Creative Inquiry + Mountaintop Initiative

Find Your Passion

Across the 100+ experiential learning, research, and engagement programs that provide fertile ground for creative inquiry.

Explore Experiential Programs

Converge, Create

Collaborate on authentic projects that solve real problems, advance knowledge, and improve the human condition.

Creative Inquiry 101

Distinguish Yourself

Develop mindsets, skillsets, and portfolios to jumpstart exciting, impact-focused careers for an ever-changing world.

21st Century Competencies

The Office of Creative Inquiry supports a wide range of interdisciplinary initiatives that help students and faculty pursue new intellectual, creative, and artistic pathways that lead to transformative new innovations, expressions, and questions.

The Mountaintop Initiative, one snapshot of Creative Inquiry, is an integrated learning, research, and engagement program that supports real, authentic, and meaningful projects on their winding journeys toward tangible and sustainable impact.

For Students

Global Social Impact Fellowship

Lehigh Valley Social Impact Fellowship

Campus Sustainable Impact Fellowship

Silicon Valley Social Impact Fellowship

Mountaintop Summer Experience

Lehigh 360

For Faculty

Creative Inquiry Faculty Fellows

Mountaintop Summer Experience

Inquiry to Impact Project Grants

Impact-Focused Education Unconference

The 2023 Unconference will take place on June 7-9. Click the box for more info.

Lehigh Expo

A Celebration of Rigorous, Creative, Student Projects from Around the University.