Campus Celeb: Joshua Tye
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
Graduation Class: 2018
Major/Minors: Business Management
Hobbies: Martial Arts, playing piano and drawing
Favorite spot(s) in Cincinnati: Â Sawyer Point (love walking along the river) and then a nice meal at The Eagle.
If we asked your friends to describe you in three words what would they say?
Well I asked them, and they all said: pragmatic, kind and charismatic.
This past summer, you represented Xavier at the National Jesuit Leadership Conference in Buffalo, New York. How did you get selected to do that? Why were you interested in participating?Â
I was chosen to participate by the SGA executives and Dustin; I wanted to go in order to find better ways to incorporate Jesuit values into leadership on campus and to magnify my leadership role on campus as well.
What was the trip like? Who did you go with? What activities did you participate in?
The trip was fantastic! I went with a diverse group of student leaders including anyone from an RA to an SGA senator. There were trips, great food (original buffalo wings), and very, very helpful leadership sessions that opened our minds to better leadership techniques to be used.
What was your favorite part?
I loved the spark session that helped us question our purpose in life, it gave us valuable questions to ask in the search for our purpose, it was eye-opening. I also loved our day at Niagara Falls.
What do you think you took from that conference, and how do you plan to put it into practice at Xavier?
I took away valuable lessons on better ways to include the community of students and the surrounding communities in our affairs, making for a better and more “accessible” campus for everyone from the disabled/handicapped to the veteran and every soul that exists in between. As a current senator on SGA, I am working on initiatives to drive inclusion based programming and create a system of practices that will actively recruit and retain those people who are often under-represented.
Would you recommend the NJLC to others interested in going?
I would highly recommend it, it’s so much more than a classroom of people learning about leadership or improving leadership. It is a community of leaders who are focused on improving their own leadership while creating other leaders through community engagement.
What’s something everyone should know about you?
I am very passionate about leadership in every form that it comes in. I have loved community service and involvement ever since I first tried it out, and it is a mission and goal of my life. I also love eating.