Registration open for statewide student leadership summit

Students across the state can register for the 18th annual Leadership Summit February 21 at Grand Valley. 

The student-run campus tradition will provide leadership development opportunities for undergraduate students in multidisciplinary aspects of campus life. Register by February 14 at www.gvsu.edu/leadership. 

Students can choose from more than 30 workshops and enter a leadership case study competition sponsored by Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society. 

18th annual Leadership Summit

Saturday, February 21

Noon-8 p.m. 

Kirkhof Center, Allendale Campus

Bridget Clark Whitney, executive director of Kids Food Basket, will give the keynote address. Kids’ Food Basket is a childhood hunger relief organization that provides daily meals to children in Grand Rapids and Muskegon. During Whitney’s 12-year tenure, KFB went from serving 125 children in 2002 to more than 6,300 children each weekday in 2014. It has become the largest anti-childhood hunger program in Michigan and one of the largest in the country.  

Registration is $20 for Grand Valley students and $30 for students from other colleges and universities; the summit includes dinner. 

For more information, contact Nicole Wilson in the Office of Student Life at [email protected] or (616) 331-2345.