This year the College is planning a first-ever event designed to enhance leadership skills and promote team building amongst the undergraduate engineering student organizations and societies. The "Passport to Leadership" is a day-long leadership retreat to be held on Saturday, September 17, 2005 from 10:00am-3:15pm on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus.

We are currently seeking volunteers to lead sessions during the retreat in the following topic areas:

Organizational Development

• Means for Communication
• Motivating and Reviving membership
• Team Building

Organizational Roles

• Workshops intended to develop skill sets for specific executive board positions, including President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, webmaster, etc.
• Topics to be covered may include delegation of authority, financial management, fundraising, quality meetings, effective minute taking, website maintenance, networking, etc.

Leadership

• Qualities of leaders
• Leadership methodologies
• Learning from leadership history

Academic and Career Development

• Balancing academic and organizational responsibilities
• From backpack to briefcase
• Networking.

Sessions are one hour in length. Presenters are free to determine the format of the session. Suggested formats for the session are presentation, open discussion, interactive, or panel discussion.

Please review the attached agenda for the retreat and contact us with your submission interests.

Registration Form

Sincerely,

Catherine Bliss
Recruitment and Admissions Counselor

Kamilah McCoy
Assistant Director, Minority Engineering Recruitment and Retention Program

College of Engineering
University of Illinois at Chicago