about

The Alamo Colleges District Student Leadership Institute (SLI) is a student success initiative designed to expose students to leadership principles, practices, and procedures that serve as essential elements of individual and organizational success. The SLI values the importance of preparing students for major contributions on campus, in the workplace, and in the community.

Mission

To develop students into proactive, productive, and engaging leaders

Vision

To become responsible and exemplary models in our community, the SLI scholars and members will learn, serve, lead, and leave a legacy.

Objectives

The Student Leadership Institute will:

Provide high quality leadership programs
Develop emerging leaders
Support community (internal/external) activities

Right: Students Omnia Abuaraki and Arlae Gamez make a poster outlining the Four Dimensions of Habit 7, Sharpen the Saw.

HISTORY

Established in the fall of 2001 to empower today’s students to become tomorrow’s leaders, the Student Leadership Institute has recruited and selected traditional and non-traditional college students to participate in the Leadership Program.

This student-centered program was designed to ensure that academically capable but financially disadvantaged students and reluctant leaders are offered the opportunities to develop their leadership potential in order to achieve their academic and personal goals.

Today, in partnership with faculty from the Alamo Colleges, along with business leaders and community organizations, the Leadership Program inspires students to become proactive, productive, and engaging leaders on campus, in the workplace, and in the community.

Left: SLI Scholars from the 2014-2015 cohort who have served in the military at the Texas Vietnam Monument, Austin, Texas.
From left to right: Kimberly Abrego, Carlos Montez, Teejay Tejeda, Jeremy Winfrey, James Mick, Ardell Winters, Stephanie Ingram and Rose Kelly.