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Leadership Development programs - Fall 2021

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This semester, Campus Life is offering four different leadership programs for UMBC students! These programs are designed for skill-building, experiential learning, campus connections, and overall student development. Whether you're a student looking to get involved, become a leader, refine your skills, or add something extra to your résumé-- check us out! Below you will find a summary of each program, registration information, program dates and hyperlinks to event pages for more information:


The Leadershops series consists of workshops that focus on various student centered leadership-related topics facilitated by Campus Life staff and student leaders. This program aims to contribute to the leadership development and ongoing learning of UMBC undergraduate students.

The following are the fall 2021 Leadershops sessions that are being offered for students to register through myUMBC:

The LeadHERship Problem - Tuesday, September 28th at 12:00pm
This session is about taking a deeper look into the relationship between women and leadership. Attendees will learn about how our socialization affects our views regarding our own identity and our capacity to lead. This session will be done online.

The Author of Your Leadership Story - Wednesday, October 20th at 12:00pm
The Author of Your Leadership Story is a leadership workshop that focuses on self-authorship; defining and creating you own individual sense of self, and making yourself as you go on your college journey. This session will be done in-person at The Commons.

Going Farther Together - Thursday, November 18th at 12:00pm
Attendees will learn about the leadership process through team-building and capitalizing on difference. This session will be done in-person at The Commons.


This program is about getting more out of, rather than cramming more into, UMBC. This 5 week program helps first year, sophomore, and new transfer students craft a more fulfilling college experience by sharing practical tools and ideas and relating them back to their leadership and involvement plans for UMBC. Topics include exploring your interests, finding your place at UMBC, designing plans for your leadership and involvement experience, and so much more. This seminar incorporates small group discussion, in-class activities, field exercises, and personal reflection.

There are two cohorts available starting the week of October 5th and ending the week of November 2nd, 2021:

  • Tuesdays 10:00am – 11:30am
  • Oct 5th, Oct 12th, Oct 19th, Oct 26th, Nov 2nd
  • In-person meetings at The Commons

True Grit Cohort
  • Wednesdays 1:00pm – 2:30pm
  • Oct 6th, Oct 13th, Oct 20th, Oct 27th, Nov 3rd
  • In-person meetings at The Commons

Chip Cohort
  • Thursdays 3:00pm – 4:30pm
  • Oct 7th, Oct 14th, Oct 21st, Oct 28th, Nov 4th
  • Online meetings via Webex

To participate, you must be available to attend all of the sessions of your selected section of Leadership Blueprint. Registration closes at 11:59pm on Monday, September 27th, 2021.



Emerging Leaders is a day long experience for students who are interested in developing their leadership capacity and learning more about the Social Change Model (SCM) of Leadership Development. SCM at it’s core, approaches leadership as a purposeful, collaborative, values-based process that results in positive social change.

The Social Change Model sees leadership as purposeful, collaborative, and a values-driven process. Titles or positions are not needed in order to be a leader. Leaders work to improve the groups and communities they are part of. Through this approach, anyone can be a leader, because “leaders” are those who want to make a difference. This kind of collaborative process means that groups must have trust, which requires that group members act in ways that are consistent with their own beliefs and values as well as the group’s goals. Food will be provided at this event.

This program will take place in-person at The Commons 331 on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 from 10:30am – 3:30pm. 

Registration closes on Friday, October 1st at 12:00pm. 



The purpose of the Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE) is to provide a space for students and student leaders who identify with diverse or marginalized backgrounds to discover their own capacity to lead, while also promoting a better understanding of their experiences, issues, and outcomes in navigating their own collegiate careers. 

This year's MLE Mini-Series theme is Deconstructing Grit and Greatness! Below you will find the event links to the three sessions we will be offering this semester. All meetings will be done in-person at The Commons. Students are welcome to sign-up for any or all available session(s):

Reconstructing Resilience - September 30th, 11am - 12:15pm
Participants will connect their understanding of themselves to their leadership approach in relation to resiliency.

Exploring Empathy and Giving Grace - October 26th, 1pm - 2:15pm
Participants will connect their understanding of themselves to their leadership approach by engaging in inter-cultural dialogue and utilizing emotional intelligent capacities.

Decoding Inclusive Excellence - December 7th, 4pm - 5:15pm
Participants will connect their understanding of our campus community and tools learned in order to collectively co-create a new definition for Inclusive Excellence.



Stay tuned for more leadership development opportunities and events coming your way! Should you have any questions or are interested in receiving leadership development updates from Campus Life, please contact Coordinator for Leadership, Beatriz Gutiérrez-Malagón at bgutierrez@umbc.edu

Posted: September 22, 2021, 8:42 PM

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