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Locked-In Tuition.
Our Locked-In Tuition program guarantees you’ll pay the same price for your entire certificate program.
About the Program
In ACU Online’s graduate Certificate in Conflict Management program, you will develop the knowledge and skills necessary to help you manage conflict effectively and professionally in a variety of settings while fostering relationships and successfully moving parties to agreement.
Program Structure
All the Details on Your Degree
This graduate certificate focuses on comprehensive and applicable methods of addressing and working through disputes in-and-out of the workplace in order to conduct effective consultations and settlements for all entities involved.
Stackable Certificate
You’re one step closer to a master’s degree.
Want to enhance your skill sets as an effective communicator and mediator? Our graduate certificate’s credit hours are stackable toward ACU’s online Master of Arts in Conflict Management and Resolution degree. It’s a great option if you plan on applying for the master’s program at a later time. Simply complete the certificate program, and ACU will seamlessly apply your 15 credit hours toward your master’s. Earn both the graduate certificate and master’s degree in three years.
Required Hours
15 hours
12 month timeframe
Example Coursework
Theory 1
Negotiation
Mediation
Residency
Department
Upcoming Start Dates
April 30, 2024
June 25, 2024
Common Job Titles
Facilitator
Ombudsman
Mediator
Contract Negotiation Manager
Arbitrator
Diplomat
Meet the Program Director
Dr. Kipi Fleming, Certificate in Conflict Management
Dr. Kipi Fleming received her B.S.Ed in elementary education with an emphasis in reading from Abilene Christian University in 1985. Before the birth of her children, she taught first grade and later substituted in the public schools in Texas and Oklahoma at all levels. Dr. Fleming received her MACRR from ACU in 2010 and went on to complete her doctorate in conflict analysis and resolution from Nova Southeastern University in 2015 where her research concentrated on the biblical interpretation of marital submission and how it affects the Christian marriage relationship.
Dr. Fleming joined the faculty at the Duncum Center in the summer of 2015 as an adjunct professor and was named the conflict management program director at ACU Dallas in July of 2016. Her research interests include family conflict, gender and conflict, conflict in schools, leadership and conflict, church conflict, and conflict in American history. Dr. Fleming is a mediator for the Lubbock County Office of Dispute Resolution where she works primarily with families in divorce mediations.
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To be considered for admission, students must:
- Complete the online program application accompanied by a non-refundable processing fee.
- Submit an official transcript of all previous colleges attended. The transcript must indicate an earned bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university or equivalent.
- Have a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or above, probationary status may be granted.
- Supply a current resume.
Abilene Christian University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award associate, baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Ga. 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of ACU.
Abilene Christian University enjoys a strong national reputation as one of the leading private Christian universities in the west and southwest, indicated by various ratings (such as U.S. News and World Report and other reports).