Administration
Administration identifies the process of running a business, organization, or government entity, including the supervision of activities involved in day-to-day operations. Administration also describes the supervisors, managers, executives, or management team that may be responsible for such work. Administrators may oversee a single area, function, department, or unit within an agency, providing one or more services that support the overall operation. Or they may be top executives responsible for the strategic direction of, and everything connected with, their organizations.
Several programs at JFK University support your interest in working in administration.
The School of Management (SOM) offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA) that prepares you for organizational careers at the professional and executive levels. Coursework includes individual, group, and organizational behavior; financial analysis and management; quantitative decision making and other analytical skills; practical ethics in the business arena; strategic planning and implementation; marketing theory and practices; management of change; impact of technology; international issues; and global economics. Also available is an undergraduate-completion program: the BS in Business Administration. Specializations include e-commerce, project management, leadership, and strategic management.
SOM also offers the MA in Career Development. This program combines career theory, management techniques, humanistic psychology, and practical skills that prepare you to assist individuals and groups with career issues. With this background, you may choose to work in the administration of career development programs or career exploration centers for businesses, nonprofit organizations, or educational institutions.
In addition, SOM provides a BA in Legal Studies and a Paralegal Certificate that can benefit those interested in being effective administrative members of a legal team.
JFKU’s School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) offers the MA in Museum Studies. The administration specialization within the program covers financial management, fundraising, marketing, and other skills for those interested in pursuing administrative careers related to museums.
For teachers ready to move into educational administration, SELA offers the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT), a foundational degree for administrators, and the Administrative Services Credential, for those interested in developing racial equity, social justice, and democracy in educational settings.
Through JFKU’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP), aspiring administrators may choose from the MA in Organizational Psychology or the MA in Sport Psychology with a specialization in Sport Management. The program in organizational psychology educates practitioners in organizational change, a key to many administrative functions. The sport psychology program may facilitate future administrators of sport-related programs in community and recreational organizations, high schools, universities, club sports, and professional sports.
The School of Holistic Studies (SHS) at JFKU offers programs that may assist administrators at all levels and in many business and organizational settings to cope with the rapid changes of the 21st century global workplace, including counseling psychology (with specializations in holistic studies, somatic psychology, and transpersonal psychology), consciousness and transformative studies, and integral psychology.
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