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Department of Business and Entrepreneurial Studies
PROPOSAL
Online Master of Science Degree
Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management
College of Professional, Graduate and Extended Studies
Department of Business and Entrepreneurial Studies
Proposed Implementation Date: Fall 2014
Proposed and Prepared by:
Mehran Asadi, Ph.D., MS (Interim Chair)
William Kwame Dadson, Ph.D., MSBA, MA, MIM
Kennie Edwards, MBA, CPA
Emmanuel Ihejirika, Ph.D., MBA
Ganga P. Ramdas, Ph.D., MA, MS
Oswald Richards, Ph.D., MS, MBA
Hara Wright-‐Smith Ph.D., MBA
Department of Business and Entrepreneurial Studies
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Table of Content
Appropriateness to Mission ……………………………………………………..…………………………4
Description, Scope, and purpose of the Program …………………………….…………….………………4
Alignment with University Mission………………………………………………………….……..………4
Appropriateness to University Strategic Direction and Goals Outlined……………………………………4
Program Objectives…………………………………………………………………………………………5
Need………………………………………………………………………………………………………...5
Need as Substantiated by Employment Trends……………………………………………………………..5
Demand for Program Among Current and Prospective Students…...……………………………………...6
Uniqueness of the Program……...………………………………………………………………………….6
Enrollment Projection……...……………………………………………………………………………….7
Academic Integrity………...………………………………………………………………………………..7
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) ..……………………………………………………………………...7
Institutional Learning Outcome (ILOs) …………………………………..………………………………..8
General Information on Admissions………………………………………..………………………………9
Admissions Procedures…………………………………..………………………………………………..10
Transfer Credits………………………………..…………………………………………………………..10
Summary of Admission Requirements……………………………………………………………………10
Curriculum Overview……………………………………………………………………………………..11
Course Offering………...…………………………………………………………………..….………….12
Learning Experiences and Instructional Methods………..………………………………………………..16
Program Structure/Administration…………...……………….…………………………………………...17
Program Assessment and Accreditation……...………….………….………………………………….…17
Budget……...………….………….………………………………….……………………………………18
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Description, Scope, and Purpose of the Program
The Online Degree Master of Science in Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management is a new program of study sponsored by the Department of Business and Entrepreneurial Studies. This new program will be housed in the Department of Business and Entrepreneurial Studies within the College of Professional, Graduate and Extended Studies.
Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management is the field that takes the concepts from sustainability and synthesizes them with the concepts of management in the environment and the economy. This program integrates effective leadership training, theoretical foundations, and best practices for effectiveness and sustainability. Students develop a program with three components in applied leadership training, sustainable systems management principles, and a business plan for an entrepreneurial venture in any economic sector.
A combination of online courses, practical training, internships, and joint venture partnerships with local and international organizations and firms will provide the foundations for successful professional development in any field.
Alignment with University Mission:
The goal of The Lincoln University Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management is to position itself as a preeminent program for the preparation of highly educated and trained professionals who are equipped with the essential skills for entry-level management positions in the industry. These graduates will be capable of assuming leadership positions and face global and domestic challenges inherent in the industry. The program will emphasize the importance of excellence and the necessity of high quality service with ethical considerations and the hiring of qualified teachers in the field who will be committed to excellent in teaching and scholarly activities.
The purpose of the program is to equip its students with the essential skills for successful careers in management positions.
Appropriateness to University Strategic Direction and Goals Outlined:
The Business and Entrepreneurial Studies at The Lincoln University proposes a Masters of Science degree in Applied Leadership and Sustainability Management with the following program structure: (a) Online courses are combined with practical training at seminars, workshops, and (b) through The Lincoln University's program partners and sponsors.
Program Objectives:
Sustainable enterprises leverage the skills, knowledge, and action of leaders and managers to achieve a socially desirable balance in any environment of human activity on our planet. Sustainability principles
Appropriateness to Mission
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balance whether for profits or non-profits. Based of understanding of theses principles the department of Business and Entrepreneurial Studies of The Lincoln University proposes to establish “Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management” Master degree program which will educate and train people for renewed commitment and vigor for the development of social, economic and technological solutions that would reverse local and global environmental damage and catastrophes.
