitment of professors as well as oppor- tunities for exciting research," Allen- Meares said. The grant will allow the School of So- cial Work to sponsor a series of seminars in the fall. "The seminars will be available to the entire campus - from undergradu- ates to graduates," Allen-Meares said. Student leadership program aims to be 'leader and best'' By Maggie Weyhing Daily Staff Reporter Although the only concrete aspect of the program is the Board of Directors, the Michigan Leadership Institute aims to improve the quality of student leadership programs by exploring the potential of new student leaders. The concept of MLI stemmed from Leadershape, a corporate and University sponsored leadership program that has been sending students to summer training sessions free of charge for the past five years. In the beginning, Leadershape was supported by the University's College of Engineering. In its first season at the Uni- versity, Leadershape sent 27 Engineer- ing students and three students from LSA to leadership sessions. However, Suzanne Sarafa, a member of the MLI board, said that the popular- ity of Leadershape began to grow and there was a need to expand campuswide. 'We saw a need to stand beyond Leadershape and find other opportunities for undergraduate leadership," Sarafa said. As a result, Suzanne Sarafa and Greg Shannon, an LSA senior, came up with the idea of MLI. But whileMLI is in its workings, some U STETS 1Ls LI- I r Fti 11 s s s , Ui - I - the student body. Flint Wainess, president of the Michigan Student Assembly, ex- pressed concern with the proposal. 'There is a long history of moral and intellectual leadership at Michigan from the student community, and it has been a leadership conceived out of a common belief in fighting injustice on campus and across the nation," Wainess said. "Self- proclaimed leadership, or leadership just for the sake of leadership, is antithetical to that fight." Wainess also said that he believes there is room on campus for leadership as long as it is fundamentally detached from the policy-making.arms at the University. As part of the expansion process, Leadershape took on several different partners, such as the University's Busi- ness School, Athletic Department and other corporate sponsors. Still, Sarafa said that leadership opportunities needed to extend even further throughout campus. "MLI is a conceptual umbrella which links leadership development opportuni- ties at the University for students," Sarafa said. "The purpose of MLI is so that student leaders of all different levels can have the resources to see what op- portunities are available for leadership." Sarafa said that MLI is made up of a Board of Directors, which includes both students, administrators and corporate sponsors. Shannon and Sarafa are both members of the board. Shannon said that one of the mile- stones in developing MLI was a report written by students after they partici- pated in the "Leaders and Best" retreat, which was sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs. Students on the retreat were both experienced leaders and emerging leaders on campus. 'The students expressed in their report that they saw leadership opportunities on campus as very importantandthey wanted the University to continue to support these opportunities," Shannon said. Sarafa said MLI is not a hierarchical structure - instead, it connects both cur- rent leadership programs at the Universit such as Leadershape and 2017 and ne initiatives for leadership. "A lot of what happens at MLI i communicating between different lea ership programs, such as collecting st dent feedback," Sarafa said. Sarafa said that the idea of MLI been talked about for the past twoyears an, is still in theprocess of development. Ho ever, MLI has drafted a proposal that list some of its potential goals. Some of thes goals include making leadership develop ment a higher priority within the Univer sity, expanding opportunities for networ ing among student leaders, and to establis a financial base for the institute. Anne Marie Ellison, chair of the Sts dent Rights Commission, said sh wary of MLI. "Leadership programs are important but have a tendency to be (divisive) i terms of who is invited and who has poten tial. The last thing we need is to be di vided," Ellison said. "Leadership pro grams give people a different background They create sort of an 'administratio speak,' or jargon for leadership that is n altogether useful." Shannon said programs for stud leadership are all student-initiated. " v eryone that we've talked to said that thi (MLI) is a good idea. I believe that it i definitely better to have leadership re sources available than not to have any a all," he said. However, Shannon agreed that th: writing of policy and leadership trainin; should be separate. "I don't think that lead ership education should be at all related t( policy-making. We don't want leaders development to be turned into a polit football field. We do want to be critique< and we do want feedback though. "I think the fight song, which wa written by students, says it the best," Shan non said. "It says that we are the 'Leader andBest,' andthat's what we should striv: to be - the best people and communit: we can possible be." ON ALL MICHIGAN T-SHIRTS, SWEATSHIRTS, AND COTTON HATS. 304 S. State Street " 4 doors South of Liberty U8480 Open Monday Through Friday 9 AM-y PM, Sat 10-9, Sun 10.6 li Need to take the... ACCess A me rCa Can help. Come to a FREE seminar! Date: Monday, July 17 Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Kaplan Educational Center 337 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor CALL 1-800-KAP-TEST to register NKtAPLAN opposition has arisen from otherlfactions of :"We Cut Hair Your Way"; Dascola Barbers: . .U 6 Barbers-No Waiting . For Men and Women . SM-F8:30-5:20Sat Til4:20 :615 E. 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