Center for Leadership Initiatives

The Center for Leadership Initiatives (CLI) encompasses Commoner Hall, as well as a wide range of discipline-oriented forums that are integral to a student’s critical thinking related to international relations and leadership studies. Students have the opportunity to be actively engaged in CLI forums and programs that include the following areas:

• Commoner Hall is named in honor of The Great Commoner, William Jennings Bryan, and follows the University of Oxford collegiate system of a Hall preceding a College.
  • The Honors Program led by Dr. Ron Petitte
  • Commoner Forum, led by Dr. Ron Petitte, is a student-led assembly where the burning social issues of the day are discussed from the Christian perspective
• Forums
  • Defense Forum led by LTC Doug Schott, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)
  • Leadership Forum led by CIL Director Dr. Ron Petitte, retired U.S. Army Colonel (A.U.S.)
  • International Forum led by Mr. Dennis Miller, Director of Bryan’s Center for International Development