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Kennesaw State UniversityGraduate College Magazine

Fall 2012

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“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” Stanley Horowitz

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Table of Contents

welcome from the graduate dean 4

letter from the editor 5

consider the possibilities 6

going global 10

modern day peace maker 14

pursuit of passion 16

state of the art 21

hope for human salvation 22

agent of change 24

our programs 26

how to apply 26

financial aid options 27

contact us 28

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Letter from the Dean

Greetings and welcome to the first edition of Kennesaw State University’s Graduate College Magazine. In this inaugural edition, we showcase and highlight what current students and alumni have accomplished through their studies in our graduate pro-grams. We also cover research and creative activities being pursued by our world class graduate faculty. As the Graduate College continues to grow and mature we expect to add many more stories in future issues of this bi-annual publication.

Ambitious students like you are prospering in our supportive academic and research environments and are becoming engaged citizens and visionary leaders in their pro-fessional fields. We look forward to hearing your feedback and your stories as you journey through graduate school.

Again, welcome! We look forward to hearing from you!

Charles Amlaner, Jr.Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate College

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Message from the Editor

You’ve taken the GRE. You’ve gotten all of your recommenders lined up. You have in your hands the sealed envelopes of your official undergraduate transcripts. You’ve updated your resume and have written your personal statement. All that’s left to do is to pick that program...

Perhaps the most difficult part of applying to graduate school is choosing a program of study. For some, it’s no problem at all; they’ve had plans for years to get an undergraduate degree in such and such and to get their graduate degree in the same field or a related one. For others, though, the problem is complicated by the wide availability of programs from which to choose. The appeal of graduate school is that many programs do not require a bachelor’s degree in the same field, which creates many opportunities for prospective students. However, the opportunity further complicates the matter for some.

Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.” If you’re attending graduate school because you realized that you don’t like the field of study you went into, follow your heart this time. Pick something that you’re going to enjoy delving into. If you’re attending graduate school to be more marketable when applying for jobs, do your research so that one day, you can blow potential employers away. Call the program director to get a better feel for the professors, the structure of the degree, and the nature of the courses. Ask if you can come to campus and sit on a class or two. Take a look at the program curriculum so that you know what to expect. But most of all, take Thoreau’s advice and do what you love.

We’re with you on the journey.

Heather Cook

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time — for we are bound by that — but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. -T.S.Eliot

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Consider the

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When Rebecca Green began her Doctor of Nursing Science Program her mindset was, “There is nothing lost and much to be gained.” Now a recent graduate, the seasoned nurse prepared her dissertation on the cultural conflicts that may exist between patients and providers.

When Green first started the program, she wasn’t focused on a specific dissertation topic. “Sometimes,” Green says, “working on an idea for a paper or presentation made me realize that it was not something I wanted to pursue as a dissertation topic. Likewise, some assignments excited me and made me want to keep digging into that particular topic or idea.” When it came time for her research practicum, she had finally decided that she wanted to have a qualitative focus on the relationships between African-American parents and their children’s healthcare provid-ers, a topic that has resulted in many interviews with African American parents in South Georgia. Tommie Nelms, Program Director of the DNS, says, “Rebecca’s dissertation topic was a perfect extension of her nursing practice and the issues sheencounters as a school nurse in a South Georgia city school system.”

As Green looks back at her work, she states that “Though this particular project was designed to be qualitative, in the future I hope to address questions that have emerged from the inquiry using quantitative methods.” As a result of her dissertation, Green has found that “sometimes the issues that we, as health care professionals and researchers, are most interested in and believe are the most important, are not nearly so relevant to

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patients.” She states, “Until we begin to address what patients define as important, our relationships with patients will be characterized by inequity and by dissatisfac-tion of both providers and patients.”

Green found herself at KSU after working for over twenty years in pediatric nursing. She desired to be a part of Kennesaw’s DNS program because she wanted to “acquire the skills necessary to investigate ways in which, as a researcher, I could be more sensitive to the perspectives and priorities of the families I serve.” Currently, Green is a school nurse in a middle school in South Georgia. The flexibility of the DNS program has allowed Green to maintain her full-time job and still obtain her doctoral

degree. The program enables students to attend full-time or part-time, and offers a wide variety of classroom platforms including hybrid and online courses in addition to the traditional face-to-face environment, which meet one weekend a month.

