Public Safety Leadership:
New Executive Leadership courses

Flexibility + Convenience

The courses, held at the University's Twin Cities campus, start in Fall 2013 with an intensive two-day introduction on September 12 and 13, followed by on-campus sessions one Friday each month, with online work between class sessions.

Up to 20 diverse public safety leaders, from the U.S. and other countries, will comprise a close-working student cohort. Faculty and guest speakers from the public safety sector will employ active learning techniques including case studies and simulations, collaborative tasks, lectures, readings, and an individual student project to cover diverse topics such as:

• Leadership & Ethics
• Community Relations
• State and Local Finance
• Partnerships
• Public Communications
• Human Resource Management
• and Cultural Competence.

What You Will Gain

• Advanced skills in executive leadership, management, and communications
• Understanding issues across public safety fields and application of responsive methods
• Enhanced capacity to bring effective solutions to public problems
• A new network of colleagues from across Minnesota and the Upper Midwest
• New modes of working across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors; as well as inter-disciplinary fields

Your Peers

• Emerging leaders in public safety disciplines of law enforcement, fire emergency management, and emergency health
• Administrators in city and county government
• Military leaders in civil -- military plans and operations
• Officials in state agencies that collaborate with public safety
• Public servants committed to becoming more effective in their professional lives
• Business leaders interested in collaborating with public safey disciplines

Your Professors

In addition to Humphrey School faculty, guest speakers for these courses will include well-respected leaders in various public safety professions. All have practical experience in nonprofit, private, and government organizations around the world.

Apply Now

Enrollment begins May 4th for students not currently admitted into the University of Minnesota. For more information about enrollment, contact Mary Maronde at 612-626-3007 or maron008@umn.edu.