PSLP News Archive

January 23, 2025 — 
Applications are now open for the seventh cohort (2025/26) of the President’s Student Leadership Program (PSLP), Manitoba’s premier post-secondary leadership development opportunity, funded through a fellowship for successful applicants and housed at the Asper School of Business.

June 20, 2024 — 
Having recently celebrated the first five years of immersive leadership education, the James W. Burns Leadership Institute at the Asper School of Business is pleased to announce the sixth cohort of the President’s Student Leadership Program (PSLP), a unique-in-Canada development fellowship for Manitoba postsecondary students. Representing universities across the province, these 23 students were selected for their demonstrated leadership in community and student life.

June 6, 2024 — 
Pinaz Mehta was prepared to climb the ladder from the laboratory to the boardroom, working as a criminalist assisting in the validation of AI software for the City of Tucson Arizona. With graduate training in forensic science and technology, Mehta excelled in research and began to detect the possibility of more. Suddenly, feeling even farther away from her family in Toronto amid lockdowns, Mehta realized that she needed a leap, not a ladder, to move forward. She began looking into MBA programs, seeking to develop her leadership skills closer to home.

April 26, 2024 — 
Twenty-two emerging leaders received their certificates and joined the PSLP community of leaders

February 26, 2024 — 
Applications are now open for the sixth cohort of the President’s Student Leadership Program (PSLP), Manitoba’s premier post-secondary leadership development opportunity, funded through a fellowship for selected students and housed at the Asper School of Business.

September 25, 2023 — 
From forging intergenerational connections to providing basic necessities to the community’s most vulnerable, the fifth cohort of the President’s Student Leadership Program (PSLP) recently completed five innovative and meaningful community leadership projects. PSLP brings together student leaders from post-secondary institutions across Manitoba, with specialties ranging from microbiology to marketing, at levels ranging from diploma to doctoral programs.

February 7, 2023 — 
The President’s Student Leadership Program (PSLP), Manitoba’s premier leadership program, has opened applications for its fifth cohort of exceptional post-secondary students.

December 21, 2022 — 
The Leader-in-Residence helps to foster connections between the Institute and private, public, and not-for-profit sectors, and serves as a link to the community through the recruitment of guest speakers and the promotion of student networking events.

November 21, 2022 — 
The fourth cohort of the President’s Student Leadership Program (PSLP) recently completed their 2022 summer community leadership projects.

October 19, 2021 — 
In June 2021, just as pandemic restrictions stiffened in Manitoba, the President’s Student Leadership Program (PSLP) welcomed its third cohort. Now, three months later, equipped with a collection of new leadership insights from the early stages of the program, participants completed their leadership service projects.