LeadingOrgs Retreat
Are you a student organization officer (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Event Planner, etc.)? Campus Life invites you to jumpstart your student organization by participating in LeadingOrgs, a fantastic, all-day leadership retreat designed specifically to meet the needs of student organization officers. This program is typically offered to student organization officers in the very beginning of the academic year (fall semesters). During LeadingOrgs, officers from various student organizations receive training in several aspects of leadership and teamwork, learn more about the resources available to student organizations, and make new and lasting connections with other student leaders. Any questions about this program? Contact studentorgs@umbc.edu.
Multicultural Leadership Experience
The Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE) is a collaboration between Campus Life and the Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging (i3b). This cohort program is being held over the course of the academic year. The purpose of MLE is to provide a space for students and student leaders who identify with culturally, racially and ethnically diverse or marginalized backgrounds to discover their own capacity to lead, while also promoting a better understanding of their experiences, challenges, and outcomes in navigating their own collegiate careers. The Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE) will:
- Engage up to 20 undergraduate and graduate students in a leadership learning cohort with in-person and asynchronous content;
- Enhancing participants’ leader identity and leadership capacity using an identity-conscious lens and student development theories;
- Increasing participants’ awareness of their personal abilities, identity development, and intersections that shape their story through authenticity, self-reflection, and cultural humility;
- Exploring the role they play in developing relationships while building intra/intercultural connections;
- And capitalizing on their unique differences, specifically in relation to their racial, ethnic, national, and other salient identity social groups
Based on the belief that leadership is learned through experience, education, and reflection– MLE will focus on leadership development through a multicultural lens, create a dynamic virtual learning environment, and invite UMBC students to learn from each other (and themselves) through the curriculum.
Have questions about this program? Contact Angelina Jenkins at arjenkin@umbc.edu
Omicron Delta Kappa (OΔK)
OΔK is a prestigious national leadership honor society founded in 1914. OΔK recognizes juniors, seniors and graduate students at UMBC who have demonstrated excellence across five major areas of collegiate life: scholarship; athletics; social, service, religious and governance activities; mass media and journalism; and creative and performing arts. Applications are available towards the middle of the spring semester. Learn more about OΔK. For questions contact: Jen Ewing Fox, jenewingfox@umbc.edu