Norman, OK — The Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program (OSLEP) has concluded a successful academic year, delivering a robust slate of interdisciplinary seminars to undergraduate students across the state.
This year’s offerings engaged students in sustained, critical examination of a wide range of contemporary and historical issues. Moving the Goal Posts investigated the rapidly evolving landscape of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) policy and its implications for college athletics and institutional governance. Gen X: Revisiting the MTV Generation examined the cultural and media dynamics that shaped a defining cohort in late twentieth-century America. In This Land Is My Land: Indigenous Oklahoma on Film, students analyzed works by Indigenous filmmakers, considering questions of representation, sovereignty, and narrative authority. Additional seminars explored the Medieval Crusades, as well as the interconnectedness of student well-being and academic success through a social-ecological framework.
Taken together, these courses reflect OSLEP’s commitment to rigorous, seminar-based instruction and interdisciplinary inquiry. Each seminar is delivered in an intensive residential format designed to foster close intellectual engagement among students and faculty.
Planning is now underway for the 2026–2027 academic year. A new slate of seminars will be announced in the coming weeks.