JOURNAL NOTES
Being Informed, Involved and Invested Even After our “Student Days are Done”
O ne of Kappa Alpha Psi Frater- nity, Inc.’s great joys is “When all our student days are done, and we from school we must go/Still we honor, love and sing thy praises o’er and o’er.” This issue features stories on two highly competitive leadership development programs for our undergraduate members: the Leadership Enhancement And Devel- opment for Kappas or LEAD Kappa and the Undergraduate Leadership Institute or ULI. LEAD Kappa is a highly structured and intense leadership experience held during a conclave year. It is designed to train participants with capacity-building skills to lead in multiple contexts—in the fraternity, on college and university campuses, in the community, and in Corporate America. ULI offers leadership train- ing for undergraduate brothers across the country in non-conclave years. What truly demonstrates the effectiveness of these programs is the graduates who have been elected to the highest offices in Kappa Alpha Psi and have been recognized with the most prestigious awards in the fraternity. The number of past Junior
“THE LEADERSHIP AND INVOLVEMENT IN THESE CRITICAL PROGRAMS UNDERGIRD THE STABILITY AND FUTURE SUCCESS OF THE FRATERNITY ... “
Grand Vice Polemarchs and recipi- ents of the Guy L. Grant and Byron K. Armstrong Awards who are now mentors, chairmen, and presenters during these sessions is a testament to the impact of these programs. They are the living embodiment of what it means to ‘honor, love, and sing thy praises’. The leadership and involvement in these critical programs undergird the stability and future success of the fra- ternity as they pour into LEAD Kappa 2023 and ULI’s 2024 Lambda Klass. 99th Guy L. Grant Awardee and 42nd Byron K. Armstrong Awardee Traelon T. Rodgers, and 57th Guy L. Grant Awardee Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III wrote each respective
article and led the training. 58th Junior Grand Vice Polemarch Kris- terpher J. Smith leads ULI. They are all examples of how we should con- tinue to invest in the next generation of undergraduate men and inspire in them the desire to not just go from school and sing the Hymn during J5 celebrations but be Informed, Involved and Invested until we reach that Golden Shore.
Yours in the Bond,
Cleveland Ferguson III, Esq. Editor, The Kappa Alpha Psi Journal
6 THE JOURNAL ♦ FALL 2023
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