Maryland Leadership Conference:

Unlocking Potential, Empowering All

SkyCroft Conference Center, Middletown, MD

Are you interested in learning about ways to transfer positive leadership skills into your everyday life? Building relationships with other students? Learning about strengths-based leadership? Articulating your passion?

University of Maryland is proud the Maryland Leadership Conference (MLC) is the longest running leadership conference on a college campus in the country. Now in its 34th year, you can join your peers for a weekend retreat away from campus and learn more about yourself, working with others, and how to enhance your leadership skills in  your everyday life. Through large group seminars, small group discussions, and plenty of hands-on leadership development, our hope is that you will leave feeling inspired and see yourself as part of our next generation of leaders!

• The Maryland Leadership Conference is on Saturday, October 27th and Sunday, October 28th at the Skycroft Conference Center in Middletown, MD.
• Check-in for the Maryland Leadership Conference begins on Saturday, October 27th at 9:00 am students can expect to return to campus by 7:00pm on Sunday, October 28th.
• The conference fee is $35 which includes transportation, housing accommodations, all meals, and conference material. Ample sponsorship opportunities exist to ensure the cost does not prevent you from attending.

Who Can Benefit from MLC? 

• EVERYONE!
• Leadership development helps you gain a greater understanding of your own talents, values and interests, and empowers you to facilitate positive change as a member or leader of a group.
• MLC recognizes that leadership is a skill that can, and should be developed by all people.
• Whether you've been to many leadership development programs, or this is your first, MLC is right for you.

What Is the Format of MLC? 

• The Maryland Leadership Conference is facilitated by the Peer Leadership Council, a trained group of trained peer-to-peer leadership educators at the University of Maryland.
• The sessions are interactive and designed so that participants not only get to know one another throughout the weekend but also have a chance to practice what they are learning in the workshops.
• There will also be opportunities to connect with staff members from campus as a means to continue exploring your involvement and leadership interests.
• We will explore concepts of strengths-based leadership as a mechanism for understanding how one can contribute their leadership skills to the greater society.

Conference Location 

• SkyCroft Conference Center is located at a beautiful wooded site about an hour and half from campus in Middletown, Maryland.
• Their excellent retreat accommodations and food makes this the perfect site for the Maryland Leadership Conference.
• SkyCroft operates as a year-round conference and retreat center with heated lodges, hearty meals, and superb programs.

Registration Fee 

The registration fee for MLC is $35, which is nominal compared to the actual cost of attendance incurred by The Stamp. We do not want the registration fee to be the reason why someone does not attend MLC. Many students in the past have found sponsorship from several campus departments (e.g., College Park Scholars, The Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life, CIVICUS, School of Engineering, Campus Recreation Services, Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy, America Reads * America Counts, OMSE, Nyumburu Cultural Center, and Graduate Student Life). Place of employment, whether on or off-campus is a good place to seek sponsorship as well. Students who have relationships with offices or departments such as these are encouraged to seek out sponsorships from them directly.

Students not sponsored in full by a campus department or program may apply for sponsorship through the Adele H. Stamp Student Union- Center for Campus Life by emailing Dave Dessauer at dessauer@umd.edu. If you do not have sponsorship, please bring your payment to the Leadership and Community Service Learning suite (0110) in The Stamp prior to the October 22^nd deadline. You may pay via check or money order.