The Business Entrepreneurship Leadership Center (BELC) is the new home of the College of Business. The space is also home to Graduate and Professional Education, as well as student clubs and administrative offices.
The BELC is a state-of-the-art, 250,000-square-foot facility designed to foster innovation and future-focused learning. It features cutting-edge labs and spaces dedicated to AI, data analytics, design thinking, and sales.
Central to enhancing the academic experience are several centers and labs. The Ellen Wilson Leadership Center will support and promote leadership initiatives across campus, collaborating closely with academic and student life partners to provide a top-tier, comprehensive experience. The Frank '81 and Marion '81 Hauck Sales Performance Lab will combine high-tech tools with mentorship for students from all disciplines. The Artificial Intelligence Lab will also boast a robot center and advanced virtual reality capabilities.
Other notable centers and labs within the BELC include:
- Entrepreneurship Center with classrooms and maker spaces
- Financial Markets Center
- Digital Marketing Lab
- Marketing Behavioral Research Lab
- Supply Chain Lab
- Data Science Lab
- Data Visualization Lab
Also located in the BELC are administrative departments within the divisions of Business Affairs, Marketing and Communications, Information Services — including the IT/AV Service Desk — and University Advancement.
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Ellen Wilson Leadership Center
Bryant University
The Ellen Wilson Leadership Center is the epicenter of leadership initiatives at Bryant University. Its core mission is to build extraordinary, ethical, and inclusive leaders capable of impacting the world.
Anchored in the new Business Entrepreneurship Leadership Center (BELC), the center builds upon Bryant’s legacy of leadership and empowers all students to explore and enrich their leadership potential in ever greater ways during their college experience and well beyond. The center serves as a robust hub for groundbreaking research in leadership and management topics, including an undergraduate leadership summit and programming such as a lecture series and Leaders in Residence.
Key Initiatives
- Ellen Wilson Leadership Fellows
- Women’s Leadership Institute
- Leadership certification available for all Bryant students
- Forté partnership
- Rich co-curricular programming, such as book groups and author seminars
- Experiential opportunities and learning labs
- Annual Undergraduate Leaders’ Summit
- Robust Leader in Residence program
- Mentorship matching and networking
- Undergraduate research opportunities
Ellen Wilson Leadership Fellows
Throughout their four years at Bryant, Ellen Wilson Leadership Fellows have access to intensive co-curricular leadership training, stipends, and other opportunities.
The program awards $5,000 stipends annually to 20 incoming first-year students who show strong leadership skills or an interest in building skills. The stipend can be used to fund leadership growth opportunities such as academic research, unpaid internships, attending conferences, and study abroad programs. Wilson Fellows learn about leadership from faculty, Leaders in Residence, alumni mentors, their peers, and staff. This transformative opportunity helps shape their long-term path after Bryant — to be part of a community that focuses on leadership as a subject and on developing strong, bold, inclusive, ethical leaders for the future.
The goals of the program are to support a sense of confidence, empowerment, and belonging at Bryant; to enable the pursuit of greater leadership opportunities; to build confidence in the classroom and a stronger sense of self-knowledge; and to help students apply their growing leadership skills to a variety of situations and life experiences.
