Part-time Nonprofit and NGO Leadership Program on the Way

"There is a predicted shortage of nonprofit leaders that is likely to occur in the next 20 years, so this is a proactive attempt to … get people the education they need to be those leaders," said University President Amy Gutmann.

Kenwyn Smith, faculty director for the program, said initial desire to create the program grew from a sense that "in the post [Sept. 11] era, the world was going to be very different."