Overview of Retreat   Weekend Schedule

Overview
Saturday September 7 - Sunday September 8 ( 2002 )
The University of Rhode Island Multicultural Center in conjunction with the Center for Student Leadership Development will present the Second Annual Retreat for Multicultural Student Organizations at Camp Canonicus in Exeter, Rhode Island on Saturday and Sunday, September 7^th & 8^th, 2002. 
 
The goals of the conference are to identify, measure and increase the skills of past, present and future student leaders in assessing their leadership and interaction styles, developing a vision and mission statements, and creating action plans.

Retreat facilitators are Dorien Agyapon, Lazaro Camacho, Ammala Douangsavanh, Cristina Garcia, Kevin Lopes, Carlos Pena, Cynthia Reeves, and Muhammad Shloul.
Do you belong to a Multicultural Student Organization that is committed to:

•  improving access for under-represented groups

•  building campus community across identity lines; or,

• engaging students in social change

Then the Multicultural Center and the Center for Student Leadership Program,  would like you to join us in a fun and educational two day retreat at Camp Canonicus on September 7^th and 8^th.  The event promises to:

• Provide you with the skills necessary for developing an effective organizational action plan for the coming year
  

• Help you increase the productivity of your organization
  

• Offer support and feedback to student leaders interested in understanding their own values, roles and styles as leaders
  

• Create opportunities for learning
  

• Provide a support system to help you persist through to graduation
  

• Provide you with opportunities to network and create common goals with other Multicultural Student Organizations
  

• Have LOTS of FOOD, FUN and even more FUN!

All participants in the retreat will be eligible to take part in a series of follow-up workshops intended to prepare student leaders in avoiding the stress that leads to burn-out and lowered morale, as well as encourage peer consultation and collaboration and to link student organizations to each other and their resource bases.

Weekend Schedule

Saturday, September 7, 2002

9:00 AM - Board the Bus
10:00 AM - Welcome / Orientation / Introduce Participants
11:00 AM - Assess Leadership / Interaction Style
12:00 PM - Lunch
1:30 PM - Leadership / Interaction Style Activity
3:15 PM - Break
3:30 PM - Organization and group interaction
5:00 PM - Assess organization and group interaction
6:00 PM -  Dinner
7:30 PM - Examine stages of organization development 
8:30 PM - Bonfire and drumming 
9:30 PM - Bedtime!

  Sunday, September 8, 2002

9:00 AM - Breakfast
10:00 AM - Overview
10:30 AM - Assess needs and resources
11:00 AM - Develop Organizational Mission Statement
12:30 PM - Lunch
1:30 PM - Develop Action Plan
Closing Ceremony