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Directly Impact Current Leadership Studies Students

Your contribution will help give our students the world, open up opportunities on and near campus, and support student leadership engagement inside and outside of the classroom. Funds will contribute to students’ leadership development by providing access to the Insights Discovery assessment and project funds for students’ individual and community leadership projects. It will also help offer scholarships to Leadership Studies students interested in pursuing our Leadership Studies Interterm classes to Ireland and Belize, as well as other unique global learning opportunities. Thanks to you, they'll be able to take learning from the classroom to the community!  

Did you know:

  • $20 covers the cost to a student for our optional 2-day winter retreat 
  • $50 helps a student purchase supplies for a community-based project
  • $100 offsets honorariums for our impactful guest speakers
  • $250 covers the quarterly stipend for one of our in-classroom peer-to-peer Learning Assistants
  • $500 allows our Student Board to plan and execute a student-led, inter-cohort event
  • $1,000 will allow us to award a student with a Leadership Development Fund Scholarship
     
PLP has opened up the future for many of us in one way or the other. By implementing a multi-faceted curriculum in, out, and beyond the program, we are able to pull from each others' skills and passions. Through learning the fundamentals of leadership and applying them into community change initiatives, a larger world has been opened to us. Putting the best of the best on campus together in residence hall living and in the leadership classroom is guaranteed to produce results. Jessica Hunter, PLP student

PLP Founder News

It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of our beloved program founder Carl Larson. Carl was one of the key founding faculty members of PLP and leaves behind a monumental legacy. He was Professor Emeritus of Human Communication Studies as well as the Dean of Social Sciences at DU.

Carl was one of the foremost experts in the world on communication, leadership, and teamwork having written, or co-authored, ten books including: Teamwork, Collaborative Leadership, When Teams Work Best, and The Humanitarian Leader in Each of Us, all which were used in our leadership studies curriculum.

Throughout his career, he consulted for many entities in both the private and public sector on leadership, teamwork and collaboration. These organizations include including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Congress. For many years, Carl was a core faculty member of the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental leadership and the Denver Community Leadership Forum.

Dr. Carl Larson worked internationally for positive community and humanitarian change; he will be especially remembered by the scores of scholars and community leaders that he mentored over the past fifty years.

He received awards for research, community service and teaching, including the Driscoll Master Educator Award, given by the students of the University of Denver to the outstanding professor of the year.

We invite everyone to share their memories and support one another as we honor Carl's remarkable life at a ceremony on November 2nd. More details will be forthcoming about the time and location. 

In remembrance of his life, Kitty Sweeney, former Director of PLP and Carl’s wife, has asked that charitable donations be made to the PLP Leadership Development Fund. Please click above to donate in honor  of Carl's memory.

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Carl Larson