2026
2026 CPS NEWS
- College Curious? Villanova's Pre-College Summer Academy Offers Immersive Campus Experience Villanova's Pre-College Summer Academy is a four-week intensive program, open to current juniors and seniors that gives students a taste of college life, earning them real college credits they can list on their transcript.
- Here's The Reason Your Gen AI Tool Sounds Right, But Might Be Wrong When an AI answer “sounds right,” it’s easy to trust it. But confidence doesn’t always mean correct. False predictions, often called hallucinations, are a real risk when using generative AI. To understand why models hallucinate and the types of errors professionals see most often, it helps to know how generative AI produces outputs, then apply simple guardrails that support responsible use in your work.
- What is the UCC If a contract involves goods, the UCC is often in the background, even when nobody names it. It influences how agreements form, how terms conflict and what remedies are available when performance breaks down. If you’re building NCMA-aligned contract knowledge or working toward becoming the contract expert your team relies on, this is one framework worth understanding early.
- How to Build a Successful Digital Marketing Strategy Digital marketing works best when every channel, message and metric is pulling in the same direction. A clear strategy helps you define goals, focus resources and turn day-to-day tactics into measurable results. In this article, you’ll find the “why” behind digital marketing strategy, plus the tools and metrics that help you measure what matters and keep improving over time.
- The Hidden Value of ROI in Process Improvement Process improvement has a branding problem. When leaders hear “Lean Six Sigma,” they often picture tools, templates and a lot of time spent mapping workflows. If they’re supportive, they’ll say yes because it feels like the responsible thing to do. If they’re skeptical, they’ll ask the question that shuts projects down fast: What’s the ROI?
- The Risk You Didn't See Coming Projects don’t unravel only when something dramatic breaks. More often, they drift off course because of a surprise that didn’t make it into the plan: a dependency that slips, a vendor delay that compounds, a stakeholder shift that quietly changes what “success” means.
- Student Spotlight: Adam Richardson ’27 Provides Inspiration to His Sons, Through Education, Determination, and Selflessness Adam Richardson ’27 CPS made a promise to himself when he became a father. “I will never ask my kids to do something I haven’t done, or wouldn’t do,” he explained. “And that includes completing my college degree.” After dropping out of college three times in his late teens and early twenties, now, at age 35, Richardson is determined to earn his bachelor’s degree in organizational development and management.
- Villanova’s College of Professional Studies Announces New Agreement with Williamson College of the Trades, Assisting Skilled Trades Workers on Path to Bachelor’s Degree Villanova University's College of Professional Studies (CPS) has entered an agreement with Williamson College of the Trades in Media, Pennsylvania to provide Williamson graduates additional access to degree and professional education programs at Villanova. This new partnership marks the first for the University with an institution that exclusively offers trade-based education, and will grant Williamson graduates and alumni a merit-based tuition reduction for students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Currently, CPS has existing partnership agreements with over a dozen community colleges and associate degree-granting institutions in the Greater Philadelphia area.
- Create a Better Performance Review Cycle: A Human-Centered Approach to Goals and Feedback If you work in HR, you’ve seen how quickly unclear goals and inconsistent feedback can derail a performance review cycle. You’re often asked to step in after expectations have already drifted and conversations have gotten tense. Putting the human back in performance reviews starts with raising the quality of goal-setting and feedback because they sit at the center of performance management, coaching, talent development and motivation, the very areas where HR leaders are poised to create the most impact.