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The FLEXD Director works towards personal, professional, and leadership growth through research, planning, design, iteration, and implementation of the following activities:

Crafting a fellowship experience that parallels the vision set forth by program leadership.

Fostering a healthy, positive culture for all fellows through mental and physical health advocacy.

Continually collaborates with professional staff, faculty, the Board of Advocates, and the team leads to help design programming, change initiatives, and desired development opportunities using the PLC Design Process.

Facilitating goal setting and change implementation through the format of "small extraordinary steps."

Providing skill and emotional support, encouraging development, mobilizing both individuals and teams towards achievement of small extraordinary steps, as well as larger, year-end goals.

Planning and implementing FLEXD Welcome Week.

Delivering enrichment activities through weekly seminars/workshops, as well as guest lectures from leaders across campus.

Devoting significant investment in the personal, professional, and leadership development of all FLEXD fellows including real-time feedback and peer led development.

Demonstrating a strong sense of community, appreciation for the strengths and weaknesses of PLC, creativity, growth mindset, and humility.Ìý

(Scholarship - $5,000/Academic Year)

The Professional Development/Industry Night Fellow works towards personal, professional, and leadership growth through research, planning, design, iteration, and implementation of the followings activities:

Collaborating with alumni and industry partners to expand networking and learning opportunities.

Meeting individually with PLC members to assess professional goals and career development needs.

Connecting PLC students to relevant alumni/individuals in their respective industries to support career goals.

Maintaining strong alumni connections to facilitate healthy relationships between current students and alumni.

The Alumni Data and Outreach Fellow works towards personal, professional, and leadership growth through research, planning, design, iteration, and implementation of the followings activities:

• Using LinkedIn, developing outreach campaigns to alumni emails, exploring other resources
• Learning and utilizing skills on WebExpress to maintain consistent alumni communication engagement - Webexpress training and access

Bolstering the Forever Buffs initiativeÌýto develop a sustainable alumni platform for the PLC Community.

Connect students and alumni alike for various purposes including connection, networking, and advice.

Help Academic Team and Academic Director with alumni contact information for integration and participation.

• Supporting CAs the in the Delivery of Currriculum
  • Providing ongoing mentorship and coaching to CAs to support their professional and leadership development.
  • Planning, scheduling, and conducting recitation observations for each CA.
  • Facilitating debrief conversations with CAs to review feedback, build instructional capacity, and engage in reflective practices.
  • Serving as a resource to fill-in and otherwise support PLC academics (examples could include: guest facilitation, covering recitations, assisting with lesson plan development/delivery).
• Positively Shaping the Culture and Operating Efficiencies of the Academic Team
  • Supporting the goals, needs, and forward momentum of the Academic Team.
  • Fostering a sense of community among members of the Academic Team.
  • Collaborating with the Academic Team Lead to provide the needed support, communication, and leadership to promote a high-functioning Academic Team.
  • Attending weekly FLEXD meetings, Academic and CA Team meetings as needed, meetings with faculty supervisor.
• Contributing to Continuous Improvement
  • Working with faculty to review and iterate curricular components of the PLC academic experience.
  • Demonstrating initiative in service and leadership to elevate the Academic Team and by extension, the PLC Academic pillar.

Ìý(Scholarship = $3000/AY)

The Writing Coach accomplishes this stated purpose by:

Attends weekly Student Staff meetings, attends Academic Team meetings, may meet with Dr. JulieMarie Shepherd Macklin to plan curriculum, writing workshops, stay current on assignments and how to best support students in any given unit.

(Pay Rate: $2000/AY)

The COCO team accomplishes this stated purpose by:

High school, teacher, and organizational contact building and relationship management.

Email campaigns to the above parties and interested students.

On-campus relationship building to attract second-point-of-entry students. 

Creating promotional materials for PLC.

Further developing PLC’s public reputation.

Application question creation and evaluation.

Training, management, mobilization of peers to aid in the recruitment effort.

Interviews and cohort selection.

Collaboration with other staff teams to integrate recruitment opportunities across programming.

Host events that offer leadership opportunities to prospective students.  

Develop innovative leadership curriculum and facilitate leadership skills workshops.

(Pay rate = $3500/academic year)

The Bridge Fellows towards personal, professional, and leadership growth through research, planning, design, iteration, and implementation of the following activities:

Connecting PLC with new and established leadership entities both on and off campus, and in Colorado.

Acting as the feedback arm of the program; facilitating program improvement through feedback loops.

Collecting, interpreting, and delivering feedback about the program through the Program Improvement Survey.

Planning and executing opportunities for PLCers to interact with student leaders of neighboring universities and collegiate leadership programs, through Student Swaps.

Initiating and revising PLC’s engagement with the Colorado Leadership Alliance, the Boettcher Foundation, and Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation.

Facilitating the multi-campus student group that helps design the annual CLA Student Summit with the DCMLF.

Designing, iterating, using feedback to implement annual PLC Interview days for prospective PLCers,

Creating and delivering the second point of entry focused presentation at Admitted Students Day.

Attend weekly FLEXD course meetings, weekly hour-long Bridge Team meetings, meetings with Jessie, and effectively communicate.

