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BLI announces a new Access Opportunity

Barger Leadership Institute is moving!

BLI Announces New Partnership with The London Idea

Former Jet Blue CEO donates $10 million to Barger Leadership Institute

BLI Hires a New Assistant Director

BLI to Co-Host ‘Extreme by Design’ Film Screening, Discussion

BLI awards Small Grant for Halfway Hijabi event

BLI Launches New Capstone Experience

BLI Launches New Fellows Program Structure

Keep Calm and Lead On

BLI Fellow Wins Wolverine Tank Pitch Contest

BLI Congratulates Mya Haynes

BLI Alumni Receive 2015-2016 Fulbright Honor

The 2018 London Ideas Project is Announced

Congrats to BLI partner Sandra Levitsky for being awarded the Golden Apple!

Congrats to BLI Fellow and Peer Facilitator Elisabeth Benham

Tales of Leadership: The Advanced Fellows Journey

Welcome to the 2018 Capstone Cohort!

BLI welcomes new director!

BLI Across the Pond

BLI Hosts Voting Guru Nancy Thomas

Ram Mahalingam's award winning film to be screened at two film festivals.

The Capstone Experience with the Migrant Education Initiative

The Mindful Leader - Becoming an Engaged Leader

A Weekend of Mindful Leadership

Introducing the 2019 Capstone Teams

The Peer Facilitator Experience

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BLI Students Start Small and Dream Big in Detroit

From Freshman to Senior Year -- Four Years of Leadership Learning

BLI Speaker Series: Food For Thought

BLI Director, Ram Mahalingam featured in the Record

Capstone Bootcamp 2019

In a Distracted World, Solitude is Practice for Tomorrow’s Leaders

A Conversation on Mindfulness, Bias and Racial Justice — a podcast with Ram Mahalingam

The Mindful Leaders Retreat — Laying a Foundation

Being a good leader is knowing when to practice gratitude

Channeling Mindfulness

Compassionate Leadership: Creating a Just, Inclusive and Mindful Society with Mirabai Bush

Dinners With...

Announcing Capstone 2020 Teams!

Meet our 2020 Leadership Lab Teams!

Leading Mindfully

A Senior's Reflection on Peer Facilitating

Expect Challenges

Reflecting Back and Looking Forward

From Leadership Lab, to Peer Facilitator, to Program Assistant

Project Healthy Schools Global

Learning to be an Effective Leader

Leading Life with Dignity: A Challenge of Our Time

Pause, Reflect, and Create

What's Happening in the Lab?

Capstone 3D Virtual Gallery

Announcing the Break Away Podcast!

BLI Advanced Fellow featured in M-LEAD's Leadership Lens Series!

Two BLI Advanced Fellows Receive the Renowned MLK Spirit Award

Stand Against Asian Violence

BLI Hosts Alumni Panel

Announcing the BLI's 2021 Capstone Cohort

BLI Offers COVID-19 Hardship Grants

ALA 175: Foundations in Leadership

The Peer Facilitator Leadership Experience

What's Happening in the Lab

Capstone Boot Camp 2021

Mindful Leader Reflection

Learning to Lead with Compassion: A Mindful Leadership Retreat

Okanagan Charter

Foundations in Leadership, a Peer Facilitator Perspective

Heart-Centered Leadership with Rebecca Irby

Announcing the 2022 Leadership Certificate Cohort!

Welcome the 2021-22 Mindful Leader Fellowship cohort!

BLI Peace Leadership Retreat in Detroit

BLI director awarded the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award

Seithur Sanitation Initiative receives the MLK Spirit Award

The Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards

Feedback is Love

Deepening the Foundations for Equity and Renewal

Creating Leaders – Being a Peer Facilitator at the BLI

M-LEAD Leadership Lens Feature: Kaitlyn Colyer

M-LEAD Leadership Lens Feature: Mya Harris

What's Happening in the Lab

The Leadership Certificate at the University of Michigan: Cohort 1

Color of Care Reflection

Mindful Leader Retreat Recap

Social Transformation, a Passionate Community of Scholars

The Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards

Break Away Podcast

BLI Weekend in Detroit

Leadership Lens with Olivia O'Connell

Leadership Lens with Becky Woolf

Leadership Philosophy Reflection

Senior Reflection, Renuka Murthi

Dignity and Well-being in the Workplace: A French Perspective

BLI – Year One

Teaching Leadership, a Senior Reflection

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