Applications for student leadership group due Friday

Applicants are being accepted for the First-year Leadership Program, FyLP (pronounced flip), at Southeast Missouri State University, which puts freshmen and sophomores into activities designed to build leadership abilities on and off campus.

Leadership development coordinator Megan Murray said FyLP is a series of fall workshops offered to first-year Southeast students. Registration is open until Friday at semo.wufoo.com/forms/fylp-registration-2014/.

After students complete FyLP, they are encouraged to continue in the Emerging Leaders program, focusing on interpersonal communication, time management and professionalism. This is held in the spring semester.

Upon completion of the two programs, those recommended by faculty and staff and accepted enter into the President's Leadership Academy, a selective program for 15 of Southeast's most outstanding upper-class student leaders. Participants learn to use their leadership expertise to give back to the Southeast campus and community. Participants work with a community mentor to propose, develop and implement a Southeast Success Project for the campus or surrounding area.