Deadline to apply for Spring 2026 is Friday, May 2, 2025
Don’t miss this chance to enhance your leadership potential and join a legacy of excellence at WestConn.
Professor Carol Huang
Director of Hancock Student Leadership Program
Professor of Finance, Ancell School of Business
Email: huangc@wcsu.edu
Inspire. Lead. Transform.
The Hancock Student Leadership Program (HSLP) offers you the opportunity to improve your leadership skills, enhance your resume, build your professional networks and further develop your leadership potential.
HSLP provides students with a $1500 award and a highly placed leadership-shadowing field experience with community leaders in either the fall or spring semester.
Applications are accepted in two cycles each year: one in the spring and one in the fall. To apply, submit your online application by the deadline. The application includes the following:
Once applications are received, they are reviewed by the Director of the HSLP and the Dean of the School of Graduate, International and Career Studies or Designee. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews. Upon selection, accepted students will receive detailed instructions on the next steps, including an orientation to the program’s requirements and expectations.
names and contact information of three professional and/or academic references
Don’t miss this chance to enhance your leadership potential and join a legacy of excellence at WCSU.
The Hancock Student Leadership Program identifies, promotes and fosters student leaders. The program promotes basic understanding of the skills necessary to be effective leaders by helping you to develop ethics, good communication, compassion and empathy, team and community building, creative problem solving, goal setting, conflict resolution, independent thinking and the financial awareness required for sound fiscal stewardship required for budget management.
HSLP’s ultimate goal is to develop strong future leaders by measuring, testing and encouraging resiliency, adaptability and accountability.
For Emily Kappel, the numbers added up to a WestConn education
“Kappel has held several positions within the Student Government Association and participated in the Hancock Student Leadership Program, where she had the opportunity to shadow David Zavarelli, the current Vice President of the WCSU Alumni Association.”
For Emily Kappel, the numbers added up to a WestConn education
“Kappel has held several positions within the Student Government Association and participated in the Hancock Student Leadership Program, where she had the opportunity to shadow David Zavarelli, the current Vice President of the WCSU Alumni Association.”
Alumna Colleen Mair’s 2016 prediction came true with hard work and dedication
“When she graduated from Western Connecticut State University in 2016 with a B.S. in Justice and Law Administration and B.A. in Psychology, Colleen Mair had a huge list of accomplishments under her belt.”
For Emily Kappel, the numbers added up to a WestConn education
“Kappel has held several positions within the Student Government Association and participated in the Hancock Student Leadership Program, where she had the opportunity to shadow David Zavarelli, the current Vice President of the WCSU Alumni Association.”
For Emily Kappel, the numbers added up to a WestConn education
“Kappel has held several positions within the Student Government Association and participated in the Hancock Student Leadership Program, where she had the opportunity to shadow David Zavarelli, the current Vice President of the WCSU Alumni Association.”
Alumna Colleen Mair’s 2016 prediction came true with hard work and dedication
“When she graduated from Western Connecticut State University in 2016 with a B.S. in Justice and Law Administration and B.A. in Psychology, Colleen Mair had a huge list of accomplishments under her belt.”
For Emily Kappel, the numbers added up to a WestConn education
“Kappel has held several positions within the Student Government Association and participated in the Hancock Student Leadership Program, where she had the opportunity to shadow David Zavarelli, the current Vice President of the WCSU Alumni Association.”