The Student Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition

2Commitment #2: Set the Example

Tyler Iffland thought he'd play football in college because he'd been the captain of his high school team. That aspiration soon changed when he realized that committing to football would take too much time away from academics. Nevertheless, Tyler wanted to find a way to be part of a team. “I realized that I still wanted that leadership experience,” Tyler told us, “and that a good way for me to find a new team was to join a fraternity. Fast‐forward to his junior year. Just elected president of his fraternity, Tyler faced a daunting challenge: helping realign his local chapter with the values important to them as a national fraternity. For example, the academic rank of Tyler's chapter was sixth out of seven fraternities ...