Sullivan Offers New Blend

Sullivan offers new blended Master’s Degree

One of the newest offerings for graduate students is the exciting blend of the Master’s in Business Administration and the Master’s of Science in Dispute Resolution (MBA/MSDR) degree.

Using the existing course offerings in both the MBA and the MSDR programs, Dr. Jeff Johnson, Dean of the Graduate School and Professor LaVena Wilkin, Director of Graduate Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs, worked to combine the core elements of each degree to provide Sullivan University students with the opportunity to earn a dual degree. Students can complete this unique program in two years, if they maintain full-time status.

The rationale for this new degree offering is two-fold: first, a focus group of industry-hiring and human- resource managers identified the desired soft skills for a job candidate as conflict resolution skills, negotiation skills, facilitation skills, and cultural diversity skills; second, while the courses in the MSDR program help students become proficient in the soft or people skills, an MBA degree provides them with expertise in business. Therefore, a dual MSDR/MBA degree offers them the best of both – a mastery of business concepts and of working with the people within the organization.

Dr. Jeff Johnson & Lavena Wilkin