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
While fully online, courses are approximately 25%
synchronous (in real time) and 75%
asynchronous (on your own schedule within a given time
frame).
Fees
The program cost is $495 per unit or $1,485 per course.
Total program cost is $14,850. You can pay for each
course as you enroll.
Application fees include the $70 non-refundable university
application fee paid online through CSU Apply, and a $50
departmental fee which is paid upon formal admission to the
program. Admitted students will be given instructions for
how to pay the $50 departmental fee.
