Expand Your Horizons
Learning to lead is a quest’it involves questioning, understanding, experiences, service, training and more. The Student Leadership Institute is the ticket and can help you explore this frontier. SLI is a leadership development program open to all Brookhaven College students and offers a diverse itinerary of retreats, training sessions, seminars and conferences. SLI provides opportunities for you to:
- Develop your leadership skills.
- Discover your personal leadership style.
- Make new friends.
- Add to your resume and personal portfolio. Studies show that employers consider student involvement a key to success.
- Reflect on your values.
- Improve your credentials for scholarships.
- Meet one-on-one with college, community and national leaders.
- Succeed academically. Students who get involved in campus life are less likely to drop out of school.
- Celebrate your accomplishments.
- Get your passport to leadership stamped for success. SLI can help you make a real difference on your campus, in your community and in your career.
REACH FOR THE STARS
Choose a membership level
You can choose the level of participation in the Student Leadership Institute that best suits your goals and schedule. Requirements for membership levels are:
- MEMBER Completes two SLI activities
- FOUR-STAR MEMBER Completes four SLI activities Plus one leadership elective*
- SIX-STAR MEMBER Completes six SLI activities Plus one leadership elective*
- ALL-STAR MEMBER Completes ten SLI activities Plus two leadership electives*
*A Leadership Elective can be an independent project, an additional SLI event, an alternative activity (Ambassadors Program, campus committee, other conference, training workshops, etc.) or community service. Check with Student Life/SPAR staff for approval and elective opportunities.
You can complete requirements for your membership goal in one or two semesters, (fall and/or spring) and, if needed, can change membership level.
GET ON BOARD!
Join SLI now!
SLI applications are available in the Student Life/SPAR Office, BHC Room S201.
- All SLI participants must attend an orientation session.
- Participants must sign up for SLI activities in advance and be committed to attend.
- All SLI participants receive Quest, a monthly newsletter that provides information about SLI events, other leadership opportunities and scholarships.
- All SLI members are recognized at end-of-the-year celebrations.
- You may join SLI anytime throughout the fall semester.
- Enrollment deadline for the spring semester is March 15. For a list of current activities drop by the Student Life/SPAR Office in the Student Services Center, Building S, Room S201, call 972-860-4115 or e-mail bhcStudentLife@dcccd.edu.
Click here to dowload the Student Leadership Institute brochure.