The program also attracts a wide range of people from different backgrounds in nursing, from nurse practitioners to administra-tors. A passionate research interest in the field of nursing is what brings them all together.

Green states, “Many of us, as nurses, tell ‘war stories’ about the horrors of getting through nursing school. I have heard similar ‘war stories’ about the horrors of getting through a doctoral program. I can honestly say, however, that I will have no such stories

to tell about the DNS program at Kennesaw. It has been challenging, but never in a bad way. There is an atmosphere of mutual professional respect, and a high expectation that students will take initiative in a rigorous learning process. Faculty members are deeply committed to this process, and expect the students to be, as well, but they are also acutely aware of and sensitive to the challenges of juggling career, family, and school. They have been unfailingly supportive not only professionally, but personally, as well.”

The Doctorate of Nursing Science admits every fall. For more information about the DNS, visit them on the web at http://www.kennesaw.edu/chhs/son/grad/dns/index.html.

Green defended her disserta-tion on the second of April. She has accepted a faculty position at Valdosta State University where she will beginteaching this fall. She says, “I have found that accomplishing anything in life, and particularly in completing this degree, is just a matter of taking a lot of small steps. If you think too much about the hours of class-es you will take, or the number of papers you will write, or the miles you will drive to get there, you will become over-whelmed. But why not chal-lenge yourself and consider the possibilities?”

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The Master of Arts in Integrated Global Communication accepted its first students this past fall, just in time for Madison Jordan, one of the ten students that enrolled this past semes-ter. Jordan, who had been searching for the right master’s program, had researched other global communication programs across the country. Though she was interested in the University of Southern California’s program, she had no desire to pay the $98,000 that the completion of the program required.

Kennesaw State’s program, priced at $28,000, which includes tuition, textbooks, an iPad, other learning materials, and a round trip ticket and lodging stipend for the travel experience, emerged onto Jordan’s radar at an opportune time. “I then began to think I would have to settle for something bounded by borders, con-fined to mono-cultural models and theories,” Jordan says. “When I found out KSU was bring-ing Global Communications to the Southeast with an affordable tuition, I was thrilled. Once I reviewed the MAIGC curriculum, I knew this was where I was supposed to be.”

Though she’s only been in the program for a year, she has already grown to appreciate the integrative nature of her classes. Her classmates have come from a wide range of backgrounds, from International Affairs to Sociology. Jordan says.,“Students are able to learn greatly from one another and grow much deeper intellectu-ally than if everyone had arrived from the same background.”

To enforce the global nature of the program, students are required to travel abroad. “My only rule as far as location,” Jordan says, “was to not go anywhere that I had traveled to before.” When Jordan began thinking about possible travel locations, she initially was interested in going to the United Kingdom because of the Olympics. After she browsed a UK student job site, she stumbled upon a position in Argentina and knew it was a better fit.

This summer, Jordan traveled to the South American country to work as a Public Relations and Marketing Assistant for Voluntario Global, a nonprofit organization in Buenos Aires that aims to put volunteers to work to develop programs to promote sustainability in Latin America. Jordan was on a team that managed internal communications within the organization between staff and volunteers as well as external communications for Voluntario Global and its programs.

Before venturing to Argentina for the sum-mer, Jordan prepared by using Rosetta Stone. She believed that having a prior understanding of some Spanish would help her adapt more quickly once she landed in Buenos Aires. To add to her experience even more, Jordan stayed with other interns from across the globe in the intern house of Voluntario Global.

“The most challenging thing,” Jordan says, “was learning the cultural differences of interpersonal communication, as well as overcoming the lan-guage barrier.

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Her nine classmates also traveled internatoin-ally this summer, and because of the integrative nature of the program, Jordan looks forward to when they come back together as a class. “The integration of all ten journeys at the end of the summer will provide a platform for the cohort to launch off of collectively, further stimulating our intellectual growth through the finalsemester.”

