• Message from the Program Director
• Program Description
• Admissions Policies
• Degree Requirements
• Course Descriptions
• Faculty

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Message From the Program Director

A M.P.A. (Master of Public Administration) degree in either Health Administration or Public Administration from the Rockland Graduate Campus is an investment in your future facilitating your progress and success in your chosen career. The Health Administration program prepares you for leadership positions in the nation's second largest and fastest growing industry, health care. The Public Administration program prepares you to manage governments’ actions, to revitalize public administration services and respond to economical/ social/ political challenges and changes ahead.

You will receive a comprehensive academic background in management theory and practice, as well as the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in the fields of health care or public sector administration, planning, and policy analysis. You will also analyze and understand the interaction and interdependence of management, finance, economics, politics, and the social sciences.

In addition to taking the required courses you have a full menu of elective courses to choose from.

We also offer a certificate program: Gerontology Advanced Certificate which is a 15 credit program.

Graduates of our M.P.A. program are in an excellent position to be competitive in the health care, public sector and nonprofit job marketplace. They achieve senior management positions in the health services and nonprofit industry, including hospitals, consulting organizations, integrated delivery systems, long-term care organizations, insurance firms, managed care organizations, professional associations, community agencies, etc. Careers abound for graduates in the public administration program, which include the public sector (local, state, federal government), nonprofit sector, academia, and the private sector.

Our distinguished faculty ensures academic excellence. Each is expert in their field and is committed to your success. They bring hands-on experience to provide practical application of the curriculum to various work place settings. Our campus environment is wholly student-centered. We offer multiple scholarships, financial aid, one-on-one academic advisement, a state-of-the-art library and a Career Resource Center. Because many of our students work in the health care and nonprofit industries there are multiple opportunities for networking.

Please join us and begin a new journey towards a rewarding and challenging future.

Patricia Latona, RN, MS
M.P.A. Program Director

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

M.P.A. in Health Administration/ Public Administration

An M.P.A. graduate degree prepares students for a wide range of careers in their chosen specialty. It also provides opportunities for those already employed in health care, public service or nonprofit management to improve their administrative skills, pursue a specific area of interest and prepare for increasing levels of responsibility and management.

The 42-credit M.P.A. program in either Health or Public Administration consists of the following:

The management courses provide students with a foundation in public administration principles, organizational theory, policies and systems, the dynamics of research, the economic environment, and computer applications. The advanced courses examine human resources management, budget and finance administration, and the legal environment. The elective courses round out the program.

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ADMISSIONS POLICIES

Candidates for admission to the M.P.A. program must satisfy the general admission requirements for graduate study at Long Island University.

Applicants must have a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution and an acceptable record in undergraduate and other studies reflected in official transcripts of all colleges and universities attended.

Full Matriculation Requirements
Full matriculation indicates that the student meets all the requirements for admission in the degree program.

These requirements are:

Limited Matriculation Requirements
A student whose undergraduate cumulative grade point average is between 2.5 and 2.99 may be granted limited matriculation. To be reclassified as full matriculant, the student must furnish all necessary documentation, complete 12 credits with a grade of B or higher in each course, and demonstrate oral and written English communication skills.

A student with an undergraduate GPA below 2.5, but who has strong letters of recommendation and an expanded statement submitted with the application indicating desire for admission and personal growth, will be reviewed on an individual basis, and may or may not be accepted into the program.

The expanded statement must be in the form of an essay, and must describe the applicant’s accomplishments, explain the low GPA, and offer other justifications for admission. The review may include a personal interview with the Program Director.

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DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Transfer Credits
Up to six transfer credits may be accepted from an accredited graduate school. The courses must be appropriate to the area of Health or Public Administration. Transfer credit will not be considered unless a grade of B or better was given for the course and the course was taken within five years. In the case of a required course, the content of the course taken at the other institution must match the content of the required course. The student must submit the published bulletin containing an appropriate course description, the course syllabus, a statement about his/her accomplishments in the course and the term paper or project completed. Transfer credits are not automatically granted. Request for transfer credits must be made within the first 30 days in the first semester of attendance at the Rockland Graduate Campus.

Students who are either full or limited matriculants or have conditional status must obtain prior approval from the Program Director to attend course(s) at other universities or at other campuses of Long Island University. Without such prior approval such courses will not be transferable. Permission and transferability for course(s) taken at another university while in residence at the Rockland Graduate Campus may be granted only in exceptional cases.

