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Lifelong Career Success & Connections

Expand Design Your Leeds (DYL) for Career Impact

• Transform the current DYL undergraduate course into a multi-course framework that supports career development from the first year through graduation.
• Design and launch a graduate-level DYL framework for students at various career stages, whether they are launching, advancing, or transitiong their careers.
• Establish a Business Leader-in-Residence program to provide mentorship, highlight emerging career paths, connect students with real-time industry insights, and support career discovery, preparation, and launch.
• Integrate career planning, personal branding, and leadership development into DYL programming to support holistic professional growth.Ìý

Scale Experiential Learning Across Programs

• Expand access to high-impact learning opportunities, including internships, consulting projects, data jams, case competitions, and career treks.
• Embed experiential learning into both the academic curriculum and co-curricular activities through coordinated collaboration among faculty, academic divisions, and research centers.
• Partner with employers to co-create industry-connected projects that enhance both technical and interpersonal skill development.
• Track student participation and outcomes in experiential learning to continuously evaluate and improve impact. Ìý

Innovation & Academic Program Impact

Strengthen Research Infrastructure & Faculty Excellence

• Attract and retain world-class academic talent by securing new endowed chairs, professorships, fellowships, and faculty scholar positions.
• Enhance support for doctoral students to expand their research capacity and contributions to Leeds' strategic priorities.
• Introduce post-doctoral positions to enhance scholarly output within select high-impact interdisciplinary research areas.
• Launch targeted seed funding programs to support interdisciplinary research in consumer financial decision-making, sustainability and digital innovation.
• Foster local, global, and cross-disciplinary reserach partnerships to expand Leeds' reach and impact in solving complext societal challenges.Ìý

Broaden Interdisciplinary Academic Programs

• Expand interdisciplinary offerings through strategic collaboration with Engineering & Applied Science and Arts and Sciences.
• Build programs that prepare students for careers at the crossroads o business and technology.
• Intrdouce a new Master's in Sustainable Business to prepare graduate students for leadership in sustainable and socially responsible enterprises.
• Develop a new joint initiatives modeled on BEWIT (Business Engineering Women in Technology) to promote cross-college collaboration.
• Build on the Business Minor to give non-business students foundational exposures to business concepts.Ìý

Graduate Education & Next-Gen Learning

Grow Specialized MS Programs and Lifelong Learning

• Launch new specialized MS programs aligned with high-growth sectors.
• Introduce additional Bachelor's Accelederated Master's (BAM) to support undergraduate-to-graduate progression.
• Expand executive education and consortium-based learning iniatives to support ongoign professional development of alumni and industry leaders.
• Build strategic and industry partnerships at local, national, and global levles to increase access and program relevance.Ìý

Advance Next-Generation Learning Innovation

• Pilot gamification, AR/VR, and interactive simulations to enhance learning engagement and practical application.
• Integrate AI across business curricula to foster digital fluency and real-world problem solving.
• Explore ways to evolve MS and MBA program formats for greater flexibility, accessibility, and learning customization.
• Implement data-driven evalution to monitor educational outcomes, track student and alumni success, and guide continuous improvement.Ìý

Well-being and Professional Growth

Advance Well-Being and Community Engagement

• Launch structured wellness iniatives that support mental health, personal resilience, and work-life balance.
• Promote a culture of care through peer support programs, team-based collaboration, and inclusive community events.
• Introduce a Community Leader-in-Residence program to bring external perspectives and deepen engagement across campus.
• Monitor well-being through annual surveys, participation metrics, and feedback loops to guide continuous improvement.Ìý

Invest in Faculty and Staff Development

• Expand professional development offerings, including internal workshops, external training opportunities, and continuous learning resources.
• Launch a formal leadership trainign program to build strategic and effective leaders across the instiution.
• Create structured pathways for career advancement that support long-term growth.Ìý