Developing The Next Generation of CARTA Leaders

The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement in Communication held its inaugural two-day Leadership Boot Camp on Friday, February 19 and 26, 2021. The Kopenhaver Center Leadership Boot Camp is an intensive training course for young women at the College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts at Florida International University.

Co-sponsored by Dean Brian Schriner and the Kopenhaver Center, academic leadership nominated seniors across all CARTA departments to participate in the intensive two-day training.

To graduate participants were required to attend four workshops and complete assignments for each boot camp module.  Each of the boot camp modules focused on vital leadership competencies: Leadership Self-Assessment, Writing and Communicating for Leaders, Entrepreneurship and Branding, and Innovation in Technology.