A View to Our Past and Future: The Development of Professional Organizations

[...] the histories of The University Council for Workforce and Human Resource Education (UCWHRE), the University Forum and HRD (UFHRD), and Program of Excellence Network (PEN) published in this issue of New Horizons can connect scholars and create a forum to continue building social capital within HRD. Social capital refers to the resources that are built in the structure of relations between individuals and organizations (Coleman, 1998) or the value that these relationships can provide (Storberg- Walker & Gubbins, 2007). [...] a collection of these essays represents a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners who are interested in learning how social capital is built within a particular organization and in developing a new or improving an existing professional organization.