Need as Substantiated by Employment Trends:
Students trained in Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management will have excellent career opportunities. Any institution that has a large number of people and a physical infrastructure that includes buildings, grounds, food service, a vehicle fleet, water/wastewater facilities, intensive use of energy (possibly from their own utility), lots of equipment and appliances that use electricity, a transportation network, and the large-scale procurement of goods and services will eventually require a sustainability manager.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics identified sustainability related skills as critically important across multiple industries.
• The Council of Economic advisors reports that "green" jobs are expected to grow faster than any other occupation through 2016.
• Industries connected to the built environment are expected to add 8 million sustainability related jobs to the U.S. economy before 2013.
• Growth across industries related to the environment is expected to drive earnings higher for individuals with advanced sustainability competencies.
This means cities and towns, school districts, utility districts, colleges and universities, federal government agencies, military bases, and larger corporations. In the United States, there are 3,304 county governments, 19,431 municipal governments, 16,056 township governments, 13,522 school districts, 35,356 “special district” governments, and over 4,100 two-year and four-year colleges (https://www.experience.com).
Possible job titles include Sustainability Manager, Sustainable Design Assistance Project Manager, Program Manager, Gsc Environmental/Sustainability, Program Manager, Gsc Environmental/Sustainability. Managers can expect to make between \$45,000 and \$110,000 a year.
NEED
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The Lincoln University desires to offer students, graduate degree programs that provide relevant knowledge for employability and existing employment knowledge gains. Institutions of higher learning in the Greater Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington D.C. area continue to invest resources in an attempt to stop the downward trends of MBA enrollments. Lincoln does not want to enter this crowded market, but wishes to provide alternative path ways to deliver graduate degree programs that promote enrollment growth and synergy with local, regional, and national business and industry. With a national documented need for advanced degrees in sustainability, entrepreneurship, business analytics, supply chain management, operations research, project management, Lincoln would like to explore launching innovative masters degree programs that leverage well known, franchise FT Press authors within an applied course design architecture, to deliver flexible, relevant graduate programs.
Uniqueness of the Program:
The M.S. in Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management is based upon years of experience in bridging research and practice, with a curriculum based on new and existing courses at The Lincoln University, taught by faculty and researchers who are experts in the field.
The M.S. in Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management is ideal for professionals currently working in or aspiring to be in management positions in regulatory compliance, facilities management, operations, and environmental stewardship. The program is geared towards those who have some form of sustainability responsibility in their current position, are looking to incorporate this into their current organization practices, or are looking to switch current career paths to pursue opportunities in this field. It is an innovative program that is applicable to many fields including the growing field of sustainability management, environmental, risk and environment management, financial services, utilities, industrial manufacturing, energy, pharmaceuticals, media, transportation, food service, and technology.
This program delivers:
• An expansive body of theoretical and applied knowledge with thorough grounding in the principal disciplines and sub-specialties of Accounting, Finance and Management infused with Entrepreneurship and Information Technologies for real-world applicability in the global marketplace.
• Delivery of trans-disciplinary epistemology with an overarching imperative to unite and integrate the humanities, liberal arts and sciences with business to produce a holistic graduate with leadership, managerial and entrepreneurial skills for competitive transition into the public and private sectors.
• Exposure to skilled professors with academic, theoretical, clinical and professional credentials who possess discipline-specific currency to deliver cutting-edge, contemporary and post-modernist instruction in their field.
• An enriching and nourishing academic environment that encourages students to utilize cognitive abilities to acquire and demonstrate subject-discipline mastery, extend the boundaries of, and reconstitute, knowledge for occupational and post-graduate successes.
• Co-curricular student activities in discipline-specific clubs, project management initiatives, internship and cooperative education experiences, national competitions and corporate offsite
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practitioner networks, which augment the academic experiences. • An active and expansive study abroad program that fosters international, intercultural and foreign
language connectivity beyond the frontier of American academic silos and the contours of domestic economic, financial and political systems.
• Service to The Lincoln community and external constituency that promotes civic engagement and inspires social and philanthropic activism, which strategically contributes to the betterment of mankind.
• Research that merits in-depth investigation of contemporary or futuristic topics, utilizing all of the tools of scholarly research, which yields experimental/practical solutions and/or reinterpretation of conventional assumptions that undergird existent infrastructures.
