The Shelton Scholars Program
The Shelton Scholars Program
The Shelton Scholars Program is a four year experience that develops well-educated, service-oriented values-based leaders. Scholars explore their personal values and passions and reflect on how to lead with integrity. They also work together as a cohort to make a positive impact on social challenges, in their communities and across the globe. By the time they graduate from NC State, Scholars are prepared to lead ethically and effectively.
20
Years that the Shelton Scholars program has been active.
45
Current Scholars and alumni
$7000
awarded per year in scholarships and enrichment funds to each Scholar.
Program Elements
Mentorship – Scholars get 1 to 1 mentorship from the program director to support personal, academic and leadership goal-setting and success.
Seminars – Scholars learn together as a cohort about the principles and practices of values-based leadership. They explore how to work effectively in teams, build collaborative partnerships, and engage others with integrity.
Leadership Practice – Scholars develop and implement individual leadership practice projects to develop their leadership skills and make a difference in their communities. Projects may range from research to civic engagement to entrepreneurship to service-learning, depending on personal goals and interests.
Community Engagement – Scholars participate in service projects led by their peers to help them learn how to think critically about social challenges and to take meaningful and effective action in collaboration with others.
Global Experiences – Scholars have the opportunity to travel internationally to build cross-cultural partnerships and to serve others on a global scale.
Networking – Scholars cultivate relationships across their communities as well as within the Shelton Leadership Center family of program alumni, supporters and staff.
Program Goals
The goals of the Shelton Scholars program are rooted in the Shelton Leadership Center mission to inspire, educate and develop values-based leaders committed to personal integrity, professional ethics and selfless service.
- Values-Based Leadership: Scholars will gain the reflective self-awareness to articulate and demonstrate their role and responsibilities as well-educated, service-oriented, values-based leaders.
- Personal integrity: Scholars will create personal, academic and professional goals in alignment with their individual values and strengths, and pursue those goals with integrity.
- Professional ethics: Scholars will develop teamwork and effective communication skills to ethically engage with others, exercising compassionate empathy, civility, and productive conflict resolution.
- Selfless service: Scholars will build confidence in their ability to effect positive change by thinking critically about social challenges and building collaborative and inclusive partnerships, domestically and internationally, in the service of others.
Meet the Shelton Scholars
Follow their leadership journeys. We’re excited to introduce you to our current cohort of Shelton Scholar students. You’ll also find information on their fields of study and leadership projects.
How to Become a Shelton Scholar
Each Spring, the Shelton Leadership Center invites admitted students at NC State University to join our next cohort of Shelton Scholars. Applications and instructions are found in PackAssist.
Our 2025 Applications will be open in Early Spring.
PROGRAM NEWS
Introducing the 2024-28 Shelton Scholars Cohort
The Shelton Scholars program of the Shelton Leadership Center at NC State University has named three first-year students to its class of 2028.
Shelton Scholars Q&A: Jacob Martin
Meet Jacob Martin, a second-year Shelton Scholar studying nuclear engineering at NC State University.
Shelton Scholars Feature Rheaa Anand: Leading with a focus on community impact
As a second-year Shelton National Scholar and junior criminology major, Rheaa Anand is a force of public service and altruism. She’s already embarked on a remarkable journey of high-level learning experiences right at the onset of her college tenure. It started with her decision to apply for the Shelton Scholars program.
CONTACT US
Have questions regarding the Shelton Scholars Program? Please reach out to the Program Director for Shelton Scholars Annaka Sikkink at avsikkin@ncsu.edu.