Chancellor’s Leadership Development Program

The Shelton Leadership Center is home to the Chancellor’s Leadership Development Program (CLDP), which launched in 2017 in partnership with the NC State University Office of the Chancellor.

CLDP engages first generation college students and/or rural NC students as leaders in professional and personal capacities, empowering them to apply the skills they’ve learned in the program to leadership experiences across campus, within their communities, and in global settings. As a result, students are prepared to serve as exceptional leaders through professional, academic, and personal settings.

Each year, CLDP accepts 20-25 top performing first-year students into the program as a cohort, resulting in a community of peers on a shared leadership journey.

Program Structure

CLDP is a two-year program, with an optional third year. Each year in the program is designed to build off the lessons and skills explored in the previous year. From their start in the program, students explore leadership on a personal level. By the third year, students are able to apply their leadership in global environments.

Program Features

Students in the program will:

• Receive access to professional development resources, training, and events.
• Create a network for professional, academic, and personal support through individualized mentoring sessions with SLC staff and external mentors directly aligned with students’ career industries and programs of study.
• Engage with senior leadership at NC State and leadership throughout the Triangle.
• Receive a small scholarship in their first year of the program.

Program Eligibility

Must be an incoming first-year student who is a first-generation college student and/or from a rural county in NC.

First-generation college students are any students whose parents did not complete a four-year college degree.

Have questions about CLDP?

Reach out to CLDP Program Director Dr. La’Toya Cesar or our Graduate Assistant for College Programs Shyheim Stafford.