Blake Schildhauer of Hampstead, Md., selected for Baltimore Collegetown's LeaderShape Program

2014 Nov 20

Blake Schildhauer of Hampstead, Md. (21074), is one of seven McDaniel College students chosen to participate in the Baltimore Collegetown LeaderShape 2014 program. Schildhauer is a sophomore at McDaniel.

The Baltimore Collegetown LeaderShape(R) program connects students across campuses and with their communities to make a better Baltimore.

Designed for students who have a passion for service and want to be civic-minded leaders, it starts with a week of leadership development and is followed by programming and support throughout an academic year. Students will not only develop visions, but learn to be visionary, and discover how to apply their skills and passions to our city.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among 40 Colleges that Change Lives and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel's spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., is an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, the Amtrak station and Baltimore-Washington international airport.