MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Dear Colleague,
As human resource professionals we have all seen the critically strategic role that human resources has played and will continue to play in the success of organizations, in both the not-for-profit and the business sectors. Each year the HR role becomes more critical, the HR mandate becomes more comprehensive, and the need to develop a more strategic and comprehensive HR/business leader skill set becomes more necessary.
As the director of NYU’s M.S. in Human Resource Management and Development and related graduate certificates, I would like to introduce our programs to you. We provide HR professionals with a solid and comprehensive business context so that our graduates may place their enhanced human resources skills into business perspective. We do not emphasize human resources skills at the expense of business skills, nor do we emphasize business skills at the expense of human resources skills. Instead, we focus on both with equal measure because of our perception that successful human resource leaders are required to know a lot about human resources—and a lot about business. This perception sets our programs boldly apart from programs both in industrial and labor relations (ILR) and business administration (M.B.A.). In addition to being well received by employers and professional associations, our graduate programs have been well received by our graduate students, most of whom are working HR professionals. In academic year 2006–2007, over 70 percent of the new graduate students admitted into our programs were referred by current graduate students.
Our graduate programs are designed by human resource professionals for human resource professionals and delivered by human resource professionals who are leaders in our profession. In addition, our graduate programs are aligned to the professional competencies designated by the Society for Human Resource Management in their competency exams (PHR, GPHR, and SPHR). Furthermore, our graduate programs have been approved for continuing education credit by the Society for Human Resource Management for professionals seeking CEU credits to recertify their PHR, GPHR, and SPHR certifications.
All courses are offered at NYU’s Midtown Center (11 West 42nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues) and are offered both on-site and online to accommodate the busy work and travel schedules of HR professionals. Our staff and faculty would be delighted to give you or your staff a personal on-site tour of our graduate programs and perhaps even invite you to sit in on a course session.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Dennis Garritan, B.S, M.S., Ph.D.
chair and clinical associate professor,
leadership and human capital management programs,
Division of Programs in Business
