About the Program

The School of Continuing Education has a firm belief that the most successful leaders will be those who can identify new ideas that serve an organization’s goals while advancing the greater good.

The M.S. in Information and Knowledge Strategy program is designed to teach the skills necessary for professionals in any industry where the need to create and leverage information and knowledge is a critical leadership requirement.

This is a sixteen month Executive Format program framed by three residencies in New York City. The required residencies take place Wednesday through Sunday at the start of the fall semester, in mid-April of the spring semester, and at the start of the subsequent fall semester. The residencies offer the opportunity to get to know fellow students, receive individual coaching from faculty, and network with leaders in the field. Each of the three residencies is anchored by core course requirements. Activities during the three 5 day residencies connect directly to the other program components. Therefore, full participation is critical for degree completion.

Between each residency students will complete classes online throughout the fall, spring, summer and subsequent fall semesters. The online component of the program is a highly interactive experience that uses the School’s innovative distance learning platform. Students and faculty communicate through a unique social networking function in ways that extend and enhance the impact of traditional learning experiences. Courses are flexible by design, and include a combination of live events, asynchronous community-driven activities and self-study. The online component is separate from and does not substitute for the in-person residencies.

Program Objectives

The models of organization and management that were successful yesterday are increasingly irrelevant and impede progress and innovation in the evolving knowledge-based economy. New models are urgently needed to meet the demands of today’s global market.

Our graduates will:

• Develop products and services for any organization using multiple types of knowledge.

• Create strategies and implementation plans to increase use of existing institutional knowledge.

• Lead information services and knowledge management initiatives that support organizations’ strategic objectives.

• Demonstrate creative knowledge sharing and collaboration in support of innovation and change in the workplace.

• Demonstrate an understanding of current copyright, regulatory and other legal issues relating to information and knowledge management and how they impact decision making within an organization.