Workplace Learning and Performance Institute

Workplace Learning and Performance Institute

The Workplace Learning and Performance Institute (WLPI) at USM serves as a research and outreach center for best practices in workplace and performance. The WLPI is the only state organization, public or private sector, with the broad-based conceptual workplace learning and performance experience and expertise needed to help build a sustainable human capital development infrastructure for Mississippi.

The WLPI has won numerous awards, including being recognized in 2005 as one of the top five programs of excellence in the U.S. by the Department of Labor in the category Educating America’s 21st Century Workforce, as well as awards from NASA, ATD New Orleans, and the Southern Growth Policies Board.