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Online Graduate Certification program in MIS from Maharishi University of Management helps you get there!
Information technology is changing the world incredibly fast. It is offering opportunities to create new products, new business models, new efficiencies, and to get closer to customers around the world. It is creating revolutions in business and in geopolitics. There is great demand for visionary and dynamic IT executives who know how to harness new information technologies and deploy them effectively in the cause of new models and new growth. You can almost write your own new business card!
Maharishi University of Management (MUM) is glad to announce a new, competitively priced, 18-credit Online Graduate Certificate program in Management Information Systems (MIS) that can help your further your career by helping you transition to, or make yourself more effective in, Business Analyst and IT leadership roles.
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on Mar 24, 2013
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Smithsonian Magazine has named Fairfield, Iowa, home of Maharishi University of Management, #7 on the list of the top 20 small towns to visit in the US for 2013. Smithsonian lauded Fairfield for its history, sustainability and unique flair and culture.
See the story here.
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Last week we welcomed 69 new MSCS students from 24 countries. See photos here.
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The MUM Research Institute and a Veterans Administration center have together received a $2.4 million federal grant to study the effect of the Transcendental Meditation program on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans.
The randomized controlled clinical trial will compare the Transcendental Meditation program to prolonged-exposure treatment -- a trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy considered to be the VA's "gold standard." A third group will receive health education. There will be a total of 210 subjects, with the entire study taking four years to complete.
"There's a national crisis taking place with PTSD among the military returning from Afghanistan and Iraq," said MUM professor Sanford Nidich, the study's principal investigator. "PTSD is a common, disabling, and costly condition among veterans, affecting 10% to 20% of this high-risk population."
Two previous pilot studies conducted on PTSD and the experiences of veterans across the country suggest that the Transcendental Meditation program can have a significant impact on reducing PTSD.
The primary success of the treatment will be measured using a standard assessment called the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale. Other study outcomes will include depression, psychological distress, quality of life, substance usage, and physiological/biochemical mechanisms.
"The Veterans Administration acknowledges that it has a huge investment in mental health care, with the large numbers of veterans with PTSD in effect overwhelming the system," Dr. Nidich said.
He said the VA wants to provide a variety of evidence-based treatments to more successfully treat all veterans. Only about 50% of the veterans who undergo treatment with its gold standard prolonged-exposure therapy receive meaningful benefits.
"The Transcendental Meditation technique may be more suitable to veterans reluctant to focus on past trauma through traditional psychotherapeutic approaches," Dr. Nidich said. "In addition, it offers holistic benefits not widely seen in other treatment programs."
The clinical trial will provide further data on the efficacy of the Transcendental Meditation program for combat-related PTSD, and inform future military mental health policy decisions.
Other investigators include Robert Schneider, John Salerno, Maxwell Rainforth, and Carolyn King. Consulting on the research will be psychiatrists Norman Rosenthal and James Brooks. The research team will also include Paul Mills, who received his PhD in physiology from MUM.
