The Riley Institute at Furman University has announced its 2017-2018 class of Emerging Public Leaders (EPL). Launched in 2002 by the Riley Institute, EPL is an intensive, statewide service-oriented leadership program for rising high school seniors.<\/p>\n
EPL has accepted 18 rising high school seniors from across South Carolina for its 15th class, bringing the total number of students who have participated in the program to 228.<\/p>\n
The 2017-18 Riley Institute Emerging Public Leaders are:<\/p>\n
Jennie Allen<\/strong> Mitchell Beard<\/strong> Jackson Bingham<\/strong> Vinita Cheepurupalli<\/strong> Erica Daly<\/strong> Kirsten Fisher<\/strong> Farehaa Hussain<\/strong> Vivian Karamitros<\/strong> Avi Mahoney<\/strong> Ronak Malde<\/strong> Ellery McNeil<\/strong> Melody Moorehead<\/strong> Olivia Nelli<\/strong> Tejas Patel<\/strong> Mary Laurel Patrick<\/strong> Manning Snyder<\/strong> Queen Trapp<\/strong> Duncan Winburn<\/strong> Students will convene for a week on Furman University\u2019s campus where they investigate topics such as engaging in the community, analyzing critical issues, practicing ethical leadership, developing communication and presentation skills, and planning for the implementation of a service project. Thanks to generous sponsors including Cox Industries, State Farm, and Walmart, students attend free of charge.<\/p>\n Following the summer, students work with Riley Institute staff, school officials, and residents in their communities to more fully develop their service project ideas and subsequently implement projects that reflect a need and address diversity in their communities.<\/p>\n The students return to campus the following spring to present their community service projects to a panel of judges, and the winning project receives funds for program expansion or replication.<\/p>\n Learn more about the Riley Institute\u2019s Emerging Public Leaders program<\/a>. Or contact program director Melanie Armstrong at the Riley Institute 864-294-3546, or melanie.armstrong@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Riley Institute at Furman University has announced its 2017-2018 class of Emerging Public Leaders (EPL). Launched in 2002 by the Riley Institute, EPL is an intensive, statewide service-oriented leadership […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-riley-institute","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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