Master of Science in Strategic Leadership (M.S.S.L.)
MSU Center Township Campus

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What Is Strategic Leadership?
The Strategic Leadership program at MSU will help you attain the skills and knowledge to work more effectively with people, organizational systems, and complex information-critical factors in you and your company's success. The program's objectives embody development of a leadership skill set, strategies for problem solving, solutions to facilitate and manage change applicable in an office of one to a company of thousands, whether they are profit, not-for-profit, service, retail, or manufacturing. You will grow professionally with credentials that will help you push beyond your current professional limits.

Offered through the School of Graduate Studies, the Masters of Science in Strategic Leadership is an adult-focused graduate program designed to:

• Promote dexterity in creative problem solving.
• Encourage principles of sound quality management.
• Facilitate techniques for effective use of teams.
• Inspire strategic thinking that helps an organizations maintain a competitive advantage.
• Infuse the advantage of an organizational analysis and its use in managing change.

To qualify for the program or courses applicants must possess:

• Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university

A truly useful advanced degree in leadership should go beyond spreadsheets and day-to-day management. It should concentrate on building the skills and knowledge that executives require to work with the people, organizational systems, and complex information on which their success—and their company’s—depends.

Information taken from the Pennsylvania Department of Education

Section 1205.2. Program of Continuing Professional Education.

(a) A continuing professional education program is hereby established for professional educators the satisfactory completion of which is required to maintain active certification. The continuing professional education program shall require the satisfactory completion of continuing professional education every five (5) years, which shall include:

(1) six (6) credits of collegiate study;
(2) six (6) credits of continuing professional education courses;
(3) one hundred eighty (180) hours of continuing professional education programs, activities or learning experiences; or
(4) any combination of collegiate studies, continuing professional education courses, or other programs, activities or learning experiences equivalent to one hundred eighty (180) hours.

(b) For the purposes of calculating hours and credits of continuing professional education, one (1) credit of collegiate studies or continuing professional education courses shall be equivalent to thirty (30) hours of continuing professional education programs, activities or learning experiences. In the initial year of the
implementation of the continuing professional education requirements under this subsection, the department may evaluate and approve credits or continuing professional education 533