Your admission is based on a combination of your leadership experience and potential. Your leadership experience might be formal, through a student or community leadership role, or informal, through having an important impact on others’ wellbeing or on an important issue for the community.
To be admitted to the President’s Student Leadership Program you must meet the following requirements:
- Be enrolled in a post-secondary program at a public university or college in the province of Manitoba
- Be at least halfway through your program of study but not in your graduating year
- Students in a two-year program should apply while in the second half of their first year of post-secondary study.
- Students in the process of transferring to a different program or post-secondary institution will also be considered
- Students must be enrolled in a program that is minimum two years duration with the exception of 12-month masters programs
- Be available to attend all portions of the program
We are looking for students who demonstrate:
Active commitment
A demonstrated ability to develop, reflect on and question your own perspectives through learning from multiple viewpoints.
Social skills
An ability to collaborate with and motivate others, work effectively in a team to achieve common understanding, express yourself in different situations and to different people, and listen and value others’ opinions, experiences and knowledge bases.
Initiative and imagination
The potential to recognize where change is needed and work with others to pursue it.
Intellectual curiosity
An ability to collaborate with and motivate others, work effectively in a team to achieve common understanding, express yourself in different situations and to different people, and listen and value others’ opinions, experiences and knowledge bases.
Motivation
Passion, ability and serious incentive to actively engage in the program, including a plan for how you intend to use what you learn after program completion.