| Sullivan University | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Kentucky's Career University |
| Established | 1962 |
| Type | Private, for-profit |
| President | Sullivan |
| Location | Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
| Campus | Louisville, Lexington, Ft. Knox, Global e-Learning (online) |
Sullivan University is a private for-profit university based in Louisville, Kentucky and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Sullivan University currently has physical campuses in Louisville, Lexington, and Fort Knox, and an online Global e-Learning campus. With approximately 6,000 students, Sullivan is Kentucky's largest private university.[1] It is particularly well known for its human resource leadership, dispute resolution, and culinary arts programs.
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Sullivan Business College was founded in 1962 by A.O. Sullivan and his son, A.R. Sullivan, as a one-year school preparing people for careers. In 1972, the school began to offer associate degrees in addition to its one-year career diplomas. The institution was renamed in 1976 to Sullivan Junior College of Business to reflect its authority to grant associate degrees, and moved to its present Louisville campus on Bardstown Road and the Watterson Expressway. The school soon expanded by opening additional campuses—its Ft. Knox campus was opened in 1982, and its campus in Lexington (currently on Harrodsburg Road) in 1985. In 1987 Sullivan opened the National Center for Hospitality Studies offering degrees in culinary arts, baking and pastry arts, hotel and restaurant management and catering. Sullivan College of Technology and Design and Spencerian College are also part of the Sullivan University System. In 1990, the baccalaureate degree program was added, receiving its accreditation in 1992. The college first offered an MBA degree in 1997. The name was changed to its present designation, Sullivan University, in 2000, reflecting the college's growth. In 2008, Sullivan began its first doctoral program, the Doctor of Pharmacy, which is currently accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). Pharmacy graduates will be eligible to sit for the National Board Exam, because it has received candidate status. In 2010, Sullivan launched its first Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program in management. Several Sullivan degree programs are available online through its Global e-Learning Division.
The university still reflects its original philosophy of quickly preparing students for careers by offering a "stair step" approach. A student can attain a career diploma in one year, an associates in eighteen months, and a bachelor's after and additional eighteen months, and masters degree in an additional eighteen months. This way, they can attain employment at an entry level while working toward a degree.
Sullivan University operates on the quarter system with each period lasting eleven weeks. The Louisville and Lexington campuses offer "Plus Friday," where campuses do not hold classes on any Fridays but do have the campus offices open so students can work with full-time undergraduate instructors, who are required to be on campus on Friday morning.
The school's culinary programs are one of its distinctive features; the Louisville campus has Winston's restaurant that gives Sullivan students hands-on experience. Both faculty and students have been featured on the Food Network; Louisville instructor John Castro bested Bobby Flay in Hot Browns in a 2008 Throwdown,[2] while Lexington graduate Brigitte Nguyen came in a close second in a hamburger-themed Ultimate Recipe Showdown shown in 2009.[3] Brigitte won the $50,000 first prize in the National Chicken Cooking Contest in San Antonio May 2, 2009, with her ‘Chinese Chicken Burgers with Rainbow Sesame Slaw.’[4]
The American Culinary Federation, Inc. (ACF) has named Chef Derek Spendlove first chair of the ACF Certification Commission. Spendlove currently serves as chairman of the baking and pastry arts program for the National Center for Hospitality Studies (NCHS) at Sullivan University. He also serves as team manager of Sullivan University’s award-winning student culinary competition team.[5]
Sullivan University Global e-Learning enrolls students throughout the United States and abroad. The offices for Sullivan University Global e-Learning are located adjacent to the Sullivan University Louisville, Kentucky campus and include Admissions, Financial Planning, Registration, and Student Academic Services, dedicated to providing a full array of services to students enrolled in fully online programs without requiring students to come to a physical campus.
Sullivan Global e-Learning offers the following fully online programs:
Current certificates, diplomas, and degrees offered at the four Sullivan University campuses include:[6]
| Certificate | e-Learning | Louisville | Lexington | Ft. Knox |
| Accounting Specialist | Y | |||
| Administrative Assistant | Y | Y | ||
| Business Management Specialist | Y | |||
| Conflict Resolution | Y | |||
| Human Resource Leadership (Dispute Resolution) | Y | Y | Y | |
| Human Resource Leadership (Employee Relations) | Y | Y | Y | |
| Human Resource Leadership (Organizational Diversity) | Y | Y | Y | |
| Human Resource Leadership (Organizational Effectiveness) | Y | Y | Y | |
| Marketing & Sales Specialist | Y | |||
| Medical Coding | Y | |||
| Diploma | e-Learning | Louisville | Lexington | Ft. Knox |
| Administrative Accounting | Y | Y | ||
| Administrative Management | Y | Y | Y | |
| Business Accounting | Y | Y | Y | |
| Business Administration | Y | Y | Y | |
| Executive Administrative Assistant | Y | Y | ||
| Information Technology | Y | Y | Y | |
| Legal Administrative Assistant | Y | Y | ||
| Medical Administrative Assistant | Y | Y | ||
| Marketing Management | Y | Y | Y | |
| Associate of Science | e-Learning | Louisville | Lexington | Ft. Knox |
| Accounting | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Administrative Office Assistant | Y | Y | ||
| Beverage Management | Y | Y | Y | |
| Business Management | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Computer Information Technology | Y | Y | Y | |
| Early Childhood Education | Y | |||
| Information Technology | Y | Y | Y | |
| Justice & Public Safety Administration | Y | |||
| Logistics & Distribution Management | Y | Y | ||
| Marketing & Sales Management | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Medical Office Management | Y | Y | ||
| Office Administration | Y | |||
| Bachelor of Science | e-Learning | Louisville | Lexington | Ft. Knox |
| Business Administration (Accounting) | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Business Administration (Computer Systems) | Y | |||
| Business Administration (Finance) | Y | Y | Y | |
| Business Administration (Healthcare Management) | Y | Y | Y | |
| Business Administration (Logistics & Distribution Management) | Y | Y | Y | |
| Business Administration (Management) | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Business Administration (Marketing) | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Hospitality Management | Y | Y | ||
| Human Resource Leadership | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Interdisciplinary Studies | Y | |||
| Information Technology | Y | Y | Y | |
| Justice & Public Safety Administration | Y | |||
| Nursing (RN-to-BSN) | Y | |||
| Master of Science | e-Learning | Louisville | Lexington | Ft. Knox |
| Business Administration (MBA) | Y | Y | Y | |
| MBA (Concentration in Healthcare Management) | Y | |||
| MBA (Concentration in Hospitality Management) | Y | |||
| Conflict Management | Y | Y | Y | |
| Human Resource Leadership | Y | Y | Y | |
| Management (MSM) | Y | |||
| Managing Information Technology | Y | Y | Y | |
| Doctor of Pharmacy | e-Learning | Louisville | Lexington | Ft. Knox |
| Pharmacy | Y | |||
| Doctorate (PhD) in Management | e-Learning | Louisville | Lexington | Ft. Knox |
| Concentration: Strategic Management | Y | |||
| Concentration: Conflict Management | Y | |||
| Concentration: Information Technology Management | Y |
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