2025 News
2025 CPS NEWS
- Paychecks, Perks and Purpose: Building a Holistic Total Rewards Strategy For years, conversations around Total Rewards in HR have centered on pay scales and benefits packages. While those remain core components, a narrow focus misses the broader truth: Total Rewards is about designing a holistic HR strategy that aligns organizational purpose with employee experience, creating a system that supports engagement, retention and long-term organizational health.
- THe Skills Gap in Digital Marketing: Why Data-Driven Decision Making Is the New Standard For many marketing professionals, career progress can feel frustratingly out of reach. You might be creating strong campaigns, writing compelling copy, or designing standout visuals, yet still hitting roadblocks when it comes to promotions or job searches. Increasingly, the difference between those who advance and those who feel stuck isn’t just creativity—it’s the ability to interpret and act on digital marketing analytics.
- The 8 Wastes of Work You Don't Realize Are Costing You Tiime Busy doesn't always mean productive. We’ve all had those weeks that feel like a blur: back-to-back meetings, endless emails and a to-do list that never seems to shrink. But what if the real problem isn’t how hard you’re working, but what you’re working on?
- DMAIC at the Enterprise Level: Lessons Learned from Black Belt-led Transformations Applying DMAIC within a single process is a test of discipline. Applying it across an enterprise is a test of leadership. At the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt level, the familiar Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control framework evolves from a tactical roadmap into a system for managing complexity.
- Are You Managing Tasks or Guiding Strategy? Here's How to Tell. Many professionals already perform the core functions of project managers without the formal title or training, bridging departments, managing deliverables and solving problems daily. True project management, however, connects execution to strategy, ensuring that every initiative aligns with business goals and produces measurable outcomes. Through structured frameworks and formal training, professionals can turn informal experience into recognized expertise, positioning themselves as strategic leaders who translate vision into results.
- Scope Creep Happens: How Project Managers Keep Control Without Killing Creativity Projects rarely fail because teams lack talent or motivation. More often, they unravel slowly as the scope expands, one small request at a time. A new feature, an added deliverable, an unplanned approval step—all made with good intentions. Before long, timelines slip, budgets stretch and the original goal becomes hard to recognize.
- What is Adaptive Leadership? Change isn’t something that happens occasionally; it’s the constant backdrop of everything we do. Markets shift, technologies disrupt and priorities evolve. For leaders, that means expanding the focus from delivering results today to knowing how to navigate uncertainty and guide others through it tomorrow—and in the future.
- What is Generative AI? Generative AI is everywhere, but using AI tools isn’t the same as understanding generative AI. This guide provides a clear, practical overview of what generative AI is, how generative AI systems work at a high level and what responsible, effective use looks like in the workplace, helping professionals build foundational AI literacy and make more informed decisions as AI becomes part of everyday work.
- What is the CMBOK? The CMBOK, or the Contract Management Body of Knowledge, defines the knowledge areas, competencies and practices that make up the contract management profession. The National Contract Management Agency (NCMA) uses the CMBOK as an organizing framework to identify its knowledge objects, ensure NCMA programs and publications stay within the boundaries of the profession, and ensure that all areas of knowledge are covered.
- Beyond the Prompt: Moving from Curiosity to Confidence in AI To thrive in an AI-driven economy, professionals must move beyond prompts and into confidence. That means moving past just asking questions and into learning how to evaluate answers, apply AI responsibly and integrate it into workflows in meaningful ways.
- How to Turn Your Years of Experience into Your Next Act Entrepreneurship isn’t a restart. It’s a repurposing of everything you’ve learned along the way. After decades of building expertise in the corporate world, you may reach a moment of clarity. The daily grind of corporate life has turned the work that once energized you into something that exhausts you. Perhaps the idea of applying your hard-earned years-long experience to something of your own has increasingly become more and more appealing.
- How to Create Social Media Content That Actually Performs Why today's marketing professionals need practical content creation skills —and how to build them with confidence.
