Online enrollment is open for Summer 2012 sessions.

Dates and Locations

The forum will be held in 5 locations nationwide in summer 2012.

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About The Forum

The National Youth Leadership Forum on Collegiate Success (NYLF/CS) is a comprehensive four-day residential program designed to provide promising high school students with the skills they will need to effectively transition from high school to college.

Prior to arrival at the Forum, students will complete the DiSC® inventory, which will be utilized to help them discover their natural strengths, behavioral tendencies and beliefs. With a heightened sense of self-awareness, students will learn to leverage their natural talents. Each student will leave the Forum with a personalized profile report to take home with them to share and reference in the future.

Scholars also attend a series of workshops and seminars on campus that are designed to help them achieve long and short term goals, enhance interpersonal and communications skills and build their personal brand and personal network.

Workshop and Seminar Topics Include:

• Learning Styles
• Financial Literacy
• Self-Discipline & Time Management
• Personal Responsibility & Decision Making
• Developing Your Personal Brand
• Conflict Resolution
• Stress Management & Work/Life/Social Balance
• Networking

Additionally, students will be able to select elective topics covering:

• Selecting a School — The Right Fit
• Choosing a Major
• Effective Essay Writing
• First Year Pitfalls
• Mastering the Application Process
• Mock Interviewing

The Forum on Collegiate Success concludes with a group project where students design and complete a comprehensive digital strategic plan by synthesizing and articulating the skills and topics discussed throughout the Forum to address issues they will encounter during this transitional period. The presentations will be shared during the final commencement ceremony where groups will have the ability to share their work with their peers, families and faculty in attendance.

Students will leave the Forum with the critical experience that will fully prepare them for their transition to higher learning with a strong foundation of real-world skill sets that they will begin using today and continue to use tomorrow and throughout the rest of their lives.