About Leadership Rice

Leadership Rice exists to encourage and equip Rice students to obtain significant leadership roles and flourish therein. Consistent with the university's Vision for the Second Century, Leadership Rice aims to prepare talented Rice students for leadership across the spectrum of human endeavor and to contribute to an education that, in President Leebron's words, "equips our students...to make a distinctive impact in the world."

We provide leadership development opportunities to undergraduates from every discipline, with additional opportunities for those students displaying the highest capacity and strongest ambition for significant leadership.

Leadership Rice programs have several objectives:

· Provide a theoretical framework that informs the practice of leadership.

· Fuel students' ambition to exert strategic influence.

· Equip students with the skills necessary for significant leadership.

· Open doors of opportunity for high-level leadership.

· Contribute to the mission of the Center for Civic Engagement by developing civic-minded leaders for whom the practice of leadership represents a means of impacting their communities.

Please explore our website to learn about the leadership development opportunities we provide, and don't hesitate to stop by and see us. We're located in the Center for Civic Engagement on the second floor of the RMC (above the Grand Hall). We look forward to working with you.

Brad Smith, Director
713-348-4785
brad.smith (at) rice.edu