- “It Felt Like Home”: How Villanova’s Paralegal Certificate Launched Lauren Berry’s Legal Career When Lauren Berry arrived on Villanova’s campus to study as part of the Fall 2023 cohort of the Paralegal Professional Certificate Program, she brought a standard five-subject notebook for class. As the program continued through the semester, covering 15 topics over just a few months, Lauren’s notebook slowly filled with all the knowledge she absorbed day after day. Now as she continues her path in the legal field, as a paralegal hopeful to attend law school and with aspirations to reach the top of the industry, her notebook is always nearby – a resource to remind her of the foundation of knowledge she’s built for a budding legal career.
- Degrees of Determination: Jen Villalobos is a Villanova Story of Persistence and Pride Jen Villalobos’s journey to her degree wasn’t a straight path—it was a story of persistence, determination and the belief that it’s never too late to take the next step forward. The road to receiving her degree wasn’t without its challenges. As a working professional, wife, and mother of six in a blended family, Jen juggled a demanding job with part-time coursework.
- “Finish What You Start”: Russ Ebbets Completes Villanova Degree 50 Years in the Making When Russ Ebbets arrived at Villanova University for his freshman year in the fall of 1972, he never would have expected that he would complete that degree more than 50 years later, having traveled the world, built a career and published a handful of books in between. After the many twists and turns of his life, he returned to CPS, with a bachelor's degree and multiple graduate degrees to his name, to proudly finish what he'd started decades prior.
- Ambitiously Ahead of Schedule: Zachary Amos to Graduate from CPS at 19-Years-Old This May, while many 19-year-olds are finishing their freshman year of college, Zachary Amos is graduating with his bachelor’s degree in Information Systems & Technology (IST) from Villanova’s College of Professional Studies (CPS). After earning an associate degree at 17, he worked to complete his degree and start a career that will begin with a trip across the world to serve others.
- Resourcefulness and Resilience: Bella Cipresso's Journey from Cabrini to Villanova and Her Degree When Cabrini University and Villanova University finalized the agreement between their institutions, both sides stressed that the impact and legacy of Cabrini were to continue as part of Villanova. Bella Cipresso, a former Cabrini student and graduate of Villanova’s College of Professional Studies (CPS), epitomizes those efforts. Cipresso completed her degree at Villanova while fully immersing herself in the Villanova community. For her excellence in the classroom, she was awarded the academic medallion for her program.
- 2025 CPS Graduate Francis Schlupp Pursues Decades-Long Dream to Make a Difference This spring, at 53-years-old, Schlupp is graduating with his Bachelor of Arts in History, and he was selected to speak at the College of Professional Studies’ Evening of Celebration. The journey to his degree has spanned a lifetime, but well worth the time and effort. Schlupp, awarded for his research work as an undergraduate, will continue his education, in an effort to fulfill a lifelong dream to teach to those in underserved communities.
- VUnited Inclusive Employment Symposium Celebrates Neurodiversity and Accessibility in the Workplace This March marked the inaugural VUnited Inclusive Employment Symposium, an event championing neuroinclusion in the workforce. Created in conjunction with Villanova’s VUnited Scholars the symposium welcomed lawmakers, employers, educators, students, and guests to discuss inclusive hiring practices. Presenters included Pennsylvania First Lady Lori Shapiro and speakers from KPMG, Comcast and Wawa.
- CPS Graduate and Former Villanova Basketball Star Jeremiah Robinson-Earl to Deliver Student Address at Villanova's 2025 Commencement Jeremiah Robinson-Earl '25 CPS, a former member of the Villanova University Men’s Basketball team, has been selected as the student speaker at Villanova’s 2025 Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15. Robinson-Earl, currently a member of the New Orleans Pelicans in the National Basketball Association (NBA), completed his degree in General Studies online through the College of Professional Studies (CPS). This marks the first time that a CPS student will deliver the student address at Villanova’s Commencement ceremony.