• Electronically mediated (e-learning, distance learning, etc.) courses that target disparate and unconventional student populations who prefer digital instructional delivery.
Enrollment Projections:
Since this is an online program, it is difficult to project the number of prospective students, however, The Lincoln University will use Pearson advertisement tools to attract both domestic and international students to this program.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs):
Educational outcomes are specific goals that are attained by graduation. The graduate program in sustainability program prepares graduates to achieve the following educational outcomes:
1. Apply business knowledge and methods required to evaluate sustainability concepts and systems. 2. Design and manage processes in a sustainable manner. 3. Analyze management problems in their social and environmental context. 4. Develop economic, environmental, and social sound sustainable decisions. 5. Evaluate the impact of products, processes, and activities through life cycle assessment. 6. Develop leadership skills for sustainable management. 7. Demonstrate professional, legal, and ethical responsibility in decision making practices
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
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Course # Course Title SLO 1
SLO 2
SLO 3
SLO 4
SLO 5
SLO 6
SLO 7
ALSM 601 Applied Leadership Best Practices X X X
ALSM 602 Introduction to Sustainable Business X X
ALSM 605 Accounting for Sustainability X X
ALSM 606 Sustainable Finance X X
ALSM 701 Strategy as Sustainability X X
ALSM 702 Project and Program Management X X
ALSM 703 Nonprofit Management X X
ALSM 704 Business Intelligence And Analytics X X
ALSM 705 Advancing your career: Networking and Relationship Building
X X X
ALSM 706 Global Sustainability Issues X X
ALSM 708 Sustainability Leadership Capstone X X X
Institutional Learning Outcome:
During the first year of program the following ILOs will be assessed and they will rotated among course each year after the first year of the program.
Course # Course Title SLO 1
SLO 2
SLO 3
SLO 4
SLO 5
SLO 6
SLO 7
SLO 8
ALSM 601
Applied Leadership Best Practices X X
ALSM 602
Introduction to Sustainable Business X X
ALSM 605
Accounting for Sustainability X X
ALSM 606
Sustainable Finance X X
ALSM 701
Strategy as Sustainability X
ALSM 702
Project and Program Management X X
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703 Nonprofit Management X X X
ALSM 704
Business Intelligence And Analytics X X
ALSM 705
Advancing your career: Networking and Relationship Building
X X
ALSM 706
Global Sustainability Issues X
ALSM 708
Sustainability Leadership Capstone X X
General Information on Admissions
To be considered for admission to the Master of Science in Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program, a matriculating student must hold a bachelor's degree, in any business discipline, from an accredited four-year undergraduate college or university and have a previous record of academic and professional accomplishments that clearly demonstrate the ability to complete a graduate degree. Successful admission is determined on the basis of a careful evaluation of the applicant's letters of recommendation, statement of professional goals, undergraduate/graduate transcripts, grade point average (GPA).
A cumulative undergraduate grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale is required. An applicant with an undergraduate GPA that is less than 3.0 may be provisionally accepted if the candidate can demonstrate strong evidence of his/her ability to complete the designated program with a GPA of 3.0 or better. A provisionally accepted candidate will be regularly monitored to ensure he/she maintains a 3.0 GPA.
Although the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and/or Miller Analogies Test (MAT) are not routine requirements, The Lincoln University reserves the right to require either or both of these tests if they are considered essential to the admission decision-making process.
A non-matriculating student must submit a copy of a bachelor's or a master's degree from an accredited, four-year institution and an official academic undergraduate or graduate transcript. A non-matriculating student may then take a total of nine (9) credits. To continue beyond this point, the student must apply for formal admission and acceptance into the graduate program.
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An applicant requests and receives an Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management graduate packet from the Office of the Director of Graduate Admissions (ODGA), which he/she completes and returns to ODGA. A committee of three (Director of Graduate Admissions, Director of the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program and a faculty member from the department of Business and Entrepreneurial Studies) formally reviews and approves or rejects the application according to the established admissions criteria.
