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
Our program welcomes professionals from diverse backgrounds
passionate about leveraging their industry expertise to
contribute to secondary and postsecondary education institutions,
social services, community-based organizations, workforce
development boards, workforce investment boards, and
private-sector businesses.
We aim to equip participants with the necessary skills to promote
excellence and leadership in workforce advocacy, policy
formulation, and decision-making practices within multicultural
and diverse contexts.
We also encourage current career and technical educators who
aspire to foster effective change management to join us on this
journey of empowerment and social justice leadership.
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
At Sacramento State, we strive to offer the highest quality
educational programs at an affordable cost. Course fees will
be increasing for new cohorts in 2025 and 2026.
The current program cost is $495 per unit or $1,485 per course.
The total program cost is $14,850.
The fees for the Fall 2025 incoming cohort will be $550 per unit,
or $1,650 per course, with a total program cost of $16,500.
The fees for the Fall 2026 incoming cohort will be $620 per unit,
or $1,860 per course, with a total program cost of $18,600.
Please note that you pay for each course as you enroll in
them; you do not need to pay for the full program costs
upfront.
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 on how
to pay the $50 departmental fee.
