The Leadership Knoxville Scholars program will:
- Strengthen the relationship between UT students and the Knoxville community
- Connect students to community leaders and opportunities for growth
- Empower students with leadership skills to help them succeed following graduation
- Expose students to a variety of leadership theories and approaches
- Enable students to identify community needs specific to Knoxville
- Support students as they utilize leadership to create positive change in the local community
- Empower students to embrace a servant leadership mindset and practice
- Provide student leaders with an opportunity to explore what it means to leave a leadership legacy
- Educate students to identify their core values and commit to act on them
- Encourage student self-awareness as it relates to personal strengths, privileges, preferences and challenges