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Jun 07, 2025
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2025-2026 Graduate Bulletin
Leading Organizational Change Certificate
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Dr. Sue Evans
Chair, Department of Leadership
Professor
Location: Clement 143B
Phone: 931-221-1465 or 931-221-1437
Email: evanss@apsu.edu
Website: www.apsu.edu/leadership
Dr. Kathryn Woods
Graduate Coordinator
Professor
Location: Clement Building, Office 217A
Phone: 931-221-1419
Email: Woodsk@apsu.edu
Leaders are constantly confronted with the need to maintain organizational viability in the face of a changing external environment. This certificate addresses the influence of organizational culture and climate on organizational change, the impact of strategic planning on implementing change, and the importance of social influence processes for supporting change and minimizing resistance to change. Different models of organizational change and intervention strategies for bringing about change will also be addressed.
Admission Requirements
Listed below are the required application materials and the associated scores (if necessary) for each.
- Application for admission
- Application Fee: $45 domestic or $55 international
- Official transcripts from all colleges attended
- Bachelor’s degree, conferred in any field, from a regionally accredited institution showing a minimum cumulative undergraduate GPA of 2.5
- Choose ONE of the following:
- Admissions Portfolio: Applicants may submit a portfolio in lieu of the GRE. The portfolio must include a current resume, a personal essay detailing the student’s personal/professional goals as they relate to completing the certificate program, and two letters of professional and/or academic reference. Applicants must upload or submit the portfolio to the Office of Graduate Admissions.
- Minimum GRE revised General Test scores of: Verbal - 140, Quantitative - 140, and Analytical Writing - 2.5
- Military documents (if applicable)
- Admission decision by department
For more information about the application process, please visit apsu.edu/grad-studies.
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Program CIP Code
32.52.0213.13 Program Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to compare and contrast major models and theories of organizational change.
- Students will be able to outline a strategy for implementing organizational change.
- Students will be able to identify factors impacting resistance to change and strategies to overcome them.
- Students will be able to define organizational culture and ways to assess it.
- Students will be able to explain the origins of culture and the impact it has on organizational change.
- Students will be able to define organizational strategy including the internal and external factors that drive strategy creation and implementation.
- Students will be able to identify key stakeholders and how they influence strategy development and execution.
- Students will be able to explain the role of the leader in change management.
- Students will be able to explain the functions and consequences of attitudes for enacting organizational change.
- Students will be able to outline the fundamental principles of persuasive communication.
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