A candidate who has been granted formal or provisional acceptance into the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program will receive an approval letter from ODGA with instructions to arrange for a scheduled online advising and counseling session with the Director of the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program. During the conference, the Director of the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program will reassess and reevaluate the applicant's portfolio of academic and experiential accomplishments to determine his/her appropriate placement in the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management course. The Director of the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management will also discuss the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management academic and organizational structure, outline a program of study, register the student for courses and direct him/her to ODGA for further discussion and resolution of admissions, financing and other issues that are beyond the scope and authority of the DMSA. The student will be assigned an academic advisor from the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program.
Transfer Credits
The Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program will accept 6 graduates transfer credit hours from accredited colleges and universities, provided the courses are commensurate in depth and breadth with, and equivalent to, the courses offered in the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program. Credit is not granted for correspondence courses. All acceptable courses for transfer credit must be completed with a B average or better.
Summary of Admission Requirements
• Copy of bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year undergraduate institution. • Résumé of work experience and professional accomplishments. • An optional Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and/or Miller Analogies Test. • A 500-word essay describing past academic/career achievements, future career goals, and
interest in Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management. • Three letters of recommendation from professional and academic sources. • An official academic undergraduate transcript. • An official academic transcript of previously taken and successfully completed graduate
courses with a GPA of 3.0 or better.
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Curriculum Overview
Degree Requirements:
• 33 credit hours to complete the degree for a student with an undergraduate business degree that includes the foundation courses.
• The degree must be completed within 5 years from the semester the first course is taken for the traditional/regular 2-year program and 6 years for the 3-year, nontraditional program.
• A student who has completed all of the course requirements, except the capstone research project, will have an "R" recorded on his/her transcript. A student must successfully complete the research project within the 5- or 6-year period; otherwise an "F" will be recorded on his/her transcript when the 5/6-year period elapses.
• A student whose GPA falls below 3.0 in any semester will be placed on academic probation the following semester. A student who consistently fails to maintain a 3.0 GPA may be dismissed from the program.
Curriculum Overview – Master of Science in Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management:
Fall 2014
ALSM 601 Applied Leadership Best Practices (3 credits) Prerequisite: Bachelor’s degree
ALSM 602 Introduction to Sustainable Business (3 credits), Prerequisite: Bachelor’s degree
ALSM 605 Accounting for Sustainability (3 credits), Prerequisite: Bachelor’s degree
Spring 2015
ALSM 606 Sustainable Finance (3 credits), Prerequisite: ALSM 605
ALSM 701 Strategy as Sustainability (3 credits) Prerequisite: Bachelor’s degree
ALSM 702 Project and Program Management (3 credits) Prerequisites: ALSM 601, ALSM 602
Fall 2015
ALSM 703 Nonprofit Management (3 credits) Prerequisite: ALSM 601
ALSM 704 Business Intelligence And Analytics (BI&A) (3 credits) Prerequisite: Statistics
ALSM 705 Advancing your career: Networking and Relationship Building (3 credits) Prerequisites: ALSM 702, ALSM 703
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Spring 2016
ALSM 706 Global Sustainability Issues (3 credits) Prerequisites: ALSM 601, ALSM 602
ALSM 708 Sustainability Leadership Capstone (3 credits) Prerequisites: ALSM 704, ALSM 705
Course Offering:
ALSM 601 Applied Leadership Best Practices (3 credits)
This course will look at leadership at a number of levels including, organizational, group and individual. Every organization embeds a leadership approach into how it pursues its mission. This approach can be uncovered by looking at its processes such as internal/external communication, decision-making, and problem-solving. The approach can also be uncovered by looking at the goals it sets, outcomes it chooses to measure and the results it labels as successful. Assumptions of how the world operates and how people behave are the underpinnings of a leadership approach. We will look at these embedded approaches in a number of organizations throughout the semester using case studies and guest leaders.
ALSM 602 Introduction to Sustainable Business (3 credits)
Effective governance and sustainability are increasingly important considerations for governments, organizations, business leaders, investors, consumers, and many other stakeholders throughout the world. This course provides a detailed review of research and practice relevant to rapidly evolving domestic and global sustainability challenges faced by businesses. Students will assess domestic and international social, political, ethical, and economic landscapes, as well as the impact of technology on the global business environment. The accountancy profession supports the move to a model of sustainable economies and corporate responsibility, where organizations pursue a more sustainable path and are better governed.
