Program Highlights
Curriculum and Cohort Model
Once chosen, all BOLD Scholars will be members of cohorts at each partner institution. BOLD Scholar cohorts will be supported by faculty mentors and site program coordinators at each partner institution for the duration of the beta program.
Each BOLD cohort will meet weekly with the faculty mentor. Mentors will follow a curriculum focused on intergroup dialogue and leadership development, community transformation projects, and group cohesion. The aim of this curriculum is to provide a common ideology, skill set, framework, and structure for the implementation and execution of the BOLD program across network campuses.
Campus Transformation Projects
Each BOLD cohort will be responsible for implementing a specific and tangible transformation project on campus that reflects the mission of the BOLD network. In addition, BOLD cohorts will identify major quantifiable goals related to campus inclusion that they would like to accomplish by the end of their BOLD experience. These goals may be related to implementing and creating new campus initiatives or enhancing already existing programs. BOLD campus transformation projects will be focused on creating spaces for discourse on campus related to challenging issues of inequity and should focus on engaging cross-sections of the campus community, including students, faculty from multiple disciplines, and staff from various departments. BOLD Scholars will design, organize, and plan transformation projects during the second semester of their junior year in weekly meetings with their faculty mentors. These projects will be the core “product” of the program on campus.
To support transformation projects, BOLD Scholar cohorts at each institution will be eligible to receive a magic grant over the two-year program from a pooled fund of $10,000. Each faculty mentor will also be eligible to receive a magic grant from a pooled faculty fund of $10,000 to actively support campus transformation projects and BOLD Scholar initiatives.
BOLD Vision for Full "Employment"
Each BOLD Scholar will graduate from college with the opportunity to apply for a Helen Gurley Brown BOLD Fellowship, which would provide funding for employment at an organization that embodies the values of the BOLD vision. The idea is that all 60 BOLD Scholars graduate from college with a job or career opportunity of their choice. The BOLD intergenerational network of women leaders will provide support in securing job placement. Each grant shall be no more than $40,000 per BOLD Scholar, but not all scholars may need funding. Full employment is the goal.
Leadership Summit
A biannual leadership summit will be held in Newark, New Jersey. The summit will include BOLD Scholars, national program staff, and faculty mentors, as well as women leaders in the BOLD network across sectors. Themes and issues related to women’s leadership in the workforce, being a change agent, and social inequity on a national and global scale will be explored by women across multiple fields, sectors, and generations. Themes related to inclusion and equity on BOLD college/university campuses will be discussed and each of the campus transformation projects will be detailed in presentations by each of the four cohorts of BOLD Scholars.
Community Retreat
A community-building retreat for the new cohorts will take place each year at a convenient location. The purpose of this retreat is to strengthen community across different BOLD cohorts and deepen a collective understanding of the BOLD mission and program on campus. The first retreat will take place in January 2017 with the inaugural cohort of 40 BOLD Scholars.
