About the program

Program Overview

The Ancora Imparo Program is designed to extend Monash students with potential who, we anticipate, may be among the leaders of the future. Many of the seminars will be led by distinguished Australian leaders -- especially Monash alumni -- and you will have the opportunity to meet a range of high profile community leaders. It will be a flagship program of the University that, we hope, will bring long- standing benefit to the community.

Forty first year students will be chosen annually from those students enrolled at Monash's Australian campuses. These students will participate in a three-day residential component prior to first semester and attend monthly seminars. The Program will take place over 12 months during the students' second year of study at Monash.

Program Features

The Ancora Imparo Program is not a lecture series and involves no formal assessment. It will involve theoretical and case study components, discussions, debates and seminars, as well as the study of past and present models and contexts of leadership.

Some of the key themes to be examined in the Program include:

• What is leadership?
• Theoretical, philosophical and conceptual foundations of leadership
• Values, ethics and sensitivity
• Problem solving
• Assumptions about leadership
• Challenges of leadership -- what happens in practice?

Program Goal

The objective of the Program is to inspire and develop the capacity of students with leadership potential to serve and bring about constructive change in society.

The Ancora Imparo Program offers a range of opportunities and activities that will:

• draw on and foster your sense of idealism
• increase your self-understanding
• affirm and strengthen your confidence in your existing abilities
• foster an ethic of service
• enhance your ability to effect positive social change
• provide you with an opportunity to work with other passionate and committed peers
• facilitate your learning from past and present leaders.

At completion of the Ancora Imparo Program, you will:

• have significantly broadened your personal horizons
• possess an enhanced understanding of leadership principles within an ethical framework
• be equipped and willing to exercise leadership.