Transcript School of Business

Tusculum College
School of Business
Tusculum College
Tusculum College
Program is:
– Approved…Regionally by Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools
– Flexible & cost competitive… $275 per credit
hour/$825 per course
– Financial aid available
Tusculum College
Who are our Students
Typically, Our students:
– are working adults.
– are mid-career professionals.
– are in their mid-to-late 30s in age.
– bring many professional and personal experiences
with them into the classroom.
– look for and expect convenience, service, and
quality in the educational experiences for which
they (or their employers) are paying.
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Our Work & Our Tools
• Our work is educating adult students.
• Our tools are whatever resources we can draw
upon to help adult students accomplish their
educational goals.
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Masters of Arts in
Organizational Management
• 36 hour program
• All courses are six weeks long (3 credit hours)
• Classes meet one night a week for four hours
• Utilize learning teams that meet an additional
four hours per week
• No prerequisites
• Approaches administration and management
from a broad perspective
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Admission Requirements:
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Bachelor degree from a regionally accredited
college or university.
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No specific undergraduate field of study.
No GMAT or GRE
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Admission Requirements:
• Undergraduate GPA (last 60 hours)
– 3.0 or higher – regular admission.
– 2.75 to 2.99 – conditional admission with
requirement that a grade of at least “B” is earned
in each of the first three courses of program.
– 2.50 to 2.74 – graduate committee approval. If
given, conditional admission with requirement that
a grade of at least “B” is earned in each of the first
three courses of program.
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MAOM Mission
• Our values- and ethics-based educational
experience focuses on providing working adults
with contemporary knowledge and its practical
application that benefits the students, their
organizations, and society.
• The program empowers students by further
developing their abilities to lead responsibly,
act with confidence, make ethical decisions,
manage strategically, communicate effectively,
employ critical and creative analysis, and lead
organizational change.
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Completion Gives Students
Knowledge and Tools to:
• Lead responsibly
– by drawing upon your own unique leadership
abilities, experiences, and goals as well as current
leadership concepts, theories, and strategies for
dealing with a variety of people and organizational
issues.
• Act with confidence
– by utilizing self-reflection and awareness to know
why, when, and how to lead, follow, model, and
mentor.
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Completion Gives Students
Knowledge and Tools to:
• Make ethical decisions
– by courageously confronting ethical challenges
and applying ethical decision-making tools to
workplace dilemmas.
• Manage strategically
– by enabling an organization to analyze its
operating environment, envision its future, and
develop strategic objectives and by managing
people, processes, and resources effectively and
ethically.
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Completion Gives Students
Knowledge and Tools to:
• Communicate effectively
– by capitalizing on your personal strengths as a
communicator and by employing appropriate
strategies for influencing, motivating, advocating,
team building, and managing conflict.
• Employ critical and creative analysis
– by applying tools of analysis to identify problems,
generate creative, pragmatic solutions to solve
them, implement appropriate actions, and evaluate
their success.
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Completion Gives Students
Knowledge and Tools to:
• Understand and lead organizational change
– by working with others to assess a group’s culture,
roles, structure, local environment, and global
context so as to anticipate, recognize, and resolve
organizational problems.
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Masters of Arts in
Organizational Management
• Curriculum
– MGMT 501 Organizational effectiveness
– MGMT 502 Leading groups and teams
– MGMT 504 Developing organizational intelligence
– MGMT 505 Organizational behavior
– MGMT 513 Economics for managers
– MGMT 507 Strategic human resource management
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Masters of Arts in
Organizational Management
• Curriculum (cont’d)
– MGMT 509 Managerial finance
– MGMT 521 Leadership practice and skills
– MGMT 506 Applied marketing management
– MGMT 518 Legal environment of organizations
– MGMT 523 Entrepreneurial thinking for managers
– MGMT 515 Challenges and trends in Management
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Masters of Arts in
Organizational Management
• Topics woven throughout the program
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Ethics
Strategic thinking
Global/international considerations
Forecasting
Communications
Action research
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MBA OR MAOM?
• MBA has an emphasis on BUSINESS
specializations such as:
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Accounting
Finance
Sales
Marketing
Economics
• Preparation for people pursuing Staff Positions
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MBA OR MAOM? (cont’d)
• MAOM is program for professionals and
managers in business, non-profits, and
government agencies
• Emphasis on competencies needed to
successfully work in and LEAD any type of
organization
• Fills a need for advanced people and
organizational skills
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Educational Success
What you can do to make your experience successful:
– Approach the learning experience with an open mind
– Expect to earn your grade
– Set Challenging goals for your learning and
periodically evaluate your progress
– Create a personalized study plan
– Actively participate in class activities
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Educational Success….
– Expect your ideas to be challenged; be prepared to
support them with facts, research evidence, and
judgment
– Respect differences and opposing views; treat others
with respect and civility
– Enter the learning environment appropriately prepared
for each session
– Reflect on you own thinking, learning, and prior
experience
– Communicate, Communicate, Communicate…..
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Staying on Track
• 3.0 overall GPA
• Attendance policy
– Missing more than one-third of a course results in
an automatic “F” for the course
– Missing more than 5 nights of class in a semester
or 10 nights in the program results in academic
suspension for six moths
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Cost
• Tuition per Credit Hour
• Estimated (per course) Textbook Cost
• Technology Fee per Semester
$275.00
$150.00
$ 50.00
– Max $150.00 per year
• Graduation Fee
$ 75.00
No Hidden Fees
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Questions?
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