Leadership
By the end of your orientation session, you will be an expert on getting around campus, housing choices, course options, and registration, and you will know your way around the vast array of UMass Amherst’s resources. Most importantly for your future, you will begin to learn how to be a leader.
Leadership. It’s a word you’ll hear often around here because its as important as your GPA, your relationship with your advisor, your ability to write a respectable essay, and your knowledge of the best thing to do at 10:00 PM on a Saturday. The leadership skills you build during your time at UMass Amherst will help you make the most of your education, lead you to your first job and help assure a successful career no matter your field, and engage you as a local and global citizen into the future.
Take the time during orientation and again during your first couple of weeks on campus to learn more about your opportunities to cultivate lifelong leadership skills.
How do you do this?
Explore the myriad of organizations on and off campus that allow students to participate actively as leaders and hone their skills.
Check out student government, a cultural or religious group, a choir or improv group, or the campus radio station.
Lead a group in your political science class or organize a flag football team. Work for a student business, volunteer at Everywoman's Center, or work for the America Reads literacy program.
Develop a community service project or an internship at a Fortune 500 company. Join a sorority, an honor society, or the Women of Color Leadership Network.
Learn what it takes to be a resident assistant, an orientation counselor, or a campus tour guide. Or, if you can’t find what you are looking for, create your experience.
It’s all waiting for you.
