The Urban Leadership Program (ULP), starting Nov. 1, will be accepting student nominations for the spring semester. Faculty and staff are encouraged to nominate students, but students can also apply on their own. Participants will receive $500 a semester. To learn more, visit Urban Leadership Program. A nomination form will be available on the site on Nov. 1.

To date, 17 students have signed up for ULP. They have completed three workshops, and are now participating in a mentoring project, according to Assistant Director of Student Activities Gretta Mincer. To reinforce the roles of mentors in leadership, the students are meeting with a mentor in the Leadership Denver class, an 11-month program run by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Foundation.

Metro State's ULP, which kicked off last summer, will be a member of the Colorado Leadership Alliance, a program of the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation.

“Now that it is launched, we’ll focus more on the expansion and development,” says Political Science Professor Norman Provizer, who  helped develop an academic minor under the program.