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from the issue of January 25, 2007
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Gallup, UNL form D.C.-based program
UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
Coursework at UNL has shifted inside the Beltway.
Through a joint venture with The Gallup Organization, UNL will offer a new learning center in Washington, D.C., in April. The center will be the site for the first cohort class in a master of arts in business program emphasizing global leadership. Faculty will include UNL faculty and Gallup senior scientists such as Newt Gingrich, Richard Florida, Deepak Chopra, Dalia Mogahed, N. Joyce Payne and Lance Tarrance.
Led by John Anderson, a UNL economist, and Bruce Avolio, director of the Gallup Leadership Institute at UNL, the program will teach leadership foundations, global assessment, individualized concentrations in areas such as urban planning, international trade, health care and Muslim studies; and well-being, harmony and understanding. The program will be taught in intensive "modules" or nine-day instructional blocks at sites in the United States and abroad, along with projects conducted by students at their own locations during intervening periods.
The global leadership emphasis incorporating the use of a new Gallup World Poll is a unique approach, and features faculty focused on global economic, social, and political conditions and leadership dynamics from a broad range of perspectives. The M.A.'s emphasis on global leadership teaches future leaders how to make sense of the "world state of mind" and to use a world view to frame strategies, policies and create jobs.
Gallup featured faculty for the program will include author and speaker Chopra, founder and director of educational programs at the Chopra Center for Well-Being; John Esposito, professor of religion and international affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University; Florida, a leading social theorist and author of the best seller, "The Rise of the Creative Class"; Gingrich, political analyst and former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; Mogahed, a strategic analyst and executive director of Muslim studies at The Gallup Organization; Payne, director of the Office for the Advancement of Public Black Colleges of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; and Tarrance, a strategist, author and consultant in the fields of public policy, public opinion, public affairs and electoral behavior.
Part of the global leadership program will center on the results of Gallup's World Poll, a first-ever worldwide tracking study of public opinion. The results of the poll will be available to cohorts of the Global Leadership program for 10 years.
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