{"id":8124,"date":"2023-01-31T10:02:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7852"},"modified":"2023-01-31T10:02:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:02:37","slug":"cultivating-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2023\/01\/31\/cultivating-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivating leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/OpeningChancellorClass54-scaled-1-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of President Choi with MU student Miles Staten.\" class=\"wp-image-7911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/OpeningChancellorClass54-scaled-1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/OpeningChancellorClass54-scaled-1-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/OpeningChancellorClass54-scaled-1-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/OpeningChancellorClass54-scaled-1-1536x1072.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/OpeningChancellorClass54-scaled-1-2048x1429.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Choi greets Miles Staten, a student in the class.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 60 first-year students representing more than 20 majors gathered in the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute to launch a new semester of the <a href=\"https:\/\/novakleadership.missouri.edu\/chancellorsleadershipclass\/\">Chancellor\u2019s Leadership Class<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 1980, this course has offered students the opportunity to build interpersonal skills and learn firsthand about effective communication. Participants receive personal instruction from faculty members and work closely with peers to develop the confidence to lead others, no matter what career they pursue. The course is coordinated by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/novakleadership.missouri.edu\/\">Novak Leadership Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s tradition that the chancellor meets with students at the beginning of the semester and returns at the end to mark progress. It was great talking with so many talented students who are motivated to grow as leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to coming back in May to celebrate their accomplishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 60 first-year students representing more than 20 majors gathered in the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute to launch a new semester of the Chancellor\u2019s Leadership Class. Since 1980, this course has offered students the opportunity to build interpersonal skills and learn firsthand about effective communication. Participants receive personal instruction from faculty members and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}