SPS offering leadership degree

Master's will enhance careers

 

March 18, 2010-- A master of science in leadership will be offered through Trine University’s School of Professional Studies beginning this summer. Designed for bachelor degree holders and working professionals, it will be offered at Trine regional campuses in Angola, Fort Wayne, South Bend/Mishawaka and Merrillville, and through the Trine Virtual Campus online school of study.

It will provide advanced training in people- and problem-oriented competency for graduates in the areas of business, engineering and arts and sciences. It will also promote and encourage lifelong learning for those working in a variety of fields in which success is enhanced by visionary, strategic leadership.  

The degree will offer five areas of concentration:  healthcare systems studies, international studies, non-profit organization studies; strategic foresight and entrepreneurship, and sustainable business administration. Students will complete a capstone experience in their selected concentration area, giving them an opportunity to apply core and content-area skills to a real-time, organizational need, issue or problem. 

The new degree responds to a need expressed by those with bachelor degrees, said SPS Dean David Wood. “In the past year, a growing number of graduates have expressed interest in pursuing a master’s degree that will provide advanced theory and training in organizational management, decision-making, problem-solving and leadership skills so that they may progress in their career journeys,” Wood said.

New sessions will begin May 3, 2010. Information sessions will be held at the following places and times:

Trine University South Bend/Mishawaka, 4101 Edison Lakes Parkway, Suite 250, Mishawaka, Ind., on Tuesday, March 23 from 6-7 p.m. and Saturday, March 27 from 10-11 a.m. Call 574.243.0500 for information.

Trine University Fort Wayne, 9910 Dupont Circle Drive East, Suite 130, Fort Wayne, Ind., on Saturday, March 27 from 10-11 a.m. and Tuesday, March 30 from 6-7 p.m. Call 260.483.4949 for information.

Assistant Director for New Program Development Mersiha Alic can also be contacted for information at 260.483.4949 or alicm@trine.edu.