M.P.A. Degree – Program Requirements
Students must complete the program within five years. For all students 42 credits are required for graduation which includes: 27 credits required courses, 9 credits electives, and 6 credits as a Capstone experience in the writing of a thesis.

Plan of Study: 42 Credits required for Health or Public Administration

I. Required Management Foundation Courses for all students: 18 Credits

• MPA 501R Principles of Public Administration
• MPA 502R Organization Theory and Behavior in the Public Sector
• MPA 503R Economic Environment and the Public Sector
• MPA 505R Analytical Methods-Applied Research
• MPA 507R Policy Process in Health Care & Public Admin
• MPA 550R Computer Applications (prerequisite MPA 505R)

II. Required Health Administration Courses: 9 Credits

• HAD 602R Human Resources Administration in Health Administration
• HAD 603R Foundations of Budgeting and Finance in Health Administration
• HAD 604R Administrative Responsibility and the Legal Environment in Health Administration

OR

II. Required Public Administration Courses: 9 Credits

• PAD 602R Human Resource Administration in the Public Sector
• PAD 603R Fundamentals of Budgeting and Finance in the Public Sector
• PAD 604R Administrative Responsibility & Legal Environment in the Public Sector

III. Capstone Experience: 6 Credits

• HAD/PAD 707R Thesis Research Consultation
• HAD/PAD 708R Thesis
  Students must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 and have no incompletes before they can register for Capstone. Registration is restricted to students who have completed a minimum of 36 credits in the program, except Capstone and two other courses. Capstone may be taken simultaneously with only one other course. A meeting with the Program Director is required for registration.

IV. Electives: 9 Credits

Three (3) elective courses designated in the 700 series must be selected. Students interested in Long Term Care Administration may choose a constellation of electives leading to eligibility to take the State Board Exam for Nursing Home Administration license.

• Long Term Care Administration

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Gerontology Advanced Certificate
By the year 2020, almost 16% of the U.S. population will be over age 65. The demand is now for professionals with knowledge and expertise in aging. In addition the career opportunities are countless with a variety of settings to choose from. The Gerontology Advanced Certificate offers student the potential to make a difference helping to maintain the quality of their lives, while enjoying the wit, wisdom, and creativity of the older persons.

Awarding of Certificate requires successful completion of five (5) courses. Candidates who already have an MPA degree may apply up to three (3) courses (9 credits) towards the Certificate.

Admission Requirements
Candidates for the Certificate in Gerontology must have a Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution, and an acceptable record in undergraduate and other studies as reflected by official transcripts. Each candidate must also meet admission criteria established for the M.P.A. degree program.

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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

All courses are grouped by major code designations.

• MPA - Foundation Management Courses - Designated for students in either the Public or Health Administration programs
• HAD - Health Administration Courses
• PAD - Public Administration Courses

Management Foundation Courses

MPA 501R Principles of Public Administration
Offered on rotation
The fundamentals of the field of Public Administration including organization and management concepts, and the political process. The origin, growth, and interrelationships in the public sector are discussed. This discussion falls within the broader context of public policy processes with special attention to the topics of bureaucracy and intergovernmental relations.
Three credits.

MPA 502R Organization Theory and Behavior
Offered on rotation
An analysis of organizational theories with emphasis on the informal and formal aspects of the administrative process. Topics include individual behavior patterns, group dynamics, communication, motivation, decision-making, and leadership as they relate to the public health care sectors.
Three credits.

MPA 503R Economic Environment and the Public Sector
Offered on rotation
An examination of the role of the public sector in economic decision-making. The nature of public goods is described as it relates to the allocation, stabilization, and distribution functions of the economic system. The role of private investment, relations between government and business, and the use of national income accounts are examined. Opposing views about the reasons, methods and institutions influencing governmental regulation, fiscal and monetary policy and action are presented.
Three credits.

MPA 505R Analytical Methods
Offered on rotation
This course is an introduction to the methods, tools and uses of applied research. The course surveys basic data gathering, analytical concepts and techniques as they apply to administrative problems. Skills and issues related to research are also considered.
Three credits.

MPA 507R The Policy Process in Health Care and Public Administration
Offered on rotation
This course is an analysis of the policy process in terms of the development and implementation of programs as they relate to the health care and public sectors. The impact of special interests is examined as an integral part of the process. A variety of timely subject/case studies are explored.
Three credits.

