Organizational Leadership Department Records

Record Group — Box: 1-5

Identifier: UA-05-A29

Staff Only

The content of the collection includes brochures for the department, course proposals, student work and presentations, department handbooks, annual reports and other documents regarding the current and former staff of the department. There is a significant amount of material covering St. Catherine president Anita Pampusch’s focus group in 1983 and 1984 which surveyed staff, educators and students about the potential for the creation of an Organizational Leadership graduate program, the department being established soon after in 1985.

Dates

1984 - 2011

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for use

About the Master's of Organizational Leadership Program

The department started as Masters of Arts: Organizational Leadership in 1985 as a graduate program. It started as an interdisciplinary program with major concentration into areas of leadership, later becoming a multidisciplinary program with different concentrations added over the years. It evolved to Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership in 1991. In 1992 the department offered a minor in MAOL which ended in 1998. Then in 1995 the program added an accounting concentration to the program. In 1996 the program began to additionally offer certificates in this field. The program started an articulation program in 2001 for weekend college seniors and a dual degree program with Hamline University School of Law was introduced in 2003, allowing students to get their JD and MAOL simultaneously.