In any profession or occupation, leadership skills are essential in career growth and development. Whether you are in charge of a medical research team or serving fries at a fast food restaurant, knowing how to interact efficiently with co-workers and consumers is extremely important. However, before you can communicate with others, you must know your strengths and weaknesses as an individual leader. In other words, your personal identities influence how you lead a group. This is where the leadership studies program comes into play! The leadership studies program teaches students how positive change is created within communities and how to implement leadership behaviors, which are developed and improved upon over time, in everyday life.

Here are 5 reasons why you should consider a minor in leadership studies:

1. Network with other on-campus leaders!

2. Check off your service learning credit! Woo!

3. Connect with professors in the School of Education! (They are super cool, I promise)

4. The leadership studies program’s elective classes are classified by major, so students in this minor will be able to double-dip classes

5. Use this program as a way to show potential employers that you are a confident leader who respects diversity and promotes inclusion.