Leadership and Development
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Leadership Looks Different Here
Preparing students to lead extraordinary lives.
The Center for Diversity and Inclusion office offers a unique leadership development experience for students. Rooted in the foundation of Jesuit values and the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, we prepare students to lead from an ethical compass, working towards the common good and a collective vision and imagination of a better world.
Our lives are impacted by catastrophic social oppression and systemic inequities and addressing that is paramount to preparing our students for the world. We believe that leadership is a moral obligation to advancing justice. Therefore, acknowledging social and political contexts of how power, privilege and oppression intersect with leadership is critical and at the core of our educational approach. Utilizing historical and contemporary contexts, leadership frameworks will be grounded in the following principles: rooted in values and principles, shaped by personal identities and social location, a commitment to the collective and in relationship to one another, and exist within a model of possibility.
By participating in our programs, students will develop an understanding of socially conscious leadership, enhance important critical thinking skills and strengthen their capacity for self-efficacy and personal responsibility.
Leadership Education and Development (LEAD)
Program Overview
Started in 2016, the Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Program is a social justice cohort-based program that aims to cultivate the skills and leadership capacities of CDI mentees. The program centers equity-assets based approaches to skill development and application and seeks to provide alternatives to toxic leadership models. Cohort members will be supported in identifying their leadership styles and goals and can expect to engage in team meetings, develop service-learning projects, and gain tangible skills and knowledge about salient equity and justice topics.
Program Goals
Goal #1: Leadership for Justice
Develop leadership skills, capacity and philosophy for a more just and humane world.
1.1 Develop a personal leadership philosophy rooted in equity and justice.
1.2 Cultivate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes associated with effective and socially responsible leadership.
1.3 Critically analyze one’s social identities through the exploration of power, privilege, and oppression to understand how these impacts one’s worldview.
Goal #2: Intersectional Analysis
Engage in critical analysis utilizing an intersectional framework to be able to identify socio-cultural structures and their impact on individuals and communities.
2.1 Understand how the Roger’s Park landscape, community dynamics and individual experiences are shaped by institutions, policies, movements and distribution of resources.
2.2 Develop an understanding on salient equity, inclusion and justice topics.
2.3 Explore issues of power, privilege and oppression and will highlight the importance of an intersectional approach to strive to develop social justice campaigns to counteract unjust systems and practices.
Goal #3: Asset-Based Service
Center community assets-based approaches as a practice to promote a culture of service that respects the dignity of every person.
3.1 Utilize a community assets-based approach to identify and advocate for people-driven priorities and goals.
3.2 Gain an understanding of the strategies of organizing and mobilizing campaigns to advance social justice efforts in solidarity with marginalized communities.
3.3 Understand how to form sustainable and equitable partnerships with local community organizations.
Goal #4: Ignatian Social Responsibility
Deepen the legacy of Ignatius Loyola by committing to a social responsibility of advancing justice, to act what is learned in service to humanity and to be a person for others.
4.1 Strengthen one’s ability to practice cultural humility.
4.2 Engage students with the tools and theories needed to become successful change makers and leaders.
4.3 Further a commitment to social justice through critical reflection and action.
Get Involved
Participant Eligibility and Application Process
10 participants - 4 STARS, 2 LUCES, 2, QUEST, 2 B4E
- Be a current CDI first year mentee in any of the following programs: Students Together Are Reaching Success (STARS), Loyola University Chicago Empowering Sisterhood (LUCES), Queer Undergraduates of Empowerment, Support and Triumph (QUEST), and Brothers for Excellence (B4E).
- Maintain a minimum 2.7 cumulative GPA by the start of spring semester of LEAD.
- Attend all program sessions: Orientation, 5 program sessions, Closing, and Undergraduate Research Symposium.
- Commit to 3.5 hours per work (1.5 program session + 2 additional hours).
Application Process
- Complete an online application (Applications for the current academic year are closed).
- Candidates are invited to participate in a 30-minute interview.
- Successful candidates will be notified to take part in the next cohort.
For questions, please email Eva Long at elong1@luc.edu.
“Leadership involves living in a state of possibility, making a commitment to a vision, developing relationships to move vision into action, and sustaining a high level of integrity. Effective leadership takes place in the context of a community and results in a more equitable society.” LeaderShape
Leadership Looks Different Here
Preparing students to lead extraordinary lives.
The Center for Diversity and Inclusion office offers a unique leadership development experience for students. Rooted in the foundation of Jesuit values and the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, we prepare students to lead from an ethical compass, working towards the common good and a collective vision and imagination of a better world.
Our lives are impacted by catastrophic social oppression and systemic inequities and addressing that is paramount to preparing our students for the world. We believe that leadership is a moral obligation to advancing justice. Therefore, acknowledging social and political contexts of how power, privilege and oppression intersect with leadership is critical and at the core of our educational approach. Utilizing historical and contemporary contexts, leadership frameworks will be grounded in the following principles: rooted in values and principles, shaped by personal identities and social location, a commitment to the collective and in relationship to one another, and exist within a model of possibility.
By participating in our programs, students will develop an understanding of socially conscious leadership, enhance important critical thinking skills and strengthen their capacity for self-efficacy and personal responsibility.
Leadership Education and Development (LEAD)
Program Overview
Started in 2016, the Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Program is a social justice cohort-based program that aims to cultivate the skills and leadership capacities of CDI mentees. The program centers equity-assets based approaches to skill development and application and seeks to provide alternatives to toxic leadership models. Cohort members will be supported in identifying their leadership styles and goals and can expect to engage in team meetings, develop service-learning projects, and gain tangible skills and knowledge about salient equity and justice topics.