Spring 2026 Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE)

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:39:15 -0500

Applications for the Spring '26 MLE Cohort can be found HERE. Registration is due Friday, January 30th, 2026 at 12:00 pm (NOON).

In a collaboration with The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity and Campus Engagement, "The Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE)" seeks to:

Engage participants in a multicultural development and leadership learning program.

Enhance participants' understanding of their social identities, leadership identity, as well as their capacity to lead while navigating systems of power, privilege, and oppression.

Enable participants' development through authenticity, self-awareness, relationships, and capitalizing on differences.

The sessions are as follows:

- Meeting #1: Monday, February 9th, 3:30 - 4:45 PM

- Meeting #2: Monday, February 23rd 3:30 - 4:45 PM

- Meeting #3: Monday, March 9th, 3:30 - 4:45 PM

- Meeting #4: Monday, March 30th, 3:30 - 4:45 PM

- Meeting #5: Monday, April 13th, 3:30 - 4:45 PM

- Meeting #6 & Celebration: Monday, April 27th, 3:30 - 5 PM

***All sessions will take place in The Commons (room location will be specified in a Google calendar invite)***

Participants will be exploring the concept of Authentic Leadership, Legacy Building, and Breaking Barriers of White Supremacy within Leadership. We will do this in a leadership learning cohort by:

Enhancing participants' leader identity and leadership capacity using an identity-conscious lens and student development theories;

Increasing participants' awareness of their personal abilities, identity development, and intersections that shape their story through authenticity, self-reflection, and cultural humility;

Exploring the role they play in developing relationships while building intra/intercultural connections;

And capitalizing on their differences, specifically in relation to their racial, ethnic, national, and other salient identity social groups

The purpose of all MLE programs is to provide a space for students and student leaders who identify within diverse or marginalized backgrounds to discover their own capacity to lead, while also promoting a better understanding of their experiences, issues, strengths, and outcomes in navigating their own collegiate careers. However, ALL students are welcome to apply!

Registration is due Friday, January 30th, 2026 at 12:00 pm (NOON). Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate. In order to be accepted into the program you must commit to all sessions. Please answer all of the questions before submitting your registration. Any questions can be sent to themosaic@umbc.edu

The Mosaic Center and all events are open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or an other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.