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Spring 2025 - Student Leadership Awards

April 25, 2025
Merced, Calif. — April 25, 2025 — UC Merced recognized the initiative, innovation, and impact of its outstanding student leaders during the annual Student Leadership Awards Ceremony, hosted by the...

2024 Leadership Conference Inspires Students with the Theme “Sculpting Your Leadership Style”

November 22, 2024

On Saturday, September 28th, the Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center hosted the highly anticipated 2024 Leadership Conference, an empowering event centered around the theme "...

Lift While You Lead End-of-Year Celebration Honors First Post-Pandemic Cohort of Mentors

May 5, 2023

For the first time since 2019, a full year of Lift While You Lead (LWYL) has successfully been completed! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the program was temporarily put on hold, but in Fall...

Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center Rolls Out an Exciting Month Full of Programs

October 4, 2021
With the start of October finally here, the Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center is excited to announce our exciting programs for this month!    Bobcat Leadership Seminar | Thursdays 2:30pm –3:20pm (Oct, 7,14,21,28)  Registration Open: Register Here!...

UC Merced Student Leadership Conference - Fri Sept. 24, 2021!

September 14, 2021
2021 UC MERCED LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE! FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24th STUDENT PRESENTATIONS  3:00PM - 4:15pm  |  RSVP TODAY! KEYNOTE SPEAKER: SHAVONE.  5:30PM - 7:30PM  |  RSVP TODAY! SHAVONE. is a multi-hyphenate creative and force in music,...

Souza Leadership Center Plans In-Person Programming for Fall 2021

August 9, 2021
UC Merced takes action to ensure campus safety as we near Fall 2021 semester.  Having been a mainly empty campus with virtual instruction for a year and a half, the UC Merced community, including us at the Souza Center are excited to go back to campus for the start of in-person instruction...

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at The Souza Leadership Center

July 20, 2021
We carry out our mission with equity & inclusion in mind.   The Souza Leadership Center creates programs that encourage students to celebrate and bring every part of their intersecting identities to the table (from gender identity, ethnic identity, personality traits, and all other...

EMPOWER: Womxn's Leader Development Program - Fall 2021 Dates Announced!

June 1, 2021
The Souza Leadership Center is excited to announce that we have confirmed our dates for the Fall 2021 cohort of EMPOWER! EMPOWER is the Center's Womxn's Leader Development program that is open to all UC Merced students who identify as womxn. Learn more on the program's official...

2021 Student Presentation Proposals Now Being Accepted!

May 24, 2021
Student Proposals are now be accepted for the 2021 UC Merced Leadership Conference being held Friday & Saturday, September 24th & 25th! Student Presentation Topics Your proposal should address at least one of the following categories. For a powerful presentation, we...

The 2021 UC Merced Student Leadership Awards Is Coming up Friday April 30th!

April 2, 2021
Dear UC Merced Community, Join us on Friday, April 30th 5:30pm - 7:00pm for what will be an exciting event during which we will have the honor of celebrating student leadership at UC Merced! The UC Merced Student Leadership Awards is an annual event that celebrates the student...

RFK Young Leaders Program | Launching a Chapter at UC Merced!

March 19, 2021
The RFK Young Leaders is a national leadership organization! This would be their first chapter in California! So what is RFK Young Leaders?  Join us for an information session on Wednesday, March 31st!  LEARN MORE HERE! Questions? Lead@UCMerced    

SWAG: Sharing Wisdom Across Generations! April 5th 2:00pm!

February 24, 2021
WATCH THE RECORDED WEBINAR HERE! WATCH WEBINAR The Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center and The Community Engagement Center at UC Merced are excited to present SWAG: Sharing Wisdom Across Generations. This event will provide UC Merced Bobcats the opportunity to discuss...

Bobcat Leadership Seminar Spring 2021! Registration Now Open!

January 4, 2021
Happy New Year Bobcats! The Souza Leadership Center is super excited to announce that The Bobcat Leadership Seminar (BLS) is great for students interested in exploring their identities as leaders, and getting more involved in leadership at UC Merced, and learning about...

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