MPA 550R Computer Applications
Offered on rotation
This course equips the student to use computerized data base management systems and statistical packages. The student gains hands-on experience with both microcomputers and mainframe computers. Among the packages used are SPSSX and other varied Data Base Management Systems.
Prerequisite: MPA 505R
Three credits.

Health Administration Core Courses: 9 Credits

HAD 602R Human Resources Administration in Health Care
Offered on rotation
An exploration of the theories and practices of personnel administration in health service organizations, merit systems, unionism, bureaucratic trends, personnel recruitment, testing, and performance evaluations. Other topics include equal employment opportunity, employee rights, and occupational safety.
Three credits.

HAD 603R Foundations of Budgeting and Finance in Health Administration
Offered on rotation
A familiarization with the principles of budgeting and finance in the health sector. Topics include budgetary systems, methods, processes and cycles, preparation, justification. A survey of the various federal prospective payment systems and other current developments in reimbursement methods is presented.
Three credits.

HAD 604R Administrative Responsibility & the Legal Environment in the Health Care Sector
Offered on rotation
Consideration of the authority and procedures utilized by health agencies in the administration of their affairs. Analysis of problems of accountability and the reconciliation of the administrative process with medical, political, social statutory and regulatory mandates.
Three credits.

Public Administration Core Courses: 9 Credits

PAD 602R Human Resources Administration in the Public Sector
Offered on rotation
An exploration of the theories and practices of personnel administration in public sector including, merit systems, unionism, bureaucratic trends, personnel recruitment, testing, and performance evaluations. Other topics include equal employment opportunity, employee rights, and occupational safety.
Three credits.

PAD 603R Foundations of Budgeting and Finance in Public Sector
Offered on rotation
A familiarization with the principles of budgeting and finance in the health sector. Topics include budgetary systems, methods, processes and cycles, preparation, justification. A survey of the various federal prospective payment systems and other current developments in reimbursement methods is presented.
Three credits.

PAD 604R Administrative Responsibility & the Legal Environment in the Public Sector
Offered on rotation
Consideration of the authority and procedures utilized by health agencies in the administration of their affairs. Analysis of problems of accountability and the reconciliation of the administrative process with medical, political, social statutory and regulatory mandates.
Three credits.

Elective Courses

MPA 701R Managerial Communication
Offered on rotation
Theory and practice in written and oral communication as applied to the public, health, and not-for-profit sectors. Report writing, memo writing, correspondence, and oral presentations.
Three credits.

MPA 704 Intergovernmental Relations
This course is an analysis of the vertical and horizontal relationships of the national, state and local governments. Topics include the theory of federalism, intergovernmental cooperation and conflict, municipal, state and regional relationships.
Three credits.

MPA 707R Training and Development
Offered on rotation
This course is devoted to the kinds of activities and problems encountered by an agency's director of training and development. Such items as the role of the training director in organizational development, the relationship with line managers, the relationship with the president, and the techniques of training are examined by case studies, lectures and outside speakers.
Three credits.

MPA 708R Work, People and Productivity
Offered on rotation
This course is experiential. Activities demonstrate the perspectives and conflicts that arise at the various levels of organizations and suggest strategies for prevention and resolution. Students learn about their own management styles, how to maximize their own performance, and that of their employees, peers and supervisors. Role-playing, feedback exercises, effective supervision and evaluation techniques.
Three credits.

MPA 710R Labor Relations in the Public Sector
Offered on rotation
This course examines the interaction of the labor movement with management in the political setting of government. This course also examines collective bargaining in relation to public bodies, and the impact of bargaining on a fiscal budget. Other policy processes as well as the role of the administration are covered and include strategies of bargaining and the role of public opinion.
Three credits.

MPA 712R Managing Diversity in the Workplace
Offered on rotation
This course examines the role and function played by diversity, civil and human rights and administrative agencies at the federal, state and local levels. The course analyzes the government response to diversity issues. Topics include a review of current legislation and the respective agencies established to address the problems of discrimination.
Three credits.

MPA 713R Grant Writing and Administration
Offered on rotation
In this highly experiential course, students locate available federal, state, local and foundation sources of funding for a specific project, write a letter proposal to a foundation or private sector organization, and follow-up with a full grant proposal, following the request for proposal (RFP) guidelines to a federal, state or local agency. Topics addressed include effective research, creating a plan for the program, elements of a good proposal, components of the proposal package and strategies for getting a proposal read by a foundation or corporation officer. Administration, evaluation and reporting functions, as well as accountability are described and discussed.
Three credits.

