May 22, 2024

IOA Creates Directory of Ombuds Graduate Programs

The International Ombuds Association has launched a new directory of graduate programs that offer conflict and dispute resolution degrees. The new webpage is the latest guide offered by IOA, which also manages a directory of outsourced Ombuds and consultants, and a job board. So far, Nova Southeastern University is the only program listed. 

Here's the full description: 
IOA is proud to collaborate with higher education institutions and graduate programs offering conflict and dispute resolution and related degrees. The organizational ombuds profession is growing more quickly than ever, and IOA would like to help connect aspiring and practicing ombuds with graduate-level education programs to help advance their education and careers. 
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8 comments:

  1. Anonymous5/22/2024 12:13 PM

    Help me understand this, there are many conflict resolution programs available in the US (and abroad, if we keep touting that), yet the ONLY one listed is the program that IOA's most recent president got their degree from? This feels gross. As with many things IOA related this feels like an insiders club.

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  2. Anonymous5/23/2024 6:46 AM

    Is a “directory” of one really a directory?

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    1. Tom Kosakowski5/24/2024 7:12 AM

      Yeah. It's surprising there aren't some obvious schools included, like Pepperdine (Straus), Kennesaw State, Eastern Mennonite, etc.

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  3. Anonymous5/24/2024 9:19 AM

    Don't be mad, just submit your grad school (info@ombudsassociation.org). It's our association, help them out. Let's make this a legit directory.

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  4. Tom Kosakowski5/24/2024 10:49 AM

    I'm now advised it costs $750 to get listed.

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    1. Anonymous5/24/2024 11:21 AM

      So what is the priority here? To provide association members with a recommended list of educational programs or to provide a revenue stream for the association? If it's the latter (which it appears to be) at the very least the association needs to be transparent with their membership about that. Otherwise they are misleading their membership.

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    2. Anonymous5/24/2024 12:34 PM

      Appreciate the information. Is it $750 to be featured (as NSU was) or literally, $750 dollars to be listed (as a bullet-pointed program)?

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    3. Tom Kosakowski5/24/2024 3:00 PM

      I don't know. Maybe best to ask the IOA Ombuds (Laura C. Smythe or Tyler Smith).

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