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Detailed Information

Program of Study

The Program in Organizational Change Management at Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy is designed for those who wish to broaden their experience in organizational change management, either as line managers or change consultants, as well as those making a transition into the profession. In a commitment to individual professional development that is unique to Milano’s program, students are assessed on their areas of competency, and the model is revisited as students move through the core curriculum to align competencies with skills.

The Master of Science degree is intended as a part-time program for students with a minimum of three years’ work experience. The curriculum gives students the tools to implement planned change successfully at all levels–the individual, by changing behaviors through management leadership interventions; the group, through team building, reengineering work processes, and managing the diversity of group membership; and the organization, by articulating vision and ensuring that the organization’s structure, culture, and people processes align with the vision. The curriculum develops competencies to support senior management’s strategic change initiatives.

To fulfill the required 42 credits, students structure a program comprising three components: a required schoolwide core of 12 credits, a required program core of 18 credits (Foundations of Organizational Change; Organizational Assessment and Diagnosis; Group Processes, Facilitation, and Intervention; Organizational Change Interventions: Theory, Design, and Implementation; Managing the Consultant/Client Relationship; and Advanced Seminar in Organizational Change Management), and 12 credits of elective courses.

In addition to core and elective courses, the program offers a unique “laboratory-type” pedagogy, known as The Portfolio, in which a series of organizational change management courses lead students into increasingly complex organizational change situations with real clients. With the completion of the sequence, the student has a “portfolio” demonstrating a proven capacity for making serious contributions to the field.

Research Facilities

The Center for New York City Affairs is a nonpartisan institute dedicated to advancing innovative public policies that strengthen neighborhoods, support families, and reduce urban poverty. Tools include rigorous analysis, research, candid public dialogue with stakeholders and opinion leaders, and strategic planning with government officials, nonprofit practitioners, and community residents. The center’s original applied research and public seminars examine the politics of community change in local and state government and identify critical problems facing urban families and communities. The center’s public programs offer community leaders and other participants the opportunity to meet powerful players in and around government and to learn about the context, the influential organizations, and other factors that define the policymaking landscape in New York City and urban America.

Financial Aid

Milano offers financial aid packages in the form of scholarships, fellowships, and loans. Financial aid awards are decided on a first-come, first-served basis, and applicants are encouraged to apply early to receive priority consideration. Financial aid award decisions are made after students are accepted at Milano. Applicants interested in obtaining financial aid should submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Renewal Application for Federal Student Aid. More information is available from the Office of Financial Services at 212-229-8930.

Cost of Study

Tuition in 2008–09 was $1150 per credit, and fees are approximately $200 each term.

Living and Housing Costs

The University Housing Office maintains a comprehensive resource center with apartment listings. University-run apartments and residence halls are also available. The cost of housing, food, transportation, books, and living expenses averages $17,000 annually. For more information, students should go online to http://www.newschool.edu/studentservices.

Student Group

There are 55 students in the program; 7 attend on a full-time basis. Of these students, 47 are women, 16 are members of underrepresented groups, and 2 are international students.

Location

The New School’s location in New York City gives students access to an abundance of resources. Students are encouraged to take advantage of the city’s many museums, performance venues, and other cultural institutions, which are only a walk or a subway ride away. An extension of the classroom, the city also offers excellent professional and networking opportunities, and some classes require that students work with outside businesses to complete assignments–giving them unparalleled real-world experience. Internships and apprenticeships with leading New York City companies and organizations in every field are also available, and many students have moved on from internships to successful careers with those companies and organizations upon graduation.

The University and The School

The New School pioneered the idea of lifelong university-level education for adults. It was created for teachers and students from different backgrounds who were willing to take risks for their intellectual and political beliefs. Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy trains leaders for the nonprofit, public, and private sectors with a measurable difference. The faculty blends theory with practice and progressive analysis with hands-on activism. Milano students work on local and global issues that affect organizations and urban communities–in New York City and around the world. The New School is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. A privately supported institution, The New School is chartered as a university by the Regents of the State of New York.

Applying

Students must submit the completed application form, the $50 application fee, official transcripts from all postsecondary institutions attended, a 300-word essay explaining their professional goals, two letters of recommendation, and a resume. Applications are reviewed on a rolling admissions basis. Although there is no specific deadline, applicants are strongly encouraged to apply by March 1 for the fall semester and by October 1 for the spring semester in order to take full advantage of financial aid and housing opportunities.

