ALPS Mission

"The mission of the Academic Leadership Program is to recruit, retain, develop, and impel into action knowledgeable and caring leaders for Western State College and beyond. The Academic Leadership Program utilizes intentional leadership development curricula, challenge and support, service learning, campus engagement, community involvement, and information sharing as tools to achieve this goal. The Academic Leadership Program is motivated by the academic mission of the college and as such strives to maintain high participant grade point average and attract well qualified high school students to Western State College."

ALPS Statement of Values

• Leadership: role modeling and engaging with others to achieve a positive end.

• Initiative: the action of leaders, taking on new things that you believe in.

• Responsibility: the quality of taking ownership for the outcomes of leadership, no matter how much work that means, when it is convenient or inconvenient, and doing so honestly.

• Involvement and engagement in campus and community: putting ones self out there, doing activities, taking on roles, being a part of what is happening, breaking out of ones shell.

• Respect: being non-judgmental, hearing, listening, understanding of others, following the golden rule, being civil, being a good role model, and being a good communicator.

• Communication: the quality of understanding others and expressing yourself in good faith, while knowing oneself, and the other as well as possible.

• Commitment to academic excellence and integrity: honestly and diligently applying oneself to the pursuit of knowledge.

• Diversity, tolerance, multiculturalism: open to experiences, open to differences, open to change, open to situational leadership, being able to work with others, listening to others, appreciation of differences, empathy and compassion.

• Accountability: rising to the challenge by welcoming interventions which confront us when we do not meet standards which we have a say in and which we agree to ahead of time.

• Support: a personal commitment to caring for one another as we pursue our goals.

• Consistency: a quality of professionalism between all stakeholders and the program in which we act according to predictable and sensible guidelines in an effort to achieve understood goals.

• Fairness: a quality of choosing and abiding clear and sensible programmatic and behavioral agreements which are understood by participants and stakeholders.

• Stewardship: the responsible management of the financial and human resources of the ALPS program.