Cornell ILR's New Graduate Certificate in HR Offers 9 Credits Online

ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Human resources professionals can now
earn nine graduate credits from the ILR School at Cornell University in fewer
than nine months with ILR's new online Graduate Certificate in Human Resources
Management.

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"More and more, HR professionals are being asked to play a larger role in
providing strategic leadership and helping to manage change," said Harry C.
Katz, Kenneth F. Kahn Dean, ILR School. "The ILR School has the leading HR
faculty in the world, with expertise in leadership development, organizational
agility, and talent management. This new online program gives HR professionals
a unique opportunity to interact with and learn from prominent HR thought
leaders, and to take away practical information that can help their
organizations move forward in this time of economic recovery. The online
'blended' format of the new program allows HR professionals to gain exposure
to state-of-the-art thinking and network with classmates while avoiding travel
costs."

Graduate Certificate students will be able to customize their curriculum by
choosing to concentrate in two of three specialization tracks in employee
relations, engaging talent, and HR Strategy; participating in an eight-week
Graduate Certificate student-only cohort in business leadership skills;
attending four online Webcasts by ILR faculty on topics of critical importance
to the HR function; and developing a personal portfolio that journals the
application of what they're learning to their own professional circumstances.

Successful students will complete the program in as little as nine months
having developed advanced human resources skills and mastered the techniques
necessary to execute in a business environment. They will earn a Cornell
credential worth nine credits towards a master's degree from the ILR School.

The program is delivered by eCornell using its proven instructor-led
Structured Flexibility model that combines the structure of a well-defined
course schedule, the flexibility of online learning, and access to
subject-matter expert instructors to contextualize the learning and guide the
learner to successful completion.

Tuition for the program is $10,800. Each student will work with an enrollment
counselor to customize a course schedule to meet his or her personal and
professional schedules.

For more information or to enroll in the Graduate Certificate in Human
Resources Management, visit http://www.ecornell.com/hrgradcert.

About the Cornell University ILR School
Cornell University's ILR School is advancing the world of work through
teaching, research and outreach. It was founded as The School of Industrial
and Labor Relations in 1945, with a mission "to improve industrial and labor
conditions in the State." Today, the school has national and international
reach and is known more simply as ILR. Its focus has evolved to keep pace with
the changing workplace and extends beyond labor-management relations to the
many facets of work that are critical to an organization's success in a global
economy - from human resource management and labor economics and law, to
organizational behavior and conflict resolution. ILR is a unique educational
institution offering a four-year undergraduate program focused on the
workplace, several types of graduate degrees, and career-long learning for
professionals. To learn more about the ILR School, visit www.ilr.cornell.edu.

About eCornell
eCornell, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cornell University, provides many of
the world's leading organizations with online professional and executive
development in the areas of leadership and management development, human
resources, financial management and hospitality management. eCornell's proven
course development model and asynchronous instructor-led course delivery
provide for engaging, rigorous and interactive learning. The company has
delivered over 120,000 courses to more than 35,000 students in almost 200
countries. For more information visit www.ecornell.com.

SOURCE Cornell University ILR School

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