The INVST Program is an official pathway to earning the Leadership Studies Minor (LSM)
The INVST Program is an official pathway to earning the ).Ìý
The series of commitments that students make when they participate in INVST include:
Climate Justice Summer: Aug 4-20, 2025 (Augmester, INVS 3301, 3 credits)
Fall 2025: INVS 4931, Community Leadership in Action, Part 1 (3 credits)
Spring 2026: INVS 4932, Community Leadership in Action, Part 2 (3 credits)
Economic Justice Summer in Detroit, MI (Summer 2026 or later, 3 credits, or Leadership Studies Minor elective)
LEAD 4000 (4 credits, any semester, either in person or online)
Total 16 Credits
The INVST Program is a unique pathway to earning the Leadership Studies Minor because of our orientation to relational leadership with/in community. We center equity, climate justice and antiracism. In INVST, community organizers and social movement leaders are our role models. We visit them in the summers and invite them to be guests in our seminars in the Fall and Spring. We read and study their work and apply their ideas to our own local action in INVS 4931 and 4932. The INVST Program is where change makers turn theory into practice, ideas into action.