Millennial Project Spring Semester

Organizing and Leadership 101 for Community College Students

Starts

 Prep Camp Feb. 11, 2012, 9 am to 6 pm

Ends

May 25, 2012, noon

Location:

Online

This course dives into the core elements of building and leading an engagement organizing campaign. You'll learn valuable skills that can be applied online and offline to engage others around shared values, build interdependent teams, create dynamic strategies, and mobilize people through meaningful action. Participants in this course will develop and lead an engagement organizing project intended to achieve an outcome by the end of the course.

Millennial Project participants in Spring 2012 will be dually enrolled in NOU's Organizing and Leadership 101 offered in partnership with Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Leadership, Organizing and Action: Leading Change distance learning program taught by Marshall Ganz.

The application deadline is January 29, 2012. Apply today!

Cost

All participants will receive a scholarship to cover the cost of the course and materials. The Enrollment Fee has been reduced to $50 per person thanks to a grant from the Rappaport Family Foundation.

Course Outcomes

What will participants receive?

• Dual Certificate of completion New Organizing University and Harvard University Executive Leadership Program LOALC
• Join rankings of New Organizing University and Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education alumni
• Develop leadership skills based on engagement organizing philosophy
• Enhance and build resume
• Program equivalent to a $3,500 scholarship to cover the costs of training, Harvard Executive Education tuition, and educational materials
• Develop public speaking and presentation skills
• One to One Support services from NOU Millennial Project Advisor
• Life changing opportunity to make change in the world by training, engaging, and empowering new leaders, right from where you are. We're changing the world, one community at a time!

Course Dates: February 11 - May 25, 2012

Millennial Project program participants will be expected to participate in a mandatory Prep Camp, Orientation and Virtual Open House prior to the beginning of the course in February 2012. Upon acceptance to the Millennial Project program, will receive further information on dates and times for pre-course programming and events.

• Prep Camp: February 11, 2012, 9 am to 6 pm; Oakland City Hall- Hearing Room 3, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94621
• MP Seminar (NOU): 10-1130 AM/PST  Every Monday, beginning February 27, 2012 through May 21, 2012
• Lecture (Harvard JFK School): 10-1130 AM/PST on the following Wednesdays: February 22, February 29, March 14, March 28, April 11, April 25, May 9, and May 23
• Section Meeting (Harvard JFK School): 1.5 hours (various sections available, TBD) on the following Thursdays: February 23, March 8, March 22, April 5, April 19, May 3, and May 17 

Credit Hour Equivalence

4 units credit equivalence: 4 hours per week over 18 weeks
 *Includes credit for Pre-Program coursework, in-class course instruction and project/team work. The program cannot yet offer course credit but will work with college internship offices to do so where possible.

Outline of classes

NOU's Organizing and Leadership 101 and HKS Executive Education Leadership, Organizing and Action: Leading Change are both distance-learning courses. Millennial Project program participants will be in enrolled in both courses for Spring 2012.

The program is organized in eight modules, each with a specific learning and/or project outcome.  Millennial Project participants will receive a supplemental curriculum through NOU's weekly seminar. The modules are:

Organizing: Leadership, Tradition, and Pedagogy


Outcomes: Articulate personal and team goals for the program


Foundation Building: Launching Your Project


Outcomes: Identify problem, desired outcome, constituency, and campaign plan


Public Narrative: Values and Motivation


Outcomes: Tell a public narrative of your project - Story of Self, Us and Now


 Relationship Building: Interests and Resources


Outcomes: Learn one-to-ones to identify common interests and values and complementary resources


Structure: Structuring Leadership Teams


Outcomes: Structure your team around shared purpose, roles, and norms


Strategy: Vision, Goals, and Tactics


Outcomes: Articulate vision, define goals and decide on tactics


Measurable Action: Meaning, Choice, and Results


Outcomes: Secure commitment to motivated action

Wrap-Up


Outcomes: Summarize key learning from program

NOU Millennial Project Seminar

Each two-week module follows a similar sequence of activity, designed to move participants from conceptual learning to contextual practice, with group and individual debriefs as a way to integrate both. NOU Millennial Project Seminar takes place weekly and is designed to provide overall academic support, project coaching and professional skills development for participants.  Millennial Project program participants will receive additional one on one coaching and enrichment from Millennial Project Coordinator, NOU staff and Guest Instructors to ensure student success in the program.

Seminar topics include:

• Note taking and test strategies
• Writing a college paper
• Reading for understanding
• Public speaking and communications
• Communications and group dynamics
• Time and project management
• Project coaching
• One to One coaching and advisement

Prerequisites/Eligibility

The pilot phase for Millennial Project - Organizing and Leadership 101 in Spring 2012 will focus on students attending California Community Colleges in the Northern California Region.  Community College students living in the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area are eligible to participate and strongly encouraged to apply to become a part of this program.

Millennial Project applicants must meet all eligibility requirements for the program. Applicants must:

• Attend an accredited California Community College in Northern California at minimum half-time and be in good standing
• Be at least eighteen years of age when they begin the program
• Have a minimum GPA of 2.5
• Be able and willing to commit to 10 -12 hours week on coursework, in-class, teamwork and project work
• Be committed to developing leadership skills and organizational capacity
• Develop a specific organizing project with measurable outcomes
• Be able to participate in mandatory orientation, training and programming before the start of class in February 20, 2012
• Be ready to change the world!

The Millennial Project will expand in Fall 2012. If you are interested in becoming a part of Millennial Project in the future please or are interested in funding opportunities please email us University@neworganizing.com.

Technical Requirements:

The Millennial Project is committed to assisting students to meet the technical requirements to participate.

To fully participate in and benefit from NOU's distance learning, global classroom experience each participant needs a computer, strong internet connection, video, headphones and microphone.

For more specific information, please review the FAQ and NOU's policies and technology requirements. All students will be required to participate in a technology orientation before beginning class.

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