Programs
Chancellor’s Leadership Class
A year-long 2 credit leadership class for freshmen who have demonstrated commitment to achieving their leadership potential.
LEAD Mizzou
A peer education team dedicated to creating resources and customized workshops that encourage individuals and groups to Learn, Enhance, and Discover their leadership potential.
Leadership Conferences
MU sponsors two annual leadership conferences for Mizzou students and organizations.
>>The Women’s Leadership Conference & Minority Student Leadership Summit
The University of Missouri sponsors two leadership conferences each year. These conferences are open to all MU students and provide an excellent opportunity for both emerging and experienced student leaders to strengthen their leadership skills, exchange ideas, and expand their campus leadership network.
Minority Student Leadership Summit – offers minority students at the University of Missouri the opportunity to learn more about themselves as individual’s, explore THEIR Mizzou Experience and develop tools to be successful in college and beyond! Through workshops, presentations, and speakers, this Summit will teach students how to become the architects for their own college experience bridging the gap between where they are from & who they are, to where they want to go and the person who they want to be. Students who attend this summit will explore their identity, learn more about effective leadership, and be challenged to develop a plan to make change and to take their leadership to the next level! Come “Show Your Colors” and honor yourself, your culture & your experience at the first Minority Student Leadership Summit! The conference is planned for Saturday, October 3, 2009 . More information will be posted soon, please check back with us again.
Women’s Leadership Conference (WLC) is a supportive and educational conference to celebrate women’s accomplishments and provide developmental leadership skills that contribute to women’s success in leadership, academics, careers and personal life. The WLC is held on years ending in even numbers during the Spring Semester to coincide with Women’s History Month. The Conference is co-sponsored by several offices on campus and offers students the opportunity to learn more about leadership and provides opportunities to network with Faculty, Staff, Alumnae, and Community Leaders. Check our website for conference date, time and location. This will take place on March 13, 2010.
Step Forward Day
Step Forward Day, a tradition on the MU campus, is a one-day service event every August geared toward freshmen and transfer students.
Alternative Spring Break
Looking to do something WILD and CRAZY for Spring Break on a budget? Why not spend your weeek at an exotic location with a group of other students doing service?!? ASB is a group of 100+ student who travel to various locations acorss the nation in groups of 6-12 to spend their week doing service. To get more information please email us at AlternativeSpringBreak@missouri.edu .
Click here for a direct link to the application.
Caring for Columbia
This is one of the largest service events that MU has to offer. Each Spring hundreds of students from the University of Missouri mobilize to honor the Columbia Community in a day of volunteering. This annual community service event, dedicated to improving the welfare of the elderly, families of low income, at-risk children and disabled people, as well as many others, has rapidly become a large campus tradition. Around 300-500 students from all walks of campus life unite to attend this one day event to serve needy populations around the city.
Download the Application for Caring for Columbia Steering Committee 2010. Click Here
