Life Experience & Action Dimension (LEAD)

Life Experience & Action Dimension (LEAD)

Life-Skills: Experience and Results

Students gain knowledge—and put it to work—in four areas: understanding personality styles, building inclusive community, lifelong career management and financial sophistication.
Activities are hands-on and interactive
First step—taking the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)—gives students a tool to better understand their personality styles, which can help in communicating with others and working in groups.
Life skills—both practical and meaningful—enable students to adapt to changing environments, make good decisions in difficult situations and pursue short- and long-term goals successfully.

Thematic Organization

Life Skills is organized around four themes and the underlying questions each theme generates.

Understanding Myself and My Relationships: Who am I?
Building Inclusive Communities: Who are we?
Managing a Lifelong Career: What am I going to do?
Gaining Financial Sophistication: How am I going to manage my money?

Applying the program to my daily life

Understanding Myself and My Relationships

All incoming students will take the MBTI, a personality assessment test, online before arriving on campus. It’s a fascinating, straightforward way to learn more about yourself. Students then participate in a Personality Style workshop during which they work on the following areas:

Living well with others
Completing roommate contracts
Negotiating problems and respecting differences
Adjusting to residence hall life

Building Inclusive Communities

Participate in activities in residence halls to develop safe and respectful living environments
Engage in experiences that will broaden your cultural awareness
Get involved in a community experience--cook a meal at the Ronald McDonald House, raise money for COTS (a homeless shelter) by participating in Tent City, tutor for America Reads.
Take part in a program that is working on solving a public problem--sustainability, decreasing your carbon footprint, recycling, voter registration.

Managing a Lifelong Career