After graduation, Jordan hopes to find a career that enables her to use the skills she’s used in the IGC program on behalf of a well-respected

global organization. A doctoral degree is also in consideration for Jordan as she can see herself teaching an undergraduate level course that involves intercultural communication. When asked to give advice to prospective graduate students, she simply says, “Be patient and do your research. It’s worth waiting for.”

For more information about the Master of Arts in Integrated Global Communication, visit them on the web at http://communication.hss.ken-nesaw.edu/programs/maigc/.

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In addition to teaching courses this semester, Maia Hallward, a professor in KSU’s Master of Science in International Policy Management program, helps forge the way for peace build-ing development and delegation for various countries in conflict.

Hallward, author of Struggling for a Just Peace and Nonviolent Resistance in the Second Inti-fada and Associate Editor for the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, planned a week-long trip to Israel and Palestine last March for the Master of Science in Conflict Management students. During the trip, stu-dents were given the opportunity to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and civil so-ciety members, all of whom were involved in non-violent methods to resolve their conflict.

Another trip to Israel and Palestine is in the works. Although not affiliated with KSU and the MSCM program, the Interfaith Peace-Builders Delegation is “open to adults of all ages who are interested in the Israeli-Palestin-ian conflict,” Hallward says, “and particularly the role of the non-violent peace activists

who are working on both sides of the conflict, people whose voices are rarely heard in the United States.”

During the Interfaith Peace-Builders Delega-tion, participants will be able to meet with Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers, will be able to listen to stories from people who have been affected by the conflict, and will learn what U.S. citizens can do to help make a dif-ference in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Hallward has helped plan the MSIPM trip to Turkey, which will be led this year by fellow professor Tavishi Bhasin. Once in Turkey, students will have the opportunity to meet with various political leaders, business officials, NGO leaders, and university professors. A trip to historical sites, such as Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque, and visits to Istanbul, Ga-ziantep, and Sanliurfa in addition to the capital are also on the agenda. “The global experience is meant to help students pull together the threads of the various courses they have taken through the program in an applied, real-world setting,” says Hallward.

Modern Day Peacemaker

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The Master of Science in International Policy Management is a fully online master’s degree program, which allows students to maintain their jobs. The program consists of thirty-six credit hours to be completed in sixteen months in a cohort-style learning program. “The cohort model builds bonds between students, and the online structure allows students to live and work anywhere that they have a strong Internet connection,” Hallward states. A portion of the program requires students to travel abroad for a global experience. For more informa-tion about the MSIPM program, visit them on the web at https://web.kennesaw.edu/interna-tionalpolicy/.

Hallward encourages students to apply for the MSIPM program if they’re looking for a “fast-paced, challenging program that links theory and practice in a range of courses necessary for the informed and engaged professional working in the global arena.”

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“I’m in this program out of faith--Out of my wife’s faith in me and out of my own faith in the worth of what I’m doing, whether or not I ever get

paid for it.”One of the most difficult decisions for undergraduate students is choosing a major. I know that in my experience, so many thoughts ran through my mind when I was finally faced with the decision, but the dominating thought that I considered was whether income or passion mattered more to me. I was haunted for weeks with the notion that the major I chose would dictate the rest of my life. The beautiful thing about graduate school, though, is that it allows for a new beginning and for the re-awakening of desires that perhaps were once for-gotten. My former classmate, Christopher Martin, is a won-derful example of what the pursuit of passion can achieve.

I met Chris in the fall of 2010 in Dr. Laura Dabundo’s “Issues and Research in Professional Writing” course. That first week, I discovered that I also had another course with Chris, “Creative Nonfiction” with Dr. Linda Niemann. For the most part, Chris was relatively quiet in class. I’ll never forget, though, the first time I heard him read

his work. There was something so organic, earthy, yet simple about his writing that was refreshing and that reminded me of a different time. As the weeks went by, I always looked forward to listening to what he had written the week before.

The next semester, I didn’t have any courses with Chris, and I didn’t really reconnect with him until several weeks ago when I received an email from Dr. Jim Elledge, the MAPW program director, saying that Chris was the MAPW Outstanding Stu-dent of the Year. Although the honor will be awarded to him next year when he graduates, I knew that a story about him would inspire many.

