Women in Leadership and Learning (WILL)
Women in Leadership and Learning is a new student development program for women that aims to build leadership in a community setting over the course of their college years. The program has classroom and experiential learning components built on themes of social justice and activism.
Our mission
...to build a women's community of leaders, committed to social justice and activism, through co-curricular, experiential learning...
The WILL program at UC is designed in partnership by the Women's Center and the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Amy Howton, Assistant Director of the Women's Center, coordinates the program with assistance from WILL Student Workers Dylan Colvin and Tasha Vaught.
For additional information on WILL at UC, please contact Amy.Howton@uc.edu.
Program description: WILL (Women in Leadership and Learning) is a multi-year learning community comprised of both academic and co-curricular experiences designed to develop a student’s leadership over the course of her collegiate experience. WILL was created to encompass the key, three touchpoints of a students’ collegiate experience: First Year Experience, Mid-Collegiate, and Senior Year Experience. These touchpoints are effectively structured through both required, sequential academic courses and developmental, multi-year co-curricular experiences. These experiences will be administered by Women’s Center staff in partnership with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) faculty.
Program Requirements:
• Participation in co-curricular leadership development group: WILL students will learn about leadership and activism by attending a monthly activism lecture series and discussion groups. WILL students will apply this learning to an action project of their choosing aimed at creating change.
• Participation in WILL student group to practice leadership and social change skills
• Academic requirements: 1) Introduction to WGSS 2) Women and Activism 3) Internship 4) Senior Seminar (earning the equivalent of a WGSS minor)
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