MPA 777R Critical Issues in the Public and Private Sectors
Offered on rotation
This course reviews critical issues facing the public and private sectors and their interrelationship. Noted figures from the public and private sectors present the issues from their perspective.
Three credits.

MPA 785R Independent Study
Offered on rotation
The student is expected to research one specific phase of a problem in considerable depth under the supervision of a faculty advisor, and to prepare a well-documented evaluative report expressing his/her own assessment of the impact and significance of both the problem and of one or more solutions.
Three credits.

MPA 788R Graduate Internship in Administration
Offered on rotation
An opportunity for students without administrative experience to work in an organization based upon a plan approved by the head of the program and the agency. Students prepare a substantial research and/or analytical paper concerning their experience and participate in an Internship Seminar.
Three credits.

HAD 701R Hospital Organization
Offered on rotation
Reviews the organization and management of hospitals within a regional context of primary care. While covering the elements of hospital structure and organization, there will be a focus on problem solving and the development of administrative skills.
Three credits.

HAD 709R Legal Aspects in Health Administration
Offered on rotation
Application of legal principles to the health delivery system. Topics discussed include: hospital code; consents; patients’ rights; admission and discharge of patients; malpractice; liability of hospitals, physicians and nurses; medical records; immunity of hospitals; medical staff rights and privileges; medical-moral problems relating to abortion, sterilization, and artificial insemination.
Three credits.

HAD 710R Gerontology: Processes of Aging
Offered on rotation
A survey of gerontology including theories of aging, health, and physiological aspects of aging, psychological and psychiatric problems, family and sex roles of the aged, the middle years, retirement, and institutional placement in long-term care facilities.
Three credits.

HAD 711R Long-Term Care Administration
Offered on rotation
Considers the unique organizational and administrative aspects of the various types of long-term facilities as distinct from acute-care hospitals. The course will include the special code requirements, Federal and local, pertinent to construction, administration, medical-nursing care, and other numerous therapeutic modalities required by the geriatric and convalescent patient.
Three credits.

Note: When HAD 709, HAD 710, HAD 711, HAD 602, HAD 603 are taken as part of the total Health Care Administration curriculum, program graduates should meet the educational requirements for eligibility to take the State Board Examination for Nursing Home Administrator’s license.

HAD 714R Planning and Marketing in Health Care Organizations
Offered on rotation
An analysis of the principles of the planning and marketing function in the health care organization. Studies the methods by which institutions evaluate and control opportunities to achieve goals and objectives in a highly competitive and resource restrained health care environment with both free market and regulated market characteristics.
Three credits.

HAD 723R Economic of Health
Offered on rotation
The course offers the perspective of health care delivery viewed as an economic activity. Determinants of demand for health services are analyzed, supply of health resources is examined, and the various approaches to bringing the two into equilibrium are considered. Attention is also given to public involvement in health services in the form of licensure, regulation, financing and planning.
Three credits.

HAD 724R Managed Care Administration
Offered on rotation
An analysis of the various modalities and the significance, direction, and current status of managed care as an expanding organizational component of the health care delivery system. Studies organizational models, compensation problems, contracting, quality management, marketing, legal issues and relations with various groups, such as, patients, physicians, governmental and business clients.
Three credits.

HAD 725R Financial Management of Health Care Institutions
Offered on rotation
The description and analysis of financial issues on an institutional level are explored. Topics include third-party payment systems, managed care financial planning and contracting, methods of financing and allocation of funds, cash flow and fiscal management, systems of cost control and financial decision making.
Three credits.

HAD 780R Current Issues in Health Administration
Offered on rotation
A special topics course exploring selected themes, current developments, and emerging issues in health administration.
Three credits.

PAD 725R Government Regulation of Land Use
Offered on rotation
This course examines various forms of governmental power (zoning, eminent domain, urban renewal) to regulate the use of land.
Three credits.

PAD 748R Managing Metropolitan Government
Offered on rotation
This course examines the politics of changing constituencies and their impact on community participation and city management. This course surveys the management and organization of American metropolitan areas.
Three credits.

PAD 780R Current Issues in Public Administration
Offered on rotation
This course is a special topic course exploring selected themes, current developments and emerging issues.
Three credits.

Capstone Courses