Organizational Leadership
Adult Degree Completion -- Focus on Leadership
Complete your bachelor's degree with a major in Organizational Leadership attending evening and Saturday classes at Baldwin-Wallace College. This high demand adult degree completion program focuses on leadership development and the commitment to learning about leadership as a lifelong skill to enhance your work, your community and all aspects of your life. Attend classes part-time evenings and Saturdays at your own pace, or enroll as in the accelerated three-year cohort of adult students.
In today's team-based organizations, adults must have the skills, knowledge, strategies and technologies to achieve organizational goals. Strategic problem-solving, conflict resolution, team building and leading people through change are the norm. As organizations seek to create high performing workplaces, two critical factors become ever more apparent: leadership and continuous learning. Baldwin-Wallace College is recognized as one of greater Cleveland's best resources for leadership training. The bachelor's degree in Organizational Leadership is designed for adults at all stages of leadership development and focuses on growth of character, competence and understanding of skilled leadership principles and application to real world situations.
The Organizational Leadership major integrates courses from across disciplines to stimulate both critical and creative thinking. This combination of the broad liberal arts perspective and practical business orientation provides the framework necessary for managing and leading in today's team-based organizations. The adult degree completion program offers courses in accelerated and traditional formats, evenings and Saturdays, in areas of leadership, management, communications, human relations and group dynamics, social and behavioral sciences, research and data analysis.
Organizational Leadership -- Major Emphasis in Human Resources or Human Services
Within this adult degree completion program, Organizational Leadership students select an upper level emphasis in either Human Resources or Human Services. The Human Resources emphasis focuses on HR management, compensation and benefits, staffing and development, employment law, gender roles and industrial/organizational psychology. The Human Services emphasis studies child and adolescent development, juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system, adult development and aging, and medical sociology.
Three-Year Accelerated Degree in Organizational Leadership
Baldwin-Wallace College offers an exciting new accelerated bachelor's degree in Organizational Leadership, designed specifically for adults who show promise to excel in their careers but have yet to complete a degree. Packaged and sequenced for completion, the curriculum is carefully planned so that students take just a few courses at a time, completing the entire bachelor's degree in just three years. Students selected for this program take all their classes together forming a supportive learning community. Tuition, books, a laptop computer and a week-long international study tour are included in the package. Classes meet at B-W East in Beachwood.
Leadership Certificate Program
Adult students can complete the Leadership Certificate Program at Baldwin-Wallace College. These six college courses, offered evenings or Saturdays, are scheduled to work with an adult student's busy life. The Leadership Certificate Program can be taken as a stand alone program, or as part of the adult degree completion program. Courses in the Leadership Certificate Program also meet requirements toward the bachelor's degree in Organizational Leadership.
