Overview
Workforce Development has emerged as a vibrant field in
professional education and training. In educational settings,
workforce development unites the activities of many units,
blending academic, career and technical studies, and advising and
counseling.
The Workforce Development Leadership (WDL) program aims
to develop leaders from diverse backgrounds with the skills and
dispositions to successfully organize and manage workforce
development programming. The program focuses on cultivating
leaders who promote learning, equity, social justice, opportunity
and achievement for all students.
Benefits
This program prepares leaders for an industry that is currently
expanding rapidly as an important area of focus, in response
to national attention to poverty and welfare reform
alternatives.
In this program, graduates will learn how to:
- Be visionary leaders and change agents
- Influence political, social, economic, legal and cultural
contexts and affect improvement of education policies and
practices
- Lead for equity in schools and communities
- Apply ethical and collaborative leadership skills to
education issues
Audience
Graduates of this program will learn to become transformational
leaders with the capacity to effectively facilitate and manage
change.
Admission as a classified graduate student requires:
- Completion of a baccalaureate degree at the time of
application
- GPA in the last 60 units of 2.5 or better
- Completion and successful review of university and program
application materials for admission
- A successful interview with faculty
Structure
This program will be delivered fully online.