(Scholarship = Ìý$3,000/AY)

• Managing all PLC social media handles by utilizing personal creativity and ingenuity to drive engagement, increase communication, and foster interest in the program.
  • Instagram (alumni & standard), PLCÌýLinktree
• Developing and honing short-term and long-term time management skills to keep the PLC Community Canvas page updated with content and announcements for the PLC students.
• Broadening personal authoring and editing capabilities through the creation of the PLC weekly newsletter – PLC Connection.
• Engaging with current students and highlightingÌýprogram participantsÌývia social media features.
  • First Year Features
  • Senior Spotlights
  • Event recaps
• Contributing to PLC Alumni group on LinkedIn through collaboration with other FLEXD teams.
• Attending weekly FLEXD course meetings, community meetings, personal office hours, team lead meetings, and weekly one-on-ones with PLC professional staff.

(Scholarship = $3000/AY)

The CCs accomplish this stated purpose by:

Plan community eventsÌýfor allÌýofÌýPLCÌýtoÌýattend:

• Examples:ÌýHouseÌýHop,ÌýCommunity Dinner,ÌýFall Retreat,ÌýPLC Formal, Senior Send-Off

Create, plan, and execute catering, venues, dates, times, music, coordination, transportation, and budgeting for these events.

Outreach to PLC cohorts through email, social media, and other specified outlets.

Create events that foster connection and bridge gaps betweenÌýdifferent groupsÌýof people within PLCÌýthatÌýwouldn’tÌýnormally have opportunities to communicate.

Be aÌýfoundationÌýforÌýconnectionÌýwithinÌýPLC by goingÌýabove and beyondÌýtoÌýinformallyÌýconnect with peers and otherÌýmembersÌýof PLC.

Communicate with PLC about what events interest them and collect feedback to implement in future events.

Attend weekly staff meetings and community meetings, along with personal office hours.

Attend planned events to ensure they run smoothly andÌýadjustÌýas needed.

(Scholarship = $3000/AY)

The Family Tree team accomplishes this stated purpose by:

Assign incoming First-Year PLC students to existing families

Introduce Family Tree to all incoming students over the summer before they come to CU campus

Welcome all First Year students at Fall Retreat, announce family assignments, introduce them to family group

Plan and execute monthly activities to foster connection within family groups:

• Examples: Monthly bingos, family tree one-off activities

ConsistentlyÌýcommunicate with family leads and family members toÌýassistÌýwith inter-family relationships.

Plan activities for all-PLC events to enable family bonding.

Allocate incoming students to pre-existing families.

Address challenges and dynamics within family groups.

Plan and organize systems to enable friendly competition between families.

• Example:ÌýPLChampionship

Collaborate copiously withÌýotherÌýstudentÌýstaff teamsÌýto plan events and activities.

Attend weekly staff meetings and community meetings, along with personal office hours and biweekly meetings with PLC professional staff.

(Pay Rate = $2500/AY)

The Wellness Experience Coordinators accomplish this stated purpose by:

Planning and executing the annual traditional events: PLC CampingÌýTrip, SunsetÌý & Cheese, PLSki Weekend.

PlanÌýtwoÌýor more PLC led, outdoor-relatedÌýactivitiesÌýper semesterÌýin additional to the annual traditions.

Creating and delivering a wellness series of presentations for both student staff and PLC peers.

Publicizing wellness-related events that CU and the community offer through PLC communication channels – PLC Connection, PLC Community canvas page, PLC Instagram

Persistently updated on and aware of mental health resources and in order to provide guidance and direction to PLC students in need of help.

Providing organizational and peer support for As You Are Coordinator(s) and the pilot program between As You Are (Renee Crown Institute) and PLC.

Collaborating to plan AYA guest lectures, AYA Deep Dives, AYA Seminars, AYA service opportunities

(Pay Rate = $2500/AY)

• Identifying relevant, intersectional, socially divisive Deep Dive topics in Colorado.
• Designing 2-3 Deep Dives per semester (includes identifying, contacting, and organizing speakers and interactive site-visits) per the PLC Design Process.
• Ensuring a cohesive collaboration between the academic and experiential programs, and designing high-quality, well-organized, innovative events and speakers.
• Consistently improving communicaton skills (e.g. thank you cards) with experiential program providers such as weekend hosts and speakers.
• Researching and designing briefing materials for students to use in preparation for program activities - readings, questions, post-trip reflections.
• Tracking and reviewing attendance and post-trip assignments.
• Working with professional staff to track experiential programming-related expenditures.
• Holding weekly design hours (~4 hours/week).
• Attending weekly FLEXD course meetings - PRLC 2930 (Tuesdays 8-9:15am).

(Scholarship = $3500/AY)

• Establishing new relationships with nonprofits such as Â鶹ӰԺ County, SAME Cafe, and ENGin. to increase opportunity for students as well as increase PLC’s civic engagement in Â鶹ӰԺ and surrounding cities.
• Maintaining existing relationships with outside organizations such as PB n' Luvin and Garden to Table through annual service opportunities and professional communication.
• Enabling PLCers access to transformational service by designing opportunities that challenge personal stocks of knowledge, implicit biases, leadership paradigms, and social positionalities of students involved.
• Consistently reflecting, assessing, making sense of, and dreaming up new iterations of service events to ensure it remains a priority for the PLC community and is a transformational in nature.
• Facilitating service events for PLCers to earn their public service and engagement hours.
• Using creativity and ingenuity to create a robust verification system to accept service hours outside of PLC and PLC partners.
• Submit "Service Standout" entries to PLC Socials Fellow for the weekly PLC Connection.
• Provide notice of current and available service opportunities for all PLC students.

(Scholarship = $3000/AY)