Having the opportunity to take courses on Human Resources Development topics is greatly beneficial in connecting a student’s desire to work as an HR professional and the skills needed to be successful in that career. Villanova’s Graduate Program in HRD is highly esteemed in taking classic HR topics and presenting them to students in a way where they can take what they have learned and use it strategically in their organizations and in their future roles. Heather Gelting, an a
Ever since my meandering career path took me far from my home state, I have been splitting my yearly vacation time between visits to my family back in Michigan and doing things I wanted to do. Fifteen years ago, I married a man whose network of family and career paths touch every continent on the planet. We further split our vacation time between visits to our ‘local’ and most immediate family in North America with visits to family and friends spread over the globe and, rarel
CONCEPT, Villanova’s own interdisciplinary journal for graduate students, accepts submissions that are based on research that was conducted during their graduate coursework at Villanova. All submissions are reviewed by graduate student editors, faculty editors and peer reviewers, with final decisions made by the editors as to which papers will be included in the edition each year. For the 2023 edition, two HRD students' papers were selected! We sat down with Doria Diacogianni