ASU group offers MLK Jr. scholarship to student leader
<p>For the first time, the ASU Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee is offering a $1,000 scholarship to an MLK Student Servant-Leadership awardee. The award will be presented at the MLK Celebration Breakfast on Jan. 20, 2011.</p><separator></separator><p>The committee requests help in identifying an ASU student with an outstanding record of leading others through volunteer service. Nominations can come from anyone in the community. Self-nominations are encouraged. The deadline for nominations is Oct. 11.</p><separator></separator><p>Servant-leadership is a practical philosophy supporting people who choose to serve others first, and then lead as a way of expanding service to individuals and institutions. It encourages collaboration, trust, foresight, listening and the ethical use of power. Nominees do not have to hold formal leadership positions.</p><separator></separator><p>The student must be enrolled full-time at ASU, exemplify the ideals of servant-leadership and have a track record of commitment through volunteer service. The award is available to undergraduate and graduate students.</p><separator></separator><p>Last year’s winner was Dominick Hernandez, who founded several student groups including a sustainability organization and a leadership and success society, created an Artist Mic Night and rallied other students to get involved in green efforts on campus.</p><separator></separator><p>Others have included a graduate student leader who was involved in supporting women’s and children’s groups, a Fire Department and Girl Scout volunteer who drew other students into her efforts, and a student senator who shared her love of service with other senators by passing service-related bills and planning service projects.</p><separator></separator><p>ASU celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. with a series of events on all four campuses that include a student rally and a poster-essay contest for schoolchildren. This year will mark the 26th annual observance. The theme for this year’s celebration is “exhange for a better tomorrow.”</p><separator></separator><p>For more information and a nomination form, go to <a href="http://www.asu.edu/mlk">www.asu.edu/mlk</a>. Entry forms for the K-12 poster-essay contest also are available on the site.</p>