At Carlow University, workforce development is rooted in a simple conviction: the strongest professionals combine competence with compassion, ethical leadership, and a commitment to service. Guided by our Mercy heritage, we prepare learners to strengthen their organizations, serve their communities, and help build a more just and merciful world.
Carlow's Center for 21st Century Innovation and Workforce Development offers flexible continuing education through ready-made and custom programs that connect to career and degree pathways. Available online, in person, and in hybrid formats, learners and working professionals can develop practical skills, earn recognized credentials, and continue advancing their careers without leaving their jobs.
At Carlow, workforce development is about more than what people learn. It's about who they become.
Carlow's Center for 21st Century Innovation and Workforce Development offers flexible continuing education through ready-made and custom programs that connect to career and degree pathways. Available online, in person, and in hybrid formats, learners and working professionals can develop practical skills, earn recognized credentials, and continue advancing their careers without leaving their jobs.
At Carlow, workforce development is about more than what people learn. It's about who they become.
Carlow works alongside the region's industry leaders and employers to understand their workforce challenges and create educational programs that support both organizational priorities and employee aspirations. From custom certificate programs to employer-based learning experiences, every partnership is designed to connect higher education with the realities of today's workplace.
Carlow offers online certificate programs that help working professionals build relevant skills, earn recognized credentials, and continue moving forward in their careers.
Designed for employees building foundational business and communication skills.
Courses include:
Prepare leaders to compete in the AI-driven economy.
Courses include:
Built for professionals working in healthcare systems and organizations.
Courses include:
Equip teams with industry-relevant project leadership skills.
Courses include:
Explore the intersection of product strategy and artificial intelligence.
Courses include:
While many workforce development programs focus on short-term skill acquisition, Carlow offers something broader. Stackable credentials, degree pathways, and emerging programs in areas like AI, healthcare management, and Agile project management prepare professionals for new opportunities while grounding innovation in ethical reflection and service to the common good.
We prepare professionals to ask not only, "Can we do this?" but also, "Should we, and whom will it serve?"
Carlow University can design custom educational experiences tailored specifically to your organization, leveraging our full academic portfolio.
These programs can be structured to support:
If your organization has a vision for employee growth, Carlow can help build the educational pathway to support it.
Through A More Just & Merciful World Podcast, Carlow President Kathy Humphrey, PhD, brings together leaders from business, healthcare, education, government, and the nonprofit sector to discuss workforce needs, ethical leadership, and Pittsburgh's future.
Their conversations reinforce an important idea: workforce development is not merely an academic or economic concern. It is a shared community responsibility.
These conversations reflect the same questions Carlow explores with employers, educators, and community leaders across the region.
Through A More Just & Merciful World Podcast, Carlow President Kathy Humphrey, PhD, brings together leaders from business, healthcare, education, government, and the nonprofit sector to discuss workforce needs, ethical leadership, and Pittsburgh's future.
Their conversations reinforce an important idea: workforce development is not merely an academic or economic concern. It is a shared community responsibility.
These conversations reflect the same questions Carlow explores with employers, educators, and community leaders across the region.
Carlow graduates enter the workforce prepared not only to perform, but to transform. They lead with a broader perspective, considering how their decisions affect people, organizations, and communities.
At a time when conversations about work are dominated by automation and efficiency, Carlow offers a more human vision for the future, because career preparation is not only about what you will learn. It's also about who you will become.
See how Carlow is shaping the regional conversation around workforce development, purpose-driven leadership, and the future of work.
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Carlow's approach to workforce development combines rigorous academics with a mission rooted in justice and mercy — preparing graduates who lead with both competence and compassion.
Read the ArticleCarlow is preparing students for a changing workforce by combining practical career pathways with adaptability, ethical judgment, and a commitment to what must remain human — helping turn education into opportunity and hope into a path forward.
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Whether you're looking to advance your career or create a workforce partnership, Carlow is ready to help build what's next.