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Society member and Chapter President of the Ivy Tech Community College Society Chapter, Derrick Jones, is a featured community leader in the upcoming event discussing race, policing and common understanding in Indianapolis.

Inducted Society member Cierra Dena’e Jackson, of the Society chapter at Spelman College, will be competing for the title of Miss America on September 11, 2016 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. "Ms. Jackson believes her greatest success has been giving back to her community by being a servant leader. Cierra has volunteered at the Ronald Mc Donald House, Salvation Army, the Humane Society, the Boys and Girls Club, local education campaigns, as well as, tutoring programs at middle schools and project homes in Columbus, Georgia."

Bevill State Community College has begun one of the newest chapters of The National Society of Leadership and Success. “Our involvement in The National Society of Leadership and Success is another way that we are enhancing the student experience at Bevill State. I am excited about all the opportunities involvement in this organization will bring to our students,” said Dr. Larry Ferguson, president of Bevill State Community College.

Fifty-one students were inducted into the Society chapter at Surry Community College during its induction ceremony. “The core philosophy of the society is that anyone can achieve their dreams with proper support and dedicated action,” explains Tony Searcy, SCC’s Director of Campus Life and Student Support, who was pivotal in starting the local chapter. “These are the future leaders and shakers in the communities where they live.

The Society chapter at The University of Southern Mississippi welcomed 53 students as new members during induction ceremonies held recently on the Hattiesburg campus.

The Middlesex Community College Foundation presented Society member an MCC Foundation Merit Award for Part-Time Students for the 2015-16 academic year in a recent ceremony held on the Bedford campus.

Society member and high jump athlete Emilee Iverson recently helped make Pittsburg State University history by participating in the women’s track and field national championship in addition to walking away with her own national title. “I am a sophomore in elementary education with a minor in psychology, and I participate in the Honors Society and the National Society of Leadership and Success,” she said. “I have many more goals set for myself throughout my college career, and I just want to see where those take me.”

Society member Ue Lisa, of the Devry University Chapter, was selected to gain real-world experience with U.S. Olympic Committee IT professionals at the upcoming Rio Games

Society member Stacy Brokish,was recently recognized for leadership and service to the campus and community and received the 2016 Chancellor’s Leadership Award at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

I thought about the saying “you should never meet your idols” as I exited the elevator bank of an uptown publisher and paced the room next to where Marcia Clark was being interviewed in a segment for the National Society of Leadership and Success, which bills itself as the largest college leadership society in the country and for which Clark is an honorary member. Watching Sarah Paulson’s Marcia Clark on Ryan Murphy’s wildly popular true crime series, The People v. O.J. Simpson, introduced my generation to the prosecutor our parents knew as the unflappable hard ass with an atrocious haircut. But for us, Clark was something else entirely. Click to continue reading.