Think Big: A Program about DEI & Servant Leadership

[Allison Swick-Duttine]

"Think Big" a program about diversity, equity, inclusion and servant
leadership, will be held on Tuesday, November 16 at 7 p.m. in the ACC
Ballrooms, sponsored by the Interfraternity Council and Inter-Sorority
Association Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. In this program, Saul
Flores shares his story of helping others in need to emphasize the value of
servant leadership, and how to give back to different communities through
service-learning initiatives and humanitarian projects.

On a service-learning spring break trip to his mother’s hometown, Saul
discovered a withering cinderblock elementary school, flowered by beautiful
fields of sugarcane. Struck by the charm and contrastingly severe poverty
of the six-classroom building, Saul decided to act. He found the students
living in aluminum shanties and sleeping on the floor, lacking motivation
for school. Determined to help make a difference in the lives of the
children, and armed with the knowledge that education provides youth a
solid foundation, Saul made it his mission to raise funds to reconstruct
their school. After an arduous three-year labor of love, and with the help
of a community of scholars wanting to make a difference, the 134 elementary
students graduated in a newly reconstructed school.

As a result of attending this program, students will learn:

   - how finding purpose beyond just themselves allows them to accomplish
   much more,
   - how serving others is leadership,
   - the value of service-learning trips and giving back to communities, and
   - how to use their skills and talents in service of others.

This program is funded by the Interfraternity Council, the Inter-Sorority
Association and the Student Association Fraternity & Sorority Leadership
Programming Grants.

*ALLISON SWICK-DUTTINE*

Director of Fraternity/Sorority Life

and Project HELP


Student Association

Clubs & Organizations Affairs Board Advisor


203 Angell College Center

101 Broad Street

Plattsburgh, NY 12901

(o) 518-564-4825

(f) 518-564-4849

*plattsburgh.edu <http://plattsburgh.edu/>*
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