{"id":3295,"date":"2017-04-18T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2024-02-12T08:32:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:32:59","slug":"beyond-traditional-employment-new-revised-online-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/beyond-traditional-employment-new-revised-online-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Traditional Employment; New Online Community Leadership Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">St. Petersburg College now offers a completely online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/degrees-training\/education\/educational-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bachelor of Educational Studies &amp; Community Leadership degree<\/a>. This program does not lead to teacher certification. It prepares you to serve in non-traditional educational positions such as community leader, youth development coordinator, corporate trainer, or non-profit director.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Education isn\u2019t just about teaching. There are many careers in youth, family, and community services available.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Admission requirements<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>AA degree<\/li>\n<li>2.0 GPA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Educational Studies and Community Leadership Program benefits <\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>100% online<\/li>\n<li>No education pre-requisites<\/li>\n<li>Bachelor\u2019s degree that provides a foundation for those wishing to pursue a master\u2019s degree<\/li>\n<li>Organized set sequence of courses \u2013 two tracks\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/degrees-training\/education\/educational-studies\/educational-studies-interdisciplinary-bs-degree-\">Educational Studies Preschool Education (Birth to Age 4)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/degrees-training\/education\/educational-studies\/educational-studies-interdisciplinary-bs-degree-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Educational Studies and Community Leadership Interdisciplinary degree<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3323\" style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Preschool-artwork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3323\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Preschool-artwork-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"Community Leadership Program\" width=\"412\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Preschool-artwork-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Preschool-artwork.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Be prepared to work in areas such as youth and family community settings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Students will graduate with workplace-ready job skills like leadership, organization, management, communication, and motivation. They\u00a0will complete coursework in diversity, youth and community development, program management, grant administration and resource development, and managing global resources.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/degrees-training\/education\/educational-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Educational Studies &amp; Community Leadership program<\/a> is designed to meet<em><strong> many different employment career goals.<\/strong><\/em> Especially relevant is the fact that employers often look for employees who have strength in communications, the ability to work well on teams, who are well-rounded in their education, demonstrate leadership skills, and possess excellent computer skills.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Most noteworthy<\/em><\/strong> is the fact that the program was designed to meet the needs of individuals who wish to function in an education, youth, family, health, or human services setting.\u00a0 The Educational Studies &amp; Community Leadership program leads to careers in business and industry, non-licensure education settings, religious, youth and family community settings, non-profits, human resources, and advocacy groups.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Examples of beyond traditional blackboard employment<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Children, family, and community outreach Programs (adult education, GED, job skills training, literacy programs, senior services, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Youth development (YMCA, Boys &amp; Girls Club, after-school programs, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Non-profits (homeless\/transitional programs, help lines, at-risk programs)<\/li>\n<li>Human resources\/higher education (corporate training, health benefits, records management, advising, career counseling, recruiting, financial aid, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneurial (start your own child care, after-school program, youth leadership program, tutoring, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3304\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Ed-blog-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3304 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Ed-blog-2.png\" alt=\"Community Leadership Degree\" width=\"628\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Ed-blog-2.png 628w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Ed-blog-2-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prepare to serve in non-traditional educational positions such as community leader, youth development coordinator, corporate trainer, or non-profit director.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5>Get more information<\/h5>\n<p>For more information about this exciting new way to complete a bachelor&#8217;s degree with many employment options, please contact:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><a href=\"poulin.michael@spcollege.edu\">Dr. Michael Poulin<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><em>727-791-2788<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><a href=\"Roper.Pat@spcollege.edu\">Pat Roper<\/a>, 727-712-5410<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><a href=\"Wilkins.Pam@spcollege.edu\">Pam Wilkins<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><em>727- 712-5888<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will prepare you to serve in non-traditional educational positions such as community leader, youth development coordinator, corporate trainer, or director of a non-profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":3306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":75,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}