Bay Path University

Dinah Moore, the executive director of the traditional undergraduate WELL program. 12 Bay Pathway Spring/Summer 2020 CEOs, athletes, and leaders the world over have spent lifetimes proving the old adage "great leaders are born, not made" is anything but true. Ask any Bay Path undergraduate student or alumna, and she's likely to tell you the same thing. The idea that leaders are made and the characteristics that define a great leader can be learned, shaped, and honed is what prompted Bay Path to develop its signature Women as Empowered Learners and Leaders (WELL) program, and the idea is what has empowered students to become leaders of their own making. WELL courses, which are required curriculum for both traditional undergraduate students and The American Women's College (TAWC) students, are designed specifically to help students identify their life goals and give them the confidence, skills, and knowledge to achieve those goals successfully. For traditional students, their unique WELL program allows them the time needed to reflect on their strengths and weaknesses and identify their self-narrative. "Once students are comfortable with their self-narrative," shared Dinah Moore, the executive director of the traditional undergraduate WELL program, "they can use that narrative to lead others. Students also learn to recognize their areas of opportunity and are able to flip them into a testimony that can not only help themselves but others, as well." "WEL100 is a course that prepares you for life; it prepares students to stand up for what they believe in, and it prepares them to create who they want to be," shared Lily West '20, a psychology student and a peer mentor for the traditional WELL program. "College is a new chapter in everyone's life, and it is often a time when people wish to recreate their image or their beliefs, and WEL100 provides a safe environment to do exactly that. WELL classes beyond WEL100 teach us how to be successful in life." FILLING THEIR OWN WELL How Bay Path students learn to be leaders through their Women as Empowered Learners and Leaders (WELL) program.

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