Creating future leaders: Setting up students for success

Education and Academia
Written By Stuart McNish

Guest: Mark Selman (Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University)

In the world of postgraduate education, someone has to develop the classes and programs that lead to degrees. The challenge, however, is who? Who has the experience and insight into the topic and at the same time can design a structured education?

How do these programs come together? What credentials does the course designer and instructor need? What does a job like this look like?

In this episode of Careers That Matter, Mark Selman, PhD, the Director of the Executive MBA in Aboriginal Business and Leadership at the Beedie School of Business takes us inside his career.

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