ALSM 603 Sustainable Organizational Design (3 credits)
This course introduces the concept of sustainability in the context of creating, enhancing and building sustainable neighborhoods and those institutions that maintain a prominent role and presence in such areas. This means exploring the organizational structure, mission, vision, and community action efforts of faith-based non-profit organizations and related entities in creating viable, revitalization efforts within communities. Often religious institutions act alone – outside the realm of governmental decision-making. This course will explore sustainability strategies and actions to further the work of the faith-community and move plans to viable revitalization in areas served by local parishioners – from mega-church organizations to storefront edifices. Further, this learning experience identifies concentrated areas for promoting community development ministries, growth, and improvement; as well as the actors and stakeholders geographically situated within the planning areas that affect decision-making. This course will understand how to bring faith-leaders to the decision-making table for the purposes of community planning. Furthering the course descriptions articulated in the “Sustainable Economic Development” Course, the learning experience provides explanations about how and why promoting sustainability, in the
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greener, healthier, environmentally friendly, and equitable places to live, work and worship.
ALSM 604 Managing for Sustainability (3 credits)
This course examines organizational theory, practice and learning in the context of rapidly changing competitive and economic environments. Strategies and tactics for growth and performance improvement are explored. This course covers issues of current relevance, including social networks, knowledge management, innovation, organizational learning and design thinking. Through relevant, contemporary cases, the course will examine the purposes, evolution and emerging trends of organizations and management. Traditional, virtual and cooperative structures, centralized and decentralized control, changing workforces and customer expectations all add to the complexity of management issues. Research design for this complex environment is equally challenging.
ALSM 605 Accounting for Sustainability (3 credits)
In order to create and maintain value into the future, organizations therefore need to integrate sustainability into their overall strategy and decision-making processes. This course accounting for sustainability provides an in-depth examination of accounting, financial and economic concepts and tools that business leaders and managers apply to make effective financial decisions. The accounting process measures and reports management’s financial representations within the context of generally accepted accounting principles, thus, adding creditability to management’s financial assertions. This course will study this complex relationship between corporate management, stakeholders, and accounting. Therefore, need to integrate accounting sustainability into the overall strategy and decision-making processes important in today society.
ALSM 606 Sustainable Finance (3 credits)
This course introduces the students to the foundations of management of and how sustainability issues affect the various sectors of finance and financial approaches, and an understanding of how integrating sustainability principles and practices into finance can be used to make a business become more efficient, effective, reduce risks, create opportunities and provide competitive advantage, for both companies and financial firms alike. Especially, issues in the global credit, underwriting, insurance, risk management, and venture capital and asset management capital markets. The student understands of these issues that have a direct impact on risk exposure and the quality of public, private and government debt/equity investments are critical to the totality of the student knowledge base. Through this process, students will gain the tools to evaluate, quantify and assess environmental, social and governance.
ALSM 701 Strategy As Sustainability (3 credits)
This course will provide students with an in-depth examination of the strategies companies are using to advance the “triple bottom line” through a series of guest speakers representing multiple industries. The pervasiveness of business claims about being “green” and increased societal expectations for businesses to be “responsible” have brought sustainability into the mainstream. Consequently, businesses that desire competitive advantage and leadership have embraced sustainability as an integral component of their strategy. As a result of this course, students will have familiarity with the strategies companies implement
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increase employee loyalty, address social issues, and build shareholder value.
ALSM 702 Project and Program Management (3 credits)
Project Management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources (e.g. people) in such a way that the project is completed within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints. A project is a temporary and one-time endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service, which brings about beneficial change or added value. This property of being a temporary and one-time undertaking contrasts with processes, or operations, which are permanent or semi-permanent ongoing functional work to create the same product or service over and over again. The management of these two systems is often very different and requires varying technical skills and philosophy, hence requiring the development of project management.
The first challenge of project management is to ensure that a project is delivered within defined constraints. The second, more ambitious challenge is the optimized allocation and integration of inputs needed to meet pre-defined objectives. A project is a carefully defined set of activities that use resources (money, people, materials, energy, space, provisions, communication, quality, risk, etc) to meet the pre-defined objectives.
