About Leadership Day
On this day all regularly scheduled classes are replaced with an on- or off-campus training, seminar, or service project.
Each cadet participates in an approved Leadership Day activity. A majority of cadets use this day to complete their LDRS 211, 311, or 411 graduation requirement.
- Freshmen participate in the SHARE Program. Each freshman is assigned a team by company. Freshmen are led by trained upperclassmen and spend the day engaging elementary school students in an activity to increase their awareness of heroism and service to others.
- Sophomores choose from a variety of service projects on and off campus. Each sophomore is required to sign up on the Leadership Day signup page at citadel.givepulse.com.
- Juniors participate in the Junior Ethics Enrichment Experience. Building on leader development coursework and using the Markkula Center framework for ethical decision making, junior cadets participate in LDRS 311 Junior Ethics Enrichment Experience Seminars engage with career professionals, faculty, and mentors. The Class of 1979 plays an integral role in mentoring and sponsoring these seminars. In these full-day professional development seminars, cadets hear from leaders at partner organizations about their background and difficult decision points in their careers. Each cadet completes a qualitative and quantitative online survey which reflects on integrating core values, leadership lessons and objectives learned as cadets from their experience on Leadership Day. These LDRS 311 partner organization hosted seminars include Allegiance Flag Company, ASF Global, Nexans, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
- Seniors participate in the LDRS 411 Senior Leadership Integration Seminar which is typically an off-campus, full-day professional development seminar where cadets reflect upon the value of their character and leadership lessons learned at The Citadel. Cadets engage with career professionals, faculty facilitators and mentors to discuss how they will apply their academic disciplines and leader development education as effective principled leaders. The Class of 1979 plays an integral role in mentoring and sponsoring the various LDRS 411 seminars. Each cadet completes a qualitative and quantitative online survey which reflects on integrating core values, leadership lessons and objectives learned as cadets from their experience on Leadership Day. Partner organizations included Davis & Floyd, the FBI, City Police, the SC Stingrays, the International African American Museum, Cyber and Intelligence experts, and experts from many fields including accounting, medicine, technology, consumer products, entrepreneurship, and public service.
