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Get on the Ball! :: UAB Leadership Retreat


Universities often utilize Camp ASCCA as the site for their retreats and conferences. This weekend, the University of Alabama - Birmingham Student Affairs Leadership program held their annual off-campus student leadership retreat on the shores of Lake Martin.

…retreats at ASCCA serve many purposes, most important is exposing people to a barrier-free architectural environment designed for people with disabilities…

Sherrod Williams, Coordinator of Student Leadership, and Hadyn Krudop, Coordinator of Greek Life (and former ASCCA Summer Staff member), both deal with a lot of leadership development activities. This weekend focuses on the social change model, and we’ll cover that in a future video interview. This was a great student group. Diverse and animated, they seemed to be having a fun time.

Suffice to say, the social change model involves seven critical values:

  • Collaboration
  • Consciousness of self
  • Commitment
  • Congruence
  • Common Purpose
  • Controversy with Civility
  • Citizenship

These values fall around the center value - CHANGE. (Source)

The weekend is also themed around the movie “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story“. Look for video later from their dodgeball tournament from Saturday night.

The video below is one of their lighter retreat moments, the singing of the song, Baby Shark. And, for more photos from the retreat, visit the UAB Leadership photo group in our Camp ASCCA Flickr collection.

Get on the ball

The video is also available via ASCCA’s YouTube channel, Google Video, Revver and our MySpace blog. This way, you may share the video in your blog / Web site, too. We’re going to try and put all of our videos in these social media sites from now on. It takes a lot of time, but the reward may be wroth it. The hope is, it will help us spread the Camp ASCCA story.

 
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