Future-Ready Leaders

With you, WashU is redefining leadership for the next generation, equipping every individual to engage in leadership as a dynamic and collaborative process.

WashU seeks to become the nation’s premier institution for training tomorrow’s most driven and visionary leaders. We have launched comprehensive leadership development programming through the George and Carol Bauer Leaders Academy. We have coalesced and strengthened all career services through our new unified Center for Career Engagement, which empowers wide-ranging personal and professional exploration. And we have increased supports for our growing body of limited-income and first-generation students through the Taylor Family Center for Student Success.

From their first days on campus, all students enter a process of personal reflection that sets them on the path to lives of meaning and purpose. Through their success, WashU amplifies its collective impact on the world. With your philanthropy and partnership, we can enable WashU to cultivate leaders of principle, character, and conviction who are equipped to address the significant and complex challenges of our time. With you, this is what WashU can do.

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“Working on Mend at WashU was an amazing introduction into entrepreneurship.”

Olivia Baba

BFA ’23

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Developing future leaders

At WashU, we prepare students for lives of meaning and purpose. Whether it’s investing in field experiences or career success, we develop compassionate leaders who think critically and proactively. With you, we can empower and equip students to make a positive difference in their fields and communities.