“There’s so much that led me here and helped me real-ize this was where I wanted to be—and I’m probably not even aware of some of these things,” Chris said. As an un-dergraduate, Chris chose Middle Grades Education as his major. While he was in the program, he took “Principles

of Writing Instruction” with Dr. Darren Crovitz. During the semester, Crovitz strongly en-couraged Chris to pursue his gift of writing. At almost the same time, Dr. Sara Worley and Dr. Faith Wallace similarly encouraged him. Chris said, “Dr. Worley went so far as to say that I needed to ‘take my light from beneath the bushel,’ and that hit me really hard and has stayed with me ever since.” After taking a break from school in order to work, Chris married in 2008 and returned to school in the fall. He com-pleted his degree in 2009 in Middle Grades Education even though it wasn’t where his heart was, and that fall, he got a job at an alternative school. The desire to write remained in him, though, and after seeing an ad for a writing workshop in Orion, he applied and was accepted to the Wildbranch Writing Workshop where he spent a week with other writers.

Chris said, “Though a writer’s voice is constantly emerging, evolving, and maturing, I knew that week that I was starting

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to uncover mine, and that was exciting. It was also that week that I realized that I wanted more than a week—needed more than a week—to learn more about the craft, and so I think it was that week that I first seriously began to con-sider applying to a graduate writing program.”

It was also around that time that Chris learned that he was going to be a dad. “I had a complete awakening, a shift in vision that I can’t even de-scribe. Something fundamental about me changed, and I began to live with much more pur-pose than I ever had before.”

Autumn rolled around, and Chris began working at the alternative school, though he still felt that that wasn’t where he was meant to be. “Things got rough for a few months.

There was just this friction between what I was doing superficially, going through the motions, and this deeper sense of vocation that had not left me, and in fact, grew stronger the closer my son’s due date came.”

After discussing it with his wife, Deana, who has been monumental in Chris’ success through her endless support and encouragement, Chris decided to resign from his job to be a stay-at-home-dad and apply for the MAPW pro-gram at Kennesaw. He also applied for the MFA program at Georgia College and State University. Chris learned more about the MAPW program by speaking with Dr. Elledge. He also learned as much as he could about the professors that taught the courses that he wanted to take. “You’ve got

to be proactive and involved from the start,” Chris said. “Get the technical things out of the way—the GRE, the transcripts, etc.—and have fun with it.”

Chris was accepted to both the MAPW and the MFA pro-gram and chose Kennesaw. “I started the program in August 2010, not quite a year after the birth of my son, and have been very happy with a sense of belonging from then,” he says. “I feel like this is where I’m sup-posed to be.”

An important and critical part of the creative concentra-tion in the MAPW program is workshopping. These work-shops can be trying, but after it’s all said and done, I re-member workshopping being the most helpful part of the program. Chris concurred. “I’ve benefited the most from the

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courses that focus mostly on workshops. Everything that I’ve written for coursework that has been published started in one of these courses. Work-shops show that real writing is not about a grade, not about ‘schoolwork,’ but about touch-ing and changing lives, including one’s own, and about finding ways to better do things.”

In June of 2011, Chris, four of his classmates and friends (Kathleen Lewis, Laurence Stacey, Karen Pickell, and Precious Williams), his sister,

and one of his good friends started Flycatcher, an online literary magazine. Flycatcher focuses on the theme of belonging in relation to place,” Chris said. “Essentially, I want Flycatcher to be about community and conversation, not in the abstract sense that these words are often used, but in relation to place.” The first issue came out this winter. For more information about Flycatcher, visit them on the web at www.flycatcherjournal.org.

In addition to founding a lit-erary journal, Chris has met a life goal of having a book published before turning thirty with almost a year to spare. A Conference of Birds, a chap-book of fifteen poems, recently came out at the beginning of March, and was published by New Native Press. The collec-tion of poems focuses on birds, whether literally or figuratively. Chris says that some of the poems are about his family, his grandfather, and his failed garden. Other poems, he says, wrestle with faith.

