Dr. Allison Wilson Leggett, EdD serves Union Institute & University as Masters Chair, Masters of Arts in Education; Program Chair, Early Childhood Studies; Program Chair Secondary Education; Program Chair Elementary Education; Program Chair Exceptional Child. The new MA in Education program features the Online Teaching and Learning discipline which serves to meet the needs of K-12 teachers and higher education faculty seeking to master digital skills in the remote teaching environment. Dr. Leggett joined Union first as an affiliated faculty, which lead to her position as the first Lead Faculty for the Children and Adolescent Development (CHAD) program at the Los Angeles Center. Further, Dr. Leggett was a recipient of the first Faculty Distance Teaching and Learning (FTD&L) Digital Learning grant for her innovative redesign of the CHAD curriculum with digital literacy. As a Certified Advanced Online professor, early on in her tenure, Dr. Leggett participated in the Program Development, including Undergraduate Faculty Training for National Assessment, BS-CHAD Assessment of Outcomes and Union’s 5-year Program Review committee.

Dr. Leggett holds a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership, a Master of Science in Administration, a Master of Arts in Educational Psychology, Technology and Early Childhood Education, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Living in Southern California, she loves camping and traveling with her family and has a particular love and interest in space exploration and travel.