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E&H Begins Master's Degree in Organizational Leadership

Friday, July 17, 2009
A new graduate program that provides leadership training in the areas of public service and organizational leadership will begin in January at Emory & Henry College.

The program offers a master's degree in community and organizational leadership geared toward students who are already engaged in their careers and who are looking for skills that help them to provide more effective management to their work environments and well as build stronger communities.

The interdisciplinary program includes leadership courses concentrating on various aspects of contemporary leadership in both public and private settings: planning and evaluation, fiscal management, legal and ethical issues, questions of diversity, public policy, communications, and consensus building.

Central to these courses is a very strong practical component in which students will apply what they are learning in workplace and community organizational settings.

As part of their final coursework, students will be engaged in an extensive practicum experience that will bring together all they have learned that will offer new, substantial contributions to either their professional workplace or a community organization with which they have collaborated.

Designed in response to the very clear call for such a program from community and business leaders from across Southwest Virginia, “The goal of this degree program is to give leaders the ability to build strong communities,” said Dr. Tal Stanley, the director of the program.

The program complements the E&H focus on public policy and community service and is built on the same philosophy of service learning. “It is deeply grounded in the fact that the problems we face cannot be solved by outside intervention. We have it within us to formulate responses to the challenges we face as communities, businesses, educators, and organizations.”

For more information about the master’s degree program in community and organizational leadership, contact Tal Stanley at Emory & Henry College, (tastanle@ehc.edu).
For application materials, please contact the College's admissions office at ehadmiss@ehc.edu.

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