Each year, the sophomore cohort for the Elon Isabella Cannon Leadership Fellows takes a trip to Alabama during the Winter Term, visiting places with deep American history and relevance, including landmarks of the Civil Rights Movement such as the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Equal Justice Initiative Legacy Museum and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
The program is meant to help fulfill the common good initiative required by leadership fellows and Elon students pursuing a leadership experimental learning requirement, according to Jodean Schmiederer, dean of Student Development and professor for the leadership fellows’ Winter Term class.
“A common good initiative is a substantive change that is sustained even after the students leave,” Schmiederer said. “ It’s not something that one person can do, right? It takes a group, it takes advocacy.”…