"I believe that self-awareness is a key leadership competency.  Individuals who lead others need to know themselves very well.  They need to know how they come across to others, in essense, the impact their presence and behavior has upon others with whom they work. This is the gift that the diversity program gave to me."

Colleen Dolgan
Sr. Director Organizational Learning and Performance, Cleveland Clinic

 

Enhance your organizational leadership skills and cultural competence by earning a Masters in Diversity Management. The Diversity Management Program (DMP) offers you, the mid-career professional, the opportunity to integrate cutting-edge diversity knowledge with skill-focused applications in an environment that fosters courageous conversations and safe experimentation. Graduates of this distinctive program increase their ability to foster organizational success and excellence. They learn how to lead diverse people in a complex global environment.

Especially geared to the needs of adult learners, this program includes classroom instruction, online learning modules and practical application. Using current organizational and diversity theories, participants will learn the essentials of group dynamics, group facilitation, organizational diagnosis, change and assessment. Additionally, we focus on developing your leadership skills. Each program participant receives a leadership coach for the first year of the program.

A background in business, human resources, psychology, adult training, communication, organizational development, and/or education provides an excellent base for the specialized training provided by the Diversity Management Program. Classes begin each fall semester. Students are together through the program in cohort-based learning communities.

For a Masters application packet and instructions, click here: 

The Diversity Management Program is a 22 month program beginning every Fall semester. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Limited graduate assistantships are available and applicants should apply early to be considered.

For a DMP 14 class schedule (Aug 2010), click here.

The Diversity Management Program can also be taken as a certificate program earning continuing education credits (CEUs) in a variety of disciplines.  Click here for application instructions

For further information contact: the Diversity Management Program at (216) 687-2587 or E-mail:diversityprogram@csuohio.edu.

 

Degree Requirements

Students earn 40 credit hours in specially designed courses delivered in a cohort-based learning community. Exit requirements include a field practicum, and one of three exit options (comprehensive exam, action research project or thesis). Program participants also receive leadership coaching in the first year of the program.

Fall 1st Year
PSY 514 (2):  Foundations of Diversity Management
PSY 515 (3):  Group Dynamics
PSY 516 (3):  Social Psychological Foundations of Diversity
                 8
Spring 1st Year
PSY 530 (3):  Organizational Psychology for Diversity Professionals
PSY 532 (2):  Diversity and Organizational Change
PSY 533 (2):  Conflict Management Across Differences
PSY 685 (1):  Directed Readings for Comprehensive Exam*
PSY 686 (1):  Action Research* 
PSY 699 (1):  Thesis*
                 8
Summer 1st Year
PSY 551 (2):  Organizational Diagnosis
PSY 552 (2):  Assessing, Measuring & Evaluating Diversity Interventions
                4
Fall 2nd Year
PSY 553 (2):  Facilitation of Diversity Issues
PSY 630 (3):  Diversity Issues in Human Resources
PSY 690 (4):  Field Placement Practicum
PSY 685 (1):  Directed Readings for Comprehensive Exam*
PSY 686 (1):  Action Research* 
PSY 699 (1):  Thesis*
               10
Spring 2nd Year
PSY 633 (3-):  Professional Seminar in Diversity Management
PSY 685 (3):  Directed Readings for Comprehensive Exam*
PSY 686 (3):  Action Research*
PSY 691 (4):  Field Placement Practicum
PSY 699 (3):  Thesis*                                                                 
               10                                                                            

Total credits: 40                                                                      * Students fulfill one of these three exit options

The Diversity Management Program can also be taken as a certificate program earning continuing education credits (CEUs) in a variety of disciplines.

Looking for a program in consumer and industrial psychology? Visit: Consumer/Industrial Research Program

Looking for a more general Human Resources program? Try the Master of Labor Relations and Human Resources, offered by the MLR Department in the Nance College of Business Administration.