Due to the anticipated significant winter storm expected for the Akron area overnight and into tomorrow, all University of Akron campuses will be closed on Friday, Jan. 19.
The Department of Student Life is your destination for involvement at UA. You can connect with student organizations, fraternities and sororities, civic engagement programs, leadership programs as well as a variety of our campus programs and traditions.
Institute for Leadership Advancement
Students involved with The Institute for Leadership Advancement enhance personal development and interpersonal growth through Leadership Experience Projects, traveling the world with Global Leadership Initiatives, and more.
Experiential Learning Center
The goal of the Experiential Learning Center for Entrepreneurship & Civic Engagement (EXL) is to enable students to emerge as civically engaged, skilled and adaptable leaders, ready to take on real-world challenges.
Williams Honors College
Be inspired by your professors and by your high-achieving classmates, who come from a variety of backgrounds and possess broad academic interests and achievements, inside the special intellectual community that is UA's Williams Honors College.
Emerging Leaders
The Emerging Leaders Program creates an opportunity for first-year students to become actively engaged in the campus community through leadership development, civic engagement and self-discovery.
ROTC
ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) is an elective course at UA. In it, you'll learn about the tools and training needed to succeed in any competitive environment.