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Women's Career Leadership Certificate Program - Requirements

The RIT Women's Career Leadership Certificate Program provides an understanding of leadership as it relates to women by helping participants develop confidence when entering the leadership roles or the career field. Participants interact and learn from female role models, leaders, and mentors and participate in a variety of leadership workshops and events to strengthen and hone leadership skills. The program also provides community service opportunities focused on deepening ones' understanding of women's issues. The program is open to all female students at RIT and participants have up to two years to complete the requirements once they begin the program.

  • Click here to view the Women's Career Leadership Certificate Program Requirements and Program Worksheet

Steps to earn a Leadership Certificate:

  1. Complete Leadership Certificate Program Registration Form.

  2. Attend any three (3) RIT Leadership Institute & Community Service Center Workshops
    Many of the above program competencies are also covered at:
    • Quarterly RIT Leadership Institute Retreats
    • R.I.T.'s Annual Connectology Leadership Conference - Saturday April 17

  3. Attendance of Three (3) the following Workshops or Webinars or Events (mix and match)

    RIT Cooperative Education and Career Services Office
    • Resilience: How to Bounce Back - Webinar and Discussion, Tuesday Dec 18, 2:00-3:30
    • Personal Branding - Workshop, Friday January 22nd, 12:00-1:00
    • Salary and Pay Gap Issues for Women - Workshop, April
    • Leadership: Lessons for Success - Panel of Women Leaders share their experiences and tips - April
    • Online Webinars at http://www.rit.edu/co-op/careers archived webinars available to view online:
      • Winning at the game of office politics
      • Your sphere of influence
      • Create your leadership brand
      • Are you the invisible employee
      • Becoming a person of influence

    4. RIT Women's Center Events
    • Women Entrepreneurs (Movie: "Mothers of Invention") Friday December 11th 3:00-4:30
    • Self Esteem and Confidence Building: an interactive workshop, Friday January 15 1:00-2:30
    • The Vagina Monologues - Showing February 12, 13th, Ingle Auditorium
    • Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: film clips and discussion Thursday March 25th 7:00-8:30 pm

  4. Application Project or Activity
    An application project or activity must be completed along with a paper about the project itself. The student must find a way to apply and practice the competencies they are learning about in one of the following ways:
    • Volunteering at an organization dedicated to women's issues. (Events and dates for many related service events have been set through the RIT Leadership Inst & Community Service Center. Please contact us for upcoming events at svoccl@rit.edu)
    • A hands on leadership project such as a leadership role in a group, a co-op experience, a job experience, etc.
    • A mentoring relations with someone in the students targeted career field. (RIT MentorNet program available through RIT Career and Co-op Services or, if a student is on co-op, she may find a mentor at work.)

  5. Submit Final Reflection Paper
    Finally, the students must write a two page reflection paper describing what she has learned from each of the required workshops and the application project. The paper should describe what the leadership application project was and how it related to the concepts that were learned in the required workshops. Papers can be submitted to the RIT Leadership Institute via email to Molly McGowan at mtmccl@rit.edu or hard copies can be dropped directly at the office on first floor of the new SAU - Campus Center.

  6. RLI Exit Assessment

  7. Celebrate! Women's Achievement Dinner
    Students that have completed all certificate requirements will be recognized at the annual Women's Career Achievement Dinner held every spring and will receive a certificate signed and stamped by the administrators from the RIT Leadership Institute, the RIT Women's Center, and the RIT Cooperative Education and Career Services Office.

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