ALSM 703 Nonprofit Management (3 credits)
This course will help students gain the knowledge and skills they need to guide nonprofit organizations through a variety of important financial decisions and tasks. Students will learn about key fiduciary responsibilities of boards of directors, management roles, the audit process, internal controls and nonprofit accounting standards. Students will also develop full cost accounting and budgeting skills, learn how to read and analyze nonprofit financial statements, and develop critical thinking skills concerning resource development strategy.
ALSM 704 Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) (3 credits)
Business intelligence and business analytics are applied organizational tools and metrics that are designed to transform raw, big and cloud data into information that organizations can use to assess historical, current and competitive performance internally and externally. Intelligent and analytical data is used to gain insight, identify and develop new opportunities, ask how, what, when, where and why questions that drive short- and longer-term strategic planning. BI&A utilizes extensive descriptive, predictive, prescriptive and decisive analytics to influence decision-making. Business intelligence and business analytics is further enhanced through use and application of tools such as risk and credit analytics, marketing analytics, behavioral analytics, fraud analytics, supply chain analytics, transportation analytics and others. The workforce demand for workers with BI&A skills is pervasive in the 21st century.
ALSM 705 Advancing Your Career (3 credits)
The establishment of social networks that will generate value and reciprocity for all parties involved.
1. Students will learn to identify those individuals and organizations within their community and beyond that will assist them with creating sustainability of their business ventures, including, but not limited to the local, state and federal governments.
2. Students will learn the value of developing strong networking and business etiquette skills to improve and manage their interpersonal relationships effectively in the marketplace.
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business appropriately in a global marketplace. 4. Students will learn how to support their native communities while also making their businesses
appealing to the mainstream marketplace. 5. Students will learn how to establish and maintain long-term relationships with key constituents to
create customer loyalty that go beyond transactional.
ALSM 706 Global Sustainability Issues (3 credits)
The course introduces the student to the understanding of sustainable economic development. In addition, this course enables the students to identify and understand the issues dealing with resources such as fuel, food, minerals, water, labor, trade, and environmental pollution and develop the appropriate solutions. The solutions are geared towards the management of resources for societal outcomes such as growth, sustainability, steady state and contraction or collapse. With the significant increases in the global population, major strains on world’s resources, environmental pollution, and global warming which pose major threats to both humankind and the environment, the course challenges the students to develop leadership skills for the management of Twenty First Century catastrophic adversities and solutions.
ALSM 707 Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Market Failures (3 credits)
This course compares and contrasts U.S.-centered business models with business models designed for use in developing countries. Students evaluate market entry and market expansion efforts; partnership issues between business, government, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs); and the efficacy of using “first world” models in “third world” environments. The course examines market conditions and business opportunities in developing economies; factors that help or hinder companies in pursuing these opportunities; and whether there is a role for business and innovation in eradicating poverty.
ALSM 708 Sustainability Leadership Capstone (3 credits)
The Sustainability Leadership Capstone equips leaders with skills and experiences that enable them to advance sustainable business practices immediately after business school and throughout their careers. The capstone applies equally to individuals who intend to work as change-makers within traditional businesses and to those who intend to work in non-profit and mission-driven organizations. The course offers a unique opportunity to synthesize and deepen mastery of core business practices through sustainability-focused experiential learning, individualized feedback, classroom lectures, and guided personal reflection. The capstone builds upon the general management and functional area training already in place by the second year of the ALSM program by adding skills and frameworks specific to the sustainability context.
Learning Experiences and Instructional Methods:
Pearson Learning Solutions will provide resource requirements for this online Master’s program.
Pearson Learning Solutions will provide the following services to The Lincoln University:
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programs to meet enrollment growth goals and local, regional, and national business and industry needs.
2. Joint development of common course “core” that programs will offer as a foundation for specialized masters programs.
3. Programmatic and course-level needs analysis necessary to comprehensively scope out detailed components necessary to deliver Lincoln’s degree programs in multiple delivery modalities.
4. Provide a dedicated Project Manager and instructional design team to supplement the current Lincoln University internal resource teams with the ultimate goal of executing in a timely and cost effective manner mutually agreed upon project plans for course development.
