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Application and Enrollment

Continuing Student Enrollment Documents

Enrollment Agreement
Print and fax all documents to AGS at 270-626-7243
click here to get to the log-in page for all students

New Student Application and Enrollment Instructions

New students may want to print this page:

Overseas students MUST get transcripts evaluated by a U.S. agency that analyses credit for transfer. Agencies such as the ECE or the IERF are qualified. For additional qualified agencies, click here.
Print and fax all documents to AGS at 270-626-7243
There is no charge to submit an application (and attachments) to AGS. Feel free to contact us as often as you like during the application process. We are here to assist you!
Please read a quick one-page review now - The Norms of Working Online
The School offers one online course per term. Each course requires 15 hours time commitment each week. Classes limited to 10 students per group.

New Student Documents (Overseas students - apply and enroll early to qualify!)

1. Read about the three prerequisites for enrollment now and
a) visit Are you Qualified?, be sure to complete your Self Assessment essay.
b) review special requirements for Clinical Program Admissions, if applicable.

2. Submit the following documents to your academic advisor for review:

Application, Part One (Print, complete and fax to AGS.)
Application, Part Two (Print, complete and fax to AGS.)

3. Complete your Self-Assessment, use the tools at Are you Ready for Distance Learning?

4. Submit the following document with your tuition payment

Academic programs only: Enrollment Agreement - (Print, complete, fax and mail to AGS)
Clinical programs only: coming soon - (Print, complete, fax and mail to AGS)

5. Complete the software training (you will be provided with your log-in and initial password). Visit the Demonstration Classroom now and make sure your browser and connection speed are sufficient (no password needed).

6. Become familiar with the content of these texts, provided free at enrollment: Spiral Dynamics; Mastering Change; Managing Corporate Lifecycles. Complete a preparatory exercise - - Preparatory Exercise (optional, but a critical guide to the texts provided)

7. Purchase The A.P.A. Publications Manual, most recent edition, or the newest pocket guide, Concise Rules of APA Style, at APAStyle.org.

8. AGS Manuals - Review AGS policies and other manuals - all are available online. You are required to be familiar with the details in the Program Catalog, but this website supercedes the Catalog. Policies and procedures on this website will always supercede those detailed in the most current documentation.

Manuals - Includes Policy Manual, Thesis Manual, Catalog, Tips for Writing a Concept Paper (for the Ph.D.) and, soon to come, Case Study Management (tips for the Clinical Doctorate)

9. Demonstration Classroom: click here to get to the log-in page for all students. Visitors do not need to log-in. Just scroll down to the Demo Classroom link and see how it works!

Print and fax all documents to AGS at (USA) 270-626-7243

All Students See Below for Courses and Required Books this term:

WINTER TERM:

New Student Applications due DECEMBER 1st
Continuing Students Enrollment Agreement due DECEMBER 15th

ALL STUDENTS:
Software training is January 4th, Classroom access granted January 8th
Class begins January 11th.
Order Required Books on Amazon.com, BarnsandNobel.com, or Adizes.com

THIS TERM: Course Titles (upper division, Ph.D. program):

Systems Thinking
Instructor: Dr.Bruce LaRue

Required Reading List: The APA Manual, 5th Edition is required. Crib sheets on the web are not approved, may be inaccurate and conflict with each other. Grades will reflect improper form or citations.

Richardson, K. A. (2005). Managing organizational complexity : philosophy, theory and application. Greenwich, IAP - Information Age Pub. Inc.
the syllabus will be sent to enrolled students

Order books EARLY on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.

THIS TERM: Courses Titled (all students) :

Adizes Leadership Tools for Managing Change
Instructor: Dan Axelrod, J.D.

Required Reading List: The APA Manual, 5th Edition is required . Crib sheets on the web are not approved, may be inaccurate and conflict with each other. Grades will reflect improper form or citations.

Adizes, I.Mastering Change: The Power of Mutual Trust and Respect in Personal Life, Family, Business and Society. Santa Barbara: Adizes Institute Publications, 1992.
Adizes,I.Management/Mismanagement (How to identify style and what to do about it) Adizes Institute Publications, 2004
Adizes, I. How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis. 1^st printing 1979: New York by Dow Jones-Irwin; 2nd – 5^th printing by the Adizes Institute Publications, 1980, 1981, 1983 and 1985.
Adizes, I.Managing Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It: Reprint bythe Adizes Institute Publications, 1999, 2004
Adizes, I.The Pursuit of Prime: Maximize Your Company's Success with the Adizes Program; Reprint by theAdizes Institute Publications, 1997, 2004 Adizes,
Adizes, I. The Ideal Executive:Why you Cannot Be One and What to Do About It. Published by theAdizes Institute Publications, 2004

Recommended Reading or Viewing:

The video lecture "What is a Leader"
Go to the following link: http://www.adizes.com/topleaf_view_a_sample.html
And click on play on video now.
The lecture "What is a Leader" covers five major topics:

Getting back to the basics
Discovering What Is Not Working
Resetting the Management Paradigm
The Essence of Leadership
Critical Factors for Success

Adizes,I.Leading the Leaders: Reprint by theAdizes Institute Publications, 2004
PDF on the 8-step decision-making process (posted in classroom).

Three free books are provided to new students upon enrollment: Adizes Mastering Change; and Managing Corporate Lifecycles; and the Spiral Dynamics text.
Order books EARLY on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble. Also, www.Adizes.com .

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