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Noyce Leadership Institute

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Program Overview

The Noyce Leadership Fellows (NLF), a program of the Noyce Leadership Institute (NLI), assists leaders of science centers and related institutions to move forward with greater effectiveness and public impact in the 21st century. These leaders act as change agents at the crossroads of societal trends, global issues, and the cutting edge of informal science. They need access to knowledge, tools, best practices, and professional networks to sustain and advance innovation in their own institutions and in the field.

NLF seeks to enable executives of science centers to deepen their institutions' involvement with their communities. This will strengthen the impact of science centers as innovative educational hubs that engage their publics in science at every age – encouraging children and youth to choose interest and careers in science and helping adults to understand the crucial science issues in their lives.

Effective September 1, 2010, applications are being accepted for the 2011-2012 Noyce Leadership Fellows program. The program begins in April 2011 and ends in April 2012. The 2011-2012 cohort is open first and foremost to senior managers inside and outside the field with the passion and potential to work as a CEO, COO, or another senior executive position within a science center or children's museum. Existing CEO's early in their careers in the field may be considered, based on their possible fit with the senior managers admitted to this year's program.

Tuition is $5,000; Fellows also pay their travel costs to and from the retreats, and for telephone calls with their coaches. A limited number of needs-based tuition scholarships are available. NLI and the program funders invest over $50,000 per Fellow, which covers instruction, consultations, executive coaching, group conference calls, and food and lodging at each retreat.

Use the links at the top of the page to learn more about the details of the 2011-2012 program.

Noyce Leadership Fellows was created by the Noyce Foundation in collaboration with the Association of Science-Technology Centers. Lead support for the program comes from the Noyce Foundation, with additional grants to date from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the David & Lucile Packard Foundation.