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Academics - Leadership Certificate

Blackburn Leadership

Blackburn College’s commitment to building student character is evidenced in the routine of campus life. Long recognized as one of America’s seven work colleges, Blackburn students have always played an active role in the operation of the college – every student participates in the college’s Work Program. Because the Work Program is entirely student managed, many students, when they graduate, leave with not only an academic degree, but also the experience of staff scheduling and training, job counseling and conflict resolution.
Now, as an academic complement to the Work Program, Blackburn offers its students the innovative Leadership Program which allows students to graduate with the degree of their choice plus a Leadership Certificate. Intended to develop practical leadership competencies as well as conceptual understanding, the Leadership Program coursework focuses on the development of these valuable and marketable skills: team building, flexibility, constructive resolution of conflict, self-motivation and positive regard for others.
 		  The Program

Whether a task is menial or managerial this program encourages understanding of the ethical dimensions of leadership and the meaning of each constituent task for the whole. Through integrated programming, each student enrolled in the Leadership Program is encouraged to use their work experience as a living laboratory for the development of skills that build leadership, cooperation and responsibility.

For many years Blackburn students have known the benefit of the work that they have done throughout their college years. Now Blackburn has created a program that formalizes that experience through the Leadership Program.