(PSP)
Professional Schools Program What do you want to be when you grow up? Children have been asked that ever since they could talk.
Most of us vacillate in our answer to this proverbial question
This innovative program consists of five professional schools
throughout our youth, even in the first years of college.
that provide opportunities in the following areas: business,
According to a recent study by the National Center for
engineering/technology, fine arts, the humanities, and medicine.
Education Statistics, 33 percent of undergraduate students will
For the 2018–2019 academic year, we welcomed three Deans
change majors at least once. So what can we, as educators, do
to the Legacy staff three educators: Rob Armstrong, Dean
to better prepare our high schoolers to make informed and wise
of the Humanities and Business Schools; Kara Hermogeno,
life decisions?
Dean of the Engineering/Technology School and the School of
Legacy’s answer is the Professional Schools Program (PSP) -- an extension of our core liberal arts curriculum that is based on a college-inspired organizational structure. It embodies the future of education by empowering students to develop a road map to explore potential careers and to assume personal ownership of their academic pursuits.
Medicine; and Chris Keyes, Dean of the School of Fine Arts. The deans, who teach classes and advise students, are also charged with establishing program-relevant clubs and scheduling symposia, seminars, and roundtable discussions with Christian professionals. In the coming years two additional deans will join the team, thereby completing the implementation process.
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