ASU High School Leadership Academy

In partnership with the Truman Presidential Library’s White House Decision Center, the ASU Center for American Institutions offers a summer leadership program that will challenge students to step into the roles of President Harry S. Truman and his advisors to tackle the historic decision of how and when to end the war with Japan. Student participants will choose which cabinet role they would like to explore in the simulation. 

Students will gain skills in:

• Close reading and information gathering.
• Primary source analysis.
• Comparing and contrasting multiple points of view.
• Synthesizing complex information.
• Group cooperation and communication.
• Speech writing and public speaking.
• Crafting evidence-based solutions for a complex problem.