Sustainability Leadership Fellowship for Undergraduate Students (SEED)

Hailed by students as “the best class at Anderson,” the SEED Student Fellowship is a transformative sustainability leadership program, designed to form leaders in the Jesuit tradition by helping change-makers undergo personal transformation and hone the leadership skills necessary to exact social and environmental change. Now in its fourth year, the SEED Fellowship aims to help students cultivate a sustainability mindset, focused on ecoliteracy, systems intelligence, spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence. It also helps students to develop the leadership skills of self-awareness, communication, team building and conflict resolution. Throughout the semester, students engage in a personal consumption challenge and complete a community impact project based on the science of persuasion and behavior change. This Regis Gives, we seek to raise funds to help implement the impacts projects and build community as well as bring leading-edge guest speakers to class. 

From climate change and deforestation to extreme poverty and racial injustice, our world is facing ecological and social crises of epic proportions. While business is often criticized for precipitating some of these issues, it also possesses the tools and processes to scale solutions to many of these challenges. In order to harness the power of business for good, it is imperative that we develop a new class of leaders who work toward justice and regenerating life on Earth. To that end, the Sustainable Economic and Enterprise Development (SEED) Institute in the Anderson College of Business and Computing at Regis University has launched its signature SEED Student Fellowship, an intensive sustainability leadership program, designed to form leaders in the Jesuit tradition by helping change-makers undergo personal transformation and hone the leadership skills necessary to exact change. Now in its fourth year, the SEED Fellowship aims to help students cultivate a sustainability mindset, focused on ecoliteracy, systems intelligence, spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence.  

It also helps students to develop the following leadership skills:  

• Self-awareness  
• Effective communication  
• The ability to influence 
• Teamwork  
• Conflict resolution and negotiation  
• The ability to build movements 

Throughout the program, students shift their own consumption habits model change, and work in teams to lead institutional and individual behavior change in the community. 

While the SEED Fellowship is a unique opportunity for Regis students, it relies on the generosity of donors to support its programming. Even a small gift can support features of the program. 

SEED Fellowships