UNDERGRADUATE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
UNDERGRADUATE
INST I TUTE Training for Leadeship since 1911
Since then, it has served as a principle theme around which the fraternity has oriented its goals, especially for its undergraduate members. After being adopted as the fraternity’s official motto, it was for- mally implemented by establishing the Undergraduate Leadership Conference (ULC) during the Golden Anniversary Grand Chapter Meeting in Indianapo- lis, Indiana, in 1961. Despite its origins as a national leadership program during the Conclave, the conference was later adopted at the province level to expand its reach to collegiate mem- bers annually. Then, following Grand Polemarch Wilson’s untimely death in 1979, the fraternity officially renamed the ULC the C. Rodger Wilson Leader- ship Conference in his honor in 1986. It was nearly 50 years later before Kappa Alpha Psi would revisit Grand Polemarch Wilson’s vision for a national leadership program for undergraduates. Building upon the Undergraduate Provincial Officers’ Leadership Conference, which was C harles Rodger Wilson, the 16th Grand Psi®, coined the phrase “training for leadership” in 1957. Polemarch of Kappa Alpha
Members of the Lambda Class arrive for the start of the 2024 Undergraduate Leadership Institute.
initiated by 28th Grand Polemarch Ronald R. Young and directed by 51st Junior Grand Vice Jwyanza Nuriddin (1995-1997), 29th Grand Polemarch Howard L. Tutman, Jr. appointed Brother Rev. Dr. Michael R. Moore (Dean of the Institute) and Brother Robert J. Johnson, Jr. (Assistant Dean) to oversee the administration of the new Kappa Leadership Institute (KLI) in the year 2000. The 53rd Junior Grand Vice Polemarch Kareem T. Brantley (1999-2001) led the new- found institute, convened elected undergraduate provincial officers from across the fraternity to learn about various leadership approaches, con- duct the day-to-day operations of their chapter, and demonstrated effective leadership within other organizations in which they were involved.
Still, the fraternity strongly desired to expand its vision and further commit itself to developing other leaders from individual chapters throughout the organization. Then, in 2004, 30th Grand Polemarch Samuel C. Hamilton and Brother Stanley J. Pritchett, Sr. (Chairman of the Leadership Development & Career Development Cluster) worked in tandem with Brother André G. Early (Director of Undergraduate & Univer- sity Affairs) to bring the fraternity’s flagship leadership program, the Undergraduate Leadership Institute (ULI), to life. This past June, the ULI celebrated 20 years with its Lambda Klass of Kappa Fellows. A one-of-a-kind leadership development program in all fraternity life, the ULI brings together
38 THE JOURNAL ♦ FALL 2023
Made with FlippingBook - Online magazine maker