5. Facilitate deep involvement of The Lincoln University Subject Matter Experts (SME’s), as well as supplemental Pearson SME’s, where applicable and needed; to ensure course/curriculum content is appropriately designed, developed, and ultimately implemented in accordance with industry standards as well as the needs of the student end-users.
6. Provide a dedicated and senior-credentialed team of assessment specialists to collaboratively determine appropriate assessment strategies and create formal program, course, and lesson-level assessments as needed.
7. Develop design documents, based on Lincoln’s lesson, course, and program learning objectives, consisting of detailed mapping of all content, activities, assessments, and other instructional facilitation components.
8. Provide access to the full library of Pearson owned content, including Financial Times Press materials, in a customized delivery model. Content access can be at the traditional product level or through course-level integration of disaggregated print and/or digital assets including readings in whole or in part, videos, simulations, animations, learning objects, and other outcome-aligned interactive media files. Custom authored print and digital asset types can also be created based on institutional needs and specifications.
Program Structure/Administration:
The program will be housed in the department of Business and Entrepreneurship Studies. It will be located on both on the University’s main campus and at the proposed Coatesville location. There will be a need for a faculty coordinator for the day-to-day management of the program.
An adjunct instructor for the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management business core courses will be new hires, recruited through advertisements and industry outreach. A minimum of two years experience in the Management and Sustainability field will be required, where experience of teaching in higher education at a four-year college is preferred.
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The new program will continue to follow the basic data collection and assessment procedures that have been in place for Middle States Commission on Higher Education accreditation requirements.
The program goals and Student Learning Outcomes have been identified and assessment measures have been incorporated into all coursework, which is used to determine the percentage of students achieving these learning outcomes. The faculty to determine and assess all students’ progress in reaching these outcomes then uses this information. The department members meet at the end of each semester to determine if any changes are needed in the areas of instruction, the stated learning outcome or the measurement used. Out goal is that 75% of our students will meet the learning outcome proficiency level.
In accordance with the administration and the faculty at The Lincoln University, the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program recognizes the importance of an effective program assessment that will empower the Department of Business and Entrepreneurship Studies to efficiently manage the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program to produce competitive graduates who are capable of facing the dynamic global economy. Therefore, the University and its faculty commit us to building exemplary applied Leadership and Sustainable Management graduate program based on effective and ongoing academic program assessment underscored.
Following the dictates of established assessment program at The Lincoln University, we have defined Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program’s mission, which is consistent with the mission of the University. We have also defined the program goals and established measurable Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs). Upon approval of the Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management curriculum and commencement of the program, there will be a culture of data collection and efficient faculty analysis and reporting, based on which improvement in teaching and student learning decisions will be derived. The Applied Leadership and Sustainable Management program will be compliance with the core SLOs, where applicable, as established and approved by The Lincoln University.
During each semester data will be collected and the following PSLOs will be assessed:
1. Apply business knowledge and methods required to evaluate sustainability concepts and systems. 2. Design and manage processes in a sustainable manner. 3. Analyze management problems in their social and environmental context. 4. Develop economic, environmental, and social sound sustainable decisions. 5. Evaluate the impact of products, processes, and activities through life cycle assessment. 6. Develop leadership skills for sustainable management. 7. Demonstrate professional, legal, and ethical responsibility in decision making practices
The Business department will design a plan to assess the PSLOs and ILOs, and routinely monitors the student’s performance in these critical areas and uses this data in order to improve student learning. The Business department will also work with the Director of
Program Assessment and Accreditation
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policy of The Lincoln University.
Budget:
The current business faculty and an additional adjunct faculty will teach in this online degree. The salary for the adjunct and the overload for the fulltime faculty are considered to be $2500 per course. The office of the provost will determine the cost for the online course management and it is estimated to be $30,000 for 25 students per year.
With the projection of 25, 28 and 30 students in 2014, 2015 and 2016 respectively, and based on the tuition and fees rates of $17,920 per student, the total profit is computed by:
Revenue 2014 2015 2016 Tuition & Fees $448,125 $517,350 $527,750
Expenses Personnel Instruction @ 3 adjunct faculty/overload $15,000 $30,000 $30,000
Program Director $5,000 $5,000 $5,000
Program Expenses $30,000 $35,000 $40,000
Total Expenses $50,000 $70,000 $75,000
Profit $398,125 $447,350 $452,750