Developing Partnerships, Programs, and Pathways for Community Engagement and Opportunity - August 2025
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- Non-member - $599
- Member - $459
Faculty Member
Angie Kamath, Dean at NYU School of Professional Studies
Cost
Members: $459.00
Non-Members: $599.00
Description:
This course offers a pragmatic approach to the strategic development and implementation of online and professional continuing education initiatives aimed at expanding access and opportunity across communities. It will explore how institutions can address the educational needs of historically underserved populations through thoughtful program design, stakeholder collaboration, and targeted outreach. Taking both comparative and national perspectives, the course investigates how higher education can bridge workforce gaps through career exploration, upskilling, apprenticeship models, and credential pathways.
Participants will examine the influential role of professional and online education units in advancing initiatives that support both community impact and institutional sustainability. Through peer exchange and collaborative exploration, students will gain insights into effective practices in program planning, audience engagement, and partner development.
Topics Covered
- Determining key priorities and metrics to align equity and inclusion goals of the academic institution with online and professional continuing education strategy
- Maximizing community and stakeholder engagement in planning and identifying opportunities
- Developing research strategies on target market and potential student demographics
- Balancing revenue pressures with mission
- Communicating successes thoughtfully and inclusively
Learning Objectives
- Assess social/community perspectives important and unique to learners’ institutions
- Assess, develop, and build programs responsive to underrepresented groups and their education/training needs
- Develop plans for student outreach and educational experiences sensitive to costs, scheduling flexibility, and accessibility
- Identify implementation strategies for online and professional continuing education units for managing a diverse classroom, student orientation and advising, communications, fundraising, and partnerships.
Who should take this course?
This course is designed for early-to-mid career higher education administrators, particularly those in professional, continuing, and online education units who seek a deeper understanding of the responsibilities and opportunities to diversify an online and professional continuing education enterprise and programs for students of all ages.
Format and Schedule
This is a five-week course consisting of approximately five hours of weekly coursework made up of readings, asynchronous activities, and a weekly one hour live class meeting via Zoom. The schedule for these meetings will be shared soon.
Angie Kamath
Dean - NYU School of Professional Studies
NYU School of Professional Studies Dean Angie Kamath has had a distinguished career in government and higher education. Amplified by her deep expertise in partnering with industries on skills-based education and workforce development, Kamath is a champion for fostering equal opportunities through higher education and workforce programs that provide immediately applicable skills in hospitality, real estate, and functional business leadership, among other growing and emerging fields.
Kamath is an expert on workforce development and skills-based training, providing foresight with grounded research expertise in the future of work. Passionate about developing programs with industry leaders, she has created partnerships with national and local organizations to advance access to education.
While in her role as dean at the nation’s largest urban public university, City University of New York (CUNY), Kamath was responsible for continuing education and workforce development programs. In addition, she oversaw grant-funded opportunities that sought to improve the skills, career prospects, and outcomes of targeted industries such as IT, finance, healthcare, and municipal government. Kamath also led several workforce development and training programs that addressed the future of work in New York City and beyond.
Before her role at CUNY, Kamath served as an executive vice president and executive director at Per Scholas, a national IT job training nonprofit in South Bronx. There, she was responsible for launching the social enterprise team, which was tasked with generating fee-for-service revenues. In addition, she oversaw the New York training operation that trained and placed over 500 individuals each year in middle-skills jobs in the IT field.
Prior to Per Scholas, Kamath worked as deputy commissioner at the NYC Department of Small Business Services for seven years, overseeing adult workforce programs that served more than 100,000 New Yorkers each year during the Bloomberg administration.
Kamath holds a BS in Business Management from Cornell University and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School.
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