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VLTD - The Virtual Transformative Leadership Development Experience

The Virtual Transformational Leadership Development Experience leverages the arts in a virtual setting to promote student engagement, engaged scholarship and develop the next generation of leaders to serve as agents of change in pursuit of a more civil, equitable and just society.

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High Impact Practices:

  • Create personalized and transformative learning experiences
  • Encourage deep thinking, and drive student learning outcomes
  • Promote student engagement and engaged scholarship
  • Foster a greater sense of belonging

The Value of the VTLD Experience

Improves Student Satisfaction & Fulfillment

Students that engage beyond the classroom have an increased sense of their belonging in the community, and find better balance with their school work and social needs.

Increases Accessibility of Events

The VTLD Experience can help minimize the time or financial burdens that prevent students from attending events by incorporating events directly into course work or by giving students the time and incentives needed to engage in these activities.

Helps Create Next Generation Leaders

The arts can help educate students, faculty, staff, and alumni on the benefits that can accrue from promoting inclusion, equity, and belonging. These lessons can transcend the classroom and help students become global citizens and active agents of real change.

Envisions the Classroom of the Future

The VTLD Experience actively pursues enhancing the classroom through emerging technologies. We hope to enable virtual arts learning spaces where students and faculty can “attend” museums, events, and live performances that would otherwise be inaccessible.

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The Guiding Principle of the VLTD Experience according to Tom Hogan

A guiding principle of The VTLD Experience is that diversity is a fact, inclusion is a choice, equity is an action, and belonging is an outcome.” Tom Hogan
Professor of Practice, Human Resource Management

Learn More About Student Engagement

VTLD Experience Partners

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Take a Deeper Dive

Reports & Papers

Read our Final Research Study Report

Creating Transformative Experiences: The Art of Student Engagement and Engaged Student Scholarship
Read our Final Briefing Package

Creating Transformative Experiences: The Art of Student Engagement and Engaged Student Scholarship
Read our Paper

The Virtual Transformational Leadership Development Experience: Creating a Classroom of the Future, International Journal of Business and Management Research (IJBMR)

Students Share Their Stories

Alyssa Genther

Nick Banerjee

Jessica Jachera

Ariana Bignotti

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Dr. Tom C. Hogan, SHRM-SCP, GPHR, SPHR
Human Capital Management scholar, strategic advisor, executive coach, and EdTech thought leader.

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