UW-Whitewater offers leadership programs, activities and courses that provide students the opportunity to intentionally explore leadership. T hrough involvement in these programs, students are able to acquire and practice the attitudes, skills, and knowledge necessary to become effective leaders in the future. It begins with leadership over one's own life.
Leadership involves attitudes, skills, and knowledge that can be learned.
Leadership rests on a presumption of equality not elitism. Leadership is a process that any person can perform. It is not limited to those individuals holding positions or roles of authority. Leadership is dynamic and action oriented. Successful leaders need to understand the process of change.