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BARNARD LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE
The Barnard Leadership Initiative
Curriculum
www.barnard.edu/bli
This Program is supervised by the Faculty Committee for the Barnard Leadership Initiative:
Director: Alan Dye (Associate Professor of Economics)
Committee: Flora Davidson (Professor of Political Sciene and Urban Studies), Owen Gutfreund (Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies), Peter Levin (Assistant Professor of Sociology), Debra Minkoff (Professor of Sociology), Lorraine Minnite (Assistant Professor of Political Science), Richard Pious (Professor of Political Science), Rosalind Rosenberg (Professor of History), David Weiman (Professor of Economics)
Visiting Faculty: Liz Abzug (Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies), Thomas Kamber (Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies)
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
For more than a century, Barnard College has been at the forefront of advancing the roles and position of women in society. The Barnard Leadership Initiative (BLI) is a multifaceted, interdisciplinary program that combines curriculum and co-curricular opportunities to prepare women for the challenges of undertaking roles as potential leaders in environments including, non-profit, for profit, and public sectors. Students will explore concepts of leadership, how institutions and systems work, and common systemic barriers faced by potential women leaders. The program offers critical perspectives on gender, institutional and leadership issues. The goal of the program is to provide tools and strategies to enable women to advocate for, and assume, full participation in positions of leadership at the highest levels of achievement in our society.
The Leadership Initiative does not constitute a major; instead, students pursue it in conjunction with a major in one of the College's departments or programs.
The program culminates in the Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar (BLIC BC3997-BLIC BC3998), which is taken concurrently with the senior requirement in one's major department. Instruction, discussion and presentations in the BLI Interdisciplinary Seminar enhance the capstone experience in one's major while serving also as a capstone for the BLI sequence by bringing together the senior BLI participants, using multiple disciplinary approaches, to identify and compare perspectives and analysis from their respective disciplines and the BLI curriculum. The Seminar includes discussion of selected readings and topics and opportunities for participants of the seminar to present their senior research projects in the Seminar and at the end-of-year BLI symposium. Students in the Seminar are eligible to receive associated BLI grants to fund expenses associated with their senior research projects.
Students who plan to participate in the program should file a Declaration of Intent, typically by the end of the sophomore year, with the director of the program.