Leadership TAMIU
Leadership TAMIU provides upper-division, undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to learn advanced leadership principals and techniques so that they may be used after the successful completion of their studies. The program is designed in a lecture/discussion format. This course explores a wide range of intercultural leadership challenges within the Latino community, while specifically focusing on a broad range of social identities.
In this course, students understand the pluralistic nature of institutions, society and culture in the United States and across the world in order to become educated, productive, reflective, and engaged citizens and leaders. Utilizing Juana Bordas’ The Power of Latino Leadership as a backdrop, with the ten culturally sensitive leadership practices tailored specifically to Latinx students and their leadership development, students focus their efforts on creating substantive social change towards a specific social inequity/challenge through the creation of a social change project.
Leadership
Leadership TAMIU focuses on all aspects of identity. We explore the topics of identity, social change, and leadership in the Latino community through a variety of lenses. As we discuss and learn about different aspects intercultural challenges within the Latino community, we discuss the impact our lived experiences and personal histories within a Latino community have on our understanding of the world.
The overall purpose of Leadership TAMIU is to challenge each student to carefully analyze their responsibilities and commitments to social change in the context of intercultural and global leadership. This seminar course is more than a study of intercultural and global leadership; it is a learner-centered opportunity to develop one’s own social change leadership potential within the community and beyond. Students are encouraged to engage and direct their own learning. This course is intended to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to improve their organizations and achieve long-lasting social change within the community.
Students in the Leadership TAMIU program will be able to identify their leadership strengths and weaknesses, express their image of the future, clarify and communicate their fundamental values and beliefs, align their actions with their values, build collaboration and trust, and search for opportunities to change and improve.
Students in this program are expected to attend scheduled meetings in order to successfully complete the program and are on select Fridays from 3 to 5 p.m. Students accepted into the program will be notified of the first meeting accordingly.
In addition, students will be required to participate in the International Leadership Series.
LEADERSHIP TAMIU has switched to a semester-long program, meeting frequently each semester.
To be eligible for Leadership TAMIU, students must:
- Be enrolled full-time for the Fall 2023
- Have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above
- Have completed a minimum of 60 semester credit hours (undergraduate) or enrolled graduate student
- Be a current TAMIU undergraduate or graduate student in good standing
- Leadership TAMIU is open to all students, regardless of background
- Friday, September 15, 2023
- Friday, September 29, 2023
- Friday, October 13, 2023
- Friday, October 27, 2023
- Friday, November 10, 2023
All lessons will run from 3-5 p.m.
Fall 2023 International Leadership Series Dates:
- Wednesday, September 13, 2023 ( 3:20 - 4:20 p.m.)
- Wednesday, October 25, 2023 ( 3:20 - 4:20 p.m.)
- Wednesday, November 29, 2023 ( 3:20 - 4:20 p.m.)
- Improving Undocumented Student Resources at TAMIU
- Increasing Student Resources
- Stopping Sexual Assault in Laredo
- Recycling at TAMIU
- Reducing Mental Health Stigmas Amongst Latinx Students
- Increasing Student Organization Resources
- Implementing Solar Panels at TAMIU
- Increasing Women’s Reproductive Choices
- Free Feminine Products at TAMIU
- Reducing Carbon Footprint at TAMIU
Student Center (STC) 224
5201 University Blvd., Laredo, TX 78041-1900
956.326.2280
Fax: 956.326.2279
E-mail: sole@tamiu.edu