The Faculty and Their Research

• Warren Balinsky, Associate Professor and Chair of Health Services Management; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve. Home health care and the applications of planning, development, marketing, and research to health services management and policy. Dr. Balinsky has written two books on home care; he has also written articles on various aspects of emergency preparedness, health care of the elderly, health-care reimbursement, health status indices, home care, pediatric health care, and the unequal distribution of medical personnel within the health-care system.
• Robert Beauregard, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell. Urbanization in the United States, with particular focus on industrial urban decline after World War II and current problems posed by growth and decline in cities. Dr. Beauregard is currently working on Writing Urban Theory, a series of essays, and Why Cities Endure, a book investigating why some cities prosper while others do not. Dr. Beauregard teaches courses on the political economy of the city, urban redevelopment, neighborhood change, social theory, and research design.
• Howard Berliner, Professor of Health Services Management and Director of Ph.D. in Public and Urban Policy Program; Sc.D., Johns Hopkins. Needs of vulnerable populations and access to health services for the uninsured. Dr. Berliner is the author of seven books, most recently The Health Marketplace: New York City 1990–2010 with Ginzberg et al. He has also written numerous articles and reviews on health policy in academic and professional journals. Dr. Berliner served for two years as the assistant state health commissioner for New Jersey.
• John Clinton, Visiting Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Fordham. Interprofessional collaboration. Dr. Clinton has served as corporation senior consultant on social responsibility at MetLife, senior vice president of the LightHouse for the Blind, and an administrator at NYU, Fordham University, and Hartwick College. He has been a consultant to foundations, nonprofit organizations, corporations, and higher education institutions.
• Dennis Derryck, Professor of Professional Practice; Ph.D., Fordham. Innovative policies and strategies affecting the economic sustainability of nonprofit organizations. Dr. Derryck has held leadership positions in organizations involved in community economic development, operations and fiscal management, and research and policy analysis. He currently serves as chair of WE ACT for Environmental Justice and is vice chair of SoBro, the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation.
• Elizabeth Dickey, Professor; Ed.D., Massachusetts Amherst. Organizational behavior and leadership, with a psychosocial emphasis. Dr. Dickey is a developmental clinical psychologist. Between 1991 and 2005, she served as dean and then provost of The New School.
• Peter Eisinger, Henry Cohen Professor; Ph.D., Yale. Urban politics and policy, state and local economic development, U.S. politics, state politics, federalism. Author of Toward an End to Hunger in America.
• Alec Ian Gershberg, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Pennsylvania. School governance, education finance, decentralization in the developing world and in the United States, immigrant students in public schools in New York and California. Dr. Gershberg has conducted extensive research on Latin America–particularly Mexico, Nicaragua, and Ecuador–as well as on Egypt, Romania, and sub-Saharan Africa. He has been a frequent consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Urban Institute. Dr. Gershberg is the lead author of Beyond Bilingual Education: New Immigrants and Public School Policies in California.
• Martin Greller, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Ph.D., Yale. Factors associated with career continuity for older workers, feedback systems in organizations as tools for increasing organizational effectiveness. Recent projects include an assessment of training needs for entry-level peace officers and a review of pay equity issues for a legislative body.
• Darrick Hamilton, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ethnic and racial disparities in wealth, home ownership, and labor market outcomes. Dr. Hamilton’s articles can be found in African American Research Perspectives, American Economics Review, Applied Economics Letters, Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Journal of Economic Psychology, Review of Black Political Economy, Social Science Quarterly, Southern Economics Journal, and Transforming Anthropology.
• David Howell, Professor; Ph.D., New School. Labor markets at the local, national, and international levels. Recent publications have examined the effects of immigration on the economic status of foreign and native-born workers in New York City, the nature of recent changes in skill requirements and the determinants of relative wage trends in the United States, and the extent to which labor market institutions and social policy explain patterns of unemployment in Europe and the United States. Dr. Howell is the editor of Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy.
• Mark Lipton, Professor of Management and Chair of Management; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst. Management, leadership, organizational strategy. Author of Guiding Growth: How Vision Keeps Companies on Course. Dr. Lipton’s research and opinions on management and strategy have appeared in Executive Excellence, Harvard Business Review, The Journal of Management Consulting, Optimize, Organization Development Journal, and Sloan Management Review, among others.
• Edwin Melendez, Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst. Economics. Dr. Melendez was director of the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston (1992–98) and director of the Community Development Research Center at the Milano Graduate School (1999–2004). He has worked as a consultant on employment, economic development, job creation, and small business for numerous government, community, and philanthropic foundations. Dr. Melendez has managed more than thirty-five research, outreach, and demonstration projects and supervised or collaborated with more than 60 researchers in projects that resulted in several books, special issues of academic journals, and other publications.
