Collaboration, Communication, and Impact
–By Rebecca Jordan, Carrie Ferraro, and Kirsten Rowell
Denver, CO – October 28–29, 2025 — Thirty-four graduate students and sustainability educators convened at Colorado State University’s Spur campus for an immersive leadership workshop designed to strengthen the skills essential for collaborative, engaged, and impactful sustainability work. READ MORE
Who We Are
We are a network of higher education professionals engaged in graduate student leadership development.
Our Vision
We are committed to developing a generation of societal change agents capable of drawing on scholarly expertise and leadership capabilities to catalyze collective impact on sustainability challenges.
What We Offer
We are a network providing opportunities for sharing best practices, curriculum development and more.
ANGLES Objectives
- Raise the impact of individual programs and the field of graduate leadership development overall
- Improve efficiency in offering leadership development opportunities
- Remove barriers that students, faculty, and staff experience in seeking and offering leadership development opportunities
- Increase the pool and accessibility of resources – including knowledge, funding, and curriculum
- Maintain and grow momentum of individual and collective efforts
- Connect graduate education more fully to needs/expectations outside of the academy
We need scientist-leaders
52%
The representative decline of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish from 1970 to 2014
Career paths for scientists are diversifying
18%
Increased % of STEM doctorates pursuing non-academic careers from 2010-2015
We live in an era of rapid change
65%
Children entering grade school this year will end up working in careers that haven’t even been invented yet
The ANGLES Network is administratively housed at the
