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The Arizona Blue Chip Program
Building Leaders Who Make a Difference Since 1998
The Arizona Blue Chip Program is a 4 year leadership development program that combines academic leadership courses and extracurricular activities to enhance leadership knowledge and skills. The program integrates self-reflection, skill development, community service, social justice education, teambuilding, career development, and event planning to help students learn, practice, and engage in leadership for social change. Blue Chip is designed to help students gain self-awareness and an awareness of the world around them. Blue Chip does not define leadership as positional, but as a relational process. For that reason we believe not only that everyone has the opportunity to learn and grow into a leader, but that everyone has a responsibility to be a leader. The Mission of Blue Chip is to build leaders who make a difference.
The four core values of our program reflect the program's components and the way in which leadership is viewed within the program:
- Integrity: Knowing the difference between right and wrong and doing the right thing all the time... even when no one is watching.
- Diversity: Leaders are inclusive, first through awareness of self, expanding to include awareness of others, and becoming multiculturally competent.
- Service: It's not about me, it's about us. Leaders care about people and seek to enhance the lives of those around them. By serving others, leaders serve themselves.
- Excellence: Understanding your capabilities and limitations and then doing your best all the time... accepting nothing less.
How does Blue Chip differs from other university activities? Blue Chip is a university program (which is different from a student club). It is housed within the Arizona Student Unions and is staffed by 4 professional staff members. Blue Chip is designed to help you focus on developing as a leader and learning about leadership, whereas other involvement opportunities are designed to have you lead (without necessarily learning about the best way to lead). We strongly believe that the best combination is being involved with Blue Chip ALONG WITH other activities on campus such as student clubs, student government, and/or fraternities and sororities. The experiences greatly complement one another-where you learn about leadership in Blue Chip you get the opportunity to practice it in other activities. Many prominent student leaders here on campus are also in Blue Chip.
Blue Chip Staff can be contacted at 520-621-8046 or arizonabluechip@gmail.com
Check out the Blue Chip blog at www.bluechipmembers.blogspot.com