The Excellence in Leadership (E-Lead) Program is accepting applications from second-year students across campus to begin the program in spring 2025.
Applications are available online and due by noon on Monday, Sept. 30. Forty students will be selected from the applicant pool.
E-Lead is a three-year curricular program for undergraduate students across all disciplines at Marquette who are interested in learning how to lead innovation. Students earn academic credits as they progress through each year of the curriculum, which culminates in a Concentration in Innovation Leadership.
Sophomore students who are considering applying to the E-Lead Program are strongly encouraged to attend an information session:
- Thursday, Sept. 19, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in O’Brien 417
- Monday, Sept. 23, from noon to 1 p.m. in O’Brien 417
- Tuesday, Sept. 24, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the 707 Hub
E-Lead welcomes Marquette students from any discipline who are in their second year of college and are in good standing at the university to apply.
Offered through the Fotsch Innovation and Engineering Leadership Development (FIELD) Center, E-Lead is designed to help students develop their capacity to lead in service of others with an emphasis on innovation, developing meaningful new solutions to existing problems in a way that creates real value and positive change.
Kelly Colmone, a 2023 E-Lead alumnus and current associate clinical account specialist at Biosense Webster had this to say about the program:
“If leadership is something that sounds exciting to you or leaves you wanting to know more, go for it! This program can bring you countless amazing opportunities for growth and connection to be a leader who really can make great change in the world.”
Chuck Swoboda, Marquette’s innovator-in-residence, trustee emeritus, engineering alumnus and E-Lead parent, shared the following:
“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 the program’s new website, sign up for its e-mail newsletter, or follow E-Lead on LinkedIn and Instagram.
