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2025-2026 University Catalog

Agriculture Leadership and Professional Development Program Certificate

Location(s): West Lafayette

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About the Program

Everyone has leadership potential. Let the Agriculture Leadership and Professional Development Program help you tap yours!

In Ag Lead Pro you will gain leadership experience tailored to you and your situation, enjoy one-on-one coaching, and develop the skills employers today are looking for. And when you complete the program and earn your certificate, it will appear on your academic transcript.

Purpose, Goals and Objectives

Purpose:
  • The purpose of the Agriculture Leadership and Professional Development Program is to support the professional and leadership development and career readiness of students across the College of Agriculture. 
Goals:
  • The primary goal of the program is broader engagement in co-curricular activities in the College of Agriculture and beyond, leading to more, better prepared graduates ready to enjoy professional and personal success.
Objectives:
  • Understand competencies that employers believe are important to career and personal success
  • Provide a framework for guiding students’ engagement in co-curricular activities to ensure a broad foundation in these competencies
  • Build professional habits such as reflection and self-study to support a life-long learning mindset
  • Ensure students have the ability to articulate how engagement in the program has supported their professional and personal growth.

Competencies

Adapted from NACE: National Association of Colleges and Employers and Steps to Leaps at Purdue

  • Career and Self Development: Proactively develop oneself and one’s career through continual personal and professional learning, awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses, navigation of career opportunities, and networking to build relationships within and without one’s organization.
  • Communication: Clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts, and perspectives with persons inside and outside of an organization.
  • Critical Thinking: Identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information.
  • Connections and Networks: Demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to engage and include people from inside and outside an organization.
  • Grit/Persistence: Life is full of ups and downs. Strategies that tap inner fortitude help to build resolve and character.
    overcome challenges and include steps to build resolve and charact
  • Leadership: Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals.
  • Professionalism: Knowing work environments differ greatly, understand, and demonstrate effective work habits, and act in the interest of the larger community and workplace.
  • Teamwork: Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities.
  • Technology: Understand and leverage technologies ethically to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks, and accomplish goals.

  • Well-Being: Staying healthy in body, brain and spirit is a life-long journey.  Strategies to improve well-being include steps to security, health and prosperity.

*Listed in alphabetical order

Requirements for the Certificate

  1. 1 credit, asynchronous online class (AGR 29000)
  2. Students are required to complete a minimum of 10 activities and reflections. Students will write a reflection for each activity focusing on what they learned and which competency(ies) the activity supported. The full list of NACE competencies can be found below.
  3. Students must complete at least one activity in all ten of the competencies.
  4. The final reflection must review the student’s engagement in the certificate program activities and state how the student plans to explain the value/key learnings from the certificate experience to an employer or graduate/professional school.
  5. Previous activities completed within the last 12 months can be accepted for students who join the program later. A maximum of three reflections can come from past activities.
  6. Examples of common experiences include:
    • Meeting with a mentor at least 2x/academic year (industry or on-campus).  Mentors should be aligned with the student’s post-graduate plans.
    • Internship 
    • Club officer
    • Conference participation
    • Teaching assistant/peer mentor 
    • College committee member
    • Workplace tour
    • Part-time job relevant to field of study 
    • Issues 360 Institute
    • Study abroad 
    • Service projects
    • Participation in an OMP events (Support for Success, LeaderShape, MLK week)
    • Classes approved by program administrator
      • Students complete leadership contract for courses (similar to an honors contract). Students submit form to program manager stating why they believe this course follows the objectives of the program. Course is then approved or denied and a list of approved classes is maintained online.
    • QPR Training
    • LEAP Workshops
    • Attending lectures by guest speakers
    • Research experience

Student Qualifications

  • At least three semesters remaining at Purdue
  • Not a first semester student
  • For transfer and Ag Pathway students, at least 12 credits earned at a 2 or 4-year institution
  • Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in the College of Agriculture

Disclaimer

The student is ultimately responsible for knowing and completing all degree requirements. Consultation with an advisor may result in an altered plan customized for an individual student. The myPurduePlan powered by DegreeWorks is the knowledge source for specific requirements and completion.

Comparative information about Purdue University and other U.S. educational institutions is also available through the College Navigator tool, provided by the National Center for Education Statistics, and through the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.

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