Nominations for the 2024-2025 Emerging Leaders Academy are now being accepted until March 1, 2024.
Dates for the 2024-2025 cohort are August 29 (half day) and August 30 (all day), September 27, October 25, November 15, December 6 in 2024; and January 17, February 21, March 28, April 18, and May 12 (graduation).
Nomination Instructions
Format and Electronic Submission Instructions
To ensure review by selection committees, nominations must be electronic and in the required format.
The cover page, nomination letter, nominee’s essay, and CV must be combined into one document. The file can be either in Word (doc) or Adobe (pdf) and can be a scanned document. The required order is:
- ELA nomination cover page
- nomination letter
- nominee’s essay
- nominee's CV or resume
When the file is complete, email the file to 2024_20.nsqmtakjhlqhne7n@u.box.com to Submit Nomination. The nominations will be housed in a confidential file and the nominator will receive notification of successful submission within 10-15 minutes.
ELA participants are selected based on the quality of their nominator’s letter and the nominee’s one-page essay. Both letters ought to describe the nominee's current leadership position or potential for future leadership development. Strong nominators ought to be familiar with the nominee and their accomplishments and long-term goals. Strong nominees ought to detail their leadership capacity and how ELA will be used as a leverage point in the future, as well as why they are committed to being a part of ELA. Being admitted to the ELA cohort is a prestigious honor and involves an institutional investment in the cohort member’s future leadership activities.
For ELA program questions or concerns, contact ELA Administrative Director Katharine Hensley, 294-8823 or khensley@iastate.edu
For technical questions or concerns, contact Tim Grewell, 296-3119, tgrewell@iastate.edu.
Nomination Material
Call for Nominations
Nomination Form (Cover Page)
Nomination Instructions
Full Nomination Packet - Contains all three Documents
(Not necessary if you download the single documents above)