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Self-Designed Learning Opportunities

The next Self-Designed Learning Opportunity proposal cycle will begin September 11, 2025. Proposals will be accepted through September 29th, and reviewed on an ongoing basis through October 6th.

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Learn, Connect, Grow!  

Robertson Scholars are invited to design and request funding for creative, challenging experiences to promote learning and leadership, with a focus on integrity, agency, and commitment to community. These are highly customizable and can take many forms—most involving other Robertsons.  

  • Learning Enhancement & Development (LEAD) Grants support Scholars’ self-directed and experiential learning across disciplines - allowing Scholars to tap into their curiosity and explore outside of the classroom setting. Design an individual or group experience that clarifies, deepens, or informs your understanding of who you are and what you want to contribute to a community/the world. It’s not about what you do, it’s about how and why. LEAD Grants  should be congruent with your commitments–they should make sense for you. These should be intentional, difficult, relevant explorations of your story.
  • Robertson Resource Groups Events (RRGs) allow Scholars to explore their identities and issues they care about. RRGs also encourage scholars to leverage their peers’ collective talents to foster creative collaboration and learning across cohorts. RRGs host events and experiences that foster dialectic thinking and curiosity, while fueling immediate and long-term efforts for creating change. These events are not an extension of Dinners for Six or Cookies for Ten; RRG events are distinct in that they encourage scholars to get into action and provide space for learning and growth related to identity and issue exploration - all with the primary goal of creating a sense of belonging and possibility. 
  • Cookies (formerly Coffees!) for Ten are dialogue-based events designed by Scholars for current Scholars and/or alumni. These should be designed around a particular topic or interest that you are curious to discuss with other Robertsons. This year, all Cookies for 10 will take place at the UNC office where specialty cookies will be delivered and coffee, tea, and cold drinks are abundant!
  • Dinners for Six are distinct from RRG's and Cookies for Ten because they involve inviting a community leader or faculty member for dinner and intentional dialogue with four other Robertsons. Invite a dinner guest you are curious to learn from and who could meaningfully contribute to the RSLP community–maybe someone who inspires you.  Dinners require leadership at every step, from inviting the guest to encouraging reflections from the other participants.

Self-Designed Learning Opportunities are expected to strengthen your capacity to do one or more of the following:

  • Understand your relationship to your word and be in the consistent practice of honoring it;
  • Experience the agency available to you when you take responsibility;
  • Experience belonging to a community of commitment;
  • Deepen your understanding of who you are and what you are committed to in large and small ways;
  • Learn from discomfort, breakdowns, and incongruence;
  • See the impact of your actions on self and others;
  • Appreciate that you are a part of a legacy of leaders committed to individual transformation in an effort to change the world.
     

We believe that transformation happens in community, and learning is best shared. It is our hope that the sharing of these experiences within the RSLP community will spark the curiosity and creativity necessary for transformation. 

The 2025-26 proposal cycle will operate as follows:

  • Round 1: accepted 9/11-9/29/25; reviewed by 10/6/25. Proposed experiences must take place after 10/10/25.
  • Round 2: accepted 12/11/25 - 1/5/26; reviewed by 1/12/26.  Proposed experiences must take place after 1/16/26.
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