Leadership and Education: WLP

By James G. Pynn

Beginning students in the Womens Leadership Program are encouraged to explore and study the political and economic institutions that abound in the city. The WLP gives students the opportunity to delve into different areas of study-arts and culture, development and economics, politics, and science. The WLP program is interested in promoting and teaching leadership as it relates to women. Along with their leadership education, students are required to participate in humanities and writing classes to ensure good communication and social science and justice skills.

Designated faculty are charged with supervising the WLP program and work to ensure guest speakers, special events and field trips where students meet with women in the leadership positions are provided for. The field trips also provide interaction with mentors and connections to possible internship opportunities. This yearlong freshman program uses hands-on activities to engage students in leadership roles and is interactive in nature. Along with the WLP faculty, one graduate student is picked to advise and provide communication between student and faculty members.

Students are encourage to be inquisitive in nature and explore their chosen field at the highest of levels and with the live-in community setting and graduate students there to help, students who have completed the WLP program have gained life-lasting friends and counterparts. They are housed at the restored and stunning Mount Vernon campus at George Washington University. They are supervised by graduate students who also live onsite and help them explore their studies by example.

Elizabeth J. Somers is the spiritual masthead of the WLP. A strident proto-suffragette, she began bucking convention as early as 1868 by bothering to teach women the political process. In 1875, she opened the Mount Vernon Seminary where it thrived well beyond her death. In 1970, the seminary was closed until it was acquired and re-opened by George Washington University in 1999. Today it stands as a proud institution producing women full of the legacy of Somers.

The legacy of Elizabeth Somers continues to shine in the women enrolled in the WLP program at George Washington University and promises to enhance the leadership and strengthen the quality of women everywhere. The WLP campus at Georgetown University offers access to cultural, political, and academic learning at the highest of leadership levels. Programs may vary each year, however, will most likely include international arts and culture; globalization, economics and business; science, health and medicine; and, US and international politics. The women who choose the WLP program are assured an exemplary education and a profound grasp on the art of leadership.

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