• Aida Rodriguez, Professor of Professional Practice; Ph.D., Massachusetts. Leadership and effective management in the nonprofit sector. Formerly deputy director of the Equal Opportunity Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Rodriguez now serves on various nonprofit boards, including One Economy, Inc.; Alliance for Nonprofit Management; and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Dr. Rodriguez is an adviser on philanthropic initiatives in the United States and in Latin America, including the Funders’ Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities.
• Bryna Sanger, Professor; Ph.D., Brandeis. Public policy and management, changes in service delivery and management systems induced by welfare reform in states and localities around the country. Former dean of the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, Dr. Sanger has worked in a wide range of policy and management areas, including city service delivery, welfare reform, leadership, innovation, and performance management. She recently led a research effort with the National Civic League on the experiences of cities that have developed exemplary performance measurement systems and that report to and engage citizens in their efforts. Her most recent book on this topic is entitled The Welfare Marketplace: Privatization and Welfare Reform.
• Alex F. Schwartz, Associate Professor, Chair of Department of Urban Policy Analysis and Management, and Senior Research Associate, Community Development Research Center; Ph.D., Rutgers. Housing and community development, including affordable housing programs, community reinvestment, and community development corporations. Dr. Schwartz’s most recent publication is Housing Policy in the United States. His research has also appeared in such journals as Cityscape, Economic Development Quarterly, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and the Journal of Urban Affairs.
• Lisa J. Servon, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Community Development Research Center; Ph.D., Berkeley. Urban poverty, community development, economic development, gender issues. Dr. Servon recently coedited Gender and Planning: A Reader (with Susan Fainstein), which covers a range of planning and development fields, including transportation, land use, history, gender, housing, social justice, environmental design, race, and economic and community development. The book was selected as one of the Top 10 Books for 2006 by Planetizen, a public-interest information exchange for the urban planning, design, and development community.
• Nidhi Srinivas, Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Management; Ph.D., McGill. Civil society, specifically management of nongovernmental organizations, and the transfer and transformation of management knowledge. Dr. Srinivas teaches courses on nonprofit management, international development, and strategic decision making. Courses he has developed include Managing Institutions for Development (part of the core curriculum in the graduate program in international affairs) and Civil Society and South Asia.
• Antonin Wagner, Visiting Professor; Ph.D., Fribourg (Switzerland). Economics. From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Wagner was president of the International Society for Third Sector Research, the leading scholarly institution in the nonprofit field. He has served as a consultant on social security–related issues to the Swiss Federal Statistical Office and the World Bank in Washington. He is a member of the editorial board of several international journals and has published widely in English, German, and French on the welfare state and civil society.
• Tatiana Wah, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers. Regional and local economic development planning and developing nations, with a particular focus on small developing nations’ economies. Dr. Wah’s recent work is on transnational expatriate (immigrant) recovery and engagement programs of developing countries, particularly Haiti. She has been involved in community development work in the New York African American and Caribbean communities as a consultant, nonprofit administrator, and activist/advocate.
• Mary R. Watson, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Vanderbilt. Contemporary human capital issues in organizations, with particular emphasis on the social impact of labor market discontinuities. Dr. Watson teaches courses on management and organizational behavior, human resources, social impact management, and globalization. She has a strong interest in cultural, racial, ethnic, and gender inequalities in the workplace and society. Dr. Watson’s upcoming book (with Dr. Rikki Abzug), tentatively titled Human Resources in Social Purpose Organizations, is scheduled to be published by Jossey-Bass in 2007.
• Part-Time Faculty
• The part-time faculty members of Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy are high-level executives and managers in the institutions and agencies for which they work and the organizations for which they volunteer. They bring to the classroom valuable insight into current management and policy issues from both their personal experience and relevant curriculum. For a current listing of part-time faculty members, students should visit the Faculty page of the Milano Web site at http://www.milano.newschool.edu.

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The New School
Program in Organizational Change Management
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
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New York, New York 10011
Telephone: 212-229-5400
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