Sydney Maltese '14 selected as New York Times Leadership Fellow at Marietta College

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Sydney Maltese ’14 is one of eight Marietta College students selected as New York Times Fellows for the 2013-14 academic year.

MARIETTA, OH (10/07/2013)(readMedia)-- Marietta College's Sydney Maltese '14 (Massillon, Ohio) is one of eight Marietta College selected for the The New York Times' Leadership Fellows Program, which began during the 2012-13 academic year. One year later and Marietta College's McDonough Center for Leadership and Business is one of only a handful of institutions around the U.S. to be part of it.

"The Leadership Fellows will play a key role in promoting the debate of current issues on campus," says Dr. Gama Perruci, Dean of McDonough. "They will work with me to organize events that will bring together students interested in discussing topics of national/global prominence. Leadership Fellows also will advise the McDonough faculty/staff on the use of The New York Times in the McDonough Leadership Program."

Through a competitive process, McDonough selected eight students to serve as Fellows in 2013-14. The group has been meeting regularly, as well as inviting others from across campus to share ideas.

Starting in the fall of 2012, The New York Times launched a pilot Leadership Fellows Program at Northwestern University's Center for Leadership. The success of this pilot led the newspaper to seek out other institutions interested in the program for this fall.

Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a four-year liberal arts college. Tracing its roots to the Muskingum Academy begun in 1797, the College was officially chartered in 1835. Today Marietta College serves a body of 1,430 full-time students. The College offers 44 majors and has been listed among Barron's Best Buys in College Education and Peterson's Competitive Colleges, and has been recognized as one of the top regional comprehensive colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review, as well as one of the nation's best by Forbes.com.

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