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”HEnry David Thoreau

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Conference came into being when Chris met Thomas Rain Crowe, founder and publisher of New Native Press, while at a workshop with Janisse Ray. Chris sent Crowe a poem about a great blue heron, and Crowe wanted to see and read more. Chris sent him about twenty poems and Crowe edited them down to fifteen. He offered to publish the collection as a limited edition chapbook for New Native Press’ “Stewardship Series.”

“I wrote the first drafts of Conference of the Birds and a few others poems in the chapbook in Dr. Wilson’s poetry class, and those drafts really benefited from Dr. Wilson’s feedback as well as from my classmates,” Chris said. “And some of the poems in the chapbook even emerged from essay drafts I workshopped in classes with Dr. Niemann and Dr. Harper.”

Chris is scheduled to graduate next year, and one of his next goals is to secure a contract with a publisher on a full length collection of poems or essays. He recently had two poems accepted into the upcoming volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia. Currently, he is working on a second chapbook of poetry that he will coauthor with Dr. David King.

“I’m in this program out of faith,” Chris said. “Out of my wife’s faith in me and out of my own faith in the worth of what I’m doing, whether or not I ever get paid for it. Thoreau wrote, ‘If one ad-vances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imag-ined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.’ That sentence, along with the rest of Walden, woke me up years ago, and I know now that it’s a big reason I’m here in this program. But the kind of ‘success’ Thoreau is talking about is not measured by the same standard as ‘success’ in the sense we tend to use that word—and it may not be measurable at all. It is a kind of grace.”

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In a world where the convenience of our lives is found in mobile devices, Solomon Negash and his team of knowledge-hungry Graduate Research As-sistants pave the way for the latest innovations on Kennesaw’s campus.

Negash, a professor in the Master of Science in In-formation Systems program, has been working with a team of GRAs to develop mobile applications for the Distance Learning Center and the Coles Undergraduate Advising departments on campus. Such applications include walking directions to specific rooms in the Burruss building, employee directories, undergraduate program information, alerts informing students of the wait time in the Coles Undergraduate Advising office, and a dis-tance learner video chat app that is used for advis-ing. “My development team includes students from different majors,” Negash says. “All students learn and contribute in all development phases. The MSIS students’ primary contribution is in requirements gathering, business analysis, and project manage-ment.”

MSIS Program Director, Amy Woszczynski, says, “MSIS students have many opportunities to gain real-world, applied experience, and our faculty members regularly involve graduate students in projects. The mobile apps lab is one example, where students are working with state-of-the-art technology and learn-ing a skill that is readily transferrable to jobs in the industry.”

In the past, Negash has worked on mobile applications for the KSU Library. Although nothing is currently in the works, Woszczynski ponders the possibility of developing a mobile application that alerts students when a seat opens during Drop/Add. “Students have mentioned that they would really like some way to be notified when a seat opens so that they don’t have to login at three and four in the morning,” Woszczynski says. “It would be nice if students could request to be notified via text message when a class opened.”

The work on mobile applications is just one example of what students can do with a degree in Information Systems. For more information about the MSIS program, visit http://coles.kennesaw.edu/graduate/MSIS/. “The MSIS degree adds a prestigious credential to your resume, particularly for those who want to move into IT management positions, all the way to the CIO,” Woszczynsk says. “If you’re looking to become a global IT leader, come join our program!”

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Not wanting to waste a perfectly good lesson plan, but rather, wanting to “double dip,” as she called it, Andrea Rioux, an M.ED. in Instructional Technology student, implemented the “Move that Bus with Biodiesel” project in her classroom at River Trail Middle School in Johns Creek. The students were given the challenge of fueling a school bus with biodiesel with the hopes that it would travel fifteen miles from their school to the bus garage in Alpharetta. In order to incorporate the lessons and techniques she learned from Jo Williamson, Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology, Rioux’s seventy-six students were required to open a Google email account to communicate with their group members and to use Google Documents. The students also started their own blogs, which became the platform for their thoughts on the research that went into the project.

