ADMS Campus Viewbook 2024-2025

BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP The Department of Business and Leadership encompasses a broad number of business offerings. Sharpen your business skills and technological expertise through hands-on learning at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. As a business major, you will build on the Woods Core (Pg. 9), develop critical thinking, communication and leadership skills, learn cutting edge technology and gain a strong business foundation in a small, collaborative classroom environment.

EDUCATION Our education program has a long history at The Woods. In fact, our foundress, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, even said, “Love the children first, then teach them.” At The Woods you’ll get classroom experience long before your student teaching. We want to be sure this is the right path for you. You’ll have a close relationship with faculty throughout your time at The Woods.

“My time at The Woods was nothing short of amazing! The passionate professors, close-knit community and hands-on experiences prepared me for my future career in education. I have always had a passion for teaching and my professors at The Woods helped me learn how to think critically and find creative solutions to everyday problems. My favorite part about The Woods is that they get you into the classroom your freshman year. You are constantly learning from current educators and fine tuning your personal teaching style.”

Leadership is a golden thread that aligns with our institutional values. Leadership applies to any field and a leadership minor can be added to any major at whatever level you want to lead – a minor, masters or Ph.D.

Possible Career Paths: Regardless of your passions, a business degree can help. The ability to make a living or be a #soloprenuer from your passions = independence. Even if you choose a different major, adding a minor in business will give you the fundamentals you’ll

Emma Taylor ‘21 2nd Grade Teacher, Ouabache Elementary School

Possible Career Paths:

need throughout your career. • Personal Financial Advisor • Advertising • Digital Marketing • Healthcare Administrator • Director of Human Resources

Education is in hot demand. And many students feel called to teach. And literally no other field exists without a teacher

• Marketing Research • Logistics Manager • Procurement Manager • Entrepreneur • Supply Chain Manager

Certainly, teaching is an obvious outcome of an education degree. But combine it with human resources and you could be an organizational trainer. Combine education with exercise science to be a coach. How about adding education to an art/music/ equine therapy degree to run group therapy sessions? An education degree helps you take your interests and turn them into a career that prepares you share your passion with the world.

— Meredith Williams, MBA Assistant Professor of Business

first stoking that love. What other path can say that?

• Preschool-Grade 3 Teacher • Kindergarten - Grade 6 Teacher • Special Education Teacher

• Organizational Trainer • Coach • Tutor

“TThe SMWC education department prides itself on the student learning experience. We provide hands-on training in all the latest learning techniques to create successful teachers and leaders. Our department boasts small class sizes where students can feel comfortable and supported in their educational journey.”

“The Business and Leadership faculty all have industry experience. We have lived, practiced AND studied in our fields of expertise. Small classrooms are the feature, but the reality is having a personal connection with people leading you through the education journey. Not just in front of you, but beside you. You develop a trust with the faculty that goes beyond the classroom. My favorite class to teach is business law. I had a student who was a federal worker and told me they were the first person in their area to pass the test on contract law the first time. They said, ‘Your class got me my first promotion!’”

Meredith Williams, MBA Assistant Professor of Business

Ashley Bennett, M.Ed. Department Chair and Assistant Professor of Education

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