Campus Based Leadership

Rice University encourages a high level of student self-governance throughout the undergraduate and graduate experience.  With this in mind, the Office of Student Activities endeavors to provide leadership theory and skill-based programs to develop the leadership abilities of Rice students and enhance their level of self-governance.

Leaders are not born, they are made through their experience, knowledge, relationships, and skills.  It is the goal of Student Activities to empower students at Rice to develop into leaders and to take actions that positively benefit the world. To learn more about both Student Activities leadership opportunities and Campus and Community Leadership Opportunities, please see below.  If you have questions about any of the opportunities or would like to suggest future programs, please email sactleadership@rice.edu.   

• Club Related Opportunities- include involvement, support for club leadership, and networking opportunities
• Emerging Leader's Program-One day spring leadership program targeting emerging leaders on campus (Freshmen and Sophomores).  For details please read more about Emerging Leaders Program. 
• Impact Rice Retreat-Weekend leadership retreat for freshmen and sophomores, great networking opportunity.  For more details visit the IRR page. 
•  Leadership Headlines- As an online resource to get you thinking about the many facets of leadership, Student Activities has an RSS feed of streaming headlines from various leadership blogs and sites, please let us know what you think. 
• Lunch and Lead Program-These are short 40 minute programs on a particular leadership topic.  Most programs are held in the Colleges and students are invited to BYOL* (Lunch).  For detailed descriptions of the Lunch and Lead programs for he upcoming month, please visit the Lunch and Lead Listing. 
• Women LEAD (Leading through Education, Affiliations, and Development) Programs-Designed in a Lunch and Lead format, these short programs bring in a female speaker to talk about leadership through the eyes of women. For more information about the speakers for this program please see the Women LEAD page.   
• Student Governance:
  • Student Association 
  • Graduate Student Association 

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Campus and Community Leadership Opportunities

• College Governance 
• Baker Institute for Public Policy 
•  Gateway Program 
• Program in Poverty, Social Justice and Human Capabilities  
• Rice Center for Engineering Leadership 
• Center for Civic Engagement
  • Leadership Rice 
  • Community Involvement Center 
  • Center for Civic Research and Design