Student Growth Through Professional Travel
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Learn outside the classroom and expand your knowledge with off-campus, real-world experiences. The Wilson Center supports off-campus professional development opportunities that build leadership and innovation skills for students. Bring the important skills you learn at 51²è¹Ýapp into your life. These professional development opportunities help enhance your life experience — whether in your career and service or in your learning and critical thinking skills — while building your social and professional network.
The Wilson Center is open to sponsoring events, conferences, and other relevant off-campus opportunities that you believe strengthen your innovation and leadership skills, knowledge, and critical-thinking ability. We offer funding for some experiences that make an impact and align with our mission.
Guidance for Proposals
Groups of students are more likely to have a proposal funded when they collaborate with a faculty or staff sponsor to develop an intentional plan to build leadership and innovation skills. The sponsor would facilitate a meeting prior to the event to help students prepare for the conference and find appropriate leadership development opportunities. After the conference, the sponsor will facilitate a discussion to process the lessons from the conference and lead the group in preparing a presentation for relevant campus constituencies. Off-campus events not specifically related to leadership, innovation, or enterprise are strongly encouraged to collaborate with a sponsor.
Conferences or workshops primarily focused on research or experiences in other disciplines are less likely to be funded. Partial funding to build leadership skills via these discipline-specific conferences is possible provided the leadership development is intentional and facilitated by a sponsor.
The Wilson Center does not fund credit-bearing courses. The Wilson Center will support educational programs such as non-credit-bearing courses, online professional development programs, and certificate programs at a maximum of 60%. Such activities that occur during an academic semester are unlikely to be supported. Such requests must clearly indicate how the same learning outcomes cannot be achieved through 51²è¹Ýapp College courses or those available to students through .
See a the Wilson Center has funded or that may be of interest to students to foster their leadership and/or innovation skills.
Submit a Proposal
To be considered for funding, students must submit a well-articulated proposal. While all proposals are considered, there is no guarantee they will be accepted.