A MASTER’S FOR MODERN LEADERS ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP 100 PERCENT ONLINE
“We continue to contemporize our curricular oferings to meet the needs of the modern-day workforce,” said Leanne Roberts, Ph.D., provost and vice president for academic afairs. “Through the creative eforts of our distinguished faculty on the curriculum design and online classes through our outstanding Ofce of Distance Learning, the changes in our OL program are yet another example of Mercyhurst keeping pace with the rapidly changing marketplace.” Current OL elective oferings address topics including human resources, law, marketing, and corporate responsibility, with the potential to expand in the next few years to include courses in areas ranging from cyber security and data analytics to education and health care. “We want to provide students with the ability to choose upscale areas and help them advance in areas that are most relevant to their felds,” Hosey said. The online OL program will also ofer multiple entry points (fall, spring, or summer), diferent options for course pacing, and full-semester and half-semester courses, allowing students to complete the program in a manner that works for them. Perhaps most notably for Laker grads, Mercyhurst alumni who graduated more than two years ago will qualify for a special tuition rate of $1,000 per course. From its inception, the OL program attracted students from diferent educational and professional backgrounds, from health care and manufacturing to higher education and volunteer organizations—a pattern that continues today. “There is no typical OL student. They come from all undergraduate majors, in all diferent levels of their careers,” Zaphiris said. Over the past 20 years, the program’s more than 350 graduates include entrepreneurs, executives, and managers in diverse industries all around the world, such as a school superintendent, a National Hockey League coach, and the founder of an adventure travel organization in Chile. For Zaphiris, who keeps in touch with OL alumni on active Facebook and LinkedIn pages, their successes and reminiscences about course lessons and faculty are proof that the OL program is still meeting the needs of leaders more than 20 years after its founding. “I love the OL program,” Zaphiris said. “I believe that we are well positioned to prepare modern leaders for whatever challenges they’ll face in their careers.”
Leadership is about adapting to change, earning trust, motivating others, and making strategic decisions. Organizational Leadership equips you with an understanding of leadership principles and opportunities to further develop your leadership and problem-solving skills. This program complements almost every background, ofering instruction in the complexities of leadership that can be applied in any feld.
This 10-course program (30 credits) includes courses such as:
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Leadership Theory and Practice
Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Organizational Communication
SPECIAL TUITION OFFER FOR MERCYHURST ALUMNI Merychurst alumni who graduated more than two years ago can pursue an Organizational Leadership master’s at a cost of only $1,000 per course. READY TO APPLY? Get started for free at apply.mercyhurst.edu . Visit mercyhurst.edu/OL for more information, or contact the Ofce of Graduate & Continuing Education at grad@mercyhurst.edu or 814-824-3351.
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