Marquette Today

Campus News and Events

Submit news

Menu

  • Campus News
    • Top News for Students
    • Top News for Faculty & Staff
    • Magazines at Marquette
    • Campus Alerts
  • Archives
  • Submit news
    • Editorial Guidelines
    • Contacts
  • @MarquetteToday
  • Events Calendar
  • Topics
    • Community Engagement
    • Diversity
    • Innovation
    • Master Planning
    • Marquette Momentum
    • Research
    • Strategic Planning

As it celebrates 10 years, nationally recognized E-Lead program seeks applicants for fall semester

May 11, 2023

The Excellence in Leadership (E-Lead) program last month celebrated its 2023 graduating class and 10 years at Marquette with a year-end celebration that brought together current E-Lead students and staff, graduating seniors, alumni, parents, advisory board members, program donors, and other university leaders, faculty, and staff.

Led by the Opus College of Engineering, E-Lead is a curricular innovation leadership development program for undergraduate students across disciplines at Marquette. Through a curriculum rooted in the Ignatian tradition, E-Leaders progress through a three-year program focused on leading oneself, leading with others and leading innovation. Students apply in their sophomore year, earning academic credit for their classroom and experiential innovation leadership learning.

E-Lead invites rising sophomores interested in the program to sign up for a newly launched e-newsletter list. Applications will open in September 2023 for the next cohort of sophomores to begin the program in January 2024.

Celebrating a decade of E-Lead
Dr. Kristina Ropella, Opus Dean of the Opus College of Engineering, opened the late-April celebration honoring 29 graduating seniors who all completed the E-Lead program.

The evening’s program included a dinner, highlights from the past 10 years, senior tributes and a presentation of the inaugural Spirit of E-Lead award to 2019 program alumnus Efrain Torres.

Attendees also had the opportunity to visit the E-Lead classroom at the Fotsch Innovation and Engineering Leadership Development (FIELD) Center in Dr. E. J. and Margaret O’Brien Hall, the newly dedicated home for Marquette Business and leadership innovation programs. Special 10-year anniversary programming included the screening of a new video highlighting E-Lead alumni reflecting on the program’s positive impact on their lives and careers.

“The E-Lead program is one-of-a-kind,” says Kate Trevey, Nana Fotsch Director of the FIELD Center. “It was designed specifically for our campus here at Marquette as a Catholic, Jesuit institution. Students shouldn’t have to wait 10 or 15 years into their careers and into the workforce until they have formal, intentional leadership development opportunities.”

Founded by Ropella, E-lead welcomed its first cohort of students in spring 2014 — 172 students have graduated from the program since 2016.

Hasan Barakat, a 2019 E-Lead alumnus and current product manager at GE Healthcare, reflects on his time in the program: “The E-lead program, for me, represents a period of profound growth and transformation of who I am, how I think, and the way I view myself and my potential.”

Since its inception, E-Lead has been entirely donor supported, with no cost for participating students. Alumnus and trustee emeritus Chuck Swoboda, who is also a Marquette innovator-in-residence, E-Lead parent and donor, says, “E-Lead is the single best investment you can make in yourself during your time at Marquette.”

To stay up to date on E-Lead events and program application announcements, visit their website or follow them on social media: LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter.

Filed Under: For Faculty/Staff, For Students, News

More news

Heather Van Vugt Ramirez named to BizTimes Milwaukee’s Notable Nonprofit Board Leaders

June 8, 2023

Support on-campus retail tenants as traffic slows

June 8, 2023

Professor earns prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award for international research

June 8, 2023

Register for an on-campus counseling session with TIAA, June 13-14

June 8, 2023

Marquette, NMDSI award seven mini grants to university faculty

June 8, 2023

Marquette, Safe & Sound hosting Juneteenth Celebration, June 17

June 8, 2023

Cara Hardin to serve as acting Title IX coordinator

June 8, 2023

No vacation from vocation as Anselm Smith enters seminary

June 6, 2023

More news

Quick Links

  • Faculty/Staff News
  • Student News
  • Magazines at Marquette
Submit news

Featured Stories

Shaka Smart Marquette Basketball defeats Butler 60-52 at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, WI on National Marquette Day Saturday February 4, 2023

“Picked to Finish Ninth”

Marquette Magazine remembers the championship men’s basketball season that began in obscurity.

Priestly callings: Two graduates find spiritual purpose at Marquette

Anselm Smith, Arts ’23 and Noah Smith, Arts ’23 — no relation — are both entering the priesthood after graduating from Marquette this spring.

Seize the summer: Milwaukee hotspots to explore

Students in Milwaukee this summer should try spending time exploring and discovering a lesser-known side of Milwaukee after summer classes, internships or work. 

Read more featured stories.

Safety

MUPD announces body-worn camera pilot program; full adoption anticipated in fall 2023

Free steering wheel locks available from MUPD; new software available for Hyundai vehicles

Safety Task Force efforts help lead to reduced crime on campus

Human Resources News

Register for an on-campus counseling session with TIAA, June 13-14

Looking back on May’s wellness events

Registration for summer GROW classes now available

Research

A watchful eye — and clear voice — on clean water

Using chemistry to address a scientific challenge — and a human one

Marquette faculty and staff research grants from March 2023

Awards & Accomplishments

Heather Van Vugt Ramirez named to BizTimes Milwaukee’s Notable Nonprofit Board Leaders

Professor earns prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award for international research

Marquette, NMDSI award seven mini grants to university faculty

Marquette UniversityCopyright 2023 by Marquette University
MARQUETTE.EDU // A TO Z