Summer 2016 has arrived in DC and our newest students are off to a tremendous start!
The five-week Institute focuses intensively on our core Ethics and Leadership program, while also allowing participants to enjoy the best summer offerings of our nation’s capital.
We ended our final academic week with White House-infused gusto! Our students also had the chance to showcase much of the knowledge and many of the skills they have gained this spring.
Have you ever looked into the eyes of the Assistant Attorney General and defended your ideas on combatting ISIS? What about the eyes of the State Department’s lead expert on counter-violent-extremist communications?
The first SEGL SAFE Club meeting was held during lunch on April 22 in the Lacy Room. Students, faculty and a few visitors sat with me and my co-founder Lebanos to discuss internalized stereotypes.
ONE TWO THREE, EYES ON ME!
ONE, TWO, EYES ON YOU!
Every Wednesday afternoon for just over an hour, dozens of 1st and 2nd graders look up at–and to–our SEGL students.
This week the SEGL community paused to honor the life of Harry Wu. Mr. Wu, whom the New York Times called “the éminence grise of Chinese dissidents,” died in an accident on Tuesday while traveling in Honduras.
This week a Senator stopped by the SEGL residence! After dinner on Thursday, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) spent more than an hour with our students, answering questions about his career, his values, and his commitment to bipartisanship.
Each fall semester has Homecoming/Family Weekend, which draws hundreds of graduates, family members, and friends for a weekend of discussions, awards, fellowship, and fun.
Broderick Johnson wears many hats at the White House. He is Assistant to the President. He is Secretary of the Cabinet, responsible for coordinating all Cabinet affairs.
Spring Break affords our students more than an opportunity for rest and rejuvenation: it allows them to reconnect with their home communities and begin to think about the transition home.
Editor’s note: SEGL is a non-partisan institution and both seeks and celebrates political diversity in its student body.
After an early wakeup on Monday morning, last Wednesday’s delayed start of classes was definitely welcome.
The most effective educators help students wrestle with classic questions and current challenges. And they design learning activities, built around those questions and challenges, that allow students to build lifelong leadership skills.
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is not only one of the most complicated challenges of our time; it influences countless related contemporary problems.
With our second week at The School for Ethics and Global Leadership came an odd feeling of rhythm, like we’d been going to this school with these people for years and not nine days.
After the Holocaust the United Nations overwhelmingly passed the Genocide Convention, which stated that “genocide…is a crime …which [we] undertake to prevent and to punish.
The first full week of Spring 2016 is already complete!
Our Ethics and Leadership class began with an “Introduction to Ethical Decision Making” case study, which included several SEGL traditions and one of network news’ most experienced journalists.
Our Spring 2016 crop of students is here and already blossoming!
After perhaps the most efficient move-in in SEGL history, our new cohort trekked to the Academic building in Dupont Circle for, among other things, its first leadership challenge of the semester: decide as a group between three separate DC expeditions without any guidance from our faculty.