The five week project found its roots in Williamson’s classroom at Kennesaw State University. “Ninety-five percent of what went into ‘Move that Bus’ came out of Jo Williamson’s classroom, so I really need to give some credit back to her! She guided us through the process of writing the engaged learner projects that incorporated technology and got students working with people in the community and got us thinking outside of the box.” Rioux was so adamant about what Williamson taught that she made it a prior-ity to incorporate the skills in her own classroom as soon as she could. “I took things from Thursday night in class,” Rioux says, “and implemented them the next day on Friday in my class, and I got to try a lot of neat things, things of which worked out great, and some others have been challenges. But that’s the learning process.”

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“The sole hope of human salvation lies

in teaching.” George Bernard Shaw

The technological tools Rioux introduced to her kids have stuck with them. Every now and then, Rioux will see a former student from the “Move that Bus” project, now in high school, pop up on Google chat. Recently, a former student told her that she still uses her Google account as her “pro-fessional” account. At the end of the day, though, Rioux is more interested in bettering her students on all levels, not just in the fields of science and technology. “Middle school is our one and only opportunity to help these young people become stronger adults. I’m more concerned about my stu-dents becoming good people.”

Williamson also encouraged her students to pursue research grants, which Rioux did. At almost the last moment, Rioux applied for a grant before Christ-mas break. When she returned, she had an email in her inbox that she, at first, thought was spam. “I read further into the email,” Rioux says, “and I see a grid with all these names and what schools they’re from, and my name’s the last one on the list. Okay, so we’re doing this biodiesel project now because The Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association thinks I deserve $1,000 to do it!”

Sam Ham from the Department of Transportation in Fulton County gave Rioux and her students an old bus in order to test their project. After five long weeks of intensive research, the students pulled it together, using cooking oil from their school’s caf-eteria. “It made learning fun,” Rioux reminisces. “I can’t tell you how many times I could actually say I loved my job and wanted to be there every day. That’s the best part of what I’ve learned so far.”

*Move That Bus photos taken from https://education.kennesaw.edu/education/content/bcoe-grad-uate-student-andrea-rioux-motivates-8th-grade-students-biodiesel-science-project

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Kennesaw State University’s Ph.D. in International Conflict Management kicked off their second cohort this past fall semester. One of those accepted to the program was Sunil Pokhrel, a Nepalese native. Pokhrel stated that the Ph.D. program is interdisciplinary. He says that “A person interested in any field will have their ‘say’ in the program Each student has full freedom to do research in any field related to conflict.”

An Agent of Change

The Ph.D. program differs from other conflict management programs in that it offers a strong theoretical base. Pokhrel states, “Students have the opportunity to learn teaching technique and practical sessions in teaching, to take directed studies that are focused on their own interest, and to develop, through various workshops and seminars diplomatic and working relationships with concerned personnel in the international conflict management field.”

Freedom of research within the program has benefited Pokhrel immensely, as his past and current interests have focused on peace building in Nepal. Pokhrel decided to concentrate on resource and identity issues related to conflict, which is tied to third world conflicts. In the past, Pokhrel worked on a peace building program in Nepal. “My job was to provide the different aspects of natural resources and conflict. In other words, I researched what would happen to a conflict if we could not address the distribution, ownership, and use of rights of the resources to the rural, ethnic, and indigenous peoples.”

When asked what one issue should receive more attention in the United States, Pokhrel re-sponded by saying, “The root cause of conflict is the combination of poverty, unemployment, unsustainable development, and a lack of democracy. The geographical border cannot stop the spillover effect of violent conflict from the third world to the developed world. Thus, the United States, for their health and on behalf of the best interests of their people, has to play a leading role in the third world for sustainable development and democracy.”

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The Ph.D. program in International Conflict Management is a seventy-five credit hour program, which typically takes people about three years to complete in addition to the time it takes to complete the dissertation. As part of the program requirements, students have the opportunity to travel abroad and par-ticipate in an internship with an international organization. The Ph.D. in International Con-flict Management enrolls students every fall semester. For more information, visit them at http://phd.hss.kennesaw.edu/.

Pokhrel says, “The Ph.D. is hard, but not impossible. If we want to be an agent of change in our society, the Ph.D. program is a perfect tool. Join KSU. Be an agent of change not only for your country, but for the globe.”

“Be an agent of change not only for your country,

but for the globe.”

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