TWO NEW SCHOOLS

NLU Launches Two New Schools

In 2020, NLU launched the Graduate School of Business and Leadership. The School grows out of a foundational commitment to the communities we come from, the families that raise us, and the neighborhoods we call home. This commitment ensures that NLU’s alumni are poised to leave a positive impact in the city of Chicago and beyond.

At NLU’s Graduate School of Business and Leadership, students will learn to seize the chance to build innovative new business models that also advance social equity for the communities that will benefit the most from renewed investment and economic opportunity. One such area is in succession planning. Local communities would benefit tremendously from education and outreach that helps business owners prepare to keep locally-owned businesses in the hands of minority individuals. Enduring, sturdy small businesses with roots in the neighborhood are a vital part of any healthy community, and our students, professors, and alumni will be learning, teaching, and founding enterprises of their own in the years to come. Areas of focus like this embody the University’s heritage of service and stewardship.

NLU also founded the brand new Graduate College of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences in 2020 – a founding that could not be more timely. Health service psychologists have never been more important to the world, and NLU’s Graduate College of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences has never been more integral to the field. Our graduate psychology program doesn’t just produce capable counselors; it produces agents of social change.

At the Illinois (ISPP) and Florida (FSPP) Schools of Professional Psychology, we prepare future health service psychologists to meet the world’s most pressing mental health needs, while furthering the fields of psychology and behavioral sciences. Our faculty serve on international boards and as expert consultants globally, bringing the diverse perspectives baked into NLU’s DNA to the world’s stage.

Under the leadership of Dr. Ignacio Lopez, Dean of the School of Business, and Dr. Kelli Johnson, Dean of the College of Psychology, these two new, exciting schools are preparing NLU alumni to make a difference both at home and across the country.